JOB TITLE: Health Lead Advisor
Ref Id: req10851
LOCATION: Nigeria
Project Overview and Role
- Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
- For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people’s lives.
- Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
Programme Description and Responsibilities
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- The objective of the Global Fund’s Private Sector Engagement Strategic Initiative (PSE SI) is to support grant recipient countries to harness their private sector to deliver more impactful responses to the three diseases. Phase One of the PSE SI process involves opportunity mapping, identifying red flags and opportunities where effective private sector engagement could deliver impressive results, define success and programmatic solutions (focussed on contracting and performance management); Phase Two will provide technical assistance to the country entities for programme commissioning and delivery of the solutions, which will provide lessons to inform the development of PSE policy and guidelines for the Global Fund.
- Palladium is seeking Lead Advisors to deliver technical assistance to the Global Fund on refining the programme designs from Phase I, developing results-based contracts and payment models and project planning to project initiation through mobilization to implementation under the PSE SI Phase two.
- This 30-month programme will support the country entity with overall responsibility for programme commissioning and delivery, most likely to be the Principle Recipient (PR), as well as to the service providers.
Required Qualifications
- An academic degree in Public Health, Health Economics, Business, or other related disciplines; or a substantial relevant experience, especially in results-based contracting, for non-academic degree holders.
- Proven experience working on design and implementation of results based contracting and payment by results for social development programmes.
- Demonstrable experience of building capacity of private sector providers of services in the health or social development sectors and/or the organisations that purchase those services
- Proven experience of having worked in social development in at least one of the countries grouped together in the table above (three for group 6). Experience of working on health programmes which focus on the Global Funds’ disease areas is desirable.
Job Features
Job Category | Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical |