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PROPEL Health Ghana is looking for a Health Finance and Public Financial Management Advisor who will work under the leadership of PROPEL Health Ghana Country Director on a day-to-day basis with technical guidance from Health Finance staff at Palladium’s US health practice area in Washington, DC. This position based in Accra, Ghana.
Project Overview
Promoting Results and Outcomes through Policy and Economic Levers (PROPEL) Health is a USAID-funded five-year project awarded to Palladium on Sept 23,2022. The project aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. In Ghana, the focus is on advancing the Government of Ghana's Family Planning 2030 (FP2030) commitment, as well as strengthening the Ghana Health Service's capacity in public financial management. This includes expanding the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) to all divisions, departments, and facilities nationwide. Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. PROPEL Health’s country teams will serve as the technical and implementation driving force for Mission buy-ins and country-based, core-funded activities. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Education Required: Advanced Degree
- Advanced degree with significant experience preferred. PhD/MA/MSc in Economics or Health Economics, Accounting, Finance, Public Financial Management or a Chartered Accountant (ACCA) and/or a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana.
- At least 5 years professional experience in public health, health economics, health finance, and health policy formulation in Ghana is highly desired.
- Strong program management, interpersonal, writing, presentation, and organizational skills are required.
- Ability to conduct activity-based costing and develop investment cases is desirable.
- Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe.
- Professional and mature demeanor and conduct
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation of public sector financing, budgeting and spending mechanisms
- Ability to respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands.
- Ability to take initiative and/or respond quickly to changing situations
- Languages: Fluency in English is required. Other Desirable Skills: Initiative, strong conceptual abilities, sound judgment
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