Lab Manager BGSI

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The programme contributes directly to MoH National Action Plan 2020-2024, objective 1) increasing the health status of society and; 2)increasing the responsiveness and protection to society towards social and financial risks related to health and Outcome 2 of the UNDP country Programme for Indonesia (2021-2025), which are aligned with the Indonesian Government Health Sector’s Objectives, commitment to Universal Health Coverage, SDG3 Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages (target 3.8 in particular) and other Sustainable Development Goals. One of its efforts is to be involved in supporting the transformation of health technology in the Ministro Health through Network Strengthening and the Bio Informatic Biomedical & Genome Science Initiative (BGSi).

BGSi is a new initiative of the Indonesian Ministry of Health(MOH). The initiative will act as a multi-institutional ecosystem that aims to support collaborative biomedical and genomic activities in Indonesia by leveraging strengths in technology and infrastructure including biobanking, data management, high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics.

The initiative aims to build a national asset established under the Indonesia Ministry of Health with two major focusses. First, to establish a national bio bank focused on six conditions (diabetes, cancer, stroke, tuberculosis, psoriasis, and rare/genetic diseases) which will store samples from participants where each sample will be connected to a registry that manages all information associated with the participant (demographic and clinical) and second, to generate Whole Genome Sequence information, for each of those participants, that will be curated in a national database. Samples and genomics information from healthy participants will also be collected and generated by this initiative. All samples and data will be made available to researchers nationally and internationally through BGSi.

The initiative will be organized around a headquarter facility located in Jakarta, housed in the MOH repository building and the historical Eijkman building, that will host the biobank and WGS labs respectively. BGSi HQ will manage the registry system and provide technical support for the Hubs and the entire ecosystem. A second and just as important part of the ecosystem is the hospitals (referred to as HUBs) where each HUB is in charge of managing activities related to recruitment, sample collection and tertiary analysis for the disease it has been assigned.

To support the MoH initiative, UNDP seek Lab Manager who will responsible to supervise the BGSi headquarter laboratory operations. This position, in an efficient manner, ensures the facilities within BGSi headquarter are well supplied and maintained as well as secure to implement the transformation of health technology in the Ministry of Health through Network Strengthening and the Bio Informatic Biomedical & Genome Science Initiative (BGSi).
Duties and Responsibilities

The direct supervisor of this activities is The National Technical Specialist for HEART (HEART Cluster Lead). with close coordination whit the BGSI Head as primary supervisor at the BGSI Lab. She/He will work closely with the National and International adviser, MOH, project team (HEART PMU, and other projects in HEART related to Laboratory network strengthening), operations units, and programme staffing the office to ensure successful of the program objective and adequate exchange of information.

Supervise the BGSi headquarter laboratory operations:

Design, implement, and oversee the laboratories’ quality management program
Review, monitor, and track the staff performance
Coordinate trainings for new and existing staff members of BGSi Headquarter and, if considered necessary, HUBs
Ensure compliance with national and system regulations to provide a safe operation.
Assist the Senior Consultant to expand the lab's research portfolio by helping to develop new research projects and proposals.
Establish and maintain all laboratory records in accordance with specifications.
Ensure supplies are available as required for all of the facilities in BGSi Headquarter.
Recommend measures to improve testing procedures, use of equipment, and needs for new equipment.
Monitor, analyze and justify expense and cost recovery of BGSi.
Support the preparation for the certification of BGSi genomics laboratory

The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that

Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;
Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender is respected within all implementations including data production.
Differentiated needs of women and men are considered.
Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;
Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business management

Digital Awareness and Literacy: Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skillfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed
Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making
Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results;
Information Management & Technology Solutions Architecture: Ability to design and manage an IT architecture, integrate of one or more applications or services within a coherent and effective IT architecture

2030 agenda- people

Gender: Gender mainstreaming

Information Management & Technology

Project management: Capacity to manage ICT projects, using IT methodologies and approaches such as agile deployment and/or waterfall system development methods
Research and Development: Following new technologies and technical trends, research the technologies that are applicable and beneficial to the organization and develop the systems

Required Skills and Experience
Education:

Bachelor's Degree in biology, biochemistry, microbiology or other health and science fields.
Master's Degree in biology, biochemistry, microbiology or other health and science fields is highly preferable.

Experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in clinical or research laboratory management for candidate with Bachelor’s degree and no experience required for candidate with Master’s degree
Experience in managing BioBank Lab
Experience in providing project advisory services, monitoring and evaluation
Experience working with wide range of stakeholders would be highly desirable
Experience in preparing sample DNA (pathogens or animal or human) to the analysis of whole/targeted genome sequencing using the Next Generation Sequencing devices would be highly desirable

Required skills:

Excellent analytical skill and give a good presentation and report
Good organization, management skills and able to work in a team
Ability to manage multiple projects, juggle priorities, and deliver on tight deadlines
Lead effectively with others in and across the organization to accomplish team goals

Required Languages:

English and Bahasa Indonesia