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Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice: The central contribution of the Health Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice to the World Bank’s twin goals is to enable the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC), in which all people are effectively covered by essential health services, and nobody suffers undue financial hardship as a result of illnesses. In the quest for UHC, we are building on the progress made in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals; an array of analytical and advisory services, strategic partnerships with partner institutions and other financing agencies, and an active lending portfolio. 
Country Context:
Despite improvements in economic growth, poverty, and maternal and child health outcomes, Indonesia has some of the most troubling nutrition statistics globally, with a high double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition. One out of every four children in Indonesia, or over 24 percent, are stunted. Progress also needs to be made towards achieving the target of reducing anemia among women of reproductive age, with 31.2% of women aged 15 to 49 years now affected.  Furthermore, the prevalence of overweight children under 5 years of age is 8 percent. Malnutrition costs Indonesia more than US $5 billion annually due to lost productivity as the result of poor education attainment and diminished physical capability. Indonesia has adopted a National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (2018–2021) (StraNas Stunting) which uses a framework adapted from the Lancet Global Health Commission’s report on High Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goals Era. The strategy recognizes the importance of embracing a system-wide approach to deliver high quality nutrition interventions to accelerate the achievement of key nutrition targets. Though government guidelines, standards, and training have helped improve nutrition services, there continues to be considerable variation in service quality and coverage across districts, and between urban and rural areas. Indonesia recognizes malnutrition as a multisectoral issue that is not the “problem” of the health sector alone. However, many of the high-impact health interventions known to improve nutrition outcomes for children are not being implemented at scale in Indonesia, calling for a higher quality health system to produce better nutrition outcomes.  The Indonesia Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) team in the Jakarta office is engaged in supporting the health sector and the social security apparatus through several related financing operations- using a results-based financing instrument across the portfolio, supported by complementary technical assistance and analytics. (a) Indonesia’s Supporting Primary Health Care Reform (I-SPHERE) aims to strengthen the performance and quality of Indonesia’s primary health care nationally, with an additional focus on Eastern Indonesia. It is a US$150 million program with a focus on supporting primary care reform by improving data use and accountability, strengthening the accreditation of primary health care facilities, and enhancing performance-based financing through the national health insurance scheme, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), and inter-government transfers.  (b) Investing in Nutrition and Early Years (INEY) is a US$400 million multi-sectoral program supporting the Government’s program to strengthen investment in activities that delivery priority nutrition interventions for maternal and child health and nutrition services, water and sanitation, early childhood education and development, and social protection. Financing for the next phase of INEY is currently under preparation. (c) Indonesia Emergency Response to COVID-19 program is a US$ 750 million-dollar program, also supported by US$ 1 billion in co-financing from partners, that supports the Government of Indonesia in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and rolling out a national COVID-19 vaccination program. It is co-financed by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, KfW and Government of Australia. (d) Indonesia’s National Health Insurance Reforms and Results Program is a US$ 400 million-dollar program, also supported by US$ 2.33 million in co-financing from the Gates Foundation, that supports the Government of Indonesia in improving the efficiency and sustainability of the JKN program and use its influence for better quality of health services. (e) A new operation on strengthening the National Tuberculosis Program is currently in final stages of preparation. Another operation on Innovations in Health Service Delivery will be commencing preparation in 2022 and is aimed for approval in late 2023. (f) The analytical work undertaken through Reforms to Strengthen UHC in Indonesia program of analytical work supports the GOI’s efforts to accelerate and sustain progress towards UHC. The program addresses systemic challenges in the health sector’s governance and accountability, financing beyond JKN, and the quality of service delivery that hinder progress to UHC. The Global Fund, Global Financing Facility, Government of Japan and the Gates Foundation co-finance this PASA and its analytical support to the operations it supports. (g) Multisectoral Nutrition program of analytical work provides analytical underpinnings and technical assistance support to implement a multisectoral convergence approach to addressing malnutrition and child development in early years. This program is supported by the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, and by the Indonesia Human Capital Accelerator multidonor trust fund. The Indonesia HNP team also supports the World Bank HNP program in Timor Leste that is a post-conflict lower middle-income country with significant development challenges, including very high levels of stunting, and a growing portfolio of health and nutrition operations and analytical work.
Duties and Accountabilities:
The Nutrition Specialist will join the Indonesia based HNP team and will be responsible for the following: • Provide technical inputs to contribute to the HNP engagement in health and nutrition in Indonesia, including a special focus on maternal and child health (MCH) and nutrition services and nutrition sensitive interventions.• Support implementation of the Bank’s HNP operational portfolio in Indonesia and potentially Timor-Leste, as requested. Provide operational support to selected country teams on project preparation and supervision, including contributing to mission preparation and discussion, drafting of project-related documents and communication (aide memoires, management letters, routine communication with the project implementing teams), provide technical input, support periodic project reviews, support project related M&E, etc.). • Support tasks teams in the preparation, design and implementation of MCH and nutrition focused analytical and advisory services. • Provide ongonig contributions to the maternal and child health and nutrition policy dialogue with the Governments and other development partners. • Provide written health and nutrition inputs to operational products/documents  Systematic Country Diagnostics and Country Partnership Framework, sector/country briefints, sector analyses and background reports, portfolio performance reviews) • Cultivate and maintain effective relationships with country officials, and partner agencies. Maintain strong partnerships and team spirit with Task Teams.• Promote and seek opportunities for the Task Teams to work in collaboration with other global practices on innovative initiatives of mutual interest and of synergistic value to the country program to support multi-sectoral approaches for improving health and nutrition outcomes.• Initiate and lead preparation of just-in-time nutrition policy briefs and reports to meet demand from within the WBG, or from Governments, and provide nutrition technical contribution in drafting annual and mid-term reports. • Earn credibility with clients on the basis of intellectual rigor, a capacity to apply principles to specific challenges with tact, and willingness to learn and adapt in each context.

 

Selection Criteria

• An advanced degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Community Medicine, Economics, or related Social Sciences, and at least 5 years of relevant experience. 
• Strong track record in leading the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of MCH and nutrition projects in Indonesia.  Hands on experience in Implementing MCH and nutrition projects as part of health sector or other sector investments in Indonesia is desirable.
• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing Results-based financing mechanisms will be an asset.
• Knowledge of the preparation and supervision of IDA/IBRD-funded projects, and/or Trust Funds, or similar experience from other multilateral development institutions is desirable.
• Proven analytical skills, and excellent English-language and Bahasa Indonesia written and oral communications skills. 
• Experience in international development, and experience working in a multilateral institution will be an asset.
• Strong diplomatic and client-engagement skills, and proven success working both as a team member and as a team leader will be an asset.
• Proactive and result-focused work style with strong problem-solving capabilities.


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