Associate - Health Financing

Job Description

• seeking highly motivated individuals with outstanding credentials, analytical ability, and communication skills to shape the growing health financing program.
• The candidate will be embedded in the Ayushman Bharat - Haryana Health Protection Agency (AB-HHPA or Haryana SHA ) in Chandigarh to support SHA leadership in the design and implementation of key PMJAY reforms with a focus on evidence based decision making.
• The candidate must be able to function independently and flexibly and have a strong commitment to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following

• Support the Program Manager to identify and define CHAIs overall strategy within the program area, develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for CHAI to add value and maximize impact
• Sensitize and create demand for support on data analytics and data use for decision making, working with SHA partners to articulate this need and providing continuity so that best practices and skills are shared and institutionalized within government.
• Support use of evidence to identify gaps in policy and implementation, improving service coverage and adjusting pricing, payment and packages to create an effective health insurance program.
• Build capacity within SHA for evidence-based management, including through day to day joint tasks and deliverables as well as trainings on various aspects of the health reforms.
• Support analysis of program data to monitor performance, identify key challenges/bottlenecks and provide solutions
• Identify KPIs and build monitoring dashboards to support effective programmatic decision making
• Support coordination and knowledge sharing on key reforms between states as well as between the centre and state governments on a continuous basis
• Develop and disseminate policy briefs and other knowledge products, in collaboration with government partners
• Facilitate key meetings/events such as trainings, state coordination meetings, IT workshops etc
• Provide strategic insights at technical working groups and/or other high level meetings and conferences
• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors and NGOs, and ensure maximum coordination of resources and effort
• Collaborate with government to ensure skills transfer and government ownership, identify the most critical hurdles to scale-up, and develop innovative strategies to address them
• Other responsibilities as needed

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor s degree or equivalent in a relevant field; Master s degree preferred
• Minimum two years of relevant work experience preferably in strategic consulting or big data analytics. Experience working in the health sector and/or health insurance (public or private) is an advantage. Experience in India is an advantage.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and implement new initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team, ideally in the context of a growing team and/or a team with several senior managers
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and problem solve in a fast-paced, limited-structure, multicultural environment.
• Excellent analytical (qualitative and quantitative) skills and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Willingness to travel if required and for extended periods (~15% travel).
• Fluency in English. Fluency in Hindi and additional Indian languages is an advantage.

Preferred

• Knowledge of big data/advanced analytics concepts and algorithms - text mining, social listening, recommender systems, predictive modelling, etc.
• Experience of handling datasets through use of software such as SQL, Oracle, Python, SAS etc and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense etc.
• Design and BI architecture skills, partnering with engineering information architecture teams on design architecture
• Experience managing a project end-to-end: problem scoping, data gathering, EDA, visualizations, modelling and insights
• Experience managing roll-out of largescale projects across States is an advantage.

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Keyskills :
big datapower biqlik sensetext miningdata analyticshealth insurancemicrosoft officeequipment supplysocial listeningtechnical supportknowledge sharingdata visualizationanalytical abilitystrategic insightsrecommender systemscommunication skil