Description
Do you believe that everyone deserves access to affordable, quality healthcare?
Are you driven by creativity, bold ideas, and disruptive innovation? Are you
inspired by exceptionally talented, diverse, impact-oriented colleagues? Do you
thrive in a dynamic, high-growth, fast-paced environment? Then consider a job
with ThinkWell.
ThinkWell is a growing, flexible health systems organization, with both global
influence and local grounding. Our focus is on driving transformation in the
global health space by always questioning and disrupting conventional wisdom
about what works or what can or cannot be done. We believe in pragmatisms over
ideology and develop solutions tailored to a client’s context and political
realities without replicating global models and all-purpose solutions. We know
that to drive change, we must focus on how the world could be, rather than
making excuses for the status quo.
Strategic Purchasing for Primary Health Care (SP4PHC) is a five-year program
supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that supports
countries to improve how funds are allocated to healthcare providers in order
to achieve the goal of universal health coverage. ThinkWell is working with
purchasers and policy makers in five countries (Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Kenya,
Philippines, and Uganda) to design and test policy options to more effectively
purchase primary health care services, with a focus on family planning and
maternal, neonatal, and child health.
THE ROLE
The Health Policy Technical Advisor provides technical assistance, analytical,
and operational support across a range of ThinkWell in-country public or
private sector projects. The Health Policy Technical Advisor brings strong
quantitative and qualitative skills and research capacity (typically in health
economics and financing), as well as a solid understanding of the design,
implementation, and evaluation of health financing policy reform. The Health
Policy Technical Advisor may supervise staff but typically serves as an
individual contributor on a project team.
In Indonesia, the SP4PHC/Indonesia team works with the Ministry of Health
(MoH). The Health Policy Technical Advisor will have an excellent comprehension
and network of the stakeholders in the MoH, private sector, professional
bodies, and local level governance partnerships required for reforming how
health financing and strategic purchasing are implemented with a focus on how
to improve quality and coherence.
The role will require a Health Policy Technical Advisor who is able to work
with a range of health financing, policy and planning specialists, supporting,
and often leading the development of learning products that are focused on
Health Financing and Strategic Purchasing. The Health Policy Technical Advisor
will also lead research studies that engage stakeholders from all levels of
government to develop strategic purchasing policies and technical systems
solutions in partnership with other development partners and MoH technical
secretariats.
The Health Policy Technical Advisor will report to the Country Director and
provide research support to inform policies related to strategic purchasing.
This is a full-time position based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Program design and implementation
- Support ministries of health on development of national health financing
strategies, budget planning, preparation and execution, and budget advocacy.
- Lead engagement with government stakeholders at the national and
sub-national levels to expand SP4PHC’s local network, collect information,
share findings, and build support for strategic purchasing strategies.
- Support sub-national actors in decentralized settings by strengthening
capacity to respond to increased autonomy for planning, budgeting, and public
financial management.
- Design and advocate for innovative health financing policies, such as
strengthening public health at the District level.
- Lead analyses on health expenditure, including out-of-pocket spending,
financial forecasting, benefit incidence analysis, and resource tracking.
- Produce high quality written reports and presentations, including
technical documents, project status reports, policy briefs, and publications
for conferences and journals.
- Create graphics and visualizations of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Contribute to business development, including desk research, technical
input, and proposal and concept note writing.
Research
- Develop research protocols, including data collection instruments such as
interview questionnaires and guidelines, and support validation of instruments.
- Conduct desk research including literature reviews, data mining and
analysis on relevant technical and policy issues and effectively summarize
findings.
- Data collection and analysis for country research studies. Data collection
may entail working closely with stakeholders, such as the Ministry of Health,
BPJS-K, and international stakeholders.
- Provide quantitative and qualitative data analyses across a range of
subjects.
Project Reporting and Representation
- Draft or revise sections of donor reports and coordinate team member input.
- Prepare communications for policy and technical meetings or forums
- Occasionally represent ThinkWell with external partners, donors or
stakeholders at meetings and events.
Project Administration and Operations
- Support a range of project administrative and operational
responsibilities, including staff recruitment and training, communications,
organizing meetings and workshops, coordinating travel, and drafting donor
correspondence
- Develop and maintain strong working relations with technical and
management units in partner organizations
- Arrange interviews, discussions, and meetings with various stakeholders
related to FP and MNCH and others as required
- Actively participate in virtual discussions with ThinkWell members from
other projects and other countries
SP4PHC-Specific Responsibilities:
- Support the Deputy Director of Learning in developing and pursuing
learning products, especially exploring research questions and how to address
them
- Liaise with the Deputy Director of Learning and participate in global
learning agenda forums
- Contribute to the development of knowledge management systems
- Maintain project database of all data, information, reports, technical
papers, and publications
- Conduct field monitoring of studies and liaise with an external third
party to monitor and evaluate the data collected and research findings
- Provide technical inputs and support the development of strategies to
strengthen the health financing of District Health Offices
- At the direction of the Country Director, contribute to ThinkWell’s
various efforts to support the Government of Indonesia’s response to the
COVID-19 outbreak
WE ARE:
ThinkWell core values are our fundamental organizational guiding principles.
They define our corporate culture, influence our behavior at work and help us
achieve our mission. Our values are:
Think big
Influence the conversation
Empower others
Be exceptional
Always question
Relate authentically
Evolve by learning
YOU ARE:
ThinkWell core competencies are foundational skills and behaviors that align
with our values and are expected of all employees.
An entrepreneurial, results-oriented ‘do-er’ with a willingness to take risk,
think big and challenge conventional wisdom.
A change maker who reaches independent judgement with an open mind, influences
the conversation, and seeks innovation.
Able to help create an empowering environment in which everyone feels free to
take initiative, be accountable and fail intelligently (learn from mistakes).
A collaborative colleague who engages constructively with people from different
cultures, orientations, and perspectives and maintains positive relations in a
virtual world.
Principally motivated by a growth mindset, meaning the pursuit of knowledge,
experience, and self-improvement. You always question and continuously learn.
Authentic, honest, direct, self-aware and open to giving and receiving feedback.
Requirements
- BA/BS and 8+ years’ experience or graduate degree and 6+ years’ experience;
- Relevant work experience in a management consulting firm, bilateral or
multilateral development agency, and/or international NGO, preferably with some
experience managing projects in low- or middle-income countries;
- Strong background in Indonesian health policy, especially in the Jaminan
Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) scheme, public health, and decentralized settings;
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint required; proficiency in
statistical analysis packages (e.g. STATA) preferred;
- Demonstrated capacity to design, implement, and monitor qualitative
studies that involve various levels of government stakeholders;
- Demonstrated experience with health economics, especially in the areas of
econometrics research and the Indonesian health system
- Exceptional analytical, research and problem solving capabilities;
- A thoughtful systems thinker with grounded, pragmatic understanding of the
complexities of our work;
- Tech savvy and skilled at visual display of data;
- Demonstrated poise and professionalism in engaging with external partners,
donors, and stakeholders;
- Adept at communicating technical information to non-technical audiences;
- Knowledge of strategic purchasing concepts, primary health care, and
private sector engagement in JKN;
- Demonstrated interest and ability in growing staff, mentoring and coaching
junior professionals;
- Full fluency in Bahasa Indonesian and English;
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability
to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities
and orientations as well as across work areas;
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.
Please send the application no later than 25 November 2020For more detail
information and application please visit :
https://apply.workable.com/thinkwell/j/7FD79DDD65/Apply for this job
