Provincial
Manager (Papua)
AIP-PRISMA
Background:
The
Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for
Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) is an ambitious new rural development
program which aims to contribute to a 30%, or more, increase in net incomes for
1,000,000 poor rural female and male farmers, 300,000 of which will be reached
by June 2018. AIP-PRISMA is now hiring a provincial manager for Papua.
The role:
Provincial Manager will be responsible to:
(1) Ensure
the buy-in from the local and provincial governments on AIP PRISMA program and
activities in their respective regions;
(2) Liaise and become the focal point
between the provincial/local governments including members of parliament,
advocacy stakeholders and AIP PRISMA for activities in the region;
(3) Provide inputs for intervention
concept ideas/notes in the respective province particularly in regards with the
critical constraints and opportunities to business enabling environment of the
region;
(4) Support AIP PRISMA activities in
the region by providing and updating critical information and advice on
activities regarding the local situations particularly in relation with local
governments and/or provincial governments as well as arranging meetings with
the relevant stakeholders particularly local/provincial governments;
(5) Oversee all assigned
interventions in their respective Province ensuring that all interventions are
implemented on time and with the anticipated impacts;
(6) ensure the collection of
secondary socio-economic data and reports specific to their province and ensure
the preparation and regular update of area competitiveness strategies relevant
to their provinces;
(7) Prepare, on a quarterly basis,
provincial progress reports for management that highlight key intervention
objectives, anticipated outreach for their program area, budget plans,
intervention progress and updated risks and mitigation strategies.
Selection
criteria:
The
successful applicants will be able to demonstrate:
(1) Over 5 years
“working knowledge” and experience in working with local governance or conversant with governance
issues;
(2) Good understanding of private
sector, if possible with private sector experience;
(3) Good understanding of competitiveness
area or economics and the drivers of change;
(4) Excellent communication and relationship
management skills;
(5) Working experience in the program
target area (Papua); (6) Existing network among public and
private stakeholders in target area (Papua).
Desirable
criteria:
(1) Good command
of English;
(2) Background
in economics, public law, public administration, or political science.
Applications:
If
you would like to apply for this position, please submit your CV to recruitment@aip-prisma.or.id
and put the advertised position title in
the subject line by 14 March 2015 at the latest.
Due
to the high number of responses, we will only be contacting candidates who are
progressing to the next stage. This is a local/national position.
