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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life, as envisaged by 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are on the ground in more than 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges to help empower lives and build resilient nations. The United Nations Development Programme UNDP Indonesia Country Programme 2016-2020 developed in partnership with the Indonesian Government addresses the unfinished business of the Millennium Development Goals and support national efforts to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

The programme contributes directly to MoH National Action Plan 2015-2019, 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 (2016-2020), 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 Ministry of 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 biobank 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 is organized around a central facility in Jakarta, housed in the MOH repository building and the historical Eijkman building, which host the biobank and WGS labs respectively. BGSi HQ oversees the registry system and provides technical support for the entire ecosystem, including various hospitals, referred to as HUBs. Each HUB manages recruitment, sample collection, sequencing, and genomic tertiary analysis for specific diseases. The WGS labs at BGSi HQ primarily perform wet lab activities related to high-throughput sequencing. In addition, the dry lab at BGSi HQ focuses on the computational and analytical tasks essential for genomic data management, interpretation, and collaboration.

Therefore, UNDP needs 1 Technical Officer Bioinformatics who will be responsible to supporting and assisting on genomic data analysis, data processing pipelines, databases, and research projects collaboration.

• Data Processing and Analysis: Perform quality control, preprocessing, and analysis of high-throughput genomic data (e.g., whole-genome sequencing, RNA-seq). This involves using bioinformatics tools and software to clean, align, and interpret raw sequencing data.
• Pipeline Development and Assist Maintenance in developing, optimizing, and maintaining bioinformatics pipelines for data processing and analysis. This includes scripting in languages such as Python or R and using workflow management systems to ensure reproducibility and efficiency.
• Database Management: Perform the management and curation of genomic databases, ensuring data integrity, accuracy, and accessibility. Regularly update the database with new data and ensure proper documentation and metadata annotation
• Collaborative Research and Reporting: Work closely with researchers and other team members to support various genomic projects. This involves generating detailed reports, visualizations, and presentations of findings, as well as troubleshooting and providing technical support for bioinformatics-related issues.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively:
• LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business Direction & Strategy

• Effective Decision Making: Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority area of expertise and resources

Business Development

• Collective Intelligence Design: Ability to bringing together diverse groups of people, data, information or ideas, and technology to design services or solutions

Business Management

• Results-based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results
• Project management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
• 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

2030 Agenda: People

• Gender: Gender Issues & Analysis

• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.