As a global cooperative agreement, Human Resources for Health (HRH2030) supports USAID/Washington and field missions in strengthening human resources for health (HRH) to increase the accessibility, availability, acceptability, and quality of the health workforce needed to improve health outcomes and advance universal health coverage. Globally, HRH2030 is designed to 1) increase performance and productivity of the health workforce, 2) increase the number, skill mix, and competency of the health workforce, 3) strengthen HRH/HSS leadership and governance capacity and, 4) increase sustainability of investment in the health workforce. At the global level, in addition to Chemonics, consortium partners include: Palladium, URC, ThinkWell, AIHA, Amref Health Africa, and Open Development.
In Ethiopia, HRH2030 is supporting the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) Human Resources for Health Development Directorate (HRHDD) in the development and implementation of National Health Workforce Accounts (NHWA). NHWA, developed by WHO and implemented by member states with support from WHO, USAID and technical assistance partners such as HRH2030, provides a system by which countries can progressively improve the availability, quality and use of data on their health workforce. This system will ultimately allow countries to have comprehensive and multi-faceted data to strengthen the HRH decision-making process, adopt the Global HRH Strategy: Workforce 2030 and contribute to Sustainable Development Goals in a manner that is in line with USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening.
In order to further the FMOH’s progress on NHWA, HRH2030 is seeking a short term consultancy of approximately 40 days from June through September 2019 to provide on the ground conitnuous support to the FMOH HRHDD in conceptualization and operationalization of the system, including supporting the HRHDD to define HRH policy questions for NHWA application, identify and engage stakeholders, develop governance structures for sharing and use of data, assess and improve data availability and quality of HRH information systems and data, and further compilation, cleaning and analysis of data.
Responsibilities
Using WHO recommended guidance for implementation of NHWA, the consultant will work closely with the FMOH HRHDD focal point for NHWA, USAID/Ethiopia, WHO and HRH2030’s NHWA global team lead to conduct activities related to conceptualization and operationalization of NHWA. Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Overall, serve as key technical expert providing hands on support, coaching and mentoring to the FMOH HRHDD on implementation of NHWA.
Support the NHWA TWG to define the key HRH policy questions for application of NHWA through review of key HRH strategic documents followed by meetings and other working sessions.
In direct collaboration with the HRHDD NHWA Focal Point, coordinate all NHWA TWGs meetings, including support to meeting preparations, conducting of meetings and follow up on meeting action points. Ensure that new relevant stakeholders are continuously identified for participation as per the policy questions and NHWA data needs.
Develop governance structures for sharing and use of data, including data sharing agreements, SOPs for transfer of data, documentation of roles and responsibilities, and other tools and procedures needed to ensure efficient and continuous flow of appropriate HRH data between stakeholders.
Continuously identify issues in the availability and quality of HRH data and HRH information systems, identify and implement as feasible measures to improve the data.
Develop processes for and support compilation, cleaning and analysis of needed HRH data. Support entry of data into the NHWA online platform and facilitate processes for validation.
Represent HRH2030 to liaise regularly with USAID/Ethiopia, WHO/Geneva and WHO/Ethiopia
Work closely and regularly with HRH2030 home office Core Team HRH2030’s NHWA global team lead and provide inputs to HRH2030 Core technical products and global goods for NHWA as requested.
Job Requirement
Qualifications:
At least eight years of professional experience in human resources for health, public health, labor market analysis or a related field;
Advanced degree in public health, health economics, international development, or a related field preferred;
Experience in working directly with the Government of Ethiopia, in particular the FMOH and preferably in the area of human resources for health;
Ability to coordinate multi-sectoral stakeholders and produce products or other tangible results with these stakeholders;
Proven experience in data standardization, cleaning and analysis;
Strong understanding of health labor market flows and human resources for health;
Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team, preferably on a USAID or other donor-funded project;
Superior written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated interpersonal, cultural sensitivity, and conflict management and resolution capabilities; and