Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton and Ira Magaziner, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (“CHAI”) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems and expanding access to care and treatment in the developing world. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to lifesaving technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs. Since its inception, CHAI’s programs have helped more than 11.8 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medicines, saving the global health community billions of dollars. For more information, please visit: www.clintonhealthaccess.org.
In South Africa, CHAI’s Sustainable Health Financing (SHF) Team is supporting the Department of Health (DoH) at the national, provincial and district level in strengthening the health system to support the rollout of National Health Insurance (NHI) reform, and in implementation of scaling up HIV/TB services across the country. Key areas of technical support include Financial modelling, Benefits Package design, Costing, Resource mapping, Planning and Financial management, and overall the identification and realisation of efficiency savings.
Responsibilities:
The Associate will be based in Pretoria, South Africa with possible national travel, and will report to the Programme Manager of the SHF Team. He/she will:
- Lead hospital costing to inform development of the NHI Hospital Service Benefits
- Support the development of a set of Primary Health Care (PHC) and hospital benefits to be provided under NHI, through alignment of public sector benefits with as the private sector Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs);
- Support development of a proposal for a standardized set of health metrics to support NHI implementation;
- Provide analytical support for financial modelling to link NHI Service Benefits to service delivery models and purchasing arrangements;
- Collect and analyze information on current funding flows in the health sector to identify opportunities to improve efficiency;
- Provide support in the quantification and mapping of funding needs against available resources including helping the government to identify funding gaps and access additional resources;
- Strengthen the NDoH planning process to ensure plans are evidence-based, prioritized, and operationalized;
- Provide support in additional areas, as requested by the Programme Manager, SHF
Qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Economics or Finance or a health-related discipline
- A minimum of three years’ professional experience in a private or public sector or non-governmental organisation setting in the health sector
- Understanding of the South Africa health sector, public and private
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to build professional relationships with key stakeholders
- Ability to learn on the job quickly and absorb/synthesize a broad range of information
- Ability to react quickly to ad-hoc requests while managing an existing workload
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Fluency in English (written and verbal)
Advantages:
- Experience working in management consulting, investment banking, private equity or private health insurance industry
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