Provincial Manager (West 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 West 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 (West Papua);
(6) Existing network among public and private stakeholders in target area (West 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.
