Job Opportunity: Assistant – Public Health

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Assistant – Public Health 

Sangga Bumi Lestari is an Indonesian non-profit sustainability research, strategy, and implementation organisation that protects and restores ecosystems, improves livelihoods, and strengthens governance. We implement projects to increase community and civil society involvement in the management of forest areas, encourage corporate companies to operate forestry and agricultural concessions according to key sustainability criteria, and facilitate government support for sustainable development goals. We have enhanced protection of some of West Kalimantan’s key wildlife habitats through facilitating multi-stakeholder collaborations and demonstrating that well-managed forest areas can enhance community livelihoods and contribute to district level development goals. 

Sangga Bumi Lestari implements projects from offices in Jakarta, Ketapang, Pontianak, and Kapuas Hulu. Our current projects focus on five key areas: 

• Land use change analysis to identify sustainability issues and communicate externally via articles and reports, workshops, and webinars.  

• Direct engagement to encourage sector transformation and develop collaborative strategies to improve sustainability commitments of concessions. We also engage relevant government departments to support these private sector’s initiatives.  

• Supporting the government’s social forestry policy, focused on the province of West Kalimantan. We focus on supporting communities obtain social forestry designations, encouraging district government support for the policy, and developing strategies to increase village development and the welfare of local communities operating social forestry permits.  

• Developing wildlife corridors to connect existing forest areas and recover degraded habitats, including conducting biodiversity and vegetation surveys, data analysis, education and outreach, reforestation, and stakeholder engagement. 

• Flood prevention in rural and urban areas. Including mapping of watersheds, land-use change analysis, hydrological modelling, stakeholder engagement, the development and trial of suitable mitigation strategies, training, and implementation.  

Role

This position will support Sangga Health programme on coordinating and delivering community health training to communities in Kapuas Hulu. The key activities include: 

• Develop and implement training for villagers in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) methodology, to reduce disease risk in settlement areas.  

• Develop and implement training for villagers in WASH methodology, to reduce disease risk in livestock farming areas.  

• Develop and implement training for villagers in zoonotic disease prevention, focused on rabies, Nipah virus and mosquito-borne diseases. 

• Work with Kadres from Pos Pelayanan Terpadu (Posyandu) to develop bespoke training modules and enhance their capacity to provide dietary advice to pre-and-post partem women to increase protein intake. 

• Support the local Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat (Puskesmas) to improve their data collection methods and enhance the public health-related service they offer.  

• Develop collaborative relationships with the Department of Health and other health departments. 

Required Qualifications 

• A bachelor’s degree in public health or a public health-related discipline. 

• The role would suit a recent graduate as the candidate will work with a wider team in Kapuas Hulu that will support training and engaging with government and landscape stakeholders, so technical expertise is most important. . 

Please contact:

Interested candidates should send a CV to hr@sanggabumilestari.org and Juanisa Andiani (nisa@sanggabumilestari.org) with the subject line ‘Public Health Assistant-Surname’. Please send your applications before the 14th of November 2025.