Senior Consultant – Public Health, Nutrition and Social Protection, South African Region – AHHD (EOI) at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Full Time

Job Title: Expression of Interested for Senior Consultant Public Health, Nutrition and Social Protection, South African Region – AHHD

Location: Pretoria, South Africa
Job Family: Other
Consultant type: Individual Consultant

Background

• The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the premier multi-lateral development finance institution fostering economic growth and social progress in Africa.
• The AfDB’s primary goal is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by mobilizing resources in and outside Africa and providing financial and technical assistance for development projects and programs in Africa.
• The Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development Department (AHHD), within the Agriculture, Human and Social Development Complex (AHVP) spearheads the achievement of the High 5-5 priority on “Improving the Quality of Life of People in Africa”and contributes to the other High 5s1. The Department has two divisions:
• Education, Human Capital and Employment (AHHD1) which  focuses  on scaling up of Bank’s support to education, human capital and employment/livelihoods; and
• Public Health, Security and Nutrition Division (AHHD2) focusing on strengthening health systems and nutrition for human wellbeing. AHHD also hosts various pertinent initiatives and trust funds, including the Jobs for Youth in Africa (JfYA) flagship and Banking on Nutrition (BON). The Bank’s direct support to human capital development consists of attention to skills and technology development, health, nutrition and social protection. Education and skills development interventions generally aim to contribute to the development of manpower needed by the productive sectors of the economy of our RMCs while health and nutrition projects aim at building the continents grey matter.
• The Bank has recently approved the Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure in Africa (SQHIA) 2022-2030,to support Africa’s health infrastructure deficits, drawing on its core expertise in infrastructure development.
•  The objective of this Strategy is to support African countries accelerate the development of quality health infrastructure and ensure that all individuals receive the health services they need without financial hardship so as to progress towards the SDG 3 and the AU agenda 2063 on health

Scope of the Assignment

• The  African Development Bank Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development Department (AHHD) seeks to recruit a senior consultant to support the implementation of the Bank’s Strategy for Quality Health Infrastructure in Africa (Health, Nutrition and Social protection) priorities in the southern African Region which covers 12 countries.2Under the general guidance of Human Capital Youth and Skills Regional Manager for Southern Africa, the consultant will work closely with the rest of the team to deliver on the Youth, Skills Development and Jobs Portfolio.

Economic Sector Work and Policy Dialogue (30%):

• Conduct in-depth sector analysis including regulatory framework, role of public and private sector, summarize gaps, challenges, opportunities and innovative solutions to shape and define compelling high-level quality policy briefs, actions and recommendations for dialogue and strategic engagement with RMCs Health Care infrastructure, Nutrition and Social Protection
• Map out health systems and infrastructure then identify priority (opportunities for interventions) needs for the RDGS countries and health services readiness among health care providers
• Analyze the sectoral trends, compare and contrast with global commitments such as the AU development Goals, SDGs as well as local RMC commitments.
• Keep track of the emerging sectoral issues vis a vis RMCs plans, and the Bank’s role
• Review the institutional set-up and sectoral reforms including enhancing the enabling environment, boosting public and private sector investment providing country’s overall institutional setup and sector governance architecture including regulation framework including urgent reforms that can be fast tracked through Budget support and Technical Assistance.
• Draft quality and in-depth diagnostics to inform the Regional Integration Strategic Paper (RISP), Country Strategic Papers (CSPs)and project identification and preparation

Business and Pipeline Development (60%):

• Develop a feasible pipeline of projects (public and private sector) in the region.
• Provide evidence-based strategic technical guidance on Healthcare infrastructure, nutrition and social protection, private sector partnerships, access to credit for the Bank’s engagement with RMCs
  Support the Regional team’s interventions in developing strong pipeline, including support during upstream preparation, structuring, negotiation, and closing of project; transactions. Contribute to the operational documents and provide support for internal processing, review transaction agreements, and coordinate across project components with other team members;
  Support the expansion of the upstream project pipeline that is targeted to mobilize private sector financing into the Hunan Capital Youth and Skills space. This includes the identification of opportunities and relationship building and management with both internal clients (Regional and Country teams) and external clients
• Identify, cultivate, and manage potential client opportunities to develop a strong pipeline of relevant both public and private sector transactions. This includes participation in planning, preparation, fact-finding and project identification missions.

Other tasks(10%):

• Support the Coordination of all divisional activities, including all related logistics that ensure comprehensive consultations with all stakeholders
• Preparation of high-level Quality Briefs on Health, Nutrition and Social Protection for Bank’s senior management dialogue with RMCs
• Prepare briefing notes, design powerpoint presentations, and help draft concept notes and knowledge products to socialize and present proposed pipeline projects
• Any other duties assigned by the Bank’s Management

Deliverables:
In addition to the duties and responsibilities, the Consultant will be responsible for the following Deliverables:

• Building a feasible pipeline of at least 10 projects in the public and private sectors.
• A portfolio / pipeline of well-structured transactions as well as potential Budget support and technical assistance opportunities developed through upstream interventions.
• High-Quality Policy Dialogue and country profile Briefs
• Monthly activity reports At the conclusion of the assignment, the Consultant’s outputs will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
• Professional competence
• Analytical, reasoning, organizational, and communication skills
• Reliability, timeliness, proactiveness, and organization.Quality of work produced

Administration / Reporting 

• The consulting firm will work closely with the Southern African regional team under close supervision of the Regional Manager for Human Capital Youth and Skills under the Department of Human Capital Youth and Skills Development Department.

Duration of the Assignment

• The duration of the assignment will be 6 calendar months starting in 1 June2023. The consultant will be based in the Bank’s South African Regional Office.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience
The Bank is looking for a seasoned senior consultant, who is highly respected and connected within the South African Regional Member Countries with the following attributes:

• Holding at least a Master’s Degree in Economics, Health Economics, International Development, International Policy, Public Health or equivalent
• At least 15 years experience in quantitative and qualitative economic research, development policy and strategy development and benchmarking practice, monitoring and evaluation, and other relevant fields.
• Having at least 5 years of private sector experience in the healthcare sector in Africa, especially in Southern Africa.
• Proven track record of developing a feasible public and private sector project, at least 10 projects.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex and multisectoral reviews/evaluations
• Demonstratable and extensive practical experience in economic research, strategy and policy development, monitoring and evaluation and multi-disciplines particularly in areas of Health care infrastructure, nutrition, social protection and private sector development, Strategic partnerships and financing, skills and innovation.
• Deep knowledge of international development with experience in health care development and social protection issues especially within the contexts of Africa and Development Finance institutions.
• Highly developed institution capacity to deal with multisectoral and complex issues/analysis in a clear and practical manner.
• Proven experience in multilateral development bank operations in project formulation, evaluation and processing would be added advantage.
• Strong and demonstratable experience in stakeholder engagement, networking and broad consultations.
• Strong experience and skills in surveys design, data collection and data analysis both quantitative and qualitative

Skills:

• The Consultant will also be required to have:
• Excellent language capability (read, write, speak) in either English or French, with good working capacity in the other language.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both writing and verbal) and mastery of infographics in data presentation.
• Excellent report writing skills (Demonstratable).
• Ability to work on multiple assignments within tight timelines and to deliver in a timely manner without compromising quality
• Competence in the use of standard MS Office and virtual work applications.

Application Closing Date
15th May, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to send aone page motivational letter and their updated Curriculum Vitae (based on the template in Annex I) and letter of interest in a single PDF file (in English or in French) to: [email protected]; [email protected] and copy to: [email protected] using “AHHD-RDGS Senior Consultant Public Health, Nutrition and Social Protection, South African Region” as the subject of the mail.

Establishment of the Shortlist

• A shortlist of three individual consultants will be established at the end the of request of expressions of interest.

The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their updated resume:

• General Qualifications based on the Terms of Reference -30%
• Experience in the specific assignment –50%
• Experience with international institutions -10%
• Language Capacity –05%
• Working knowledge of the Africa Region –05%

Note

• File name: “[last name], [first name]” (e.g. Peterson, Anna)
• Subject line: “AHHD-RDGS Senior Consultant Public Health, Nutrition and Social Protection, South African Region”
• Candidates are encouraged to include references to projects and analytical products developed under their previous working experience.
• We will contact you only if you are shortlisted for further consideration, and that, given the large volume of applications we receive, some time may elapse before the selection process is complete.