International Consultant - Health Financing

About this role

The International Consultant on Health Financing will support the UN Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) Macroeconomics and Governance Division in advancing health financing, innovative finance, capital market development, and domestic resource mobilization across African member States. The role involves policy analysis, technical advice, knowledge generation, and stakeholder engagement to strengthen sustainable financing for health in Africa. The assignment is based in Addis Ababa for a 12-month duration.

Responsibilities

• Develop analytical databases, policy research, and knowledge products on health financing, financing gaps, and investment opportunities across Africa.
• Assess innovative financing instruments including debt-for-health conversions, blended finance, results-based financing, guarantees, and social/thematic bonds.
• 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.
• Prepare analytical inputs for health financing, development finance, and domestic resource mobilization related events and meetings.
• Support consultations with African member States, development finance institutions, regional organizations, institutional investors, and private-sector actors.
• Participate in missions and provide substantive support to ECA leadership on health financing and health investment initiatives.
• Support the design and implementation of technical cooperation projects related to sustainable health financing.
• Collect and analyse data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods.
• Draft inputs to statements, speeches, and presentations for ECA senior leadership on health financing and related issues.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in economics, finance, health economics, public policy or related areas; a first-level university degree with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience

Languages

• English (required, fluency in oral and written)
• French (desirable)
• Other UN official language (advantage)

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