New Delhi, India.
WJCF is looking to hire a Health Financing Specialist within the Health Analytics and AI Unit (HAAU), embedded within the NHA and reporting to the HAAU Lead. This role brings dedicated health-financing and health-economics capability to the unit, working across the questions at the core of AB PM-JAY: benefit-package selection, evidence-based package pricing and costing, strategic purchasing and value-based care, and the cost-benefit of beneficiary-inclusion and eligibility decisions. The selected candidate will play a key role in shaping the analytical agenda of the HAAU with a view to firmly establish AB-PMJAY on a path towards financial sustainability while continuing to scale towards Universal Health Coverage. Working as part of one integrated team, the Specialist shapes financing questions into clear hypotheses and requirements, and turns the scheme’s own claims, utilisation, and cost data into evidence for package design, pricing, and purchasing decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Bring dedicated health-financing and health-economics capability to the HAAU.
- Work across the questions at the core of AB PM-JAY: such as benefit-package selection, evidence-based package pricing and costing, strategic purchasing and value-based care, and the cost-benefit of beneficiary-inclusion and eligibility decisions.
- Support the move to claims transparency as AB PM-JAY empanelled hospitals transition to raising claims through the National Health Claims Exchange (NHCX).
- Turn claims, utilisation, and cost data into evidence for package design, pricing, and purchasing decisions, working closely with the unit’s data-science skills.
- Design and model financing and purchasing options and quantify their fiscal impact.
- Produce clear options papers and decision-ready recommendations for senior NHA leadership.
- Embed privacy-by-design and strong health data governance across the financing work, consistent with the DPDP Act 2023 and SAHI, and perform other responsibilities as requested by WJCF and NHA leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in health economics, economics, public health, public policy, or a closely related field.
- Minimum 8 years in health financing or health economics, ideally with publicly funded health-insurance or health-assurance schemes.
- Strong command of health-financing and purchasing mechanisms: benefit-package design, provider payment, costing and package pricing, and strategic or value-based purchasing.
- Applied costing and health-technology-assessment (HTA) skills, and the ability to turn claims, utilisation, and cost data into pricing and purchasing evidence.
- Understanding of beneficiary-management and eligibility questions and how to assess them in cost-benefit terms.
- Ability to design and model financing and purchasing options and to quantify their fiscal impact.
Preferred
- Comfort working hands-on with large datasets, including using modern data and AI tools to analyse them directly.
Skills & Traits:
- Ability to produce clear options papers and decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including costing and economic modelling (advanced Excel, R, or Python) and claims and cost-data analysis via SQL.
- Familiarity with budget-impact and cost-effectiveness modelling and with visualisation in Power BI or Tableau.
- Excellent analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills.
- Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and problem-solve in a fast-paced, limited-structure, multi-stakeholder environment.
- A focus on building institutional capability rather than creating personal dependence.
- Impeccable integrity; humility and open-mindedness; a learning mentality; tenacity and resourcefulness.
- Fluency in English. Fluency in Hindi or an additional Indian language is an advantage.
Last Date to Apply: 9th September, 2026
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