Консультант з питань якості даних охорони здоров’я та планування у надзвичайних ситуаціях/ Consultant in Health Data Quality and Emergency Planning

Deloitte is seeking for short-term Consultant in Health Data Quality and Emergency Planning in support of the USAID/ Ukaid Health Reform Support (HRS).

Period of Performance: May 2021 – September 2021

1. Project Background and Summary:

The purpose of USAID Health Reform Support is to support a transparent, accountable, and effective health care system that is capable of meeting the health needs of the Ukrainian people. Advancing health sector reforms, enhancing transparency, and tackling corruption will reduce out-of-pocket payments and improve access and availability of high quality, evidence-based health care services for Ukrainians. Elimination of corruption is a cross-cutting theme across all objectives to be achieved by this activity, which include:

1. Improve health sector governance.
2. Support the transformation of the healthcare financing model.
3. Strengthen the health workforce.
4. Enhance transparency, accountability and responsiveness of the health care system.
5. Improve service delivery system at all levels.

2. Objective

The Consultant will provide technical expertise in data quality and emergency planning to the MOH in building a national framework on healthcare preparedness for emergency response (including COVID-19 response).

3. Tasks:

• provide evidence-based justification for COVID-related response activities and vaccination program rollout
• develop cost-effective decisions for regional public health network facilities development and reorganization
• provide overall analysis of existing policies on data collection and use and develop recommendations on strategic areas of improvement and investments
• develop recommendations on priority areas of impact, their determination and revision
• conduct analysis of the public health data and other key health-related indicators, finding bottlenecks and providing solutions for policy improvement
• draft abstract/summary of initial desk review, including the data analysis of key public health indicators
• respond proactively to requests by USAID Health Reform Support project
• provide other services upon common agreement

4. Qualification requirements:

• PhD Degree in Mathematics / Statistics/ Epidemiology / Health Administration or other related areas
• No less than 5 years of experience in data analytics and/or health program management and/or health policy development
• Experience in building epidemiological projections and analysis of causal factors that influence the epidemiological curve
• Experience in data quality verification and improvement
• Experience in deriving insights from data and organizing the obtained insights into clear data-driven recommendations for policy makers
• Experience of work with local health care providers, national and regional health care authorities
• Experience in the development of guidelines, strategies for health
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English and Ukrainian

5. Applications:

Qualified candidates are expected to send their CVs, cover letters, daily rate expectations and two professional letters of reference to [email protected] no later than May 16, 2021. Please indicate the following in the subject field of the email: ” Consultant in Health Data Quality and Emergency Planning “. Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview.