Program Overview
Pathfinder seeks a Health Economist for an upcoming opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of the project is to support the national government to improve health outcomes for underserved populations.
Position Purpose
The Health Economist will play a leadership role in evaluating the cost efficiency of health interventions implemented in this project including, but not limited to: training activities; staff supervision; clinical procedures; health outcomes etc. These review of cost efficiency will be applied both within the project among various project sites and geographies, as well as compared to relevant international standards for intervention specific DALYs. If and when anomalies in cost efficiencies are identified, the Health Economist will work closely with project staff to determine the reason for variation, and how/if cost efficiency can be improved at a specific site or throughout the program’s catchment area. The Health Economist will also work with key stakeholders and policymakers to promote a value for money perspective in public programming, developing and launching costing tools and tracking mechanisms for sustainable and scalable health programming.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish methodology for documenting unit costs for training.
- Establish methodology for documenting costs of service provision per patient for a variety of clinical services including, but not limited to:
- Provision of FP products (multiple)
- Cost of treating patients for five most common non-surgical procedures;
- Cost of treating patients for five most common surgical procedures;
- Establish a methodology for comparing and tracking costs of services provided per clinic, health center or other appropriate service site.
- Establish, in collaboration with project staff, methodology for investigating irregularities cost of services.
- Develop reporting system and dashboard that allows for rapid assessment of cost of service variability through a health network.
- Adapt cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis tools to inform MOH government budgeting in health
Basic Requirements
- Master’s degree in economics or related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience and progressively increasing responsibility in the area of health economics related to health care service delivery, particularly at the community health care level in developing countries.
- Familiarity with costing of health interventions.
- Professional experience costing health interventions, and reporting on same.
- General familiarity with health economics literature in low resources settings
- Strong leadership, analytical, and organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a team.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with donor, project stakeholders, in-country collaborators, policymakers and staff at all levels of the organization.
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Fluency in English and one or more local languages
- Willingness to travel up to 50% in rural areas.
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