Immediately sought: Public Health Specialist / Evaluation Team Leader (Cat I) for new mission in Nigeria

For the Lot 4 EU Framework Contract Cadena is immediately looking for a Public Health Specialist / Evaluation Team Leader (Cat I) for the new mission “Mid-term Evaluation of ‘Strengthening the Nigerian Health System towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage (HSS)’ Programme” .

The expert should have the following minimum professional qualifications and expertise: 

Qualifications and skills

• Master’s degree in Medicine or related fields, Health Financing/Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences or Economics.
• At least 12 years’ experience and technical expertise in Health Financing, Public Health, Health Systems, Public Finance Management, health policy and strategy development, Strategic planning, monitoring and evaluating health systems
• Experience with capacity development projects as per guidance provided by the “EU backbone strategy” (http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/backbone_strategy_technical_cooperation_en.pdf) and the “Guidelines on “Making technical cooperation more effective”” (http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/ensure-aid-effectiveness/documents/guidelines_on_tc_finale_en.pdf).
• Familiarity with international standards and methods regarding health financing and health reforms
• Familiarity with contractual and tender procedures;
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience with EDF programming procedures will be an asset;
• Proven field research and report writing skills;
• Creative ability to identify practical solutions to overcome challenges to time-critical projects;
• Excellent interpersonal skills to relate to counterparts on all levels of hierarchy;
• IT literate, very good data-processing knowledge, and of office automation software;
• Experience in communication, negotiation and dialogue at high level.

Professional experience

• Professional experience in a developing country(ies) and demonstrable knowledge of the political economy of health including health insurance;
• Professional experience in leading missions for project evaluations demonstrated by leadership of at least 3 missions;
• Demonstrated ability to analyse political contexts, interact, and negotiate effectively with multiple interests at the political level;
• Demonstrated ability to provide sound methodological and technical advice and guidance to government and multiple stakeholders and partners;
• Language skills: proficient in English Language.

For more information about this assignment you can download the ToR here:02-TermsOfReference-SIEA-2018-1159

Interested experts are kindly requested to contact us and submit their CV at jobs@cadena-idp.com, on or before Wednesday 3th December 16:00,  preferably in the following format: CV EU-Format .