JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title : Program Officer
Location :
East Jakarta
Division : Program
Date : A.S.A.P.
BACKGROUND
TO THE ROLE
KARINA (Caritas Indonesia) is the
humanitarian arm of the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia based in Central
Jakarta and officially considered as a member of the Caritas Internationalist
confederation. Karina is established in 2006 with
focus on disaster management issue which is translate into 4 programs, namely
DRR, Diocesan Accompaniment, Partnership for Resiliency, and Capacity Building
for Emergency Response. KARINA (Caritas Indonesia) acts as an animator,
coordinating and facilitating body for all the 37 Dioceses incorporated under
the Bishops’ Conference of Indonesia
Emergency Response (ER)
is the mandate of Karina. The program officer will responsible for facilitation
of Diocesan caritas to implement the role and function in ER project. The facilitation role
will cover technical assistance of ER, ER capacity building, manage
emergency response team in the Karina network. He/She will manage the
transition from emergency to development activities. When there is no ER,
He/She will manage the development program to strengthen the resilience of the
target community.
REPORTING
TO
Program Coordinator
CONTRACT DURATION
The contract will be one year
with the possibility for extension
KEY REPONSIBILITIES
Under
the direct supervision of KARINA’s Program Coordinator, He/She will play as a key
role in covering all aspects related to the DRR Mainstreaming Project and DRR
Contact and Network in order to support the successful implementation of
projects.
TASKS/DUTIES
- Facilitate with dioceses regarding Project activities.
- Plan, conduct, and facilitate Institutional Project for targeted dioceses.
- Prepare materials necessary for institutional Project.
- Provide technical assistance for dioceses in Project to support the implementation of follow up actions.
- Ensure the dioceses implement their follow up actions and providing assistance as requested by the Dioceses.
- Monitor budget for Project activities.
- Prepare and review project agreements between KARINA and Dioceses for Project activities.
- Responsible to write monthly and quarterly report of Project activities in (Bahasa and English) to Program Coordinator.
- Responsible to write midterm and final analysis report of Project activities to Program Coordinator
- Ensure Project activities are aligned to any program in KARINA generally.
- Ready to deploy to emergency areas as a representative of KARINA.
- Involve in coordination meetings with Diocesan Caritas.
- As institution’s representative in any coordination forums in Indonesia.
- Facilitate sharing of information, lessons learned, and experiences for staff and Diocesan Caritas institutions.
- Facilitate sharing of information, lessons learned, experiences inter Diocesan Caritas.
- Undertake any other tasks given by the his/her supervisor and Executive Director of KARINA (Caritas Indonesia).
WORKING PRINCIPLES
1.
Deus
Caritas Est., especially second part, about organized charity action.
2.
Knowledge
of Catholic Church Structure and working mechanism
3.
Based
on KARINA and CI guiding values and principles.
4.
Working
in a team, internally with program staffs ad working team from other
institution.
5.
Good
planning and good implementation.
6.
Participatory
and communicative.
7.
Efficient,
accurate and supportive.
8.
No
corruption, accountable and responsible.
9.
Transparent
(have to appropriate with what had been spent and had been accepted, also show
supportive evidence).
10. Write Back to Office
Report (to be circulated internally by Communication Officer) after attending
meetings/conferences/workshops/trainings/events/site visits to project location
with project partners and/or donors.
REQUIREMENTS:
·
At
least 3 year experience in CMDRR and / or livelihoods at community level
·
At
least 3 years experience working with local partners on programmatic and
organizational development
·
Experience
in working within consortiums highly desirable
·
Experience
in organizational development highly desirable
·
Skills
in advisory support to partners, whilst managing partner accompaniment of
projects project
·
Excellent
skills in planning, activity implementation, networking and documentation and
reporting
·
Excellent
communication and documentation skills
·
Experience in strategic planning approaches –
including, needs assessment and project design, logical framework development,
selecting indicators, implementing monitoring plans, coordinating evaluations
and data analysis.
·
Strong working knowledge of issues related to
development and humanitarian programming especially for Emergency Response.
·
Experience in sponsorship organization.
·
Strong analytical and conceptual skills to think and
plan strategically and the ability to translate this into practical and
feasible operational program planning both in written and verbal formats.
·
Demonstrated skills in training and ER capacity development
of staff preferred/facilitation skills.
·
Knowledge of Project Cycle Management (not only
theoretically, but also experienced in the reality);
·
Demonstrated diplomacy in building relationships and
working with diverse cultures and beneficiairies and sensitive situations and
subject matter.
·
Problem-solving skills.
·
Result oriented.
·
Sensitivity to gender issues.
·
Computer proficiency in general office software
applications (i.e. MS Office).
·
Computer proficiency including deep knowledge of and
practice in statistical and data management packages.
·
Fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia: written and oral.
Application, CV and contact
details for 3 references should be submitted by e-mail to: eva@karina.or.id or sdmkarina@gmail.com at the latest 22 Feb 2014
