ChildFund is an international child focused development agency working
in 33 countries to create lasting and meaningful change in the lives of
more than 10.5 million vulnerable, deprived and excluded children,
families and communities, regardless of race, creed, gender or national
origin. In Indonesia ChildFund has been operating for 34 years since
1973, in areas where the need is the greatest and currently reaches out
to 900,000 children and family members in partnership with 50 local NGOs
spread across 8 provinces. For more information please visit
www.childfund.org
ChildFund Indonesia is currently seeking:
Position : Technical Specialist: Early Childhood Development (Position Code: TS-ECD)
Reporting to : Program Director
Based in : Jakarta
Functional Summary
The Technical Specialist – Early Childhood Development reports to the Program Director and is responsible for providing technical guidance on early childhood development issues. This includes designing new interventions, preparing program guidelines, monitoring program quality, documenting promising practices and reporting. This also includes facilitating learning and capacity building through internal and external resources to support projects designed on ECD.
The Early Childhood Technical Specialist – will be part of ChildFund’s internal team of experts on specific age-groups that ensure overall program quality and incorporation of best practices as relevant to ChildFund Indonesia.
Key Responsibilities
ChildFund Indonesia is currently seeking:
Position : Technical Specialist: Early Childhood Development (Position Code: TS-ECD)
Reporting to : Program Director
Based in : Jakarta
Functional Summary
The Technical Specialist – Early Childhood Development reports to the Program Director and is responsible for providing technical guidance on early childhood development issues. This includes designing new interventions, preparing program guidelines, monitoring program quality, documenting promising practices and reporting. This also includes facilitating learning and capacity building through internal and external resources to support projects designed on ECD.
The Early Childhood Technical Specialist – will be part of ChildFund’s internal team of experts on specific age-groups that ensure overall program quality and incorporation of best practices as relevant to ChildFund Indonesia.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the core ECD group for the country team.
- Carrying out an assessment of the current life stage 1 portfolio. This involves mapping current ECD interventions to identify areas of strengths/gaps based on the core outcomes that ChildFund proposes to achieve.
- Designing and developing the National Office’s “Niche Core Program” (NCP) inline with the Theory of Change (ToC) with support from the International/Regional Office. This includes developing the learning agenda and NCP support materials and tools for the NCP toolkit that will be applied in ChildFund working area.
- Providing technical input to the development of ChildFund Indonesia’s ‘Advocacy and Visibility’ Plan and the ‘Communication and Public Engagement’ Strategy
- Leading the rollout of the NCP program to partners/program/sponsorship teams and local stakeholders on NCP/ECD/life stage 1.
- Assuring the NCP program is implemented as planned within the local environment.
- Documenting NCP/life stage 1 experiences and best practices to share globally within the region and nationally.
- Supporting the M&E specialist design appropriate standards and quality checklist for MCH/ECD
- Building the capacity of field offices and partners to implement high quality programming in the field
- Identifying funding opportunities and providing technical support to proposal development at all levels of the organization as requested
- Representing the National Office in relevant networks, public speaking, legislative advocacy events, donor contract
- Providing timely reporting as required by Regional Office/International Office/National Office and grant requirements etc
- Providing technical assistance to the field and assesses the effectiveness of the interventions in the attainment of ChildFund Indonesia’s core outcomes.
- Serving as a liaison in providing information to regional countries within NCP
- Willingness to travel nationally and internationally as well as to remote areas
Qualifications and experience
- At least 5-10 years of providing technical assistance in the programs for ECD. Having experience in early childhood health, development and nutrition, would be a value added.
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia
- Strong computer skills
- An MA or PhD in Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Developmental Psychology, Human Development, Family Studies, Nutrition from a reputable university of institution
This position is offered following Indonesia national remuneration.
ChildFund requires electronic lodgment of applications.
ChildFund requires electronic lodgment of applications.
Please send by email your resume or CV & include Job Title & Position Code in the email subject field. Any enquiries should be directed by email to: recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org
Deadline for lodging applications: 21 February 2013
