[Hiring] Health Financing and Costing Consultant @UNDP

Role Description

The primary goal is to conduct a comprehensive financial analysis of the national strategic direction for nurses and midwives (NSDNM2026-2030) in Nigeria and develop a multi-year costed operational action plan. The final deliverables will enable stakeholders to understand the financial expenses required to implement the NSDNM (2026-2030), identify funding gaps, and map funders to secure sustainable financing.

The Health Financing/Costing Consultant will facilitate the development of a five (5) year costed operational action plan for the NSDNM2026-2030, providing robust data for budgeting, tracking funding gaps, and enabling donor engagement or financial sustainability.

• Situational Analysis:
  • Review the finalized NSDNM2026-2030, national health workforce strategy, midwifery model of care, health financing landscape, current domestic and external spending on reproductive and maternal health, and baseline workforce capacity.
• Costing Framework Development:
  • Design a transparent, multi-year costing model capturing direct programmatic costs (training, deployment, retention), capital expenditures (equipment, infrastructure), and operational overhead.
• Stakeholder Workshops:
  • Facilitate workshops and key informant interviews with the NSDNM Technical Working Group and the Federal Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, donor agencies, and midwifery associations to validate assumptions and gather missing data.
• Reporting:
  • Lead the drafting of the Design and Validation Workshop reports, including the comprehensive financial narrative report of the costed operational plan.

The expected outputs are:

• Preliminary Costing Model (Week 1):
  • Draft budgeting tool with initial estimates including detailed objective and activity mapping.
• Design Workshop (Week 2):
  • Presentation of draft costing model and assumptions including budget categorization to key stakeholders for feedback and consensus building.
• Draft Costed Operational Plan (Week 3):
  • Including narrative report detailing operational breakdown by pillar, implementation roadmap, multi-year funding requirements, financial gap analysis, donor mapping and engagement matrix, and resource mobilization action plan including risk/mitigation.
• Validation Workshop (Week 4):
  • Presentation of second draft costed operational plan to key stakeholders for feedback and consensus building.
• Final Costed NSDNM (2026-2030) Operational Plan (Week 5):
  • Including a comprehensive narrative of the context and strategic alignment, implementation roadmap, budget breakdowns, financial gap analysis, donor mapping and engagement strategy, resource mobilization action plan, and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Health Economics, Public Health, Public Financial Management, or a related field.
• At least two (2) years of relevant experience in costing health sector strategic plans, ideally with a focus on human resources for health (HRH) or maternal and reproductive health.
• Proven proficiency with global health economic modeling tools (e.g., OneHealth Tool, LiST, EQUIST).
• Experience working with UN agencies, government, NGOs, or youth/civil society groups with demonstrated success in building and sustaining national advocacy coalitions.
• Knowledge of Nigeria’s health system and services, policies, and socio-cultural context.
• Excellent analytical, stakeholder facilitation and communication skills.
• Strong drafting and writing skills with attention to detail.
• Computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital collaboration tools are mandatory.

Requirements

• Minimum travel, expected.

Benefits

• Logistic support for travel(s) to workshop venues in line with UNFPA Travel Policy.