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Health Systems Practitioner - PEA, Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition

Department: Programs
Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Title: Health Systems Practitioner

Team: USAID/Nigeria MEL Support Activity

Project: USAID/Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition (HPN) Office

Location: Federal Capital Territory – Abuja, Nigeria

Reporting to: Assessment and Evaluation Advisor

Employment Type: Independent Contractor / Short-Term Technical Assistance (STTA)

Period of Performance: July 2023 – September 2023

Number of Positions: 1

Navanti supports a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Support Activity program that assists USAID/Nigeria in advancing its broader organizational learning and development efforts. This program strengthens the Mission’s capacity and performance in programmatic monitoring, evaluation, learning, collaborating, and adapting. The MEL Support Activity closely aligns with USAID/Nigeria’s Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and provides a broad range of specialized technical assistance, training, data gathering and analysis, field-based monitoring, evaluations and assessments, facilitation of organizational learning and adaptation initiatives, and short-term technical assistance.

Project Objective:

USAID/Nigeria has engaged the MEL Support Activity to conduct a Political Economic Analysis (PEA) to understand the political and economic contexts and influential actors affecting Nigeria’s health system performance. This knowledge will inform USAID’s new health service delivery and systems strengthening activities. Though this is a broad assessment, the PEA will provide specific insights into the following locations:

  • South-South region (Akwa-Ibom state)
  • South-East region (Ebonyi state)
  • South-West region (Lagos state)
  • North-East region (Bauchi state)
  • North-West region Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states)
  • North-Central region (FCT)

The primary purpose of the Political Economic Analysis (PEA) is to analyze the political economy of the health sector overall from a problem-based lens under the following four broad themes; (i) Underfunding of the health systems (ii) HRH recruitment, proficiency, and retention (iii) Equitable distribution of health resources (urban/rural, lowest quartile) and (iv) Transparency and Accountability

The estimated start date will be July 24, 2023. The assessment is expected to last until September 2023 and the estimated LOE will be 35 days, maximum.

Candidates are reviewed on a rolling basis; early submission is recommended.

Position Description:

Navanti is seeking a Health System Practitioner who will provide technical support to the team leader to conduct a rigorous and high-quality political economy analysis. Under the guidance of the MEL Support Activity, the specialists are expected to work closely with the team leader USAID/Nigeria team and USAID/Washington Health Systems Advisor and Health Governance Lead. The team leader will be supported by two health research assistants. The Health Practitioner will be part of the team carry out in-country PEA for USAID/Nigeria.

Locations:

  • Akwa-Ibom, Ebonyi, Lagos, Bauchi, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states as well as the FCT

Responsibilities:

The Health Systems Practitioner will:

  • Participate in a PEA kick-off session with USAID/Nigeria technical team.
  • Support to conduct an initial desk study: gather relevant secondary materials to identify key actors and stakeholders, relevant local and oversight institutions, coordination mechanisms and support structures.
  • Work with the team leader in the design and development of workplan including protocols for data collection in selected states and FCT.
  • Participate in field work including conducting several KIIs and FGDs with stakeholders from health institutions, states and national health actors, members of the parliaments, State and federal legislators, civil society organizations (CSOs), implementing partners and others.
  • Work collaboratively with other team members throughout assessment design, field work/data collection, analysis, and report writing to complement each other's areas of expertise.
  • Participate in Out-brief with USAID and other partners.
  • Write the draft and final assessment report with support from the other team members, taking into consideration feedback from the Out-brief presentation.
  • Present political economy analysis results to diverse audiences according to USAID standard reporting

Qualifications:

The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in health economics, or public health with a health systems planning, strengthening and implementation focus;
  • At least 10 years of relevant work experience in health systems strengthening and health economics;
  • Experience working with federal and state ministries of health and finance, donors and implementing agencies;
  • Strong communication skills to effectively interact with key actors;
  • Established track record of carrying out analytical work and preparing high-quality technical reports, policy briefing materials, and presentations;
  • Strong quantitative skills and research capacity, proficiency in STATA or another statistics software is highly desirable, or may be substituted by exceptional command of Excel;
  • Strong and compelling writing skills;
  • Experience working in the health sector with international donor organizations particularly USAID
  • Knowledge of local language(s).
  • Excellent writing and presentation skills.

Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please, no phone calls.

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