Background

UNDP Indonesia and the Ministry of Health have been working together in a long-term partnership on health governance that is aimed at narrowing health development gaps and meeting the SDGs commitments. This partnership has been expanded with implementation of activities under the 2020- 2025 Health Governance Initiative (HEART) Program that focus on the support to strengthen Indonesia’s health system capacity through policy advocacy, evidence-based generation intervention, technical assistance, and partnerships by adoptions of information technology advancement with total program budget at approximately USD 70 million.

The Health Governance Programme has two outputs: (i) By 2025, strengthened national policy and institutional environment that is governing access to affordable medicines through evidence based and multisector collaborations. (ii) By 2025, the performance of national programmes is improved and
positively impacts the coverage and the sustainability of services delivery and the health system better integrates environmental concerns in waste management practices to mitigate or limit its impact on environment(s) and prevent and reduce diseases related to climate change.

To address challenges in health sectors related to climate change, The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has invested in total 122 million dollar for Climate and Health Co-Investment Facility Coordination Programme, aiming to improve capacities and resilience of the health system in 15 countries across all geographic regions. This GCF project has four high-level Outcomes which are: (1) Enhanced financing for transformative action on climate and health though a consolidated and coordinated global finance mechanism; (2) Countries enabled to meet their COP26 Health Commitments for resilient and low carbon health systems; (3) Improved climate resilience of health and health services across 6 pilot countries; and (4) Reduced GHG emissions from healthcare systems and health care facilities in 6 countries. Among those 15 countries, Indonesia will become one of the pilot countries in implementing the GCF programme that will focus on designing integrated solutions for climate resilient and sustainable low carbon health system. The programme result in this pilot will be used to inform design of the Co-Investment Facility and will be further upscaled.

In collaboration with WHO, UNDP will be the leading party in implementing the GCF programme. In UNDP Indonesia Country Office, this initiative has grown the HEART Cluster’s portfolio to work across multidiscipline areas beyond health sector. As a response, to support this project the HEART Cluster needs a management capacity to manage program development and run day-to-day implementation of GCF programme in Indonesia. This position will responsible for making the day-to-day decisions on project implementation and ensure the achievement of project results as defined in the approved project document as well as in the annual work plans, through timely implementation and quality monitoring. This position will work in close collaboration with programme and operations unit in UNDP Country Office, technical advisors/experts, government officials, UN agencies, international donors, civil society and private sectors as well as with UNDP RBAP and Global to successfully implement the GCF project in Indonesia.

The National Technical Specialist Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change will be based at the UNDP Country Office. Under the overall guidance and supervision from Health Governance Initiative Adviser/HEART Cluster Lead, the National Technical Specialist Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. S/he is responsible for making day-to-day decisions on project implementation and ensures that the project deliver the result specified in the project document to the required standard of quality and within specified time and budget.
Direct Reporting To: Health Governance Initiative Adviser/HEART Cluster Lead UNDP Indonesia Overall Reporting To: RRG Team Leader UNDP Indonesia

Reportee to This Position: The Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change Team. The National Technical Specialist Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change will also collaborating with other teams in HEART Cluster, RRG Unit, and UNDP Country Team.

Duties and Responsibilities

The National Technical Specialist Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change will provide technical programme support to the HEART Cluster and be responsible to support the Project Implementing Partner in undertake day-to-day project management in accordance with approve project document and UNDP principal and procedures.

The National Technical Specialist Health Resilience Adaptation, Mitigation to Climate Change will be responsible for the following tasks:

Lead, manage, and supervise the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation, through below activities.

• Lead strategic planning for the project as well as formulation and periodic revisions of the project’s annual work plan (AWP), including plans for budget, HR and procurement that are developed in close coordination with UNDP’s Country Office .
• Lead development of detailed implementation plans as well as manage, coordinate, and supervise project implementation to ensure the overall project relevance and performance, the effective realization and quality of outputs within the specified constraints of time and cost as outlined in the project document, and adherence to applicable UNDP policy and programme management procedures and Government standards, rules, and regulations. Act as a senior advisor on issues related to project activities.
• Provide direction, guidance, and direct supervision to UNDP project team as while build team coherence and positive working environment. Undertake technical review of project documents and project advisory prepared by the project team and partners to ensure high technical standards are met.
• Manages critical issues, troubleshoots problems and develops solutions to the overall processes of project implementation. Consults with the project board through the HEART Cluster Lead for any issues that require their attention.
• Ensures that the quality of project inputs meet the expected standards and are sufficient to produce project outputs and targets. Takes overall responsibility for the project and performs oversight roles for project compliance against the relevant government, and UNDP regulations for project management.
• Ensure all project interventions integrate a gender equality perspective/gender equality mainstreaming to the extent local context allows.
• Ensure proper execution of all administrative activities associated with project implementation, including mobilizing goods and services, preparing Terms of Reference, completing contracting processes, recruiting/selecting consultants and experts, and managing financial arrangements/ transactions and their correct authorization.
• Identify opportunities for synergies with other projects within HEART/UNDP and beyond, to advance the key objectives, grow its focus and strengthen its impacts.

Develop and nurture strategic partnerships as well as support the implementation of resource mobilization, through below activities.

• Substantively contribute to the harnessing of effective partnerships and lead the identification and onboarding process for implementing partners.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships and strategic linkages with implementing and development partners, government officials, businesses, NGOs, other national and regional stakeholders, and beneficiaries to support the achivemen of project result and promote inclusive project implementation.
• Substantively contribute to project communications and visibility efforts. In coordination with UNDP Communication units and other relevant parties, strengthens the communication of the project in order to communicate results, deepen stakeholder knowledge and buy-in to the project, and to facilitate resource mobilization for the project.
• Provide technical support to the implementing partners and act as a liaison between UNDP and the partners. Builds project reputation for quality design, reliable delivery as well as integrity and accountability
• Support resource mobilization efforts and project development including identifies opportunities for mobilizing resources for the project, prepares substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, as well as make recommendations to the management team on activities with potential for scale-up, replicability and synergies.

Lead and oversee monitoring and reporting in implementing project activities and achieving the targets set, through below activities.

• Provide leadership and technical advice to the project in developing indicators for project monitoring and evaluation and coordinate the finalization of detailed results framework.
• Develop clear strategies and an effective system for data collection, means of verification, project documentation, as well as information sharing and reporting.
• Lead the implementation of project monitoring, evaluation, and results framework to identify plan deviations and other problems; and make needed course corrections within agreed upon tolerances to achieve results. Conduct field visits as required to verify project activities relative to stated targets and provide regular field updates to UNDP management.
• Lead the development and conduct of mid-term and annual reviews as well as coordinate the conduct of independent evaluations. Organize project review and evaluation meetings. Follow up on the implementation of decisions, recommendations, and course corrections.
• Manage and monitor project risks, including social and environmental risks, initially identified and submit new risks to appropriate project governing bodies for consideration and decision on possible actions.
• Coordinate the preparation of corporate, donor and government reports in line with the reporting schedule and UNDP and donor requirements. Ensure provision of ad hoc reports and information updates requested by relevant entities.
• Ensure proper operational and financial closure of the project.

Facilitate knowledge sharing, capacity building and advocacy, through below activities.

• Identify capacity building needs and opportunities. Ensure appropriate training, project workshops and other relevant activities are organized and implemented in a consultative manner, involving technical experts and stakeholders that may include the government, private sector, NGOs, donors, and/or academia.
• Identify lessons learned and best practices that can be helpful to the project in achieving its goal and objectives as well as for possible wider application.
• Participate in and ensure sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice on development and project related issues. Support establishment of knowledge platforms for the project, facilitate innovative mechanisms for dissemination of knowledge from the project, and develop knowledge resources and products to share with project partners and to support UNDP’s engagement in this area.
• Promote advocacy for UNDP’s work and opportunities for collaboration in addressing development trends in coordination with the project partners, stakeholders, and UNDP communications staff.

The incumbent of the position will uphold the non-discriminatory behavior and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions.
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UN”.
• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production.
• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered.
• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created.
• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization

Competencies

Core competencies:

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business Direction & Strategy

• Business Acumen. Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome Ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization
• System Thinking. Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system demonstrate foresight.

Business Development

• Knowledge Generation. Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.

Business Management

• Project Management. Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
• Risk Management. Identify and organize action around reducing, mitigating and proactively managing risks.
• Result-based Management. Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results. Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts,
  methodologies, instruments, and tools.

2030 Agenda: People

• Gender. Gender-responsive Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Health, International Development, Public Policy, Management, Business, Economics, Social Science, Health Science, Environmental Science or other related fields, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Minimum five (5) years (with master’s degree) and seven (7) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in project
  management and leading team is required.
  Solid communication networking and partnership experience.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Strong Project Management skills and experience with ability to interpret, resolve and report on implementation challenges.
• Proven ability to produce high-quality work under significant deadline pressures, adaptive to changing priorities and able to juggle multiple assignments. Detailed accuracy and acute sensitivity to the importance of time urgency.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and multidisciplinary team.
• Proven experience leading team for development project.
• Proven experience in providing strategic advice to senior leaders and/or leading project engagement and dialogues.
• Solid experience in presenting and representing the work of an organization/unit both in writing and orally is required. Strong relationship skills and ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Solid working experience in the area of environment, climate change or disaster risk reduction issues pertaining to health is desirable.
• Good knowledge and have a direct experience on successful working and partnership with other UN agencies, government institutions at national and sub-national levels, donors/development partners, private sector, CSO, and universities will be highly desirable.
• Work experience working for UNDP/UN development project in Indonesia is an advantage.
• Solid experience with international agencies with close similarity with the operations and rules of UN system would be an added value.

Required languages:

• Fluency in English and Indonesia (reading, writing, speaking) is required

Professional Certificates:

• Any relevant professional certificate(s) in the area of required competencies would be an asset but it is not mandatory.

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination.

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles.

Right to select multiple candidates

UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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