Overview
The Health Officer will support the coordination, oversight, and strategic management of a KOICA-funded programme focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Papua. The role involves ensuring effective programme implementation, facilitating coordination among stakeholders, and monitoring progress against planned results.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee programme implementation, monitoring progress across all components, provinces, districts, facilities, and communities.
- Support results-based management by tracking programme performance and monitoring key indicators.
- Assist in organizing regular internal and external review meetings, implementation monitoring visits, and donor consultations.
- Track implementation bottlenecks and delays, facilitate problem-solving, and ensure follow-up actions.
- Monitor expenditure, utilization rates, donor allocations, budget revisions, and financial forecasts.
- Contribute to the preparation of high-quality programme reports, donor reports, management updates, and other reporting requirements.
- Coordinate implementation of activities related to health workforce development, maternal and neonatal referral systems, facility strengthening, community engagement, health governance, planning and financing, and health-seeking behaviour interventions.
- Monitor implementation quality and adherence to approved technical approaches, workplans, and monitoring frameworks.
- Establish systems for documentation of lessons learned, best practices, innovations, and programme evidence.
- Coordinate donor missions, external reviews, evaluations, audits, and field visits.
- Contribute to the development of communication products, programme updates, advocacy materials, and visibility activities.
- Support communication and information exchange with KOICA and other stakeholders.
- Support effective working relationships with government counterparts and other key stakeholders.
- Promote effective collaboration among government institutions, development partners, implementing partners, professional associations, academia, and civil society organizations.
Required Experience
- Minimum two (2) years of progressively responsible professional experience in programme management, health systems strengthening, maternal and newborn health, international development, or related sectors.
- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, multi-year, multi-stakeholder development programmes.
- Proven experience in donor-funded programme management, including oversight of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, reporting, and risk management.
- Experience engaging with government counterparts at national and subnational levels.
- Experience preparing high-quality donor reports, strategic documents, briefing materials, and management presentations.
Qualifications
Medical doctor or hold a bachelor’s degree in public health, hospital management, epidemiology, health policy, health administration, international development, health economics or another related discipline.
