VACANCY – CAPACITY BUILDING MANAGER
The Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) is a French non-profit organization working in over 30 countries worldwide to provide emergency response, early recovery, and development assistance to communities in need. ACTED’s interventions seek to cover multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach that is both global and local, and adapted to each context. ACTED’s vision is to establish emergency, rehabilitation, and development. ACTED aims to guarantee the sustainability of relief interventions carried out during crises by remaining in the field after the emergency to engage in long-term support to communities in food security, health, education, economic assistance, microfinance, advocacy, and cultural promotion. ACTED’s actions are needs based and identified in a participatory manner with communities in the areas where we are present. ACTED has been active in Indonesia since April 2005, assisting those affected by the tsunami and Nias earthquake and is now working to support livelihoods, community-based disaster risk reduction, and child protection in North Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), and elsewhere.
Currently ACTED has an immediate need for qualified and experienced staff to be part of our RADKOM-DRR project in southern Belu District, NTT. ACTED, in partnership with CIS Timor, proposes to establish a community radio and provide training that will contribute to improving communication and capacity among southern Belu communities in order to improve the timeliness and nature of response to multiple coastal hazards. The intervention will also work to raise awareness of and integrate environmental management into risk reduction among communities and the government, expanding their focus and planning from simple emergency response to longer-term strategies of disaster preparedness and mitigation.
ACTED is recruiting for - a Capacity Building Manager to be based in the Betun (Belu District) project office. In order to apply, please submit (1) cover letter stating how your experience and qualifications meet the desired criteria and Terms of Reference, and (2) your Curriculum Vitae (CV) in English labeled with your name (maximum file size 200KB). Applications must be submitted by e-mail to indonesia.jobs@acted.org Applications must be submitted by e-mail to indonesia.jobs@acted.org no later than the 30th of June 2013. This position having to be filled urgently, ACTED reserves the right to proceed to the recruitment process before the deadline above mentioned. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
CAPACITY BUILDING MANAGER
Under the supervision of the Area Coordinator, The Capacity-Building Manager is responsible for the overall effective and efficient coordination and management of ACTED’s Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) capacity-building component of the RADKOM-DRR project in Belu, NTT. This component includes the establishment and/or strengthening and training of village disaster management committees in organizational development and technical areas, as well as village-based DRR activities including hazard mapping and risk analysis, disaster drills, disaster response and risk reduction planning, documentation of indigenous knowledge, and assisting village committees and authorities to develop micro-projects to reduce risk through environmental management. The Capacity-Building Manager will supervise a team of Community Mobilizers who will work directly in the project’s 33 target villages in Malaka Barat and Malaka Tengah Sub-Districts.
Professional Qualifications and Skills:
- Minimum bachelor degree in social sciences or relevant area required, masters degree desired;
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience working in community capacity-building, organizational development, community-based disaster risk management/reduction, disaster preparedness and response, or other relevant area;
- Knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia and English is compulsory;
- Experience developing and delivering community-based training at village level for at least two (2) years desired;
- Excellent understanding of how to ensure participation by women, disabled, and other vulnerable community members in community-driven development activities required;
- Experience facilitating and implementing Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) required;
- Experience conducting community vulnerability and capacity assessment and risk analysis desired;
- Experience with hazard mapping and development of Early Warning Systems desired;
- Experience implementing projects in partnership and/or consortiums with multiple organizations desired;
- Experience working for other local and/or international NGOs (especially in NTT) desired;
- Good communication skills and written/spoken fluency in English required;
- Good interpersonal skills, including patience, diplomacy, willingness to listen as well as respect for beneficiaries required;
- Experience in team management work plan development and follow up
- Excellent capacities in activities reporting (in both Bahasa Indonesia and English)
- Able to prioritize interventions and activities according to deadline and objectives
- Follow up project implementation with partners
Personal Qualities:
- Flexible and adaptable, willing to learn new skills and conform to new systems and situations;
- Honest, responsible, self-motivated and able to take initiative under minimum supervision;
- Able to give helpful directions, detailed instructions and demonstrations;
- Ability to work as part of a team in a cross cultural environment;
- Able to negotiate and to clarify expectations of both the beneficiaries and team;
- Willing to spend a considerable amount of time in the field.
