Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh developed an Essential Service Package in 1998 in the First Health Sector Program and upgraded it periodically for delivering through public facilities aiming to guarantee essential health services to the country's citizens.
For the last time, it updated the Essential Service Package in 2016 as part of its 4th Health Population Nutrition Sector Program (2017-2023) and adopted the task of delivering ESP as the core approach to move towards achieving UHC by 2030. The ESP was upgraded through a general consultation process rather than following a robust analysis and assessment of economic, social, and health systems issues. However, financial, and operational gaps were not addressed adequately before rolling out the upgraded ESP. Minimum Qualifications/Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
Experience in similar work with UN or UNICEF/International agencies is an advantage
Master’s degree in Social health policy, health management, public health, or other relevant disciplines is required.
Technical expertise and proven substantial experience of at least 10 years in public health, health service delivery, or health system development.
Demonstrated experience in developing or reviewing health benefit package
Working experience in Bangladesh or a similar country context
Published peer-reviewed articles on priority settings, benefits package development, service delivery standardization, health planning, and strategy development
Able to show evidence of experience in developing quality high-level strategic policy briefs, journal articles, and research reports for tailored audiences.
Excellent report writing, and verbal communication skills in English.
Excellence in capacity building of national stakeholders from LMIC and MIC in environmental health
