Position: Capacity
Building Consultant
Type: Short Term
Consultant
Base: Jakarta with
possible travel to districts
PROJECT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
One
of poverty reduction programs in Indonesia (PNPM Urban) includes productive
microloan for poor households through community-managed revolving loan funds
(RLF). Currently, there were 10,383 urban-wards with Financial Management Unit
(UPK) operating RLF, providing service to 593,345 borrower groups (KSM) with an
estimated outreach of at least 3 million individual borrowers. The RLF activity
faces several challenges including weak capacity of UPK in management of funds
and lack of regular communication with remote destination clients leading to
poor performance of the RLF portfolio, lack of accountability and transparency
leading to some cases of misuse of funds.
The
project will use the combination of FrontlineSMS and mobile money services.
FrontlineSMS enables user to manage and receive information regarding mobile
payments, support SMS auto replies and client queries on loan/account balances,
facilitate reminders on overdue payments, and keep track of transactions. While
mobile money services (SMS banking) will make it possible for borrower groups
to repay installment using mobile phone without requiring a bank account and
internet connection.
The
arrangement will allow UPK to cut operational costs, increase geographic reach,
and automatically maintain detailed accounting records. It will also provide
easy access to borrower groups in repaying their loans and familiarize them to
banking concept.
SCOPE OF WORK
To assist the
project team in the development of training modules and curriculum for UPK RLF
activity and conduct Training of Trainer (TOT) for project consultants to
enable them to train the UPK staffs. Training modules comprise of modules on
ICT basic skills, Modified Frontline SMS application, and UPK RLF bookkeeping
application.
The consultant will
work under the direct day-to-day supervision of a Task Team Leader and task team
of the Bank and contribute to the following tasks related to the project
implementation:
- Develop curriculum and training modules for UPK to implement the new developed applications including simulation on basic ICT skill, Modified Frontline SMS application and UPK RLF bookkeeping applications, in coordination with IC IT.
- Design trainings of trainers to enable project consultants to train UPK staffs on the new developed, in coordination with IC IT.
- Design measurement indicators to measure the outcome of the training of trainers
- Design follow-up activity for monitoring and mentoring training participants
- Deliver trainings of trainers on basic ICT skill, SMS gateway and UPK RLF bookkeeping application.
- Technical Writing: Document challenges and lessons learned during the training delivery as input to modify the developed modules.
- Project Reporting: Provides input to project status reports.
- Other steps that may be considered necessary to meet the work objectives.
DELIVERABLES/SPECIFIC
OUTPUTS EXPECTED FROM CONSULTANT
- Training modules on Basic ICT skill, SMS gateway software, and UPK RLF bookkeeping
- Design for Training of Trainers on the developed modules
- Delivery of training of Trainers for UPK RLF activity
- Design and delivery of follow-up activity after delivery of the training for monitoring and mentoring UPK RLF activity
- Modification of the developed training modules and training designs
- Input to the project final report
SPECIAL TERMS & CONDITIONS /
SPECIFIC CRITERIA
The short term
consultant will be required for a period of maximum 90 days, with the following
skills and qualifications:
- Tertiary / professional education in Economic Science, Business Administration, or Accounting.
- Experience with and or solid knowledge of training designs, methods and skills required for effective delivery of training of trainers. A combination of experience in community development projects and experience in livelihood projects would be ideal.
- Familiarity with and, ideally, direct experience on capacity building for small businesses of micro finance or banking institutions
- Familiarity with RLF bookkeeping system will be desirable
- A good understanding of business process knowledge
- Fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and English is preferable
APPLICATION
CONTACT AND DETAILS TO APPLY
Applicants should
apply to aripsyaman@gmail.com not later than 19 February 2014
Materials should
include CV with recent photograph; recruiting contact (email/cell phone
number).
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Applicants must clearly list how s/he can be contacted.
