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Chemonics International Inc.
Higher Education and Leadership Management Project (HELM)
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: PROGRAM Associate
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The Program Associate will support the DCOP as s/he manages the overall
day to day HELM program activities. S/he will lead the Core Specialist teams in
planning their activities across all key areas, including Terms of Reference,
budgets, and logistics. S/he will organize across the programmatic team to
ensure that an overall HELM calendar makes sense, takes advantage of
opportunities for integration and synergies and is logically sequenced. In addition, Program
Associate will support the COP in project planning and quarterly reporting.
Specific tasks
- Planning and Coordinating
- Maintain a master calendar of program activities across the country and ensure that implementation is taking place as planned.
- Lead Core planning teams as they draft quarterly implementation plans and TORs, budgets and training methodologies. Assist the DCOP to monitor successful implementation and contact with HEI partners and make adjustments, as needed. Liaise between Core teams if opportunities for resource-sharing are identified.
- Interact with representatives across HELM in regional offices and the finance and operations departments to ensure that Core teams have required inputs and plans make sense. Report any issues to the DCOP.
- Administration and Reporting
- Work closely across all departments to ensure that the administrative and reporting elements of program activities are tracked and the objectives of the work plan are met.
- Assist the COP in creating the quarterly templates, collecting inputs from the team, and finalizing the quarterly and annual reports.
Supervision
and Reporting
The Program Associate
will be supervised by the DCOP. S/he will also work closely with COP on
reporting.
Duration of Assignment
This is a long-term, full-time position with an annual approved
level of effort of no more than 260 days for each project year. The employment
agreement will be renewed on an annual basis following a positive performance
evaluation. The HELM project began on November 28, 2011 and ends on November
30, 2016.
Job Qualifications
- Degree in education or relevant field is required, doctoral degree is preferred.
- Demonstrated skills in program coordination and collaboration required.
- Demonstrated experience monitoring activities to ensure timely implementation.
- Strong English and Bahasa Indonesia languages and report writing skills required.
- Minimum 7 years experience working in education field preferred.
- USAID or other international donor experience preferred.
- Must be organized, detail oriented, self-motivated, and able to work well in team environments.
- Must be interested in working with a multi-cultural, international team in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Application submission instructions:
- Interested applicants for the position above are requested to send a cover letter and resume (English) to indonesiahelm@gmail.com by April 20, 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.
