Health Financing Specialist - Ethiopia

About the role

Palladium, a global consulting and implementation company, is recruiting a Health Financing Specialist in Ethiopia for a project supported by the GHSD America First Palladium Sole Source Award. The project strengthens health systems, health financing, public financial management and accountability. The Specialist reports to the Health Care Financing Lead and supports the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health financing reforms, including health insurance strengthening, strategic purchasing, provider payment reforms and resource tracking.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct costing studies, build and maintain financial and actuarial models, and analyse health financing and insurance data (claims, reimbursements, provider payments, budgets).
• Support benefit package redesign, provider payment mechanisms, community-based health insurance contribution levels and household income classification.
• Design and run health financing surveys, fiscal space and institutional capacity assessments, and financial sustainability analyses.
• Act as the focal point for digital health financing work, translating MoH and EHIS needs into requirements for the Health Resource Tracking System, dashboards and the national digital health insurance platform, and taking part in testing and user acceptance testing.
• Support monitoring and evaluation, indicator definition, data quality checks and knowledge management.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in health economics, economics, health financing, public health, statistics, health informatics or a related field; a Master's is an advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in health financing, health insurance, health economics, public financial management or health systems strengthening.
• Demonstrated experience with surveys, assessments, costing, financial modelling and data analysis, and with government institutions and donor-funded programmes; US government programme experience is highly desirable.

Required skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel and at least one data visualization or business intelligence tool such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Working knowledge of SQL and tools such as Stata, R or Python is desirable.
• Understanding of system integration, interoperability, APIs and user acceptance testing, and ability to work with software developers.