International Consultant - Health Financing

The consultant will support ECA's work on health financing, innovative finance, capital market development and domestic resource mobilization for health through policy analysis, technical advice, knowledge generation and stakeholder engagement. The assignment aims to strengthen African member States' capacity to mobilize sustainable financing for health and develop innovative financing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytical databases, policy research, and knowledge products on health financing, financing gaps, investment opportunities and related issues across Africa.
• Assess innovative financing instruments and mechanisms to support health financing, including debt-for-health conversions, blended finance mechanisms, results-based financing, guarantees, risk-sharing facilities, social and thematic bonds, diaspora finance and other relevant financing instruments.
• Undertake analysis of African capital markets and their role in mobilizing long-term financing for health investments.
• Analyze policy, regulatory, fiscal and institutional frameworks required to mobilize domestic, institutional and private capital for health.
• Assess opportunities for strengthening domestic resource mobilization and leveraging institutional investors for sustainable health financing.
• Undertake analysis to support health investment readiness and transaction preparation, including the identification, screening and development of priority health investments suitable for public, private, institutional and catalytic financing.
• Assess financing and investment risks and relevant de-risking approaches for health investments, including guarantees, concessional finance, results-based payments and other risk-sharing mechanisms.
• Develop analytical inputs and policy recommendations to inform ECA's work on health financing and support member States in strengthening sustainable financing for health.
• Monitor regional and global policy developments on health financing, innovative finance, sustainable finance and related financing mechanisms.
• Prepare analytical inputs for the preparation and participation in health financing, development finance and domestic resource mobilization related events and meetings.
• Follow relevant meetings and processes on health financing, development finance and domestic resource mobilization and prepare summary reports.
• Draft inputs to statements, speeches and presentations for ECA senior leadership on health financing, innovative finance, domestic resource mobilization and related financing issues.
• Support consultations with African member States, development finance institutions, regional organizations, development partners, institutional investors, private-sector actors and other stakeholders on health financing and other areas of the Section's work.
• Assist in the organization of panels, round tables, expert group meetings, policy dialogues, peer-learning activities, side events and high-level forums on health financing, development finance, domestic resource mobilization and other thematic areas related to the work of the Section.
• Participate in missions and provide substantive support to ECA leadership on health financing, innovative finance and health investment initiatives.
• Support the design and implementation of technical cooperation projects related to sustainable health financing.
• Contribute to initiatives aimed at improving African countries' access to finance for health and mobilizing domestic and international resources for health investment.
• Support technical work on the development and structuring of financing solutions for health, including domestic resource mobilization, institutional capital, innovative finance, blended finance and private-sector financing.
• Support ECA's analytical and technical assistance work on health investment readiness, project and transaction preparation, innovative financing mechanisms, de-risking approaches and sustainable health financing for member States.
• Perform other related duties as required in support of ECA's health financing and sustainable finance work programme.
• Undertake on-the-job and other training activities, both internally and externally.
• Collect and analyse data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in economics, finance, health economics, public policy or related areas is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the master's degree.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in economic research and analysis, policy formulation, development finance, health financing, public finance or related areas is required.
• Two years or more of experience in data analytics or related areas is desirable.
• Experience in Africa or on African-related issues is desirable.
• Experience in multi-lateral/intergovernmental processes is desirable.
• Experience in financing for sustainable development in the regional and or global level is desirable.
• Experience in technical cooperation and engagement with governments, development finance institutions and/or development partners is desirable.
• Fluency in English (both oral and written) is required; knowledge of French is desirable.
• Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.

Skills

• Economic Research
• Policy Formulation Support
• Development Finance
• Health Financing
• Public Finance
• Data Analytics
• Health Economics
• Policy Analysis
• Technical Cooperation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Financial Market Development
• Domestic Resource Mobilization
• Knowledge Generation
• Multilateral Processes

Languages

English, French