Chemonics International Inc. seeks qualified Indonesian personnel
for the USAID Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM) project in
Indonesia. Position is noted below the project background description.
Project Background:
The USAID/HELM project
was awarded to Chemonics International on November 28, 2011. Chemonics implements HELM with support from partners: the Indiana
University Alliance; JBS International Inc., Aguirre
Division; and the University of Kentucky (UKY). The five year project was
designed to support
Indonesia’s Higher Education (HE) sector in increasing its quality
and relevance through improved focus
on administration and
management capacity.
In partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) and the
Directorate General of Higher Education (DIKTI), HELM provides technical assistance, training, and additional support to strengthen
the leadership capacity and increase effectiveness in the following four core management areas:
1.
General administration and leadership
2. Financial management
3. Quality assurance
4. Collaboration
with external stakeholders
HELM works in close collaboration with DIKTI and, by Year 3, partners with 50 Indonesian Higher
Education Institutions (HEI). The project
is designed to address the USAID Education sub-intermediate
result, “increased management capacity
of Indonesian Higher Education Institutions” which contributes to the
intermediate result
“improved quality of
higher education” under the over-arching
assistance objective: “students
better prepared for success in learning and work.”
TITLE: Information Management Associate
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
The Information Management
Associate will manage the monitoring and evaluation tracking systems, ensure
data collected is relevant to project indicators, manage the e-portal regarding
content posted and regular maintenance of site. This is not a supervisory
position, but requires extensive coordination with the HELM staff.
Specific tasks:
Monitoring and Evaluation
systems
- Create tracking system(s) for all aspects of HELM information that will be collected, collated, and analyzed so HELM’s impact can be measured.
- Create a system so HELM can easily and quickly respond to monitoring and evaluation data questions. Manage this system to ensure multiple reports can be created and shared.
- Evaluate and make recommendations for improvements to established project information and data collection systems and if necessary, draft an outline for a revised M&E tracking system.
- Develop and refine procedures that integrate monitoring and evaluation efforts into regular management and technical activities.
- Ensure the data received from other HELM team members is in line with the indicators and not duplicative with other data previously collected.
- Ensure all files are clean for quality assurance of information.
Communications
- Use of web analytics to support the evaluation development and promotion of e-portal
- Ensure daily updates and maintenance of e-portal to ensure content is refreshed, accurate, and relevant to e-portal stakeholders.
Eligibility Requirements:
- B.A. /S. degree in management information systems, including: Information Technologies (Operating Systems and database management)
- Demonstrated skills in program coordination and collaboration required.
- Excellent computer skills required. Strong English preferred.
- Minimum five years of working experience in information management and associate technology involving direct database and website management.
- Experience working with USAID or other international donor experience preferred.
- Knowledge of: principles and practices of computer systems operation and support in web sites, database and networks.
- Ability to: organize the operations of an information management function, manage and coordinate the technical operations and troubleshooting for the web sites and database, organize and manage multiple priorities.
- Must communicate clearly, concisely, both orally and in writing.
Application submission
instructions:
- Interested applicants for the position above are requested to send a cover letter and resume (English) to indonesiahelm@gmail.com by February 23, 2014.
- Please list the position title in the subject line of the email.
- This position is subject to USAID approval and salary scales.
Chemonics is an Equal Opportunity
Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national
origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability, and genetic information.
No telephone inquiries, please.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Only qualified candidates
will be contacted.
