Operations Analyst

World Bank Group

Jakarta, Indonesia

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Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice:

The central contribution of the Health Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice to the World Bank’s twin goals is to enable the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC), in which all people are effectively covered by essential health services, and nobody suffers undue financial hardship as a result of illnesses! In the quest for UHC, we are building on the progress made in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals; an array of analytical and advisory services, strategic partnerships with partner institutions and other financing agencies, and an active lending portfolio.

Country Context:

The World Bank Office in Jakarta is engaged in supporting the health sector and the social security apparatus through several related financing operations- using a results-based financing instrument across the portfolio, supported by complementary technical assistance and analytics.

  • Indonesia’s Supporting Primary Health Care Reform (I-SPHERE) aims to strengthen the performance and quality of Indonesia’s primary health care nationally, with an additional focus on Eastern Indonesia. It is a US$150 million program with a focus on supporting primary care reform by improving data use and accountability, strengthening the accreditation of primary health care facilities, and enhancing performance-based financing through JKN and inter-government transfers.
  • Investing in Nutrition and Early Years (INEY) is a US$400 million multi-sectoral program supporting the Government’s program to strengthen investment in activities that delivery priority nutrition interventions for maternal and child health and nutrition services, water and sanitation, early childhood education and development, and social protection. Financing for the next phase of INEY is currently under preparation.
  • Indonesia Emergency Response to COVID-19 program is a US$ 750 million-dollar program, also supported by US$ 1 billion in co-financing from partners, that supports the Government of Indonesia in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and rolling out a national COVID-19 vaccination program. It is co-financed by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, KfW and Government of Australia.
  • Indonesia’s National Health Insurance Reforms and Results Program is a US$ 400 million-dollar program, also supported by US$ 2.33 million in co-financing from the Gates Foundation, that supports the Government of Indonesia in improving the efficiency and sustainability of the JKN program and use its influence for better quality of health services.
  •  A new US$ 300 million operation on strengthening the Strengthening National Tuberculosis Response Program is expected to commence soon.
  • The analytical work undertaken through Reforms to Strengthen UHC in Indonesia program of analytical work supports the GOI’s efforts to accelerate and sustain progress towards UHC. The program addresses systemic challenges in the health sector’s governance and accountability, financing beyond JKN, and the quality of service delivery that hinder progress to UHC. The Global Fund, Global Financing Facility, Government of Japan and the Gates Foundation co-finance this PASA and its analytical support to the operations it supports.
  • Multisectoral Nutrition program of analytical work provides analytical underpinnings and technical assistance support to implement a multisectoral convergence approach to addressing malnutrition and child development in early years. This program is supported by the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents, and by the Indonesia Human Capital Acceleration multidonor trust fund.
  • The Indonesia HNP team also supports the World Bank HNP program in Timor-Leste that is a post-conflict lower middle-income country with significant development challenges, including very high levels of stunting, and a growing portfolio of health and nutrition operations and analytical work.

Duties and Accountabilities:

The Operations Analyst will work in close collaboration with the Indonesia-Timor HNP team and will be responsible for the following:

Operational Support

  • Provide on-demand operational support to task teams on lending operations, analytical work and ensuring adherence to timelines and regional and global quality review requirements.
  • Support the preparation of and helping with compliance checks for project documents such as Concept Notes, Implementation Status and Results Reports, Project Appraisal Documents, Restructuring Papers, Aide memoires, analytical reports, and providing timely reminders and feedback to project teams.
  • Participate in designated preparation or implementation support missions, offering guidance on bank processes and contributing to mission documents.
  • Help coordinate across task team members, including across extended team members such as fiduciary and environmental, social, legal and disbursement team members.
  • Provide on-demand research and data collection and contribute to write-up of reports, proposals and briefs.
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of regional, sub-regional events (online events and/or in-person events).

Portfolio Management

  • Regularly monitor and track progress of deliveries providing actionable information for the Practice Manager, Cluster Lead and task teams for their decision making.
  • Support managing timelines and helping keep deliverables and milestones up-to-date.
  • Respond to requests for portfolio data for the Unit, working with colleagues to gather necessary information and articulate responses; lead on responses for ad-hoc information requests from internal and external parties; and review and provide inputs on corporate requests and documents, with a view to ensuring consistency in messaging across briefs and updates.
  • Support budget monitoring and reporting, including assisting with tracking budgets situation, closing dates for different funding sources, and pace of expenditures.
  • Help task teams in estimating future expenditures to enable forward planning within budget envelope, prepare budget reports and compare against plans to identify areas of over and underspending, as needed.

Coordination and Stakeholder Support

  • Support task teams in portfolio development and contribute to the quality of the HNP engagement in health and nutrition
  • Help task teams maintain effective relationships with counterpart officials, donors and technical partner agencies.
  • Support the timeliness of reporting and support the development of periodical reports for trust funds as well as other reports committed to partner agencies.

Selection Criteria

  • A Master’s degree in public health, public policy, economics, administration, management or similar fields.
  • At least 2 years of relevant work experience in a large organization including development partners and NGOs required
  • Strong team player with the ability to work independently and effectively both remotely and face-to-face.
  • Ability to treat sensitive and confidential information with a high level of discretion and care. Ability to take personal responsibility and accountability for timely response to client queries and act as liaison with different partners.
  • Ability to take personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results and has the personal organization to do so.
  • Proven ability to work both independently and in diverse teams, with minimum supervision
  • Proven analytical skills, and excellent English-language and Bahasa Indonesia written and oral communications skills.
  • Experience in international development, and experience working in a multilateral institution will be an asset. Knowledge of the preparation and supervision of World Bank projects, and/or Trust Funds, or similar experience from other multilateral development institutions is desirable.
  • Proactive and result-focused work style with strong problem-solving capabilities.

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