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Health Economics Analyst

United States

  • Organization: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Location: United States
  • Grade: Junior level - Junior
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Public Health and Health Service
    • Economics
  • Closing Date: Closed

Requisition ID: req8783

Job Title: Health Economics Analyst

Sector: Health

Employment Category: Fixed Term

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: United States

Job Description

The IRC’s Airbel Impact Lab designs, tests, and scales life-changing, cost-effective solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster. By applying the IRC’s deep technical expertise and field experience with a range of skills from the behavioral sciences, human-centered design, rigorous research, and multi-disciplinary problem-solving in humanitarian contexts, we work to develop breakthrough solutions that combine creativity and rigor, openness and expertise, and a desire to think afresh with the experience of a large-scale implementing organization. The Airbel Impact Lab and the IRC’s Technical Units have identified three Global Research and Innovation Priorities to focus our energy over the coming years and generate a set of breakthroughs to radically improve client outcomes and change the humanitarian sector. This includes a priority of Tackling Child Malnutrition by scaling innovations that prevent malnutrition and improve access, coverage and cost-effectiveness of acute malnutrition treatment in children under five. The IRC Health Technical Unit is in the process of piloting and studying adjustments to the CMAM protocol, with the aim of increasing coverage and recovery rates of children suffering from acute malnutrition.

The Health Economics Analyst will support the nutrition priority, working closely with the Best Use of Resources Analyst under the supervision of the Associate Director for Best Use of Resources. S/he will support an economic evaluation of a simplified protocol for treatment of acute malnutrition in Mali, with an emphasis on capturing non-financial costs of the simplified protocol. In addition to support for this specific evaluation, the Health Economist Analyst will build the capacity of the broader Best Use of Resources team in support of future economic evaluations of nutrition programs. Their objective is to ensure that the BUR team will be equipped to gather high-quality data on non-financial costs and activity-level resource usage as new projects start up within the nutrition priority. 

Major Responsibilities: The Health Economics Analyst will be responsible for ensuring the technical quality of a costing analysis in Mali, while also building tools, training, and capacity among the wider Best Use of Resources team to carry out key aspects of such analyses in the future. Specific deliverables for this short-term position include:

  • Conducting a literature review on methods for costing beneficiary time in refugee/displacement contexts, with recommendations for IRC’s research portfolio moving forwards

  • Design and execution of primary data collection activities for two components of an economic evaluation of a new malnutrition treatment protocol in Mali, including:

    • A time-use survey for program staff, as part of a wider cost analysis

    • Client surveys on time/resource use to participate in a new malnutrition treatment protocol, as part of a wider cost analysis

  • Capacity building of IRC’s Best Use of Resources team to conduct data collection on staff time use as part of activity-based cost analyses in the future, including:

    • A toolkit for estimating beneficiary time or other resources used in different programs across different contexts in the future (with primary data collection tools, as necessary, to make analysis possible)

    • A toolkit for collecting time use data of key staff, and for other resources (e.g. clinics, vehicles) as part of activity-based cost analyses in the future

  • Any other activities deemed necessary by the candidate to build the long-term capacity of the BUR team to (1) capture time use data, and (2) capture client costs, in future economic evaluations of nutrition programs


Qualifications

The successful candidate will have a graduate degree in public health or health economics, with experience conducting economic evaluations of development or programs. They will be adept at coordinating with colleagues across multiple departments and communicating effectively about technical standards for research.

Work Experience:

  • A minimum of three years conducting economic evaluations in a development or humanitarian setting

    Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • MPA, MPH, or equivalent degree

  • Training in health economics and activity-based costing methods in low resource settings

  • Experience working with multi-cultural and multi-lingual teams on technically demanding tasks

    Education: Masters degree in public health/health economics

    Language Skills: English, French

Preferred experience & skills:

  • 2+ years working on economic evaluations in a development or humanitarian setting, preferably within a multilateral or non-profit organization
  • Experience designing and implementing economic evaluations, including primary data collection, ideally including experience with remote data collection
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as, an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver on time
  • Strong analytic problem solving skills
  • Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure
  • French ability required

Working Environment:

  • Standard office working environment or remote work possible, depending on candidate qualifications

  • This position will report to the Associate Director for Best Use of Resources, and is also expected to coordinate and seek input from colleagues in the Health Technical Unit and other colleagues on the Best Use of Resources team

  • Some international travel as needed up to 10%

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