Project Overview and Role:
CATALYZE is a $250 million 5 to 8-year program, designed to catalyze $2 billion in private capital, especially to underfinanced social sectors and higher risk countries (especially low-income and post-conflict countries) around the globe, complemented by a cross-cutting inclusion of gender-lens investing. Our aim is for investors to explore and find commercially viable opportunities and approaches to creating jobs, developing sustainable social services, tightening, and rationalizing supply chains, and advancing inclusive growth.
The CATALYZE “Improved Social Protection and Economic Empowerment of Women in Asia” activity focuses on improving social protection and economic empowerment of vulnerable female workers in Asia. Through partnerships with the Government of Indonesia, notably BPJS-K, and private partners, CATALYZE will support BPJS-K to promote female informal sector workers' enrollment with and continued premium payment for Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN). CATALYZE is collaborating with BPJS-K to co-create innovative interventions with the private sector that align with current BPJS-K objectives to address challenges to JKN enrollment.
To support this ongoing collaboration and coordination between CATALYZE and BPJS-K, the project is seeking to hire a Liaison Officer on a consultancy basis to be seconded at BPJS-K Office to offer technical assistance services. The consultant will be the point of contact for the project, working closely with BPJS-K to help finalize the design of the partnership.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
The consultant will support both BPJS-K and CATALYZE. Consultant will report to CATALYZE Indonesia Team Lead based in Washington, DC. The Consultant will be supervised within the BPJS-K office by the focal points of the Research and Development Unit. The consultant will be engaged for 2-3 months from approximately 1 December 2022 to 28 February 2023 to undertake the following tasks and functions. The anticipated level of effort is up to 45 days.
The primary purpose of this role is to support the finalization of the project design process, specifically by working with BPJS-K and CATALYZE colleagues to develop the detailed operational, management, and monitoring and evaluation frameworks for the project. The project is currently co-creating this design in partnership with BPJS-K, other government entities, and the private sector. A co-creation workshop is scheduled at the start of December, and the Consultant will draw out the insights from this co-creation workshop to collaboratively develop these frameworks for the project.
This individual will provide support in the following responsibilities:
- Provide support to BPJS-K to finalize the intervention design, including implementation model and monitoring and evaluation framework, to be delivered as a word document, and in any other form required by BPJS-K for their internal use.
- Support in the program co-creation process, such as gathering or creating necessary documents, organizing and facilitating meetings with BPJS-K internal stakeholders, project design and management.
- Map out the technical capacity and assistance necessary within BPJS-K and across partners to ensure successful implementation of the project, to be delivered as a short report.
- Provide routine communication and coordination of CATALYZE activities with BPJS-K.
- Conduct other tasks as required to support BPJS-K R&D Unit in advancing the program design process.
- The Consultant will receive guidance, tools, and technical support from CATALYZE Washington DC to be able to expediently complete tasks at high quality.
With BPJS-K: Report weekly to BPJS-K supervisors with progress updates and inputs on key tasks to advance the program design process
Required Qualifications:
Key Competencies Required:
- Technical
- Good understanding of BPJS-K at central and national levels
- Demonstrated experience with health insurance, health financing or economics, monitoring and evaluation, and program design
- Partnerships
- Good networking, team building, organizational, and communication skills
- Capacity to work with various stakeholders including governments, private sectors, and civil society
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
- Communication
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with various stakeholders
- Ability to communicate effectively with and relate to people of different cultures, demonstrating an ability to see issues from other perspectives
- Excellent writing skills
The consultant is expected to possess skills and experience in the following areas:
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant working experience in health insurance, health finance and economics, particularly in social protection and health issues
- Master's degree in health financing, economics, or relevant field; PhD preferred
- Demonstrated experience in program design and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation
- Meeting and workshop facilitation experience, preferred
- Knowledge and familiarity of BPJS-K and experience with JKN health system
- Experience working with government institutions, donor agencies, and/or other multilateral or civil society organization
- Good knowledge of social protection and health policies
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English, fluency in Bahasa
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