The Demand Side Finance (DSF) Advisor is responsible for enabling poor women and adolescent girls in Bungoma to access Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services at subsidised rates through the use of demand side mechanisms such as the safe motherhood vouchers or social health insurance, and through the improved responsiveness of the health system. S/he will responsible for rolling out a DSF project in conjunction with County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) and the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), and in alignment with established national demand side financing mechanisms.
Main Duities:
- Work closely with the CHMT, NHIF and other stakeholders to develop a DSF mechanism suited to Bungoma
Depending on DSF mechanism identified:
- Manage implementation of county-wide DSF project; such as an Output Based Approach (OBA) voucher project
- Coordinate and liaise closely with national demand side financing initiative – Ministry of Health (MoH) Project Management Unit and National Voucher Management Agency (PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)) – and the NHIF.
- Work with County Heath Team and/or NHIF to implement DSF project
- Search for opportunities to integrate DSF project functions into CHMT operations
- Promote CHMT oversight role
- Coordinate and liaise with private sector provider networks
- Provide technical assistance to Bungoma NHIF in the expansion of the NHIF to the informal sector and roll-out of Health Information System Programme (HISP)
- Coordinate and liaise with African Health Market for Equity (AHME) programme
- Provide technical assistance to the CHMT in developing strategies for engaging the private sector in publicly funded service delivery
- Manage and oversee inputs of short-term technical assistance as required
- Any other duties that may be assigned by the Project Director
Person Specification
Experence
- Experience of voucher programmes for MNH
- Experience of managing health programmes in sub-Saharan Africa – preferably Kenya
Knowledge and Skills
- Knowledge of DSF programmes
- Knowledge of health systems design
- Knowledge of health financing
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