Options Consultancy Services Limited is a leading global health consultancy established in 1992 as a wholly owned subsidiary of MSI Reproductive Choices. We manage health programmes that ensure vulnerable women and children can access the high-quality health services they need. We work with partners to co-create and implement locally informed solutions to complex health problems. This includes governments, development partners, NGOs, civil society and health workers. Our programming is flexible, evidence-based and politically informed. This means we adapt to changing contexts, use data to inform our decisions and ensure our approach is appropriate. Our focus is always on building local skills and systems that last.

Options seeks a Technical Specialist to provide backstopping and strategic support on health systems and financing across a selection of Options’ programmes through the provision of technical advice, analysis and quality assurance.

The Health Systems and Financing Specialist will provide technical support on health financing and systems strengthening across Options’ portfolio of programmes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). You will be able to appreciate the complexities of and dynamic interactions within health systems including the political context in which they function. Through a combination of backstopping support to programme teams and direct technical delivery, you will support the design, implementation and monitoring of health financing approaches to support achievement of universal health coverage.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• An MSc in public health, health financing or health economics or relevant field
• A health systems specialist with significant experience of delivering technical work on health financing across Africa and/or Asia
• Strong understanding of public financial management and its role in strengthening health service delivery in developing countries
• Substantial experience of providing remote and in-person technical assistance to counterparts, across a range of overseas programmes
• Substantial experience of leading technical design of programmes, including the development of theories of changes and results frameworks

• Options is an equal opportunities employer
• Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.
• We seek people who are pro-choice, energetic and enthusiastic about Options’ vision.