Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia is
Hiring
Organization:
Yayasan Literasi Anak
Indonesia (YLAI) is an organization based in Bali that develops elementary
school reading materials and training programs for distribution to schools all
over Indonesia. The early
reading program produced by YLAI provides a model for teaching literacy as a
catalyst for change within the Indonesian education system. This successful
model of teaching literacy uses interactive children’s literature and guided
reading resources in Bahasa Indonesian to promote literacy development in
national primary schools. YLAI supports the development of class and school
libraries by producing a context-based reading series and relevant literature.
The second priority is to provide in-service training for national teachers in
using and adapting best practices in literacy to the local setting of
Indonesian public schools. Starting in November 2014, YLAI will be working with
the USAID PRIORITAS program to bring this early reading program to over 1,000
schools across the regions of Indonesia. USAID PRIORITAS is a five year
USAID-funded project designed to improve access to quality education for
children in Indonesia.
Position: Project Manager
Based: Denpasar Bali
Duties: The Project Manager will be in
charge of carrying out and overseeing all activities implemented by YLAI under
the USAID PRIORITAS partnership grant. These will include implementing
workshops, distributing literacy materials as well as managing the budget,
work-plan and tracking of the project grant. This manager will be the main
point of contact and responsible for managing relationships with all activity
participants and key stakeholders, including the USAID PRIORITAS team, book
publishers, writers, illustrators, workshop participants and representatives
from the government.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or advances.
- Having experience in USAID or other donor partnership grant contracts
- At least 4 years working in development area in Indonesia (6+ years and education sector preferred)
- Knowledge of project financials
- Knowledge of project management
- Understanding of the education sector and other development stakeholders in Indonesia;
- Good communication skill in English and Bahasa Indonesia
Position: Assistant to the Project
Manager
Based : Denpasar, Bali
Based : Denpasar, Bali
Duties: The
assistant will provide logistical and administrative support to the Project
Manager. The assistant will be particularly involved in the organization and implementation
of 4-5 training and development workshops to be hosted in Bali and attended by
stakeholders from around Indonesia.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree
- At least 1 year experience
- Having experience in delivery, training and development workshop
- Having experiences arranging travel and booking venues
- Understand office administration (e.g. finance, office management, etc)
Please contact
info@literasi.org for more detailed job descriptions
and information about the application process by October 31st, 2014
