Junior Consultant - Healthcare Financing

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About the Organization

National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi, has been set up under the National Health Mission (NHM) as an autonomous registered society, to channelize technical assistance and capacity building support to the states for strengthening the public health system. The NHSRC is also mandated to contribute to health policy / programme design and evaluation. NHSRC intends recruiting Consultants for its Public Health Administration division, purely on a contractual basis.

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Support production of annual health accounts for Union and states using health accounts production tool.
• Support improvement of methodologies and identification/use of new data sources for health accounts. Conduct large scale surveys to get health expenditure data from Enterprises and NGOs.
• Support work on concepts related to Financing of Universal Health Coverage and methods for monitoring financial progress towards UHC and SDGs.
• Publish research regarding healthcare financing policy, budgetary allocations and expenditures and household out of pocket expenditures.
• Support documentation of strategic purchasing and best practices in healthcare financing models to improve efficiency, quality of care and equity
• Support Costing of healthcare services and work on team-based performance incentives.
• Participate in expert meetings, committees of the government/ other institutions representing NHSRC on aspects related to healthcare financing
• Assist Healthcare Financing team in organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and trainings at central, regional, district and facility level; on the theme of Healthcare Financing in general
• Any other task as assigned by Advisor/Team Lead Healthcare Financing and Executive Director, NHSRC

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• MBBS / Dental/ BAMS/BHMS/Bachelors in Allied medical subjects from a reputed Institute with a Masters qualification in Public Health or Health Financing;
• Masters in Public Policy
• Doctorate/ M.Phil. in economics with work in Health Financing Minimum one years of post-qualification experience working in the area of Healthcare financing.

Other Qualities:

• Team player show ability to work with government officials, administration, community representatives, and other domestic/ international partners.
• Excellent communication skills (including written and presentation skills) in English and a working knowledge of Hindi.
• Computer proficiency including MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint) and ability to undertake search Engine based research. Knowledge of statistical packages (like EPI - info/SPSS/Stata/SAS) is desirable.
• Ability of multi-tasking and adherence to tight timelines under increased work- pressure.
• Strategic thinking and leadership skills

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