National Consultant on Health Financing and Costing

Provides technical health-financing and costing support for Ukraine’s provider-payment reforms. Working remotely with national institutions, the consultant develops costing methodologies, financial models and National Health Accounts inputs; analyses health-expenditure and service data; and delivers policy advice, tools and training that strengthen evidence-based budget planning, strategic purchasing and sustainable health-care financing.

• Map health-expenditure data and support production of National Health Accounts
• Develop technical instructions for primary-health-care costing and capitation-rate calculations
• Develop methodologies for primary-health-care and emergency-medical-services budgets
• Train National Health Service of Ukraine staff on costing methodologies
• Contribute to financing-roadmap consultations with health and finance institutions
• Conduct a pre-hospital emergency-medical-services costing study and cost model
• Analyse cross-border healthcare financing and budget implications for EU accession
• Prepare analytical products, policy recommendations and technical reports

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Economics, Economics, Public Health, Public Policy, Health Management, Statistics, Social Sciences or a related discipline
• At least 3 years of experience collecting, processing and analysing data from health-service providers
• Experience in cost-accounting methodology and health-service costing
• Experience developing financial models and budget-impact analyses using Microsoft Excel
• Excellent Ukrainian and basic knowledge of English

• Experience with internationally recognized health-service costing methodologies
• Understanding of health-financing arrangements and expenditure patterns in Ukraine
• Experience with WHO or another international public-health organization

• Health Financing
• Health Service Costing
• Financial Modelling
• Budget Impact Analysis
• Health Expenditure Analysis
• Strategic Purchasing
• Data Analysis
• Policy Analysis
• Technical Writing
• Capacity Building

• Microsoft Excel
• SHA 2011

• Home-based consultancy with no expected travel
• Monthly payment follows approval of a technical report