Governance Specialist - The Partnership to Accelerate Stunting Reduction in Indonesia (PASTI) Project - Papua

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

To provide overall technical supports in health governance at sub national levels, not limited to policy advocacy but also including campaign, social accountability, partnering, stakeholder’s engagement and mobilizing public and private financing in reaching decreasing stunting. This position will support Stunting coalition or stunting working group to reach district-wide or provincial-wide redaction in stunting rate in partnership with national or local stakeholders. This position will support WVI in reaching its strategy to reach 1 million MVC by supporting reduction in stunting Program.

Strategy Development & Planning

• Develop advocacy and external engagement strategy, policy, guidelines, and program aligned with stunting reduction and health program strategies. 
• Identify, review & recommend strategic advocacy and external engagement issues driven by our grass-root works.  
• Support sub national negotiation with other departments related to stunting reduction-health governance with suitable approach for local to national contexts.  
• Support sub national efforts in developing stunting reduction action plans, policies, guidelines and partnerships.
• Focal person to support strategi on reduction of stunting rate: community & government engagement and local partnership

Resource Acquisition & Management

• Support new initiatives, funding opportunities and proposal development related to stunting reduction governance.
• Utilize data to describe trends in risk factors for high rate of stunting among key population groups and most vulnerable children
• Provide budgeting framework for stunting reduction advocacy activities

Capacity Building/ Technical Works

• Facilitate capacity building for staff and stakeholders on Stunting reduction governance
• Provide technical support to implement stunting reduction governance activities at the sub national levels.
• Support program team in developing policies, guidelines, agreements and partnering scheme related to stunting reduction

·        Promote ongoing reflection and learning among staff and partners

 

Accountability & Quality Assurance

• Provide quality information related to Stunting reduction governance to support program implementation.
• Support collecting learnings, experiences, documents on Stunting reduction governance to continuously improve Stunting programming and implementation
• Support sharing governance learnings across partnership
• Provide quality report on Stunting Reduction governance and support program team in meeting global standards.

Networking and Coordination

• Build and maintain strong and regular external engagement with organisation, actors or stakeholders at sub national levels that focused on stunting reduction.
• Ensure multi-sectoral integration, alignment to safeguarding of program activities and faith & development integration.
• Represent WVI’s HEALTH sector to external audiences to increase technical branding and generate resource development opportunities.
• Identify advocacy issues and support WVIDN’s and Partnership advocacy initiatives for improved stunting reduction at local levels.
• Support stunting reduction coordination and advocacy activities with stakeholders in reaching decreasing stunting rate at district level
• Build new partnership and technical agreement to support stunting reduction  activities at national and sub national levels.

 

Management & Leadership

• Develop and manage annual performance agreement
• Submits periodical/ monthly accomplishment report. 
• Build and maintain positive spirit of working in team with other staff in respective unit and department.
• Provide Christian value and support to enrich the organization's life, faith, Christian commitments and ministry to the disadvantaged children and communities we seek to serve.
• Be a role model and inspiration in managing work, communication and relationship with internal staff and external parties.
• Manage all risks related to governance activities according to organization policies, guidelines, and standard. This includes risks in fraud, safeguarding, and other related risks. 

Requirement

• Preferably Master's degree in Public Policy, International Development, Social Works, Law, Public Health, Environmental Health, Geography, or other relevant degree. 
• A minimum of 3 years’ progressive experience in governance across various contexts including in emergency responses.
• Experience working in community development/TD works, and in implementing various advocacy approaches including citizen voice and action would be an advantage.
• Experience in producing written materials for advocacy purposes including developing high level policies and papers.
• Bahasa Indonesia (native), Proficiency in English language skills, both written and spoken (equal min. 500 TOEFL)
• Travel 25 - 35%
• Ability to effectively transfer information to various audiences through trainings, workshops, meetings, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing and formal communication
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office
• Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to work with a wide range of people from different backgrounds
• High integrity, reliability and dependability
• Training or certification in governance related is a plus
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills.

Safeguarding Policy

WVI implements a Safeguarding Policy as a form of our commitment to protect children and adult beneficiaries. WVI has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with WVI work and WVI also participates in the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS).

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