Senior Health Financing & Policy Advisor

Palladium: Make It Possible; West Virginia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Palladium Make It Possible seeks a Senior Advisor to provide strategic and technical advisory support to health financing reforms, health systems financing, and Universal Health Coverage priorities. The role partners with government counterparts to shape reform roadmaps, policy frameworks, and sustainability plans that strengthen health financing governance and accountability.

The ideal candidate will have a Master’s-level degree and 10+ years’ experience in health financing, health economics,

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in Health Economics, Health Financing, Economics, Public Health, Health Policy, Public Administration, Business Administration, Insurance, Development Studies, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical advisory support to the project and government counterparts on health financing reforms, health systems financing, and Universal Health Coverage priorities.
• Support the development, review, and implementation of health financing policies, strategies, reform agendas, and institutional frameworks.
• Advise the Ministry of Health, EHIS, Ministry of Finance, and other stakeholders on health insurance systems strengthening, risk pooling, strategic purchasing, and provider payment reforms.
• Support the development of national and sub-national health financing reform roadmaps, implementation plans, sustainability strategies, and transition frameworks.
• Provide technical guidance on domestic resource mobilization, fiscal sustainability, public financial management, budgeting, expenditure tracking, and resource allocation reforms.
• Support health financing assessments, expenditure analyses, costing studies, financing gap analyses, economic evaluations, and other evidence-generation activities to inform policy and decision-making.
• Advise on the design, implementation, and scale-up of digital solutions that strengthen health financing functions, including claims management, reimbursement systems, budgeting, expenditure oversight, and decision-support tools.
• Support the development and use of health financing analytics, resource tracking mechanisms, dashboards, and performance monitoring systems to improve accountability and decision-making.
• Provide strategic advice on the expansion and sustainability of health insurance schemes, including CBHI, SHI, and other financial protection initiatives.
• Support government and project efforts to strengthen governance, accountability, and institutional capacity for health financing reforms.
• Advise on private sector engagement strategies, public-private partnerships, provider contracting arrangements, and the participation of private providers in strategic purchasing, health insurance systems, and publicly financed health services.
• Foster collaboration and policy dialogue among the Ministry of Health, EHIS, Ministry of Finance, Regional Health Bureaus, development partners, private sector stakeholders, and other relevant actors to advance health financing reform priorities.
• Support technical working groups, steering committees, policy consultations, and stakeholder forums related to health financing and health insurance reforms.
• Contribute to the development of policy briefs, technical guidance, reform frameworks, strategic reports, presentations, and knowledge products.
• Identify and promote international best practices and innovative approaches in health financing to support government-led reform efforts.
• Provide technical review and quality assurance for project deliverables, analyses, policy products, and recommendations related to health financing.
• Perform other relevant technical advisory assignments as requested by the Country Director and Health Care Financing Technical Lead.

Skills

Health financing policy

Health insurance

Public financial management

Strategic purchasing

Provider payment reforms

Universal Health Coverage

Policy analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Negotiation

Education

Master's degree in Health Economics or related field

Job description

Palladium Make It Possible seeks a Senior Advisor to provide strategic and technical advisory support to health financing reforms, health systems financing, and Universal Health Coverage priorities. The role partners with government counterparts to shape reform roadmaps, policy frameworks, and sustainability plans that strengthen health financing governance and accountability.

The ideal candidate will have a Master’s-level degree and 10+ years’ experience in health financing, health economics,