The USAID Jalin Project
Scope of Work
Technical
Lead
The USAID Jalin Project (hereafter referred to as “Jalin” or the
“Project”) is a five-year initiative implemented by DAI Global, LLC and its
consortium of partners – IntraHealth, Vital Strategies, and Market Share
Associates. The overall goal of Jalin is to contribute to national goals to
accelerate maternal and newborn mortality reduction. Indonesia has these
national goals, and they have been recently reconfirmed at Presidential level, because
the maternal and neonatal mortality rates are among the highest in the region,
they are far above the Sustainable Development Goals targets; and they have
stagnated in recent years. The overarching problem that Jalin is striving to
solve is: the quality of care accessible to mothers and newborns is uneven
across the country as seen in both public and private facilities at both
primary and secondary levels of care.
USAID Jalin aims to contribute to national goals to reduce
maternal and newborn mortality through improvements in maternal and newborn
health (MNH) quality of care in public and private, primary and secondary
facilities at scale; and through improvements in the efficiency and
effectiveness of emergency referral systems at community and facility
level at scale. To achieve these high-level results, Jalin will be working
to support: a) sustained improvements in practice by clinical hospital teams in
treating obstetric and newborn complications; b) stakeholder strategies that
are more focused on the main causes of maternal and neonatal death; c)
sustained improvements in quality of care by private midwives; d) integrated
ICT referral platforms that are scaled; and e) improved referral networks that
are scaled.
Duties
and Responsibilities
The Technical
Lead will work with IntraHealth International, a sub partner to DAI on Jalin,
and be based in Jakarta at the Jalin office. S/he works closely with all Jalin
staff to oversee and contribute to activity implementation and effectively
communicate Jalin approaches, activities, outputs, and impacts with USAID, the
Government of Indonesia, and other audiences. This person will report
directly to the Portfolio Manager for day-to-day technical supervision.
The
Technical Lead is responsible for managing, monitoring, and reporting on the
progress of IR 3 – sustained improvements in quality of care by private
midwives with particular attention on IR 3.1 reviving and strengthening Bidan
Delima as part of the Jalin Results Framework (RF). The Technical Lead will
work with Jalin staff and external stakeholders including Ikatan Bidan
Indonesia (IBI) to strengthen quality of care provided by midwives to mothers
and newborns, with special attention to strengthening Bidan Delima in Jalin provinces
through mentoring and certification of private midwives. The Technical Lead will
identify technical assistance (TA) needs for activity implementation and
collaborate with the IR 3 Lead for efficient work planning, financial
management, procurement and activity monitoring/reporting.
Specific
responsibilities of the Technical Lead include, but are not limited
to:
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Lead the planning, implementation and reporting of assigned
activities in accordance with the approved workplan
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Working collaboratively, provide appropriate technical guidance
to Jalin, the MOH, IBI and implementing partners, and communicate within and
across the portfolio teams to share and receive lessons learned
·
Lead in relationship management and collaboration with IBI and
other external stakeholders and organizations
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Participate at national and international meetings and
conferences as required to represent Jalin and/or assigned activities
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Provide technical support to IBI aligned with IBI subgrant
requirements
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Support the recruitment and selection process for short-term
consultants, subcontractors, grantees or other service providers to support assigned
portfolio
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Conduct monitoring visits to ensure the successful
implementation of activities and coordinate with the monitoring team to
document progress towards milestones
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Author weekly, monthly and quarterly reports (to MOH, USAID, etc.)
for assigned portfolio
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Coordinate with others in the technical team to produce project
success stories, lessons learned, fact sheets, or other project communications
projects as assigned
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If required, represent the project at a variety of national and
international health and development fora
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Other duties as assigned that are consistent with the overall
focus of the project.
Requirements
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Clinical and public health background, such as degree in
Midwifery and a master’s in public health
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At least 8 years of experience in maternal newborn and child
health including experience in providing clinical services in the private
sector
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Experience managing partnerships with relevant stakeholders to
advance public health goals
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Understanding of and experience with maternal and newborn
health, midwifery/obstetric practice in
Indonesia
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Expertise and demonstrated ability to provide TA in maternal and
newborn quality of care across the Jakarta and regional implementation teams
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Experience in social franchising and/or accreditation systems preferred
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Ability to prepare and present reports, presentations and other
products in English and Bahasa
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Computer literacy in Microsoft Office applications
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Excellent oral and written communication skills in Bahasa
Indonesia and English
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