Field Support Consultant, PROPEL Health Ghana

Palladium Group

Ghana

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Field Support Consultant to join our team in delivery these objectives. The ideal candidate will provide on-site technical support, troubleshoot issues, and ensure customer satisfaction. This role requires excellent problem-solving skills, technical expertise, and the ability to work independently. The consultant will play a crucial role in the rollout of tailored financial planning and reporting tools, and in providing hands-on technical capacity-building support for GHS staff.

PROPEL Health is a USAID-funded five-year project awarded to Palladium on Sept 23,2022. PROPEL Health aims to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH). Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. PROPEL Health’s country teams will serve as the technical and implementation driving force for Mission buy-ins and country-based, core-funded activities. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

In Ghana’s health sector, the 2018 PEFA assessment highlighted several specific challenges including weak financial management capacities especially in health facilities, and delays in reimbursing claims submitted to the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), leading to cash flow issues. The assessment also documented some of the frequently raised audit queries including concerns about revenue misappropriation, pilferage, noncompliance with procurement practices, payments made without contract awards, and unaccounted fuel usage. These challenges are compounded by the fact that although numerous cost centers in the health sector are coded in GIFMIS, not all of them are connected to GIFMIS, hindering timely and accurate monitoring of financial resource flows. To address these challenges, the USAID-funded Ghana Health Service (GHS) Systems Strengthening Activity (GSS) aims, among other things, to strengthen the GHS's financial management, planning, asset management, and data infrastructure. To support these efforts, PROPEL Health has been commissioned to facilitate and provide technical assistance to advance this effort. Specifically, PROPEL Health is expected to:

Enhance GHS staff knowledge, skill and utilization of key and relevant aspects of the Public Financial;
Management (PFM) Law and regulations;
Enhance GHS budget credibility and evidence-base allocation;
Strengthen the use of financial data for informed decision-making;
Enhance subnational governance and oversight of health sector financial resources.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Contribute to the overall coordination of PROPEL Health's activities in the country, including in the preparation and conduct of Project workshops and other meetings;
Support PROPEL Health Ghana staff maintain liaison with key local actors, including the Ghana Health Service, Finance Division, and the Ministry of Finance (GIFMIS Secretariat), for the preparation and coordination of activities;
Contribute to PROPEL Health's procurement process according to Palladium rules by close collaboration with the Finance and Project Administration staff;
Produce and/or contribute to training reports, meeting summary notes, and other related documents;
Assist with the recruitment of regional and district training participants and coordinate their activities;
Track the delivery of project trainings and other field implementation activities across project sites;
Provide on-site support and troubleshooting for stakeholders and training attendants during trainings and meetings;
Conduct pre- and post-assessments after trainings support in tailoring training content to meet specific skill gaps;
Perform any other duties as assigned by the Country Director of PROPEL Health Ghana as part of its mission.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in project Implementation, Public Health, Health Finance, Health Economics, Health Administration, Social Work, Community Development, or a related field;
3-4 years working experience in the NGO Sector/Civil Society Organization with minimum of 4 years of direct experience in project implementation and working with teams;
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
Ability to work independently and manage time effectively;
Experience with Monitoring and Evaluation is a plus.

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