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USAID - IUWASH Vacancy: City Coordinator for Tebing Tinggi, based in Sumatera Utara

The Indonesia Urban Water Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) project is a sixty-month program (2011 – 2016) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented under the leadership of DAI. IUWASH works with government, the private sector, NGOs, community groups and other stakeholders to improve access to safe water supply and sanitation in Indonesia’s urban areas. The overall goal of IUWASH is to assist the Government of Indonesia (GOI) in making significant progress in achieving its safe water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by expanding access to these services.

To achieve the above, assistance provided by the project is divided under three main technical components, including: 
  1. Mobilizing demand for WatSan service delivery; 
  2. Improving and expanding capacity for WatSan service delivery; and
  3. Strengthening policy and the financial enabling environment for improved water supply and sanitation service delivery.
IUWASH will apply different approaches and interventions with its local partners, such as local Water utilities, local and national government institutions, NGOs and communities to address water, sanitation and hygiene. To achieve these objectives IUWASH need high caliber incumbent to fill the positions of

CITY COORDINATOR for Tebing Tinggi, based in North Sumatra, code (CC-TT/NSRO)

The City Coordinator will contribute to the achievement of program activities in the respective cities/districts. S/he has responsibility to build trust between the project and the local stakeholders. S/he works side by side with IUWASH partners on a daily basis and represent the front line of the project.

Her/his responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following:
  • Support in the site selection process, community/field assessment and identification of potential local partners for IUWASH to work with, including local NGOs, community groups and local government entities such as PDAM, Pokja AMPL (Dinas Kesehatan, Dinas PU, BLH, Bappeda), Puskesmas (sanitarian), Posyandu and PKK cadres
  • Assist in the identification and development of initiatives of local governments, PDAM, private sectors/SMEs and NGOs related to institutional and community-based water supply and sanitation project in urban areas
  • Support community engagement in the entire planning and installation process of new sanitation and water supply system, including microfinance
  • Provide supervision to and coordinate works with local NGOs engaged in community mobilization and/or other pilot project implementation in urban poor communities, including liaison and data collection to PDAM and local government, for example with Pokja AMPL/Sanitation
  • Provide supports for capacity building of CBOs/communities, training facilitation, horizontal training activities (cross visit and CBO networking activity), behavior change campaign and microfinance
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Possess at least a university degree; preferably in environmental engineering, public health or social science
  • At least 3 years of experience working on institutional and community-based water supply and sanitation program
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with experience in community facilitation, training and organizing work
  • Able to work independently in limited supervision/facility as well as a team player with a range of people
  • Ability to multi-task and flexibility to work on evenings and weekend on occasion and to travel as and when required within the IUWASH project area
  • Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office
  • Able to work in his/her designated areas
APPLICATION SEND
Interested applicants are invited to send a complete application with 3 references to IUWASH.recruitment@gmail.com by 2 (two) weeks from the advertisement. Please write the job CODE in the subject line of the email. We regret that we are unable to acknowledge receipt of all applications and only shortlisted candidates will be notified.