PROJECT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
The National Program for Community Empowerment (PNPM) Peduli—a
program funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(DFAT)—is expected to improve social inclusion across Indonesia by increasing
access to services, choices, and human rights for those who have been
marginalized. The program is designed to improve people’s access to public
services (health, education, legal, administration, and financial), to
employment opportunities, and to participation in broader community processes.
PNPM Peduli is also expected to improve social relations between marginalized
people and broader community members, as well as to improve social inclusion
policies and regulations issued by the national and local governments.
PNPM
Peduli will support social inclusion for marginalized people in six specific
sub-populations over the next 2.5 years, namely: (1) Vulnerable children/youth;
(2) Traditional people, indigenous people in remote areas, and forest-dependent
people; (3) Religious minorities; (4) Victims of gross human rights abuses in
1965 and 1998; (5) People living with disabilities; (6) Waria. The managing
partner is The Asia Foundation (TAF) which will achieve its objective by
working directly with a team of six (6) Executing Organizations (EOs)—one per
sub-population—and about 70 civil society organizations (CSOs) that will
receive grants from EOs to conduct their work promoting social inclusion.
The
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist will be part of TAF’s team
managing support to civil society organizations (CSOs) under PNPM Peduli. This
is a two-year management position coordinating positive impacts on some of
Indonesia’s most challenging development issues. The Specialist will work
within TAF and with technical support from Farsight. The expected start date is
in September 2014 and the end date is in December 2016.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Specialist will join a team from Farsight helping TAF manage
support to CSOs. In collaboration with this stakeholder network, the Specialist
will be responsible for:
- Taking responsibility for delivering the MEL plan, including mentoring for program partners, reporting on progress and achieving the challenge of designing methods to measure social change.
- Overseeing the development and implementation of baseline and endline surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, a mid-term review and impact assessment of PNPM Peduli.
- Supervising the overall Management Information System (MIS), as well as strengthening the capacity of partner CSOs in participatory monitoring and evaluation systems, including data collection, analysis, reporting and using knowledge for policy development.
- Devising and conducting quality assurance activities, such as periodic technical and financial spot checks, and assessing the administrative and substantive performance of partner CSOs. This will also include field visits.
- Consolidating reports from partner CSOs into overall program reports, and using this process to provide feedback to CSOs on developing their reporting practices.
- Identifying any human resource needs for monitoring and evaluation, then recruiting excellent personnel to meet those needs.
- Coordinating technical inputs from Farsight to develop systems for collecting, analyzing and disseminating program performance information.
SKILLS
AND EXPERTISE
An excellent candidate for this position will
have the following characteristics:
- At least five years of experience designing and operating monitoring and evaluation systems, preferably on topics of relevance to PNPM Peduli.
- Achievements providing capacity building advice and technical assistance to Indonesian CSOs.
- A demonstrated capacity to work in programs that connect foreign donors to Indonesian CSOs.
- Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English, along with experience working in a bilingual environment.
TO
APPLY FOR THIS ROLE
- On or before 8 August 2014, send an introductory email or cover letter, along with a CV, to mel@seefar.org.
- Use the following subject line for your email: MELSpecialist, Your Name.
- Your email or cover letter should describe why you are an excellent choice for the job, referring only to the four characteristics above under Skills and Expertise.
- This is a preliminary recruitment stage and we do not want it to be a burden for you, so please use only one paragraph for each characteristic.
- In your CV or your email, provide three referees to comment on your suitability for this position.
We
will short-list applicants and invite successful applicants for an introductory
interview by 15 August 2014.
