International Health Financing Expert

Job Description

Background/Objective

Russia’s ongoing invasion presents significant challenges to the Ukrainian health care system. The international short-term technical advisor (iSTTA) will work with the Health Reform Support (HRS) team to advise the Government of Ukraine and other program stakeholders on health sector recovery and to develop creative strategies for overcoming health financing gaps in the future.

This is a short-term, remote position with an expected level of effort of 3 to 5 days per month through September 2022 (with the possibility of extension).

Responsibilities

• Provide recommendations for and consultations on health sector recovery based on international best practices in health financing, with an emphasis on health infrastructure;
• Develop strategies for addressing long-term health financing gaps;
• Contribute to the development of user guides, present materials related to health financing and participate in trainings/workshops/capacity-building activities, as needed;
• Provide technical inputs for the development of technical documents related to implementation of health care financing reform and recovery;
• Provide analysis of regulatory framework on health care financing issues upon request;
• Provide other relevant technical expertise as requested by HRS.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in health economics, health financing, health care management, health research, or a relevant discipline;
• At least ten years of practical experience in health systems and health financing;
• Experience post-conflict and/or post-war countries preferred;
• Understanding of Ukrainian health system preferred;
• A high degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.);
• Ability to liaise effectively with and develop consensus among key stakeholders, including USAID, national and local officials, public, private, and civil society partners;
• Spoken and written language proficiency in English required.

About the Organization

For more than 25 years, Deloitte’s International Development Organization (IDO) practice has worked with governments, donor agencies, NGOs and private firms in over 60 countries to build the institutions, legal framework, and policies required for effective public and private sector growth.

Deloitte is a leading provider of innovative development solutions to U.S. and international donors, foundations, governments, and Fortune 500 companies. Our dedicated IDO team is the vanguard for the delivery of profound impact in the global development space in alignment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. With more than 1000 development experts around the world, Deloitte has implemented over 150 donor projects worth a total of more than $3 billion in more than 70 countries. Our work touches lives across the globe and that impact motivates our IDO community as well as the commercial success and professionalism that underpins all Deloitte work.

The purpose of Deloitte's USAID Health Reform Support (HRS) project is to support a transparent, accountable, and effective health care system that is capable of meeting the health needs of the Ukrainian people. Advancing health sector reforms, enhancing transparency, and tackling corruption will reduce out-of-pocket payments and improve access and availability of high quality, evidence-based health care services for Ukrainians. Eliminating corruption is a cross-cutting theme across all objectives to be achieved by this activity, which include:

1. Improve health sector governance.
2. Support the transformation of the healthcare financing model.
3. Strengthen the health workforce.
4. Enhance transparency, accountability, and responsiveness of the health care system.
5. Improve service delivery system at all levels.