International Consultant, National Health Accounts (NHA)

About the role

The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking an experienced International Consultant to support the Ministry of Health in South Sudan in conducting its National Health Accounts (NHA) for the past three financial years (2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26). The consultant provides technical leadership and hands-on support from stakeholder engagement through report preparation, validation and dissemination. The contract lasts three months, based in Juba, and is reported as full-time.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct a desk review of the health financing landscape using policies, strategies, guidelines, data sources and reports.
• Develop a detailed workplan and implementation roadmap for the NHA exercise.
• Set up a multi-stakeholder team, map stakeholders and institutions, and organise stakeholder orientation and advocacy.
• Build the capacity of the National Health Accounts Core Team and coordinate data collection from financing agents and health providers.
• Support data management, cleaning, coding and analysis using SHA 2011 classifications.
• Hold consultative and validation meetings, interpret findings and prepare NHA outputs.
• Develop an NHA institutionalization plan for routine production of health accounts within the Ministry of Health.
• Finalize the NHA report and policy briefs, and prepare dissemination materials.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Statistics, Economics, Health Financing, Health Economics, Public Health, Health Policy, Health Systems or a related field from a recognized university.
• At least 7 years of experience supporting health expenditure tracking using SHA 2011, especially in African or low- and middle-income countries.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in health systems strengthening, including health financing, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa; experience in fragile and conflict-affected settings is an added advantage.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of the System of Health Accounts (SHA 2011) and the Health Accounts Production Tool.
• Health financing analysis and expenditure tracking.
• Excellent capacity-building, facilitation, statistical and analytic skills, and report writing.

What we offer

• Remuneration as a consultancy fee equivalent to P4, paid monthly against agreed deliverables.
• Applicable daily subsistence allowance in line with WHO guidelines.
• Round-trip economy airfare.