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Job Title:  Health Economist

Location City / Town: Maputo

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Short Description/ Purpose of Job

Competencies

  • Teamwork.
  • Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences.
  • Techical Expertise
  • Producing result
  • Building and promoting partnerships across the Organization and beyond.

Functional Skills and Knowledge (Describe skills and knowledge specific to the post):

  • Good knowledge of country situation with regard to health economics capacities, understanding of health financing systems, priorities and policies, along with WHO’s policies, practices, guidelines and procedures in the related areas and ability to apply them in the country office setting.
  • Good understanding of methods related to costing or impact assessment within the health sector.
  • Ability to identify issues, formulate opinions, make conclusions and recommendations.
  • Ability to review policies and objectives of assigned program and activities.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy
  • Good knowledge of planning and financing processes in the health sector and health coordination mechanisms and partnerships.
  • Good analytical skills.
  • Good public speaking and communication skills.
  • Team spirit and time management skills.

Recruitment Description/ Key Accountabilities

Qualifications and Skills

Education (Qualifications)
Essential:

  • University degree in economics, health economics, health financing, public health, or closely related subject.

Desirable:

  • Master’s in economics, health economics, health financing, public health, epidemiology, or closely related subject.

Experience

Essential:

At least 5 years of professional experience working in national or international organizations, academia, or the private sector, in the field of health, in at least one of the two following areas:

· Health intervention costing, budgeting, expenditure tracking, estimation of resource needs, economic evaluation.

  • Good knowledge of policy making, planning, and financing processes in the health sector and health coordination mechanisms and partnerships.

Desirable:

  • Experience and knowledge of the work of WHO or other related UN agencies will be advantageous.
  • Experience working on costing or impact assessment related to health programs or interventions.
  • Experience in the development of national strategic plans.
  • Experience of working with national governments, preferably ministries of health.
  • Work experience using the OneHealth tool or budget module of the Integrated Health Tool for planning and costing, or other similar costing tools.

Languages:
Essential:
Excellent knowledge of the Portuguese
Working Knowledge of English or French
Desirable:
Working Knowledge of other UN Language is an advantage
Other Skills:

  • Excellent computer skills (Word, Excel, Power Point, SPSS).

Date Posted: 15/07/2024

Category: NGO

Type: Full-Time

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