JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Economics / Health Economics Specialist

Reports To: Head of Technical Advisory Services

Location: London

Background:

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for programmes including monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.

Malaria Consortium employs around 400 people, the majority of who are based in 9 countries across Africa and Asia.

Job Purpose:

To develop the organisation’s capacity to include an economics perspective in its work, to support costing of improved and new delivery strategies and interventions and to ensure that Malaria Consortium can track the value for money of its work.

Key Responsibilities:

Contribute to economic aspects of disease control and child health

 Determine how economic information and arguments, including impact on economic growth, can most effectively support appropriate investment in malaria, NTDs and child health  Develop tools to explore the economic impact, including growth drivers, of control strategies  Develop tools to model and communicate to different types of audience the economic impact of diseases, control and elimination  Estimate the macroeconomic impact of malaria, neglected tropical diseases and childhood illness and strategies to control them in selected settings, as measured by GDP, industrial output, labour availability and linking to school learning  Develop Malaria Consortium staff capacity to undertake or oversee economic evaluations

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Design and oversee costing components of Malaria Consortium projects

. Identify projects where costing studies could be included and strengthen the evidence generated through the projects . Design costing studies, support their implementation, analysis and dissemination . Conduct cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses

Track and promote value for money in Malaria Consortium’s work

. Building on Malaria Consortium’s Value for Money framework, assess the VFM of key projects, and set up systems to allow project managers and country teams to collect data for tracking . Identify best indicators of VFM to be used by Malaria Consortium

Organisational development

 Contribute to the development of the Malaria Consortium’s technical and organisational strategy, identifying areas of potential significance for future work in consultation with the Senior Technical Team

 Support proposal development both with new project ideas and through economic appraisal of project approaches

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential  A PhD or Master’s level degree in economics, preferably health economics  Significant experience of undertaking and overseeing costing exercises  Work experience in low or middle income countries  Experience with relevant computer programmes  Work experience with international organisations involved in health programme development and implementation

Desirable  Previous experience of primary cost data collection

Work Based Skills and Competencies:

Essential  Strong conceptual and analytic skills  Ability to work in multi-cultural environments  Demonstrable ability to develop systems  Excellent interpersonal and coaching skills  Excellent communication and presentation skills  Fluent in English, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Desirable  Proficiency in another European language (especially French and/or Portuguese)

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OTHER KEY INFORMATION

Length of contract Indefinite

Location London, UK

Travel involved Up to 30%

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