The USAID Jalin Project (hereafter referred to as “Jalin” or the “Project”) is a five-year initiative implemented by DAI Global, LLC and its consortium of partners – IntraHealth, Vital Strategies, and Market Share Associates. The overall goal of Jalin is to contribute to national goals to accelerate maternal and newborn mortality reduction. Indonesia has these national goals, and they have been recently reconfirmed at Presidential level, because the maternal and neonatal mortality rates are among the highest in the region, they are far above the Sustainable Development Goals targets; and they have stagnated in recent years. The overarching problem that Jalin is striving to solve is: the quality of care accessible to mothers and newborns is uneven across the country as seen in both public and private facilities at both primary and secondary levels of care.
USAID Jalin aims to contribute to national goals to reduce maternal and newborn mortality through improvements in maternal and newborn health (MNH) quality of care in public and private, primary and secondary facilities at scale; and through improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency referral systems at community and facility level at scale. To achieve these high-level results, Jalin will be working to support: a) sustained improvements in practice by clinical hospital teams in treating obstetric and newborn complications; b) stakeholder strategies that are more focused on the main causes of maternal and neonatal death; c) sustained improvements in quality of care by private midwives; d) integrated ICT referral platforms that are scaled; and e) improved referral networks that are scaled.
The Technical Lead will work with IntraHealth International, a sub partner to DAI on Jalin, and be based in Jakarta at the Jalin office. S/he works closely with all Jalin staff to oversee and contribute to activity implementation and effectively communicate Jalin approaches, activities, outputs, and impacts with USAID, the Government of Indonesia, and other audiences. This person will report directly to the Portfolio Manager for day-to-day technical supervision.
The Technical Lead is responsible for managing, monitoring, and reporting on the progress of IR 3 – sustained improvements in quality of care by private midwives with particular attention on IR 3.1 reviving and strengthening Bidan Delima as part of the Jalin Results Framework (RF). The Technical Lead will work with Jalin staff and external stakeholders including Ikatan Bidan Indonesia (IBI) to strengthen quality of care provided by midwives to mothers and newborns, with special attention to strengthening Bidan Delima in Jalin provinces through mentoring and certification of private midwives. The Technical Lead will identify technical assistance (TA) needs for activity implementation and collaborate with the IR 3 Lead for efficient work planning, financial management, procurement and activity monitoring/reporting.
Specific responsibilities of the Technical Lead include, but are not limited to:
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