Human Resources for Health Integrated Strategy Consultant

Human Resources for Health Integrated Strategic Consultant

This role was posted on March 17, 2025. Please note that we will review applications on a rolling basis.

Liberia’s first post-conflict Human Resources for Health (HRH) Policy and Plan was developed as a strategic framework to guide workforce planning and development for a ten-year period (2011–2021). Since its implementation, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has experienced significant shifts in the human resources landscape, driven by various socio-economic and institutional factors.

One of the most notable changes has been the substantial migration of healthcare professionals from rural to urban areas, leading to disparities in service delivery and challenges in maintaining equitable access to quality healthcare across the country. Additionally, reclassification has been a challenge for healthcare staff, reflecting adjustments in roles, responsibilities, and competencies to meet the evolving demands of the health sector.

As the country moves forward, these changes necessitate a renewed and comprehensive HRH strategic plan that addresses workforce distribution, retention strategies, capacity building, and overall health system strengthening to ensure sustainable healthcare delivery for all Liberians.

Hence, the Ministry of Health (MoH) aims to revise the existing HRH Plan into a more robust and forward-looking Human Resources (HR) strategy to effectively guide the implementation of workforce planning, capacity enhancement, and overall HR management within the health sector over the next decade (2025–2035). This integrated strategic plan will incorporate the entire workforce and will provide the roadmap to having a well-trained, adequately staffed, and efficiently managed health workforce capable of meeting the evolving healthcare needs of the population.

Strategy – STRENGTHEN: Partner with the Government of Liberia, donors, and stakeholders to strengthen finance, data, supply-chain, and management systems that build financial sustainability, improve performance and quality and strengthen governance in order to ensure availability, access, and utilization of high-quality community services.

[1.1] Strengthening: 1.1 Upskill: Partner with the government of Liberia to strengthen community health systems, upskill the workforce and demonstrate effective community-based primary care in order to contribute to Universal Health Coverage.

Operational and Financial Feasibility – Resources to support this position will be primarily drawn from the BIRCH FY25 ODC budget. The consultant will be supported operationally and programmatically by the existing Liberia team and office, and the Education and Training team globally. The consultant will work closely with another consultant that will be hired by the Ministry of Health under the World Bank funding for the development of a HRH Policy.

The Role

Working in close partnership with the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Liberia, Last Mile Health (LMH) is supporting the government to strengthen the National Human Resources for Health Strategic document while ensuring that it is inclusive and reflects contemporary realities. Last Mile Health aims to support the MOH to (1) understand and coordinate financial and human resource needs, (2) Strengthen workforce distribution, retention strategies, capacity building, and overall health system strengthening and (3) Enhance HRH management within the health sector, in part through the revision and realization of an integrated National HRH strategic plan

Reporting to the Senior Director of Health Systems Strengthen (HSS), the HRH Strategy Consultant (with support from LMH’s Education and Training team) will work with the Ministry of Health HRH, Policy and Planning and Community Health Services Program, other relevant departments and a coalition of partners in the community health space to seek technical support geared towards achieving the deliverables indicated below. The consultant will provide leadership and management for the design and execution of the following workstreams: (1) Reactivation of a highly functional HRH TWG, (2) Roadmap for revising the National HRH Policy and Strategic Plan (3) HRH strategic plan revision and validation (4) Development a PHC deployment Plan 

This position is only open to Liberian National Candidates.

Project Scope and Deliverables

• Period: May 1, 2025, to November 30, 2025 (100 working days): (Due to the dependency of these deliverables on the hiring and execution of an integrated HRH Policy and Strategy, this contract will be deliverable based and will be expected to be executed within the timeframe provided. Only an actual 100 working days will be paid for during this period while the consultant is expected to engage with multiple stakeholders at various levels to achieve the below listed deliverables).

Deliverable / Service

Deliverable / Service Description

Reactivation of a highly functional HRH TWG (5-days)

Develop an inception report based on initial engagements

Stakeholder mapping: name actors that need to be influenced and their support/opposition to community health programming – especially in financing and Human Resources for Health. See Template

Engage to ensure the functionality of the HRH Policy, strategy and HRH Census TWT

Output: 

• A stakeholder mapping spreadsheet shared
• An inception report
• Monthly TWT meeting minutes

June 30, 2025

Roadmap for revising the National HRH Policy and Strategic Plan (5-days)

• Collaborate with stakeholders to co-design and finalize a comprehensive roadmap for the revision, finalization and validation of the National HRH strategic plan

Output: 

• A comprehensive excel based roadmap

HRH strategic plan development and validation

(30 days)

The Context: 

• Conduct a comprehensive desk review of existing documents to inform the HRH strategy revision

Responsible for revision and leading through finalization and validation of the HRH strategy. Process: 

• Coordinate with the HRH TWG to hold meetings and workshops to inform the revision and validation of the strategic plan
• Organize meetings with critical stakeholders to solicit input and review the draft strategy.
• In collaboration with the Ministry of Health’s Human Resources for Health Division and the Department of Policy and Planning, draft the strategy, drawing from the content generated during the workshop and other consultative meetings.
• Hold a validation workshop with Community Health Technical Working Group (TWG) members and other partners to review the strategy.
• Weekly, work with the HRH Technical Working Group to coordinate and review key technical content for the strategy development
• Present the strategy to the HRH TWGs and seek MOH approval for finalization.
• Coordinate with LMH team for direct technical inputs into HRH strategy development

NB: The strategy should be aligned with the MOH strategic plan structure and design. 

• The consultant will be required to be physically present at the MOH for 50% of the working days stipulated in this contract and 30% at LMH offices. These physical interactions will allow the consultant to directly interact and collaborate with key units and program at the MOH, the HRH Policy consultant and the LMH Liberia HSS team

Output – A validated Revised Integrated HRH Strategic Plan

August 30, 2025

Development a PHC deployment Plan 

(25 days)

Lead in ensuring the development of a comprehensive PHC deployment plan that reflects the entire health workforce including CHWs. 

This shall include but not limited to:

• Review of data from the Geospatial mapping
• Review of data from the Health Workforce census
• Review of data from the WISN study

These data sets shall be used to inform development of a PHC deployment plan 

NB: The consultant will engage in multiple consultative meetings and working sessions to design and finalize the deployment plan. A multistakeholder feedback session will be held to inform this product design.

Output – An MOH approved and validated PHC Deployment Plan 

October 30, 2025

Submission of Final Report

(5 days)

• Final report on the entire process is completed and shared

November 10, 2025

Management and support:

• Transportation: The consultant will physically be at the MOH and LMH offices for most of the consultancy period as stipulated above to work with the key MOH divisions and stakeholders as well as the Senior Director for Health System Strengthening to discuss progress on the assignment, discuss deliverables and address any challenges.

What you will bring 

• Must be a Liberian, currently based in Liberia
• Master’s degree in public health, Social Sciences, Development Studies, or Health Economics
• Over 7 years of professional work experience in health policy and health strategy development.
• Must be prepared to share with the minimum of 3 work samples of health strategies developed in the past
• Demonstrated ability to develop with multiple stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and deliver products against tight deadlines
• Previous experience and knowledge of national and county-level government policies, strategic planning, procedures, and systems in resource-limited settings including costing tools and resource mapping tools, cost effectiveness analyses
• Experience in working with the Ministry of Health and the health sector
• Previous experience and knowledge working with major donors in global health such as USAID, Global Fund, World Bank, GAVI

About Last Mile Health

Last Mile Health partners with governments to design, scale, strengthen, and sustain high-quality community health systems, which empower teams of community and frontline health workers to bring life-saving primary healthcare to the world’s most remote communities. LMH is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.lastmilehealth.org.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at LMH. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Application Process

Including with your application materials, please describe your approach to complete the tasks described above including a time-bound work plan and budget. Additionally, include your resume or CV and three references who can speak to your relevant experience, plus a sample of at least one of your products in line with any of the deliverables above.

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