Health Economist for Public Health in Africa Global at Genesis Analytics

Description

Genesis Analytics is the largest African-based economic consultancy with its headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa. Testament to the firm’s purpose of unlocking value in Africa, we have worked in 41 countries on the continent, and 30 countries globally. We use our analytical capabilities to improve decision-making and, through better decisions, unlock substantial value for our clients and society.

Our Health Practice collaborates with governments throughout Africa and with global development partners to improve health outcomes. The Practice has a team of experts with decades of experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of health programmes and in the provision of analytical and advisory services that inform health policy and practice.

The Health Practice has five areas of service expertise, namely: 1) Research, evaluation and design, 2) Behavioural sciences, 3) Health Systems Strengthening 4) Health Financing and Economics and 5) Digital Solutions in Health The Health Practice also provides Technical Support Service for development partners. More information about Genesis and the health practice can be viewed at https://www.genesis-analytics.com/.

We are currently recruiting for an experienced health economist for the Health Financing and Economics (HFE) Unit.

The HFE Unit has a growing portfolio of high-profile projects that cut across the disciplines of sustainable financing, health costing, PFM reform and economic evaluations. Our clients include the Global Fund for HTM, the BMGF, USAID and UNICEF and we partner with a number of leading international organisations to implement large projects across the continent. This position will fulfil both a technical and leadership role in ensuring that the Unit achieves its strategic objectives and entrenches Genesis as one of the leading health economics consultancies in Africa.

The candidate should be an experienced consultant who is comfortable in working in a fast-paced environment, and is able to professionally engage with role players at all levels. The consultant should be effective in managing junior consultants and able to take responsibility for the successful delivery of assignments, from design to close-out.  

The candidate should have specialist experience in two or more of the following disciplines: Health financing, Health Public Financial Management, Health costing, Economic evaluations.

The successful candidate’s key responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Support the leadership of the HFE Unit in developing and executing its strategic and annual plans
• Provide management support to the Unit in leading junior consultants and building their capacity
• Oversee the successful implementation of complex consulting assignments, within budget, and dissemination of results to clients and other stakeholders
• Manage the implementation of multi-year donor grants and contracts
• Provide specialist technical services to projects
• Technical report writing and presentations in regional and global fora

Requirements

Requirements

Ideal candidate profiles:

• PhD or Master’s degree in Health Economics
• Ideally based in Africa, but not a pre-requisite
• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience
• Strong track record of undertaking technical economic evaluations, analyses and technical writing for global clients and development partners
• Decision modelling for health economic evaluations would be an advantage
• Team player with leadership acumen
• Skilled in processing and interpreting large sets of data
• Confident to use own initiative and logic to problem-solving and demonstrates analytical and lateral thinking
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and holds strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• High self-motivation