Period of Performance : January 1, 2019 to September 2022
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: December 10, 2018
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 – 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.
Jalin’s Theory of Change is as follows: If MNH evidence is available and compellingly communicated, and if influential multistakeholder actors are engaged and properly incentivized across the health system using market forces, then constructive and inclusive partnerships, solutions, and advocacy can flourish…and these efforts can spur an MNH Movement that contributes to reducing maternal and newborn mortality in Indonesia, specifically for the poorest and most vulnerable.
Jalin began operations in September 2017 and is currently implementing its approved Year 1 Work Plan, which covers January – December 2018. The Project operates in six target provinces - North Sumatra, Banten, West Java, Central Java, East Java, and South Sulawesi.
Role and Responsibilities
The MELA Director oversees all aspects of monitoring, evaluation, learning and adaptation. S/he ensures that available evidence is gathered, analyzed, and used to inform strategies, approaches, partnerships and activities that contribute to scalable pathways to improved maternal and newborn health. Working closely with the MELA Team, comprised of a Knowledge Management Specialist and a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, and a Program Assistant, the MELA Director undertakes the following:
- Leads MELA team to support and inform Jalin’s Theory of Change and Results Framework.
- Assesses the co-creation process, recommends adaptations as needed, and conveys this information to project management so that partnerships and technical teams are incorporating these recommendations into their interventions.
- Designs and administers M&E systems that reliably capture information at the national and subnational levels.
- Works closely with the Development Evaluation Team/ Social Impact to ensure that complexity awareness monitoring is being used to better understand causal linkages within Jalin and to measure non-linear, difficult to quantify outcomes to inform programming and better understand change as a result of Jalin’s work
- Fosters an environment of learning and adaptation through evidence-based applications to local solutions to increase access to clinical and non-clinical MNH services. Provides technical assistance to the Indonesian Academy of Sciences – Akademi Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (AIPI) – to strengthen its capacity to deliver knowledge management services.
- Oversees annual and quarterly reporting of project progress to USAID
Requirements:
The MELA Director must have experience designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems. This must include experience in designing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation system that can capture information at the Jalin Project level as well as at the individual local solution level. The MELA Director must also have experience in leading processes to review and analyze global and local evidence to inform the establishment of in country priorities for program and policy action. S/he must have exceptional communications and presentation skills, strong teamwork and effective cross-cultural interpersonal skills. The MELA Director must have significant experience working in middle income (lower and/or upper middle income) countries with experience relevant to the Jalin approach.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in public health, governance, sociology or related field.
- At least 10 years of experience working on donor-funded global health programs, including MNH.
- Extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary teams for results and impact. Demonstrated strong leadership skills are essential for this position.
- Familiarity with Development Evaluation and/or Complexity Awareness Monitoring a plus.
- Proficiency in performance improvement approaches and techniques.
- Capacity to identify and source technical assistance across a variety of technical focus areas: MNH, governance, social financing, etc.
- Demonstrated capacity to promote and provide technical input to the co-creation platform.
- Capacity to assess Indonesia context-specific MNH opportunities and barriers.
- Experience presenting analysis and synthesis of project progress towards expected results in compelling and easy to understand presentations.
- Experience with USAID funded projects is an advantage..
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required, Bahasa Indonesia preferred.
- Proven leadership/interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with high-level government officials, private sector partners, and other stakeholders.
- Indonesia experience preferred.
Qualified candidates should apply directly on DAI Global Jobs site:
Please note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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