Senior Global Health Security Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Indonesia

The role

The Senior Global Health Security (GHS) Advisor will support the U.S. Embassy Jakarta/Department of State (DOS) ECON Health Unit in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance service delivery in full alignment with the U.S. Presidential Executive Order directives. The Senior Advisor will provide technical support with special emphasis on preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats that impact public health.

What you will do

Responsibilities

Support multi-sectoral ministries in effective delivery of USG-supported life-saving GHS activities

Support relevant ministries in effective delivery of these activities, including but not limited to

Community-based active surveillance
Systems capacity for detecting priority diseases/threats
Data systems for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on outbreaks and disease threats
Infection prevention and control (IPC)
Case management, including Emergency Management and Emergency Operating Centers (EOC)
Risk Communication and Community Engagement
Emergency outbreak response
Multi-sectoral coordination.

Additional responsibilities include

Identify and map Indonesia GHS partners and stakeholders, GHS programs, roles and responsibilities, Government of Indonesia (GOI) GHS national and sub-national budget, multi-sectoral coordination gaps, and programmatic bottlenecks in alignment with national and USG priorities for effective and sustainable prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Provide technical support and actively engage in field work to implement programmatic and response interventions at national and sub-national levels.
Monitor the progress of GHS program implementation and provide recommendations for improvements in prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Assist in organizing regular discussions among GHS multi-sectoral stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment of technical approaches, avoid duplication of efforts, facilitate smooth communication, and enable timely exchange of information.
Support appropriate multi-sectoral ministries in identifying performance gaps, potential barriers and bottlenecks; provide recommendations; and facilitate consensus on targeted interventions to improve performance on key indicators attributable to:
Reduction in incidence and mortality for epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases
Strengthening systems to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats
Rapid and effective responses to infectious disease outbreaks that threaten public health
Support the integration and coherence of USG/DOS-supported and partner-led approaches, such as early detection frameworks, multi-sectoral coordination surveillance, community engagement and rapid response mechanisms, and emergency preparedness systems.
Foster coordination during outbreak preparedness and response, ensuring effective information exchange, joint situational analysis, and multi-sectoral engagement among stakeholders at national and sub-national levels.

Support the implementation and expansion of best practices in multi-sectoral GHS and outbreak response nationwide for sustainability.

Promote the dissemination of multi-sectoral GHS best practices and effective models nationwide, including:
Prioritized joint interventions in effective community-based active surveillance
Strengthening systems capacity for detecting priority diseases/threats, and data systems for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on threats
Adoption of infection prevention and control (IPC) and case management best practices
Strengthen Emergency Management, including Emergency Operating Centers (EOC)
Supporting relevant ministries to rapidly and accurately report infectious disease threats to appropriate national and international platform system—such as SIZE, the International Health Regulations (IHR), and World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS)—for quick responses to pandemic threats
Optimization of national and sub-national coordination teams (TIKORDAs) for outbreak response
Assist relevant multi-sectoral ministries in emergency outbreak responses as needed.
Assist relevant multi-sectoral ministries in achieving GHS-related targets, including the Joint External Evaluation (JEE); IHR States Parties Self-Assessment (SPAR); and the Pandemic Fund Framework, which includes reporting on the 7-1-7 target (7 days to detect, 1 day to report, 7 days to complete the initial response).
Assist and provide information to U.S. Embassy Jakarta/DOS in preparing U.S. Government workplans and reports and drafting reports/presentations to fulfill GOI GHS reporting requirements.

Support relevant Ministries in effective utilization of USG-supported GHS grants and other emergency outbreak responses efforts

Provide technical support to the implementation of USG-supported GHS lifesaving and bilateral cooperation efforts to ensure effective grant implementation, alignment of donor resources, and avoidance of duplication with other GHS-funded projects.
Consult relevant stakeholders on required technical assistance.
Develop monitoring plans and assist in monitoring the progress of USG grant implementation.
Build targeted program monitoring and evaluation capacities of relevant ministries staff.
Support the development and review of performance reports of GHS lifesaving activities and other emergency outbreak response efforts.
Organize regular discussions among the relevant GHS multi-sectoral stakeholders, ministries, U.S. Embassy Jakarta/DOS, and other donors to ensure alignment of technical approaches in the respective GHS portfolios.
Support multi-sectoral emergency outbreak response, including assisting with mobilizing resources, coordination of efforts, deploying field epidemiology teams (FETP/public health and FETPV/veterinarians), and technical support for multi-sectoral efforts to contain and respond to outbreaks.

Senior Global Health Security Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Indonesia

The role

Senior Global Health Security Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Indonesia

The role

What you will do

Responsibilities

Support relevant ministries in effective delivery of these activities, including but not limited to

Additional responsibilities include

What you need

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