Chief of Party, Indonesia

Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases | East

RTI International (RTI) is both a global research institute and a leading international development organization. We combine these powerful capabilities with those of our partners to co-create smart, shared solutions for a more prosperous, equitable, and resilient world. Based in North Carolina, USA, RTI is one of the top implementing partners of projects funded through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). A commitment to making meaningful change energizes our 6,000 staff who deliver results across eight international development sectors and in more than 80 countries.

The Global Health Division (GHD), within the International Development Group (IDG), works in Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Global Health Security and Public Health Preparedness; Noncommunicable Diseases; and Health Systems Strengthening – including Health Governance, Health Finance, Human Resources for Health, Capacity Building, and Health Policy and Advocacy. We address a range of public health problems to reduce disparities, lower disease burdens, and build locally owned sustainable health programs.

RTI implements the USAID Act to End Neglected Tropical Diseases | East program (Act | East; 2018-2026). Act | East is recruiting a Chief of Party (COP) to provide senior technical and managerial leadership and oversight of RTI’s NTD activities in Indonesia.

The COP will be responsible for providing high-level strategic and technical support to the Government of Indonesia (GOI)’s Ministry of Health (MOH) in its implementation of NTD activities in line with the MOH’s Decree on Filariasis Elimination (the government’s guiding strategic document). The COP will be responsible for all oversight of RTI’s NTD work in Indonesia and the management of the Act | East Indonesia team. The COP will lead technical and operations initiatives to ensure the highest quality programming. The COP will also ensure effective project and financial management including the submission of program deliverables and contractual obligations on a timely basis. The COP will coordinate with RTI Headquarters and Regional Office, Act | East consortium partners, USAID offices, the World Health Organization, and other NTD and development partners.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Oversee all RTI activities in support of the GOI’s lymphatic filariasis (LF) elimination goals.
• Provide strategic advice and support to the GOI to ensure platforms and processes are in place to achieve elimination of LF in line with national and international goals.
• Support the GOI to identify key barriers to elimination and develop, implement, and review plans to overcome them. These will include expanding laboratory capacity, increasing program treatment coverage, reaching ‘must reach’ populations, and exploring synergies with other public and private health and development initiatives in the country.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the GOI at national and sub-national levels, built on trust and mutual respect.
• Work with the GOI, Act | East consortium partners, and Act | East HQ to develop annual work plans and budgets.
• Provide support to the GOI’s national, regional, and district authorities for timely and effective implementation of NTD activities, ensuring that all activities are implemented in accordance with work plans, budgets, and global technical guidelines.
• Act as bank signatory and in other capacities to meet project obligations.
• Provide regular updates to Act | East HQ team on all project activities.
• Lead the preparation of high-quality project documents, including annual workplans and semi-annual reports.
• Develop and manage mechanisms for coordination and collaboration with other partners and grantees.
• Equip the GOI to conduct strong supervision and monitoring for all programmatic activities.
• Work with RTI operations team at HQ, Regional
• Office, and in-country to monitor project activities and spending to ensure proper activity planning and procurements that meet USAID financial and management reporting guidelines.
• Facilitate a culture of learning and using data for planning and adapting program strategy and activities. Including sharing lessons from Indonesia with other countries in the Act | East portfolio, and with the wider health and development community.
• Liaise with Act | East communications team and donors to document and promote project accomplishments and innovation in blogs, peer-reviewed journals, and other media, in close consultation with communications team members.
• Work with RTI communications and operations team to ensure all activities adhere to relevant organizational and project branding & marking guidelines.

Key Relationships with Partners

• Serve as a key liaison between Act | East HQ, the Indonesia MOH, USAID/Indonesia, Act | East consortium partners, project partners, and other national and international donors, including pharmaceutical donation programs, and organizations involved in NTD activities in Indonesia.
• Be the primary representation and point of contact with the USAID country mission. Ensure regular contact with the mission, open communication, and that the mission is updated on activities and plans frequently.
• Support the Indonesia MOH in the coordination of stakeholders to avoid overlap and to maximize the use of limited resources,
• Support high-profile visits to Indonesia, ensuring good representation of the project’s work and of RTI International.

Management

• Manage the Act | East Indonesia team, including technical and operations staff. Ensure the team produces high quality work in line with project objectives and deliverables, support the team to work effectively, and encourage their continued professional development.

Representation

• Represent Act | East and the work of the project at relevant international meetings.
• Perform international (up to 10%) and domestic travel (up to 40%); and perform other work as needed by program management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in public health or other relevant discipline
• Twelve years’ experience implementing and leading technical and program activities for donor-funded health programs (at national and regional levels), ideally with an infectious disease focus. Specific knowledge of LF is preferred.
• Demonstrated high-level managerial skills, particularly in multiple, small to mid-size donor-funded projects is preferred.
• Experience managing USAID-supported projects. Knowledge and experience with other international development organizations’ contracting policies and procedures is preferred.
• Highly developed expertise in managing and motivating diverse teams, including ensuring continued professional development.
• Demonstrated experience in all aspects of program management: conceiving, planning, organizing, implementing, monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully coordinate with officials from the GOI at multiple levels, U.S. Government, NGOs, and other agencies.
• Demonstrated experience with the MERLA approach including analyzing quantitative and qualitative data for improved programmatic performance along with knowledge of reporting procedures, best practices, guidelines.
• Knowledge of supply chain management, commodity procurement, logistics and distribution issues.
• Knowledge of health systems strengthening and sustainability concepts and experience of managing HSS activities and/or projects.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Strong English oral and written communication and presentation skills. This should include the ability to write/edit reports to a high standard, acceptable for submission to donors. Fluency in Bahasa is expected.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

How to Apply

Interested candidates must complete an online application through this link:

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