OpRec USAID Jalin Project - Partnerships Director

USAID Jalin Project

Scope of Work

Partnerships Director

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 (MNH) 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.

General Position Summary

The Partnerships Director is a member of the Jalin senior management team, reporting to the USAID-Jalin COP and leads Jalin’s efforts to identify, engage, network and negotiate partnerships with a variety of stakeholders comprising existing and promising maternal and newborn health market actors to foster scalable improvements in maternal and newborn health outcomes.  This includes private healthcare providers, commercial enterprises, banks, private equity firms, micro-finance institutions, finance and technology companies, CSOs and other not-for-profit organizations, academic institutions, professional associations, mainstream and digital media social media, national and subnational government entities, etc. The Partnerships Director will implement a strategy to engage partners around prioritized problems to achieve impacts in maternal and newborn health engaging traditional and non-traditional actors to contribute to Indonesia’s SDG goals. The Partnerships Director will combine sound partnerships management and human resource management skills with a high level of efficiency, a creative and consultative approach to development of local solutions, good external stakeholder representation skills, and the cultural/management sensitivity to create and sustain partnerships.

Duties and Responsibilities

Networking & Representation:

·       Engages influential public and private sector actors through stewardship of the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Body (MAB) that provides leadership, expertise and political support for development of the MNH movement in Indonesia on the national level.

·       Leads quarterly MAB meetings addressing priority topics, such as defining the specific role of the  MAB, compelling others to act, advancing the MNH movement, etc.

·       Builds and maintain positive, dynamic working relationships among key strategic partners and stakeholders.

·       Identifies local consultants to support solutions and partnerships for engaging the poorest and most vulnerable related to MNH.

Partnerships Development:

·       Directs, conducts and documents a stakeholder mapping process framed by Jalin prioritized maternal and newborn health evidence to identify potential stakeholders for engagement as experts, innovators, and investors to address local problems and create solutions in support of MNH outcomes.

·       Develops partnerships that apply co-creation approaches to evidence-driven solutions and advocacy at national and subnational levels.

·       Develops a variety of approaches to engage public and/ or private investors to support the incubation and scale of new and existing local solutions.

·       Mobilizes technical assistance to Build local capacity to employ a facilitative, co-creation approach to identifying and solving local problems.

·       Engages the public and private sectors to actively co-invest in feasible, technically-sound, scalable local solutions across Indonesia to improve MNH outcomes and ensure that the poor and most vulnerable have access to essential MNH services.

·       Directs partnerships engagement process and guides field-based partnerships specialists across regional offices.

·       Lead private sector engagement efforts to identify and support private-sector actors (from within and outside the health sector) to identify and develop private sector engagement to address gaps and/or problems around MNH goods and services. These engagement opportunities include market-driven solutions,

·       Work closely with the MERLA Director to ensure effective monitoring of partnerships and private sector engagement to measure success or failure, learn, manage resources appropriately, and adapt as needed.

·       Serve as a member of the Jalin Senior Management Team, reporting to the Chief of Party, and contribute to overall success of Jalin coordination.

Support to Team Management:

·       Guide Regional Managers to identify/create similar multi-stakeholder bodies at the subnational level and facilitate their linkages with the national body.

·       Support Regional Managers to convene provincial and district-level stakeholders to review evidence and local context to define and prioritize problems for local co-creation efforts.

·       Supervises Investment Specialists to engage Supports regional teams to develop local solutions through co-creation workshops with local stakeholders in Jalin’s targeted provinces. 

·       Develops partnerships that apply co-creation approaches to evidence-driven solutions and advocacy at national and subnational levels.

·       Develops a variety of approaches to engage private investors to support the incubation and scale of new and existing local solutions.

·       Coordinates closely with Jalin technical, MERLA, and communications teams to ensure that co-creation efforts are technically-sound, with information about these activities widely-disseminated for public consumption.

·       Participate in the recruitment, selection, orientation and training of key project/ program staff, and other staff as requested by the Chief of Party and/or other Directors.

·       Facilitates team coordination and capacity building opportunities as required.

Supervisory responsibilities:

·       Supervises Partnerships Team to engage traditional and non-traditional actors for partnerships to yield scalable and sustainable interventions that lead to improved maternal and newborn health. Supervises Investment Specialists to engage investors and catalyze eco-investment to ensure the financial sustainability and scale of co-creation activities.

Other duties:

·       Provides input to all work planning and reporting documents for client, HQ, and the Government of Indonesia as required by the Chief of Party.

·       Any other relevant duties as assigned by the Chief of Party.

Essential Requirements

·       Advanced degree preferred.

·       Demonstrated capacity to engage, network and negotiate partnerships with a wide variety of stakeholders in the public and private sectors.

·       Demonstrated capacity to conceptualize, articulate, design, promote and execute co-creation processes at the national and subnational levels.

·       Demonstrated capacity to develop a variety of approaches to engage private investors to support the incubation and scale of new and existing local solutions.

·       Experience in leading dynamic professional teams for results.

·       Proven interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with key stakeholders at all societal levels.

·       Proficiency in performance improvement approaches and techniques.

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

·       Computer literacy in Microsoft Office applications.

Interested and qualified applicants could send the cover letter and CV at the latest on October 18, 2018 to indonesiamnh@dai.com with “Partnerships Director” in the subject line and specify their availability date in the CV. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted directly.