Jhpiego International Job Vacancy: Country Director - Jakarta, Indonesian

Jhpiego is an international non-profit health organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University.  For over 40 years, Jhpiego has empowered frontline health workers by designing and implementing effective, low-cost solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their families.  For 30 years, Jhpiego has worked in partnership with Indonesian public and private sector organizations to increase access to high-quality health care to improve health outcomes and save the lives of women and their children.  Jhpiego’s support to Indonesia has spanned several areas, including maternal and newborn health, family planning, and cervical cancer. We are currently seeking for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to fill the position
COUNTRY DIRECTOR
Location : Jakarta, Indonesia
Overview:
The Country Director will provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, programmatic, technical, and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s programs. This includes guiding the strategic planning, design and implementation of country programs and achievement of planned results. The Country Director works closely with the Indonesian Ministry of Health to streamline efforts and ensure complementarity of projects and serves as the primary point of contact for donors, stakeholders and international and local partners. The Country Director is responsible for timely and cost-effective project implementation, compliance with local laws as well as Jhpiego policies and procedures and adherence to the program and technical standards of the organization.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
    • Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure programmatic and financial integrity of Jhpiego’s efforts in country
    • Develop and maintain outstanding working relationships with donors and potential donors, MOH, national and international implementing partners, and others who can help in Jhpiego’s efforts to strengthen support to the country
    • Ensure that all Jhpiego activities are in line with country priorities, and include substantial engagement of national partners

    New Program Development
    • Understand Jhpiego’s current work and past experience in order to speak fluently about and advocate for Jhpiego in meetings with potential donors and partners;
    • Identify and build relationships with the major donors in Indonesia to learn their funding strategies in country;
      • Lead intensive efforts to develop new business/program opportunities; this will include identifying and developing opportunities; leading program design efforts; and identifying and coordinating proposal development teams
      • Work closely with Jhpiego’s home office staff to ensure effective, timely and coordinated responses to new program opportunities

      Technical and Program Quality Assurance
        • Provide oversight of program activities, ensuring that the programs are technically sound, follow organizational standards and are responsive to the needs of the country
        • Lead Program and Technical Review processes and ensure corrective actions are taken when organizational expectations and standards are not met
        • Ensure the quality and sustainability of all program approaches; work with program staff, partners and funders to continually improve programs to address challenges and meet needs and ensure achievement of the goals, objectives and targets of each project
        • Provide programmatic and/or technical leadership in the design, analysis, and synthesis of interventions
        • Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to ensure M&E frameworks are developed and data/results are effectively tracked and appropriately reported
        • Monitor projects for compliance with Jhpiego and donor programming policies, and recommend any necessary assistance to comply with Jhpiego policies;

        Financial and Management Compliance
          • Ensure the program is working within available resources and that the program is fiscally sound
          • Ensure country compliance with country laws, Jhpiego policies and donor rules and regulations as well as all contractual requirements
          • Ensure preparations and timely submission of all programmatic and financial reports to Jhpiego and donors
          • Ensure that internal and external audit findings are corrected in a timely manner

          Human Resource Management
            • Mentor, support, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results

            External Relations and Communications
              • Represent Jhpiego’s interests and present progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors and other key stakeholders in public and professional circles through meetings, conferences, and presentations

              REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
                • Advanced degree in public health, health administration, public administration, business administration or related degree
                • 10+ years of progressively responsible international public health management experience including design, implementation, monitor, reporting, and financial management
                • Knowledge of the Indonesian public health sector actors, including program leaders, government representatives, and on-the-ground organization staff;
                • Significant past history of successful fund raising;
                • Demonstrated ability to manage donor funded public health projects and budgets
                • Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
                • Proven experience in leading highly skilled and qualified program, technical and administrative and finance personnel
                • Ability to build capacity and collaboration between governmental and non-governmental partners and other project implementers
                • Understanding of USG donor’s  regulations and compliance, reporting requirements, and health strategic framework
                • Fluent in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesian and English required
                • Excellent interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills
                • Ability to work in a complex environment charged with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
                • Technical knowledge in one or more of Jhpiego’s core competencies
                • A team player accustomed to building team capacity, delegating working teams, and developing communities of learning among host country partners and counterparts
                • Indonesia Nationality is highly encourage to apply

                Interested candidates may send their CV with cover letter and indicate the position title in the email subject line to IndonesiaHumanResources@jhpiego.org.

                Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package including: medical and dental plans; paid vacation, holidays and sick leave; personal accident insurance; (b) retirement plan; life and disability insurance; travel insurance; education assistance plan and more.

                Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

                Johns Hopkins University  is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

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