Project National Coordinator

Mission description

The project is looking for its national project coordinator, who is expected to be Egyptian to ensure smooth implementation of the project and perfect knowledge of the projects’ context and stakeholders.

He/she will be responsible for:
Project management:
Management of the team of short-term experts and project assistant;
Overall supervision of effective implementation of activities;
In coordination with team of short-term experts, drafting of 6-months work plans;
Financial supervision of the project;
Participation to the recruitment of the team of experts, preparing interviews etc.
Monitoring and reporting of political management and legal developments of interest to the team;
Coordination with the Paris office.

Inception phase:
Conduction of an inception phase to take stock of the achievements made by the Egyptian authorities, with the support of the JICA, the World Bank and the AFD technical assistance grant, in implementing the reform of the Universal Health Insurance System (drafting of an inception phase report)
Definition of a project overall strategy of intervention, planning, precise set of activities and activities sequencing;
Project reporting:
Drafting of half-year progress reports and its presentation during PCG meetings and steering committees;
Monthly project reporting to the Project Manager at Expertise France: advancement of the project, dashboard update, financial execution, relations with the beneficiaries, health assessment of the project etc.

Institutional relations:
Representation of the project in the Project Coordination Group, preparation of meetings, Steering Committees presentations;
Ensure good relations and collaboration with the national stakeholders (MoHP, MoIC, EHA, UHIA, GAHAR, EJU), ensure UHIS stakeholders engagement;
Representation of the project, in close consultation and collaboration with the Contracting Authority and beneficiary institutions;
Preparation and animation of workshops;
Definition of study visits planning;
Provide support with the research of information and documentation related to the project’s objectives and manage the access to information and documentation for the projects.

Supervision of the technical expertise content:
Drafting of Terms of References of short-term expertise and organisation of their work
Review and validation of the technical content drafted by the short-term experts
Review and validation of the technical approach of the short-term experts in hands-on assistance to the beneficiaries institutions
Transmission of his/her technical knowledge to the MoHP and beneficiary institutions;
Supervision / elaboration of Terms of References of Health Insurance systems related activities;
Supervision / elaboration of various strategic documents produced within Health Insurance systems related activities.

Communication:
Planning of high-level events with the support of the project assistant;
Ensure the editing of web-pages, social networks and other communication activities.

Project or context description

The Egyptian Constitution of 2014 provides for the gradual establishment of a universal health insurance system covering the entire population and whose financing would be based on the principle of solidarity, with each citizen contributing according to his or her income to allow access to health care for all. The law promulgated in January 2018 acts of the implementation of this universal health insurance, in six phases (by group of Governorates) that will allow coverage of the entire territory by 2032.

The effective implementation of the Universal Health Insurance Scheme (UHIS) responds to strategic challenges following the 2011 popular uprisings in Egypt. Faced with rapid population growth, declining labor market participation rates, rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases and deteriorating living conditions (rising poverty), and while the authorities are required to rationalize public spending to ensure the country's macroeconomic stability, they have made the UHIS one of the cornerstones of their social justice reform agenda.

The Project “Supporting the implementation of the Universal Health Insurance System in Egypt” aims at strengthening the Egyptian government, especially the Ministry of Health and Population and the UHIS stakeholders (the Egyptian Health Authorities, the Universal Health Insurance Authority and the General Authority for Health Accreditation and Regulation) in their efforts towards the implementation of this transformational reform. The Project will mainly consist in improving business processes of the administrations and their coordination, developing monitoring and evaluation approaches and tools to assess the overall performance of the system and capitalizing on the first phase evaluations to delineate guidelines and manuals for the expansion of the system in new governorates. Funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), and implemented by Expertise France, the expertise a