Vacancy at the USAID Jalin Project: Investment Specialist

The USAID Jalin Project seeks an investment specialist (hereafter referred to as “Jalin” or the “Project”). Jalin is a five-year initiative implemented by DAI Global, LLC and its consortium of partners – IntraHealth, Vital Strategies, and Market Share Associates – to work with USAID to facilitate and support partnerships through a co-creation process that brings together a diverse range of public and private sector actors to leverage domestic resources, increase the pace at which reliable local evidence is made widely available and utilized to design and implement local maternal and newborn health solutions.

Jalin will contribute to a maternal and newborn health movement in Indonesia that: (a) brings together actors, including those traditionally outside the health system, to use local evidence and global best practices to co-create, test and adapt local solutions; (b) addresses evidence gaps by identifying where and why maternal and newborn deaths are happening and uses that information to co-define and create local solutions; (c) engages the public and private sectors to co-finance scalable local solutions to support partnerships and ensure that the poor and vulnerable have access to essential services; (d) catalyzes new and existing partnerships, local solutions and co-investment through a whole-of-market approach across the projects areas of technical focus; and (e) fosters a culture of learning and adaptation.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Investment Specialist is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and reports directly to the Partnerships Director. The Specialist will work closely with technical and operations staff to leverage private and public sector – commercial enterprises, banks, private equity firms, angel investors, and investment firms, state-owned companies, and other government entities – resources to co-design and co-finance local maternal and newborn health solutions. Specific responsibilities of the Investment Specialist include but are not limited to:

·       Contribute to the design and implementation of Jalin’s private and public sector engagement strategy.

·       Identify and establish relationships with potential private and public sector partners.

·       Conduct regular financial sector analysis (including prevailing national and subnational rules and regulations) to identify, analyze, package, and present to potential partners opportunities to mobilize public and private domestic resources to finance maternal and newborn health solutions.

·       Contribute to the design, negotiation, and execution of catalytic financing opportunities.

·       Support Regional Managers and Regional Partnerships Officers to identify local co-investment opportunities and partners.

·       Support national and subnational co-creation activities, as necessary and appropriate.

·       Contribute to all jalin ad hoc, periodic, and annual reporting.

·       Other duties as assigned by the Partnerships Director that are consistent with the overall focus of the project.

Requirements

·       Master’s degree in finance, business administration, law or related field required.

·       At least five years developing approaches and building partnerships for co-investment.

·       Knowledge of public and private financial institutions and markets.

·       Demonstrated capacity to design and communicate co-investment opportunities.

·       Excellent oral and written communication skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Interested and qualified applicants could send the cover letter and CV at the latest on May 9, 2018 to indonesiamnh@dai.com with “Investment Specialist” in the subject line and specify their availability date in the CV.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.