UNDP Indonesia Country Programme 2021-2025 was developed in partnership with the Government of Indonesia which supports national efforts to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG indicator 3.8.1 related to the coverage of essential health services. The programme contributes directly to RPJMN 2020-2024 and RPJP 2020-2045, which aims at improving access and quality of health services as part of the overall efforts in accelerating the progress towards universal health coverage.

UNDP Indonesia has established a programme cluster focusing on health system strengthening as an umbrella of various initiatives on health system strengthening at UNDP Indonesia. One of the UNDP Country Programme outcomes reads as national institutions strengthened for Equitable access to quality basic social services and social protection.

Aligned with this particular outcome, the Health Governance Programme will contribute to support specific national efforts to achieve SDG 3 and with a focus to meet Indonesia’s commitment to address inequity in health through Universal Health Coverage. Working with government counterparts and civil society organizations, the Health Governance Programme will leverage UNPD’s global expertise on governance in the health sector and on providing implementation support for large health initiatives. The programme will develop innovative solutions and capacities through technical assistance, South-South and Triangular Cooperation [SSTC] and partnerships for improved and sustained health outcomes for all. The Health Governance Programme has two components: (i) strengthened national policy and institutional environment that is governing the access and delivery of needed health technologies and affordable medicines through evidence-based policy and multisector collaborations; and (ii) 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 climate change adaptation and waste management practices to mitigate or limit its impact on environment(s).

Currently, Health Governance Programme Cluster is implementing strategic projects supported by multi- donors such as (i) SMILE [Sistem Monitoring Imunisasi dan Logistik Secara Elektronik / Electronic Logistics Management and Information System] and ME-SMILE [SMILE system for Medical Waste Management], both funded by GAVI; (ii) National Logistic Management Information System for health commodities, especially for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, funded by GF-ATM [Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria]; (iii) Strengthening capacity and management of the National Laboratory for Surveillance and Precise Medication under COIVD-19 Response and Biomedical & Science Initiative [BGSI], funded by the GF-ATM; (iv) Access Delivery Partnership (ADP), funded by Japanese Government; (v) Management and Technical Assistance for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (MTC-ATM), funded by DFAT Australia; and (vi) Financial Management Technical Assistance (FMTA), funded by GF-ATM. This Cluster potentially gains more support from donors and/or other funding opportunities through resource mobilization in support the health sector as well as other initiatives related to health system strengthening including greening health with Green Climate funded program (GCF).

Working with government counterparts, professional associations, and civil society organizations, UNDP has been deeply involved in delivering a comprehensive programme on health system strengthening in Indonesia since 2007. The key areas of UNDP technical assistance and capacity support include health system strengthening, stakeholder’s coordination, socio-economic support, and improving the management of big data on health sector encompassing the use of digital technology under the Health Digital Transformation Strategy. Under UNDP Health Governance Programme, UNDP has leveraged its global expertise on collaborative platform, procurement service for health equipment, supply chain management system for health, and medical waste management.

Against this background, UNDP Indonesia is seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to fill the crucial role of Advisor. The primary objective of this position is to provide strategic guidance and advice to Senior Management, while ensuring that various initiatives related to Health Governance are being taken forward in an effective and results oriented manner.

As an Advisor, the successful candidate will be entrusted with the responsibility of offering expert advice on a wide range of issues on health governance and other crosscutting issues with other thematic areas such as climate resilience, and identifying programmatic and resource mobilization objectives and opportunities, including through resources and projects pipelining from traditional and non-traditional financing sources. The Advisor will also provide strategic advice on the technical aspects of health governance, contributing significantly to assessment reports, and offer strategic guidance on how these reports can be used by decision-makers, donors, and for securing resources for future projects.

Reporting directly to the Head of Democratic Governance and Poverty Reduction Unit [DGPRU]  which the name of the unit will be transitioning to  the Risk Resilience an Governance (RRG) Unit later this year . The Advisor will provide strategic direction and technical advisory support to position UNDP Indonesia as a thought leader, and preferred partner in areas related to health governance, and its link to sustainable development goals [SDGs]. The Advisor will provide strategic and technical guidance to the projects’ teams to ensure high quality project development and implementation.

The NPSA holder will directly report to the Head of DGPRU, with an emphasis on functions related to government counterparts, donor community, international financial institutions, and the UN agencies. As part of the incumbent’s duty, the NPSA holder will also participate in policy dialogues, discussions, and any strategic meetings held by UNDP, or with any assigned institutions.

Ensures provision of high-quality policy advisory services focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Provide strategic policy advisory services to address future development challenges and potential for resource mobilization in the areas of the elimination of communicable diseases [primarily HIV-AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in partnership with GF-ATM]; and promoting vaccine equity through digital innovation [in partnership with GAVI], promoting cross-thematic programming on health and environment and resilience; and so on.
• Provide high-level government engagement to advocate UNDP’s value added and strategic interventions.
• Advise senior management and Head of Unit in a timely manner of issues, trends, challenges and risk to enable timely remedial actions.
• Support programme design with development partners, UN Agencies and implementing partners for the portfolio, ensuring robust articulation of Theory of Change and results from framework linking inputs and activities to programme outputs and outcomes, supported with evidence to report on the Strategic Plan and CPD indicators.
• Contributes to the analysis of the political, social, and economic situation in the country and ensures collaborative and coordinated preparation/revision of CCA, UNSCDF, CPD, annual business planning,
• Provision of advisory support in the process to develop an Integrated Work Plan and results reporting, project documents, policy briefs, briefing notes and other programmatic documents.
• Identifies and pursues strategic programmatic areas of cooperation based on strategic goals of UNDP, country needs and donors’ priorities and operationalization of CPD with the Government and other partners of UNDP.
• Identifies, promotes and facilitates innovative development solutions to the delivery of results.
• Leverages innovative approaches, resources, and collaborative efforts to enhance programme and project impact.
• Support the comprehensive landscape and key stakeholder analysis to determine implementation activities for health financing, and to identify key stakeholders involved.
• Provide innovative business development advisory services for new project pipelines and expand to non-traditional donors.
• Provide follow-ups across a range of project pipelines, ensuring effective support and guidance in the successful obtainment of resource mobilization. 1
• Develop concise briefing notes and talking points for the Senior Management and Head of the DGPRU, as required.
• Conduct regular (e.g. bi-weekly) check-in meetings with the Head of the DGPRU unit and Senior Management to provide updates on the progress of ongoing initiatives.
• Prepare comprehensive concept notes for new project pursuits, outlining key objectives and potential outcomes.
• Conduct thorough reviews of potential donors, ensuring diligent follow-ups and arranging meetings to facilitate sustained resource mobilization for the DGPRU unit. To effectively mobilize resources, thorough reviews of potential donors are conducted through diligent research and evaluation of alignment with unit goals. Continuous follow-ups, including arranging meetings, are crucial for fostering sustained relationships. Strategic communication to articulate the unit’s impact and values, to be complemented by customized proposals and transparent budgeting. Collaboration with stakeholders ensures comprehensive engagement, while monitoring and reporting mechanisms demonstrate accountability to donors. Cultivating long-term relationships and learning from evaluation processes contribute to the ability to secure consistent support for health governance initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance and serve as a lead technical resource for the provision of technical assistance and capacity building initiatives in the implementation of the health governance, e.g. ATM elimination, vaccine equity, health digitalization, telemedicine, health system resilience to climate change, health waste management, and other relevant initiatives.
• Ensure strategic support for the capacity-building of health governance’s key beneficiaries are managed effectively.
• Develop and maintain quality of technical assistance provided through the pool of experts and consultants as relevant to the needs of key beneficiaries under health governance sector.
• Development of policies and institutions that will address the identified problems, recommendations and needs based on the assessment results in collaboration with the Government and other strategic partners.

Provides strategic direction and support to implementing partners and technical specialists in conducting participatory and multi-stakeholder sectoral reviews:

• Facilitate the establishment of mechanisms for coordination, dialogue, and learning among actors (bureaucrats and practitioners) in each key sector.
• Review each actor’s mandate, plan, map activities, work areas and strengths/weaknesses (sector baseline).
• Provide technical support to multi-stakeholder mechanisms, especially in regard to the donor coordination and government/civil society partnership-building activities.
• Development of practical policies and plan recommendations.

Provides strategic direction for an effective resource mobilization, focusing on the following results:

• Support the sector mapping to inform financing priorities and strategies for ATM elimination, vaccine equity, telemedicine, digital transformation in the health sector, and health resilience to climate change, as well as genome sequencing in preventing future pandemics.
• Ensures the development of project pipeline generation for development financing.
• Foster a culture of intellectual curiosity, creativity, collaboration, experimentation, and commitment to embodying the highest ideals of the United Nations.
• Advocate the goals of the United Nations in relevant forums (e.g., conferences, workshops).
• Provide strategic and substantive content for high level communications, speeches, publications, and statements.
• Effective leadership on resource mobilization from private and public resources.

Facilitates and leads knowledge development and thought-leadership, to establish high- quality knowledge building and management information system focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Ensure that required expertise and technical assistance is made available to government and civil society partners/counterparts.
• Ensure the programme policy linkages are identified and captured in the form of knowledge products, or policy papers, based on evidence from implementation of various initiative.
• Effective mechanisms and systems in place and functioning to identify, document and synthesize lessons learned and best practices for sharing and learning throughout the region.
• Develop narratives and compelling write-ups capturing the essence of UNDP Indonesia’s initiatives and impacts related to, but not limited to natural resources management and sustainable development.
• Maintain project briefs and activity information for civil society, bilateral donors, academia, private sectors, and other stakeholders as appropriate to support UNDP’s public awareness activities including through preparation of statements and other communication materials.
• Provision of high-quality information and analysis to the government counterparts to inform the strategic direction of local development priorities.
• Coordinate and organize the relevant studies to collate research-based information, evidence, and facts to enrich the achievement of development results.
• Ensure development results are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
• Provide support to high-level events leveraging UNDP’s position in strategic areas such as international waters and law enforcement.
• Effective strategic input for capacity building training for project/programme staff to facilitate appropriate management and timely delivery of project outputs including in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming.
• Effective contribution to the national and global network for gender mainstreaming learning and knowledge sharing.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality are prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions.
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”.
• 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 etc. are introduced.
• Ensure gender-related economic, health, public research and analysis, to contribute to the formulation of policies, programme interventions, procedures, guidelines, and tools.

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 management

• Digital Awareness and Literacy: Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed.
• 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

Information Management & Technology

• Solutions Architecture: Ability to design and manage the Information system architecture supporting corporate business processes. Design integration strategies and approaches to integrate of one or more applications or services to maintain a coherent and effective IT architecture. Knowledge of ISO 20000 and IT operations.

2030 agenda- people

• Gender: Gender mainstreaming

2030 Agenda: Peace

• Health governance, environment, and resilience: Ability to find synergy and cross-fertilization of development programming in the area of health governance, environment, and resilience.
• health Diagnostic: capacity and procurement of laboratory equipment, consumables and reagents
• Health Access to diagnostics and treatment, incl. private sector engagement