Employment Opportunity – MAMPU Indonesia, Project Officer
Background
Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction Program, also known as Maju Perempuan Indonesia untuk Penanggulangan Kemiskinan
(MAMPU) is a joint initiative of the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Indonesian Ministry of National
Development Planning (Bappenas). The program, implemented by Cowater
International, aims to improve the access of poor women in Indonesia to
services and livelihoods by strengthening women’s and gender-interested
organisations and parliamentarians in order to influence government
policies and services across five thematic areas:
- Improving women’s access to government and social protection Programs.
- Increasing women’s access to jobs and removing workplace discrimination.
- Improving women’s overseas labour migration.
- Strengthening women’s leadership for better maternal and reproductive health.
- Strengthening women’s leadership to reduce violence against women.
This
position will work with across three MAMPU work areas to provide
support, assistance and coordination to ensure technical teams can
deliver their respective agendas. These work areas include MAMPU
collective action activities, a parliamentary stream and some Economic
Empowerment work.
MAMPU
supports a Village Law Advocacy Working Group with representation from
MAMPU Principal Partners and sub-Partners (more than 40 organisations
from the Women’s Movement across Indonesia) to provide key inputs to the
Village Law draft regulation and assist implementation process. It also
enables a strategic agenda to address opportunities and challenges
related to implementation of the Village law, with particular regard to
the interests of women’s participation.
MAMPU
also supports a parliamentary stream that focuses on strengthening the
individual capacity of women parliamentarians to perform core
parliamentary functions, supporting male and female parliamentarians to
form coalitions with MAMPU partners to advocate for pro-gender/poor
reforms and strengthening the institutional capacity of women’s caucuses
to act an anchor for the above activities.
MAMPU’s
economic empowerment agenda is a new work area that will be developed
over the next 6 months. It is expected the project officer will also
support development and implementation of this work.
Scope of Work
- Working with MAMPU’s Parliamentary Coordinator to develop and coordinate implementation of parliamentary stream activities and document progress.
- Support MAMPU’s Collective Action and Parliamentary Manager to coordinate collective action efforts, for example Beijing+20, Indonesia Beragam.
- Manage and facilitate flow of essential information among MAMPU team, Partners and all other stakeholders
- Provide support to ensure the planning, execution and follow up of MAMPU’s annual National Conference is high quality.
- Explore additional creative ways for MAMPU to better support Parliamentarians and Collective Action initiatives.
- Develop, coordinate and document other events as necessary to ensure events and training activities run smoothly to a professional standard;
- Support the Collective Action and Parliamentary Stream unit implement activities and ensure deadlines are set and met; ensure service providers mobilised and they deliver outputs in accordance with their contracts;
- Assist the management of Collective Action and Parliamentary unit budgets to ensure project funds are disbursed properly in a timely manner and in accordance with work plans;
- In coordination with MAMPU’s Parliamentary Stream Coordinator develop terms of reference for any consultancy services;
- Support and assist the activities of the team and technical consultants;
- Review documents produced by and recommendations of the consultant
- Assist preparation of designs, work plans, schedules and budgets for all relevant activities
- Work closely with MAMPU’s Communication team to provide regular stories and updates of activities, impact and lessons learned.
- Work closely with MAMPU Partner Facilitators to ensure that MAMPU’s partners get information on parliamentarian and collective action initiatives.
- Organise /administer MAMPU responses/follow-up;
- Provide support to MAMPU unit/team and visiting technical consultants;
- Assist in the preparation of MAMPU progress reports;
- Assist collection, synthesis and analysis of monitoring and evaluation information, in close consultation with MAMPU M&E support staff;
- Participate in program monitoring and evaluation as may be assigned;
- Track learning and networking opportunities within and between partners, and with other DFAT programs and document successes/failures;
- Travel as needed to the field offices of Jakarta based Partners, as well as, Partners based in other regions
- Perform administrative duties as assigned and any other duties as request by MAMPU managers
Qualifications Required
- Demonstrated experience (5-10 years) in a project officer role and managing project activity implementation;
- Demonstrated experience in managing large scale events and executing professional level event management expertise;
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in Bahasa and a good standard in English, as well as a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively cross-culturally
- Demonstrated ability to work with parliamentarians and parliamentary institutions.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively broker, collaborate and build strong working relationships with a variety of stakeholders to achieve agreed deliverables and performance objectives;
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Accounting, Business, or related areas;
- Experience in dealing with a range of stakeholders in Indonesia, especially with government and/or parliament;
- Ability to develop constructive mutually beneficial working relationships in multi-cultural team environments;
- Ability to cooperate effectively with other professionals;
- Proven capacity to review documents and prepare quality reports;
- Knowledge of policies, procedures and technical issues related to the DFAT and/or other similar global development operations will be an advantage. Understanding of the Australian aid program and knowledge of the Indonesian Women’s Movement and parliamentary system, an understanding of the main players and the interactions of parliamentarians, executive government and social/gender advocates.
Interested candidates and particularly women are invited to send their application with:
- Cover Letter
- Detailed Curriculum Vitae
- Three referees (preferably former direct supervisors)
Applications including a cover letter and current CV should be sent in confidence to recruitment@mampu.or.id by 17 December 2014 noting "Project Officer" in the subject line. While all applications will be read, only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
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