Technical Advisor – Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a Technical Advisor within its Health Financing practice area in the Global Health Systems Innovation Department. S/he will play a critical role within the health financing unit, providing support and thought leadership to our diverse portfolio of projects in the areas of revenue mobilization, pooling, purchasing, and benefit entitlement as well as costing, health technology assessment, and public financial management. The Technical Advisor will provide technical assistance, analytical, and operational support to MSH’s health financing projects in health economics and health technology assessment. S/he brings strong quantitative skills and research capacity and has experience supporting projects funded by diverse donors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, World Bank, or pharmaceutical companies. S/he will also help increase worldwide knowledge and understanding of MSH’s health financing work through staff training of staff, publications in journals, and presentations to external stakeholders while supporting new business development proposals to donors.

In addition to the above, the candidate will support the Health Financing team in executing activities conducted under the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) project, funded by USAID. In particular, s/he will support the execution of HTA activities for the Asia Region; HTA strengthening activities to the Government of Indonesia and the Philippines; and COVID-19 global and in-country costing exercise.

EDUCATION

Required:

Masters in Public Health or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

Advanced graduate degree (Masters level or above) with formal training in related discipline, including health economics, health technology assessment, public health, health services research, policy analysis, epidemiology, or biostatistics.

EXPERIENCE

Required:

• Minimum of 4 (four) years of relevant work experience in supporting health sector projects and activities in low-resource settings with an emphasis on qualitative/quantitative analysis in the health financing area. Experience may include cost data analysis, cost effectiveness, cost modeling, program efficiency, literature review, systematic priority setting, or health technology assessment.
• Strong analytical and quantitative analysis skills.

Preferred:

• Statistical or computer programming experience, including Microsoft Excel using Visual Basic for Applications and/or other programming languages (Stata, SAS, R, simulation packages, etc.).
• Fluency in English required. Candidates with working knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia or Filipino is preferred but not required.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Strong ability to lead by example, with integrity, purpose, and commitment to the attainment of MSH’s goals and commitment to technical excellence.
• Skilled at creating a climate where high technical performance at all levels of the team is recognized and valued.
• Skilled at delegating appropriate responsibility, accountability and decision-making authority on relevant practice area matters.
• Proven skills in working and collaborating with donors, host country institutions, and international organizations.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.
• Demonstrated familiarity with USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank, other donor or country-level policy and strategy orientations in relation to the practice area is preferred
• Strong written and oral communication skills, demonstrated management experience.
• Ability to interpret highly technical documents (grey literature, published academic paper), and translate into public-facing documents / posts / blogs to disseminate knowledge uptake from the general public

COMPETENCIES

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with professional colleagues from multiple units and within various socio-cultural contexts.
• Demonstrated competence to assess priorities and solve problems using innovative, evidence-based solutions.
• Excellent writing, organizational and communications skills including organizing, scanning, summarizing and presenting information.
• Understands how to collect, synthesize, interpret and present data.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Ability to travel up to 20 percent domestically and

internationally.