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Health Care
Financing Specialist

Position
Description

 Reports to: Director of
Technical Assistance

Location: Somewhat
flexible, but requires considerable travel and significant portion of the year
in Bamako.

 About Muso:

Muso
is a rapidly growing global health organization, committed that no one should
die waiting for health care. Muso partners with government to design, build,
test, and scale proactive health care systems. Recently published studies have
documented order of magnitude improvements in access to care and child survival
in communities Muso serves. These are outlier, extraordinary changes. But they
shouldn’t be. The death of a child should be rare everywhere. To make this kind
of change the new normal, Muso commits to growing its services over the next
five years, through direct health care delivery, research to drive forward the
global effort, and technical assistance to governments and their partners,
within and beyond Mali. In February, the President of Mali committed to a bold
national health care reform, to remake the country’s health care system in the
community and at the health center level for Mali’s 19 million people. The
government of Mali has asked Muso to provide technical support as they now
embark upon designing and delivering this historic change. Learn more about our
work at www.musohealth.org

 About the
Position

To
this end, Muso is creating a new Technical Assistance Team. This new team will
support governments and NGOs to implement methods that Muso has tested, in
pursuit of our common goals of universal health care, maternal health and child
survival. The Health Care Financing Specialist will occupy a central role on
this team, reporting to the Director of Technical Assistance. The Health Care
Financing Specialist will provide accompaniment to the Malian Ministry of
Health as well as to other government or NGO partners that engage Muso for
technical assistance—supporting costing analyses, comparing risks and benefits
of different financing mechanisms based on published research, and assessing
potential financing pathways. The Health Care Financing Specialist will be a
partner who works in a spirit of solidarity and service, assisting partners
from design through planning and implementation. Through their service, the
Health Care Financing Specialist will have the opportunity to plan a critical
role in pursuing access to health care for tens of millions of people, and
advancing the global movement for health equity.

 Key
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Improve
  and conduct new costing analyses of strategies that Muso tests through its work
  and research;
• Support
  partners in conducting costing analyses of strategies they aim to implement;
• In
  collaboration with other members of the Muso Technical Assistance team and
  Partnerships team, help partners to understand the value and trade-offs of
  investing in particular strategies;
• Support
  partners to create financing roadmaps, laying out how different funding sources
  could be mobilized and aligned; support partners in creating related collateral
  to engage with the Ministry of Finance and other partners;
• Conduct
  evidence-based comparative analysis of different mechanisms for implementing
  user fee removal and for paying for the other elements of Muso’s Proactive
  Community Case Management (ProCCM) strategies. Accompany partners in evaluating
  risks and benefits of each option within their context;
• Analyze existing
  financing opportunities in each local context and propose scalable health care
  financing solutions adapted to each context ;
• Support
  the planning, implementation, and evaluation of new health care financing
  strategies by partners;
• Engage
  and collaborate with other key partners and allies in the space, including the
  Financing Alliance for Health, Aspen Management Partners, the Community Health
  Impact Coalition, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative;
• Stay
  up-to-date with the health care financing research literature, to ensure that
  Muso’s guidance derives from a rigorous evidence base;
• Create
  monthly reports on progress of her/his efforts, as well as additional reports
  and proposals as needed for specific engagements;
• Meet
  weekly with the Technical Assistance Director, and collaborate closely with
  other members of the Muso team.

 Key
Qualifications:

• A
  commitment to universal health care, maternal-child survival, and equitable,
  just health systems;
• Ability
  to go in listening, with humility, in a spirit of solidarity and service;
• Proficiency
  in both French and English strongly preferred;
• Training
  in costing analysis, health care financing, and health care systems;
• A
  deep knowledge of comparative mechanisms for health care financing and the
  research behind each major approach;
• Experience
  and ability to analyze health care financing mechanisms and conduct costing
  analyses;
• Experience
  providing technical assistance and support with a partnership approach;
• Resilience
  and grit; the ability to persevere in the face of many challenges;
• Capacity
  to self-manage time and deliver consistently, with quality, on deadline;
• Excellent
  written and oral communication skills;
• Ability
  to travel as needed for partnership engagements.

 To Apply:

Please submit
a cover letter and CV to [email protected] with subject
line “Health Care Financing Specialist”.
We will evaluate candidates on a rolling basis, so it is to the candidate’s
advantage to submit as soon as possible. Muso is an equal opportunity employer.