OpRec USAID Jalin - Technical Lead

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 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 will be based in Jakarta at the DAI 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 reports 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 3.1 – Reviving and strengthening Bidan Delima as part
of the Jalin Results Framework (RF). The Technical Lead will work with
Jalin staff and external stakeholders 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 Program Management Lead for efficient work planning, financial
management, procurement and activity monitoring/reporting.

Specific responsibilities of the Technical Lead include, but are not
limited to:

·       Lead the planning, implementation and reporting of assigned
activities in accordance with the approved workplan

·       Working collaboratively, provide appropriate technical guidance to
Jalin, the MOH, and implementing partners, and communicate within and
across the portfolio teams to share and receive lessons learned

·       Lead in relationship management and collaboration with external
stakeholders and organizations

·       Participate at national and international meetings and conferences
as required to represent Jalin and/or assigned activities

·       Support the recruitment and selection process for short-term
consultants, subcontractors, grantees or other service providers to support
assigned portfolio

·       Conduct monitoring visits to ensure the successful implementation
of activities and coordinate with the MELA team to document progress
towards milestones

·       Author weekly, monthly and quarterly reports (to MOH, USAID etc)
for assigned portfolio

·       Coordinate with others in the technical team to produce project
success stories, lessons learned, fact sheets, or other project
communications projects as assigned

·       If required, represents the project at a variety of national and
international health and development fora, as requested.

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



*Requirements*

·       Clinical degree: Midwifery or Obstetrics

·       At least 10 years of experience in technical area and established
partnerships to relevant stakeholders

·       Understanding of and experience with maternal and newborn health,
midwifery/obstetric practice in

Indonesia

·       Expertise and demonstrated ability to provide TA in maternal and
newborn quality of care across the Jakarta and regional implementation
teams

·       Ability to prepare and present reports, presentations and other
products in English and Bahasa

·       Computer literacy in Microsoft Office applications.

·       Skilled in partnership management and working collaboratively with
multiple stakeholders

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



Interested and qualified applicants should send their cover letter and CV
on *27 December 2019 at 05.00 PM Jakarta Time to **indonesiamnh@dai.com
<indonesiamnh@dai.com>** with Technical Lead* in the subject line and
specify the availability date in the CV. Only shortlisted candidates will
be contacted directly.