Senior Policy, Financing, and Governance Advisor

**Senior Policy, Financing, and Governance Advisor**

We are searching for an experienced Senior Policy, Financing, and Governance Advisor in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

**Project Overview**

Promoting Results and Outcomes through Policy and Economic Levers (PROPEL) Health is a USAID- funded five-year project awarded to Palladium on September 23, 2022. PROPEL Health aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), primary healthcare, and global health security (GHS). The project’s transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. PROPEL Health’s country teams will serve as the technical and implementation driving force for Mission buy-ins and country-based core-funded activities. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors and partners to co-create country programs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

PROPEL Health Madagascar will support the Government of Madagascar (GOM) to advance the national Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and One Health approach. PROPEL Health will strengthen the government’s capacity to design and implement health security policies; mobilize and efficiently utilize financing for emergency response and essential services; and better prepare the GOM to prevent emerging infectious disease threats (both human and zoonotic), including cholera, Mpox, and Marburg virus. PROPEL Health will also focus on improving policy, financing, and governance of GHS, disease surveillance, health emergency response, and risk communication.

The project is seeking to recruit a Senior Policy, Financing, and Governance Advisor on PROPEL Health Madagascar. This is a local hire and moving expenses or expatriate allowances are not associated with the position. This position is based in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

**Scope of Work**:
The Senior Policy and Financing Advisor will provide leadership and technical expertise in policy, strategic planning, and financing for global health security in Madagascar. The Advisor will work closely with the PROPEL Health Madagascar Country Director, other members of the PROPEL Health team locally and at HQ, government and technical experts to strengthen the government’s capacity to design and implement health security policies and mobilize and efficiently utilize financing for emergency response and essential services. The Senior Policy and Financing Advisor will report to the PROPEL Health Madagascar Country Director.

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide high-level technical expertise in health policy and health financing to support the MOPH and GoM in achieving their goals for the global health security agenda (GHSA) and One Health.
- Interacts with national and international actors and other experts to bring new and “cutting edge” ideas into GHSA program implementation.
- Support the GoM to advance governance the global health security agenda (GHSA) and One Health.
- Establish and maintain excellent working relationships with government entities, as well as with local and international counterparts.
- Lead the technical assistance for policy development and strategic planning activities including the development of analysis, surveys, and any other tools for the development of the national global health security strategic plan.
- Provides health economics, health financing, cost analyses or other financial analyses to support the GHSA mobilize and efficiently utilize financing for emergency response and essential services.
- Provide technical assistance for key stakeholder’s capacity strengthening activities including workshops, on-site support and other learning for adults’ strategies as defined and in coordination with other technical advisors.
- Develop high-quality technical products and ensure all PROPEL Health review and production processes are adhered to.
- Development of activity documentation (briefs, reports, PPTs, etc.) and provide substantial contribution for the development of concepts notes, workplans and any other document related to the activity deliverables under their technical lead.
- Proactively develop new relationships and manage ongoing relationships with the government of Madagascar, industry actors, business and technical partners, and Palladium’s program implementing partners.
- Perform other duties as requested by the PROPEL Health Country Director to fulfil the needs of the Madagasc