Health Financing & Private Sector Advisor

The Accelerating Control of the HIV Epidemic in Nigeria (ACE) project will implement integrated HIV care and treatment activities in various states in Nigeria. The Service Delivery Activity will contribute to the attainment of the Government of Nigeria’s (GON) goal of addressing the HIV response and safeguarding the rights and welfare of children and adolescents impacted by HIV/AIDS.

Technical responsibilities

The Health Financing & Private Sector Advisor will support the delivery of the following:

1. Leads and provides day-to-day management support to the consortium teams in the state on health financing and private sector engagement
2. Supports the institutionalization of ongoing health financing reforms by facilitating the set-up of HIV health financing technical working group in each state
3. Provides high-level engagement to facilitate the design and implementation of the HIV Trust Fund for the state
4. Oversees the mapping and needs assessments of all PMV/PHFs to ART sites
5. Designs the engagement model(s) for the use of eligible PMVs/unsupported PHFs as drug pick-up centres
6. Oversees the engagements with the unions of private medical practitioners on the integration of the private sector in HIV care
7. Convene high-level engagements to register and activate eligible PMVs/PHFs as drug pick-up centres to support differentiated service delivery at each of the states
8. Defines model and strategy for capacity building for private sector actors across the 3 states
9. Provides oversight for the conduct of quarterly supportive supervision for mentorship and coaching in programmatic and technical capacities for Private Sector actors at each of the states
10. Coordinates monthly data audit and review meetings for PMVs & PHFs for the 3 states and disseminates reports to the relevant stakeholders
11. Oversees quarterly DQA for PMVs & PHFs at each of the assigned states (Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa and Niger) and disseminates reports to the relevant stakeholders
12. Other duties as assigned

Required competencies

Education and Experience

1. Academic training: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Policy and Strategy Development, Medicine, Public Health, Microbiology, Epidemiology, Health Management or a similar relevant field. A Master’s Degree is an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 6 – 10 years of progressive experience in health systems strengthening and/or HIV or PHC program design and implementation
• Strong understanding and experience of PHC programming, including the BHCPF and Health Insurance schemes
• Astute problem solving and strong team leadership and program management skills
• Stakeholder management and coordination
• Strong verbal and written communications skills,
• Strong report writing skills with excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Excel and PowerPoint)