Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia

Reducing Poverty through Economic Growth

Health & Nutrition Training Specialist

The Government of the Indonesia (GOI) and the United States Government (USG), through
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), have agreed on a five-year Compact Program.
The Millennium Challenge Account Indonesia (MCA-Indonesia) is an entity established to
implement the Compact. Our goal is to reduce poverty through economic growth by
implementing Green Prosperity, Community-based Health and Nutrition, and Procurement
Modernization projects.
Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project.
GoI, with the support of MCC, is undertaking a new initiative to eradicate stunting among
children under two years of age by implementing the Community-Based Health and
Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project. The project objectives are to prevent low birth
weight babies; to prevent childhood stunting; to prevent malnourishment of children and
women in project areas; and to increase household income through cost savings, improved
productivity, growth, and higher lifetime savings. The project has three activities as
defined in the compact:
1. Demand Side Activity: Community block grants and participatory technical
assistance to communities through an expansion of the Program Nasional Pemberdayaan
Masyarakat Generasi Sehat dan Cerdas or the National Community Empowerment
Program, Healthy and Smart Generation (PNPM GSC or PNPM Generasi) to new locations;
2. Supply Side Activity: Training to service providers, sanitation and hygiene
activities, provision of multiple micronutrient supplements for pregnant women and
children aged 6 24 months, materials to measure childrens height, service-provider
incentives, and possible private sector interventions; and
3. Communications, Project Management and Evaluation Activity: This activity
includes work to develop and implement a National Nutrition Communications
Campaigna national effort aimed at increasing awareness about childhood stunting, its
causes, its consequences, and its prevention, including a focus on healthy families that
emphasizes shared decision making between women and men within the household.
The project will be implemented in 11 provinces, i.e : West and East Java, West and East
Nusa Tenggara, Gorontalo, Maluku, North and West Sulawesi, West and Central Kalimantan,
and South Sumatra. Further information about this project may be found at MCA-Indonesia
website (www.mca-indonesia.go.id).

MCAIndonesia is looking for a qualified and dynamic
Health & Nutrition Training Specialist

Position Objective
The Health and Nutrition Training Specialist will support the Health & Nutrition (HN)
Project Director and the team for:
Day-to-day implementation of the project in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the Indonesia Compact Program.
Ensuring the successful completion of the project activities and achievement of the
project objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities
Provide support to the Director of HN Project, namely:
1. Develop work plan and budget estimation for the trainings activities, including
quarterly budget for training implementation, based on the training and budget plan
proposed by District and Province through the Ministry of Health (MoH).
2. Conduct coordination with the MoH and the National Secretariat Team (NST) in:
a. Making available the design of Maternal Infant and Young Children Feeding
(MIYCF) training modules which will be carried out by the Project for health
service providers and Posyandu Cadres
b. Making available the design of Growth Monitoring training modules which
will be carried out by the Project for health service providers.
c. Making available the design of Sanitation Triggering training modules which
will be carried out by the Project for health service providers and Village
Cadres
d. Making available the design of Facilitator Training modules which will be
carried out by the Project for Project Province and District Consultants.
e. Developing training module distribution plan and ensuring that trainings
modules distributed as planned.
3. Coordinate with Training Specialist of NST and Provincial Training Specialist in
preparing and organizing training implementation that will be conducted by the Project
4. Conduct monitoring and ensure that all training activities are implemented properly;
and assist in collecting data for all indicators related to the training activities as agreed
in the M&E Plan.
5. Evaluate training implementation and provide feedback to MCA-Indonesia and to MoH.
6. Conduct complaint handling of technical issues that arise related to the
implementation of the Project, especially related to training activities
7. Coordinate with similar trainings activities, funded by GOI budget and/or with other
donor agencies.
8. Coordinate with local governments in the training preparation, implementation, and
reporting
9. Prepare incidental reports, monthly reports, quarterly reports, annual reports, and
final reports of training activities.

Requirement
1. Education, experience and technical competencies:
Masters degree in Public Health or Nutrition and must have at least 7 years of
professional work experience in public health or nutrition project, and at least 4
years in health or nutrition training.
Has work experience in developing health or nutrition training modules,
implementing, monitoring, and evaluating HN Training.
Has experience in working and/or liaising with the communities and various
partners, institutions. Has experience in working with local government & agencies,
MoH, UNICEF, World Bank etc.
Good command in Bahasa Indonesia and English (speaking and writing).
Strong information & technology skills in word processing and other relevant Office
applications or software packages.


2. Personal attributes and competencies:
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and demonstrated ability to
effectively interact and collaborate with people/stakeholders in multidisciplinary
teams as well as to work across departments, divisions, and institutions.
Good in personal organization, planning and priority setting. Has good initiative,
focused and result oriented.
Strong attention to detail and to maintaining a high quality standard.
An effective team-player and has excellent coordination skills.
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and to take initiative, and has high
integrity and the ability to exercise good judgment.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit their cover letter and curriculum vitae by
email to hrd@mca-indonesia.go.id as soon as possible. Interview of the candidates will
begin in February 2014 and this position remains open until filled.