Senior Global Health Security Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Indonesia

About the role

The Senior Global Health Security (GHS) Advisor supports the U.S. Embassy Jakarta/Department of State (DOS) ECON Health Unit in delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance. The position focuses on preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats impacting public health.

Responsibilities

• Support multi-sectoral Indonesian Government Departments and Agencies in adopting and implementing life-saving interventions focused on infectious disease threats, including zoonotic diseases.
• 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.
• Facilitate the implementation of programmatic and response interventions at national and sub-national levels, monitor progress, and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Organize 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 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.
• 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.
• Assist relevant ministries in achieving GHS-related targets, including the Joint External Evaluation (JEE), IHR States Parties Self-Assessment (SPAR), and the Pandemic Fund Framework.
• 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.
• Assist relevant multi-sectoral ministries in emergency outbreak responses as needed.
• Assist relevant multi-sectoral ministries in utilizing USG-supported GHS grants and other emergency outbreak responses efforts effectively.
• 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, coordinating efforts, deploying field epidemiology teams (FETP/public health and FETPV/veterinarians), and technical support for multi-sectoral efforts to contain and respond to outbreaks.
• Participate in regular coordination meetings and calls with GHS multi-sectoral stakeholders, U.S. Embassy Jakarta/DOS ECON Health team to review progress, discuss activities, and address emerging issues.
• Provide information and be available for calls and meetings with the U.S. Embassy Jakarta/DOS as requested.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in Public Health, Epidemiology, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Health, Health Policy, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in global health security, public health emergency preparedness and response, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience working with government ministries and international partners on multisectoral health security initiatives.
• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and evaluating surveillance systems for human, animal, and environmental health, including community-based surveillance.
• Experience supporting or leading cross-sectoral initiatives and multisectoral coordination platforms.
• Experience in outbreak investigation, emergency response, and management of public health emergencies.
• Experience with relevant global health security frameworks.
• Experience in grant writing, donor reporting, and resource mobilization (e.g., Pandemic Fund, Global Fund, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory systems, and infection prevention and control (IPC).
• Familiarity with digital health tools, data management, and information systems for surveillance and reporting.
• Ability to develop and deliver training and capacity-building programs for diverse audiences.
• Strong analytical, monitoring, and evaluation skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and advocacy skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Familiarity with US Government programming and reporting requirements is highly desirable.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia.