JOB DETAILS:
Grants Officer, Regional East Africa (with a focus on Sudan, Kenya and Uganda,
Somali and South Sudan)
Location: Kampala, Uganda (or in other countries in the region where Saferworld has
offices i.e. Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and South Sudan)
Reporting to: Partnerships and Compliance Manager
Type of position: National Position
Grade and Salary: Competitive
Contract terms and hours:
• Term of contract: Fixed-term, 12 months, renewable subject to funding and satisfactory performance
• Probation: 3 months
• Hours: Standard working week is 37.5 hours a week
• Taxes: Saferworld deducts and remits Uganda income tax for all its employees, regardless of nationality.
• Work eligibility: Must have the right to live and work in Uganda
Background:
Saferworld is an independent international organisation that works to prevent and reduce violent conflict and promote co-operative approaches to security. We work with people affected by conflict to improve their safety and sense ofsecurity, and conduct wider research and analysis. We use this evidence and learning to improve local, national and international policies and practices that can help build lasting peace. Our priority is people – we believe in a world
where everyone can lead peaceful, fulfilling lives, free from fear and insecurity. We are a not-for-profit organisation operational in over 10 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Saferworld has worked in the region since 2000 and has offices in Kampala, Khartoum, Nairobi, Juba and Hargeisa.
Our work focuses on improving governance, ensuring safety and security services are responsive to people’s needs,
and reducing violence related to elections, land, access to small arms and light weapons, power and resources.
This role will support grant administration and compliance in the region in accordance with contractual obligations. Safer world’s funding base has grown in income and complexity over the last few years, with the majority of funds coming from institutional donors, including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the US Government/USAID, United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF), the European Union, and other European Governments, such as SIDA, Norwegian MFA and the Netherlands MFA. This role will support the organization’s work towards maintaining effective compliance systems and processes of Safer world’s regional grants from respective donors, including ensuring systems, processes and workflows are in place, and delivering high quality and timely reporting. Safer world is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment that safeguards our staff, partners and communities. Our organizational integrity is derived from the values and principles that underpin and guide our work.
Job purpose:
The Grants Officer, in coordination with the Partnerships and Compliance Manager, will support effective and efficient grant management and administration to achieve programmer goals, working with staff and partner organizations of all levels. The role will provide administration of the grants including managing deliverable timelines, monitoring and ensuring compliance with rules and regulations, and managing complete files and data management for each grant. The Grants Officer will be line managed by the Partnerships and Compliance Manager with a dotted line to other Grant Managers in the region.
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Roles and responsibilities:
Grant management and administration
• Work with the Partnership and Compliance Manager, to ensure systems, processes and workflows for grant management and compliance are in place including developing or updating them when required. This includes maintaining a calendar of key donor deliverables and deadlines, and regularly communicating these to country teams.
• Work with the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers to support the process of
• the grant set up for new contracts, working with relevant teams in the region and in London to ensure staff and partners are aware of their roles and responsibilities in relation to compliance, budgets and deadlines.
• With the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers, support monthly grant
• management meetings with finance and project staff, including acting as rapporteur, to ensure that finances are reconciled, and the project is on track with contracted obligations
• Ensure the fundraising and grant management database is kept up to date, including as new grants are agreed, and that grants, contracts and donor communication is accessible and accurate.
• Coordinate timesheet reporting and allocations compliance across the grants for Headquarter staff Donor reporting
• Under the guidance of the Partnership and Compliance Manager, support the reporting process in the region– including working with the project and finance teams to support the production of timely and accurate narrative and financial reports.
• Support the submission of payment requests and updated budget forecasts and amendments for approval.
• With the Partnerships and Compliance Manager, work with the country and financial teams to support the refinement of financial systems and procedures for grant management and compliance where required.
• Follow up on payments as required, e.g. donor payment requests, consultant payments, partner disbursements
• Support country and HQ finance teams with project audits, mainly in organizing project documentation including from partners.
Donor and partner compliance, quality and learning
• Work with Grant Managers and the Finance team to carry out updates of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) database
• Work closely with the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers to develop working relationships with Saferworld partners, including signed Project Agreements and SDN checks adherence to partnership agreements and processes, financial receipts and expenditure reports, developing and managing systems to track partners’ spend against income in relation to the project, contract compliance, and donor financial and narrative reports – including IATI where needed.
• Organize and maintain documentation in relation to partner organizational capacity assessments and budget verification exercises, including the tracker with agreed actions and recommendations arising om these assessments
• Maintaining Saferworld’s partner database in the region, and liaise with Saferworld’s global CSO
• partnerships adviser to ensure Saferworld’s organisational data on partners is up to date.
• Support fundraising colleagues to provide relevant data and documents in support of donor due diligence processes
Key working relationships
• Country/project managers and other country programme staff – working collaboratively, sharing
• information, and supporting project managers and teams to ensure donor contractual requirements are met.
• Regional Africa and HQ finance staff – collaborate with finance colleagues in order to support the submission of timely and accurate financial reports and invoicing.
• Colleagues in Fundraising and Programme Development Managers – working collaboratively to
• coordinate on developing and cultivating relationships with donors
• Partners – working with partners (as needed, which varies across Saferworld’s country programmes) in order to support timely donor reports and fulfil other donor requirements; provide grant management capacity support to partners (as required and with the Partnership and Compliance Manager).
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• Colleagues in Programme Support & Learning Team, particularly the CSO Partnerships Adviser – work collaboratively to ensure adherence to Saferworld partnership processes and documentation.
• Other grant managers in the Africa region and across Saferworld – work collaboratively to exchange learning on best practices in grant management.
• Donors – from time to time this role may communicate with external donors as part of donor stewardship, developing relationships, and donor reporting.
Scope and accountability
Decision making and limits of authority
Decisions related to relevant information to share widely within the region to all levels of staff
Financial resources Whilst this post does not have budget responsibility, the accurate recording
of financial information is critical and contributes to analysis of income projections, match funding requirements etc.
Other resources
• Maintaining the fundraising and grant management database and ensuring high standards of data input
• Working with fundraising colleagues to refine the database in line with evolving data needs People management N/A
• Legal, regulatory and compliance responsibility
• Become familiar with IATI standards and regulations and support colleagues to ensure that the organization is IATI compliant
• Support fundraising colleagues to provide relevant data and documents in support of donor due diligence processes Person specification
Knowledge, qualifications and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, International Development, Sustainable Development, Peace and Conflict Studies or related discipline.
• Post graduate diploma in project planning and Management is an added advantage.
• Demonstrable experience of project and budget management (e.g. project planning, grant management, compiling and monitoring budgets, narrative and financial reporting), preferably in an INGO setting (at least two years of experience).
• Experience in developing and maintaining systematic and transparent records in order to keep track of projects and for accountability and auditing.
• Experience of working in an organisation that has a commitment to partnership or works with partners.
• Experience of donor compliance.
• Demonstrable ability to carry out administrative duties effectively
• Experience of managing and refining databases and extracting data for analytical purposes.
• Familiarity with peacebuilding and/or international development issues
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, as the task requires
Skills and abilities
• Fluency in English (written and spoken); fluency in a second language (desirable)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to condense complex information, including for reports
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including experience of communicating effectively across cultures and with diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
• Strong coordination and team-working skills applicable to a remote management context.
• Ability to negotiate and understand priorities of colleagues, applying a problem-solving supportive approach
• Ability to work proactively, on own initiative and well under pressure
• Ability to work in a non-partisan and neutral manner, particularly in high-stress and highly politicised
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environments, appreciating gender, cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Facilitation and training skills (desirable)
Personal qualities
• Commitment to and compliance with Saferworld’s safeguarding principles
• Commitment to respect and value equality and diversity, and understanding of how this applies to own area of work
• Commitment to own continuing personal and professional development
• Commitment to the vision, mission and values of Saferworld Other requirements
• Ability to travel within the region, up to 2-3 months a year (non-consecutive)
Grants Officer, Regional East Africa (with a focus on Sudan, Kenya and Uganda,
Somali and South Sudan)
Location: Kampala, Uganda (or in other countries in the region where Saferworld has
offices i.e. Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and South Sudan)
Reporting to: Partnerships and Compliance Manager
Type of position: National Position
Grade and Salary: Competitive
Contract terms and hours:
• Term of contract: Fixed-term, 12 months, renewable subject to funding and satisfactory performance
• Probation: 3 months
• Hours: Standard working week is 37.5 hours a week
• Taxes: Saferworld deducts and remits Uganda income tax for all its employees, regardless of nationality.
• Work eligibility: Must have the right to live and work in Uganda
Background:
Saferworld is an independent international organisation that works to prevent and reduce violent conflict and promote co-operative approaches to security. We work with people affected by conflict to improve their safety and sense ofsecurity, and conduct wider research and analysis. We use this evidence and learning to improve local, national and international policies and practices that can help build lasting peace. Our priority is people – we believe in a world
where everyone can lead peaceful, fulfilling lives, free from fear and insecurity. We are a not-for-profit organisation operational in over 10 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Saferworld has worked in the region since 2000 and has offices in Kampala, Khartoum, Nairobi, Juba and Hargeisa.
Our work focuses on improving governance, ensuring safety and security services are responsive to people’s needs,
and reducing violence related to elections, land, access to small arms and light weapons, power and resources.
This role will support grant administration and compliance in the region in accordance with contractual obligations. Safer world’s funding base has grown in income and complexity over the last few years, with the majority of funds coming from institutional donors, including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the US Government/USAID, United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF), the European Union, and other European Governments, such as SIDA, Norwegian MFA and the Netherlands MFA. This role will support the organization’s work towards maintaining effective compliance systems and processes of Safer world’s regional grants from respective donors, including ensuring systems, processes and workflows are in place, and delivering high quality and timely reporting. Safer world is committed to providing a safe and trusted environment that safeguards our staff, partners and communities. Our organizational integrity is derived from the values and principles that underpin and guide our work.
Job purpose:
The Grants Officer, in coordination with the Partnerships and Compliance Manager, will support effective and efficient grant management and administration to achieve programmer goals, working with staff and partner organizations of all levels. The role will provide administration of the grants including managing deliverable timelines, monitoring and ensuring compliance with rules and regulations, and managing complete files and data management for each grant. The Grants Officer will be line managed by the Partnerships and Compliance Manager with a dotted line to other Grant Managers in the region.
2 Grants Officer (January 2023)
Roles and responsibilities:
Grant management and administration
• Work with the Partnership and Compliance Manager, to ensure systems, processes and workflows for grant management and compliance are in place including developing or updating them when required. This includes maintaining a calendar of key donor deliverables and deadlines, and regularly communicating these to country teams.
• Work with the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers to support the process of
• the grant set up for new contracts, working with relevant teams in the region and in London to ensure staff and partners are aware of their roles and responsibilities in relation to compliance, budgets and deadlines.
• With the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers, support monthly grant
• management meetings with finance and project staff, including acting as rapporteur, to ensure that finances are reconciled, and the project is on track with contracted obligations
• Ensure the fundraising and grant management database is kept up to date, including as new grants are agreed, and that grants, contracts and donor communication is accessible and accurate.
• Coordinate timesheet reporting and allocations compliance across the grants for Headquarter staff Donor reporting
• Under the guidance of the Partnership and Compliance Manager, support the reporting process in the region– including working with the project and finance teams to support the production of timely and accurate narrative and financial reports.
• Support the submission of payment requests and updated budget forecasts and amendments for approval.
• With the Partnerships and Compliance Manager, work with the country and financial teams to support the refinement of financial systems and procedures for grant management and compliance where required.
• Follow up on payments as required, e.g. donor payment requests, consultant payments, partner disbursements
• Support country and HQ finance teams with project audits, mainly in organizing project documentation including from partners.
Donor and partner compliance, quality and learning
• Work with Grant Managers and the Finance team to carry out updates of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) database
• Work closely with the Partnership and Compliance Manager and other Grant Managers to develop working relationships with Saferworld partners, including signed Project Agreements and SDN checks adherence to partnership agreements and processes, financial receipts and expenditure reports, developing and managing systems to track partners’ spend against income in relation to the project, contract compliance, and donor financial and narrative reports – including IATI where needed.
• Organize and maintain documentation in relation to partner organizational capacity assessments and budget verification exercises, including the tracker with agreed actions and recommendations arising om these assessments
• Maintaining Saferworld’s partner database in the region, and liaise with Saferworld’s global CSO
• partnerships adviser to ensure Saferworld’s organisational data on partners is up to date.
• Support fundraising colleagues to provide relevant data and documents in support of donor due diligence processes
Key working relationships
• Country/project managers and other country programme staff – working collaboratively, sharing
• information, and supporting project managers and teams to ensure donor contractual requirements are met.
• Regional Africa and HQ finance staff – collaborate with finance colleagues in order to support the submission of timely and accurate financial reports and invoicing.
• Colleagues in Fundraising and Programme Development Managers – working collaboratively to
• coordinate on developing and cultivating relationships with donors
• Partners – working with partners (as needed, which varies across Saferworld’s country programmes) in order to support timely donor reports and fulfil other donor requirements; provide grant management capacity support to partners (as required and with the Partnership and Compliance Manager).
3 Grants Officer (January 2023)
• Colleagues in Programme Support & Learning Team, particularly the CSO Partnerships Adviser – work collaboratively to ensure adherence to Saferworld partnership processes and documentation.
• Other grant managers in the Africa region and across Saferworld – work collaboratively to exchange learning on best practices in grant management.
• Donors – from time to time this role may communicate with external donors as part of donor stewardship, developing relationships, and donor reporting.
Scope and accountability
Decision making and limits of authority
Decisions related to relevant information to share widely within the region to all levels of staff
Financial resources Whilst this post does not have budget responsibility, the accurate recording
of financial information is critical and contributes to analysis of income projections, match funding requirements etc.
Other resources
• Maintaining the fundraising and grant management database and ensuring high standards of data input
• Working with fundraising colleagues to refine the database in line with evolving data needs People management N/A
• Legal, regulatory and compliance responsibility
• Become familiar with IATI standards and regulations and support colleagues to ensure that the organization is IATI compliant
• Support fundraising colleagues to provide relevant data and documents in support of donor due diligence processes Person specification
Knowledge, qualifications and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies, International Development, Sustainable Development, Peace and Conflict Studies or related discipline.
• Post graduate diploma in project planning and Management is an added advantage.
• Demonstrable experience of project and budget management (e.g. project planning, grant management, compiling and monitoring budgets, narrative and financial reporting), preferably in an INGO setting (at least two years of experience).
• Experience in developing and maintaining systematic and transparent records in order to keep track of projects and for accountability and auditing.
• Experience of working in an organisation that has a commitment to partnership or works with partners.
• Experience of donor compliance.
• Demonstrable ability to carry out administrative duties effectively
• Experience of managing and refining databases and extracting data for analytical purposes.
• Familiarity with peacebuilding and/or international development issues
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team, as the task requires
Skills and abilities
• Fluency in English (written and spoken); fluency in a second language (desirable)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to condense complex information, including for reports
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including experience of communicating effectively across cultures and with diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing.
• Excellent organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
• Strong coordination and team-working skills applicable to a remote management context.
• Ability to negotiate and understand priorities of colleagues, applying a problem-solving supportive approach
• Ability to work proactively, on own initiative and well under pressure
• Ability to work in a non-partisan and neutral manner, particularly in high-stress and highly politicised
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environments, appreciating gender, cultural and ethnic diversity.
• Facilitation and training skills (desirable)
Personal qualities
• Commitment to and compliance with Saferworld’s safeguarding principles
• Commitment to respect and value equality and diversity, and understanding of how this applies to own area of work
• Commitment to own continuing personal and professional development
• Commitment to the vision, mission and values of Saferworld Other requirements
• Ability to travel within the region, up to 2-3 months a year (non-consecutive)
JOB DETAILS:
Senior Financial Accountant
The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is a limited liability company incorporated in Uganda under the Companies Act. UEDCL owns the 33KV and below voltage electricity distribution network and all the operational assets associated with the business currently leased to Umeme Ltd. The company monitors Umeme Ltd’s investment and distribution of power in Nine Service Territories covering over 74 Political Districts; it operates the Pole Treatment Plant at Lugogo, and also executes some Rural Electrification Schemes on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. The Company is seeking to recruit qualified, competent and highly motivated Ugandan for the role of Senior Financial Accountant:
Are you a service driven individual with skills and high integrity? Then you MUST be the one we’re looking for to fill the above position.
Job Title: Senior Financial Accountant
Reports to: Principal Financial Accountant
Supervises: Accounts Assistant
Duty Station: Kampala
Purpose of the job: to assure the integrity of the company financial data by continuously monitoring the general ledger and carrying out all required reconciliations and make the resultant adjustments to the accounting books of entry in a timely manner.
Key Result Areas:
• Post financial data accurately into the Financial Management Information System in a timely manner.
• Assure the accuracy of all recorded company revenue by carrying out monthly reconciliations to cash collected.
• Prepare accurate and timely bank and fuel reconciliations.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly reconciliation of General Ledger balances for debtors, creditors, inventory and taxes and propose adjustments accordingly.
• Identify risks to the integrity of the company financial data and recommend mitigation measures to Management.
• Provide support to the Manager, Financial Accounting in preparing and compiling documentation required during any internal or external review.
• Carryout physical verification periodically or as may be required by Management of all company fixed assets (including leased).
• Support the Principal Financial Accountant to manage the financial document management system.
Qualifications, Experience:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (BCOM), Business Administration (BBA) or its equivalent from a recognized university.
• Professional Qualification with ACCA, CPA – at least Stage II.
• Relevant professional experience of 3 or more years in a reputable public or private organization
• Professional membership is an added advantage.
Knowledge and Skills:
• Proficiency in Sun System, Vision and MS Office – Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Analytical & problem-solving skills,
• Good communication skills.
• Integrity & work ethics
• Committed team player
• Result-oriented
Senior Financial Accountant
The Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is a limited liability company incorporated in Uganda under the Companies Act. UEDCL owns the 33KV and below voltage electricity distribution network and all the operational assets associated with the business currently leased to Umeme Ltd. The company monitors Umeme Ltd’s investment and distribution of power in Nine Service Territories covering over 74 Political Districts; it operates the Pole Treatment Plant at Lugogo, and also executes some Rural Electrification Schemes on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development. The Company is seeking to recruit qualified, competent and highly motivated Ugandan for the role of Senior Financial Accountant:
Are you a service driven individual with skills and high integrity? Then you MUST be the one we’re looking for to fill the above position.
Job Title: Senior Financial Accountant
Reports to: Principal Financial Accountant
Supervises: Accounts Assistant
Duty Station: Kampala
Purpose of the job: to assure the integrity of the company financial data by continuously monitoring the general ledger and carrying out all required reconciliations and make the resultant adjustments to the accounting books of entry in a timely manner.
Key Result Areas:
• Post financial data accurately into the Financial Management Information System in a timely manner.
• Assure the accuracy of all recorded company revenue by carrying out monthly reconciliations to cash collected.
• Prepare accurate and timely bank and fuel reconciliations.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly reconciliation of General Ledger balances for debtors, creditors, inventory and taxes and propose adjustments accordingly.
• Identify risks to the integrity of the company financial data and recommend mitigation measures to Management.
• Provide support to the Manager, Financial Accounting in preparing and compiling documentation required during any internal or external review.
• Carryout physical verification periodically or as may be required by Management of all company fixed assets (including leased).
• Support the Principal Financial Accountant to manage the financial document management system.
Qualifications, Experience:
• A Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (BCOM), Business Administration (BBA) or its equivalent from a recognized university.
• Professional Qualification with ACCA, CPA – at least Stage II.
• Relevant professional experience of 3 or more years in a reputable public or private organization
• Professional membership is an added advantage.
Knowledge and Skills:
• Proficiency in Sun System, Vision and MS Office – Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Analytical & problem-solving skills,
• Good communication skills.
• Integrity & work ethics
• Committed team player
• Result-oriented
JOB DETAILS:
Project Overview and Role:
The Uganda Health Systems Strengthening Activity (UHSS) is a five-year $48 million USAID-funded program The purpose of UHSS is to improve the performance of Uganda’s health systems through technical assistance to improve leadership and accountability in public and private health sectors at the national, sub-national, and community levels; increase efficient use, governance, and management of key health system resources including human resources for health, finance, equipment/infrastructure; and strengthen state and non-state community health systems that are critical for improved and quality health services.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Background
National Health Accounts (NHA) is a framework for tracking health expenditures from all source’s public, private, and donor. NHA provides a foundation for understanding the health financing landscape of a country providing a foundation for monitoring trends and patterns of health expenditure and providing a platform for comparability over time and between countries. This information is important in informing health financing policy decisions and health policy monitoring.
Since the roll out of the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 as the international framework for classifying health expenditures, Uganda has produced NHA data for years 2010/11 to 2018/19 using the SHA approach. The information provided in the NHA has been useful to informing the diagnosis of Uganda’s heath financing system to inform the health financing strategy, monitor trends in health expenditure from the different sources indicating adequacy and sustainability of health financing in Uganda, monitor efficiency and equity in spending across programs and diseases.
Uganda Health System Strengthening (UHSS) Activity is supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) update the NHA estimates of 2018/19 and therefore produce NHA health financing data for period 2019/20 and 2020/21. During September to October 2022, the UHSS Activity supported MoH to recruit and deploy a team of data collectors, supervisors, and coordinators to support data collection across all contributors to health system spending.
The NHA process has now entered a critical stage where data collected need to be cleaned, validated, analyzed, generate NHA tables and thereafter produce a NHA report for the country for FY 2019/20 and FY 20220/21. UHSS is therefore recruiting a consultant to lead the data entry, cleaning, validation and analysis and report writing process.
2. Purpose
The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide support to Uganda’s National Health Accounts team to:
1. To provide TA and lead the data entry, analysis and writing of the 2019/20 – 2020/21 NHA report.
2. Produce the NHA for FY 2019/20 and 2020/21 using the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 methodology and Health Accounts Production Tool (HAPT)/ Health Accounts Analysis Tool (HAAT)
3. Develop an institutionalization framework for the National Health Accounts in Uganda
3. Specific objectives
The requested TA (consultant) will work with and support the MoH NHA team, UHSS Activity and WHO to:
1. Customize the HAPT tool for Uganda.
2. Capture and map data from public and private sources into HAPT/HAAT
3. Undertake quality checks on the NHA meta data.
4. Develop a draft report.
5. Develop and agree on suitable strategies
for dissemination of the results to ensure use, and
for institutionalization of the NHA production process
6. Produce final NHA report with an institutionalization framework.
4. Deliverables
The consultant will work with the NHA focal point at MOH and the NHA technical team to produce the following:
1. Standard HAPT tables and customized tables for the years 2019/20 and 2020/21
2. National Health Accounts Report FY 2019/20 and 2020/21
3. NHA institutionalization framework
Required Qualifications:
5. Qualifications and Experience
At least a first degree in health economics, economics, statistics, or related degree. A master’s degree will be added advantage.
At least 5 years experience in providing technical assistance to countries in conducting NHA including both training teams, conducting analysis, and developing NHA reports.
Knowledge of Uganda’s health sector will be an added advantage.
6. Estimated Level of Effort (LOE)
The consultancy will be provided over a period of 5 weeks as shown below:
1. Leading data entry, cleaning, validation overall data management, data mapping and analysis (1 weeks)
2. Validation of preliminary results (1 week)
3. Report writing and dissemination of results (2 weeks)
4. Lead development of an NHA institutionalization framework (1 week)
Project Overview and Role:
The Uganda Health Systems Strengthening Activity (UHSS) is a five-year $48 million USAID-funded program The purpose of UHSS is to improve the performance of Uganda’s health systems through technical assistance to improve leadership and accountability in public and private health sectors at the national, sub-national, and community levels; increase efficient use, governance, and management of key health system resources including human resources for health, finance, equipment/infrastructure; and strengthen state and non-state community health systems that are critical for improved and quality health services.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Background
National Health Accounts (NHA) is a framework for tracking health expenditures from all source’s public, private, and donor. NHA provides a foundation for understanding the health financing landscape of a country providing a foundation for monitoring trends and patterns of health expenditure and providing a platform for comparability over time and between countries. This information is important in informing health financing policy decisions and health policy monitoring.
Since the roll out of the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 as the international framework for classifying health expenditures, Uganda has produced NHA data for years 2010/11 to 2018/19 using the SHA approach. The information provided in the NHA has been useful to informing the diagnosis of Uganda’s heath financing system to inform the health financing strategy, monitor trends in health expenditure from the different sources indicating adequacy and sustainability of health financing in Uganda, monitor efficiency and equity in spending across programs and diseases.
Uganda Health System Strengthening (UHSS) Activity is supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) update the NHA estimates of 2018/19 and therefore produce NHA health financing data for period 2019/20 and 2020/21. During September to October 2022, the UHSS Activity supported MoH to recruit and deploy a team of data collectors, supervisors, and coordinators to support data collection across all contributors to health system spending.
The NHA process has now entered a critical stage where data collected need to be cleaned, validated, analyzed, generate NHA tables and thereafter produce a NHA report for the country for FY 2019/20 and FY 20220/21. UHSS is therefore recruiting a consultant to lead the data entry, cleaning, validation and analysis and report writing process.
2. Purpose
The overall objective of the consultancy is to provide support to Uganda’s National Health Accounts team to:
1. To provide TA and lead the data entry, analysis and writing of the 2019/20 – 2020/21 NHA report.
2. Produce the NHA for FY 2019/20 and 2020/21 using the System of Health Accounts (SHA) 2011 methodology and Health Accounts Production Tool (HAPT)/ Health Accounts Analysis Tool (HAAT)
3. Develop an institutionalization framework for the National Health Accounts in Uganda
3. Specific objectives
The requested TA (consultant) will work with and support the MoH NHA team, UHSS Activity and WHO to:
1. Customize the HAPT tool for Uganda.
2. Capture and map data from public and private sources into HAPT/HAAT
3. Undertake quality checks on the NHA meta data.
4. Develop a draft report.
5. Develop and agree on suitable strategies
for dissemination of the results to ensure use, and
for institutionalization of the NHA production process
6. Produce final NHA report with an institutionalization framework.
4. Deliverables
The consultant will work with the NHA focal point at MOH and the NHA technical team to produce the following:
1. Standard HAPT tables and customized tables for the years 2019/20 and 2020/21
2. National Health Accounts Report FY 2019/20 and 2020/21
3. NHA institutionalization framework
Required Qualifications:
5. Qualifications and Experience
At least a first degree in health economics, economics, statistics, or related degree. A master’s degree will be added advantage.
At least 5 years experience in providing technical assistance to countries in conducting NHA including both training teams, conducting analysis, and developing NHA reports.
Knowledge of Uganda’s health sector will be an added advantage.
6. Estimated Level of Effort (LOE)
The consultancy will be provided over a period of 5 weeks as shown below:
1. Leading data entry, cleaning, validation overall data management, data mapping and analysis (1 weeks)
2. Validation of preliminary results (1 week)
3. Report writing and dissemination of results (2 weeks)
4. Lead development of an NHA institutionalization framework (1 week)