VACANCY
FOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has contracted
Oxford Policy Management Limited (OPML) to provide low carbon policy
development support to the Centre for Climate Change Financing and Multilateral
Policy (PKPPIM) in the Fiscal Policy Agency of the Ministry of Finance (MOF);
and to the Indonesian Investment Agency (Pusat Investasi Pemerintah - PIP) in
Indonesia. The policy development support aims to assist MOF to develop
appropriate fiscal policies and financing arrangements to address the issues of
climate change and the implementation of effective low carbon policies by the
Government of Indonesia.
The United Kingdom, Low Carbon Support Programme (LCS)
to the Ministry of Finance Indonesia is looking to recruit the following
consulting position on a full time basis for the position of Research
Assistant based in Jakarta.
The
individual consultants selected to work on this study will be based in and work
very closely with: (i) the Centre for Climate Change Financing and Multilateral
Policy (PKPPIM) in the Fiscal Policy Agency of MOF; and (ii) core members of
the UK Low Carbon Support (LCS) Programme to the Ministry of Finance. Work in
progress and drafts of final technical inputs / deliverables must be reviewed
with PKPPIM and the LCS team prior to completion of final deliverables.
The selected
consultants will possess the following range of qualifications and skills:
- Preferably have relevant masters level qualifications (in a social sciences field and preferably with background knowledge in the field of energy, climate change and environment);
- Have knowledge and experience in quantitative and qualitative research;
- Have experience in implementing stakeholder perception study and related analytical tools, particularly in conducting online and face to face interviews and in analyzing and collating results of survey data;
- Preferably have a strong network with public institutions, especially in the energy, climate change and environment sectors as well as donor organizations;
- Have ability to present insightful data (qualitative and quantitative) analysis and skills in basic report writing; and
- Possess excellent communications and writing skills.
The scope of work
to be undertaken is as follows:
- Assisting as directed by the LCS Senior Communications Consultant with all research and support tasks related to the survey / study, particularly in the form of: (i) gathering, processing and compiling data (ii) data analysis (including statistical data analysis) - both for the online / email-based survey and conducting the face to face / telephone interviews;
- Assist in making sure that high response rates are achieved;
- Assist in conducting face-to-face and phone calls interviews with a variety of respondents
- Provide analysis insights into the findings of the survey / study;
- Present key findings and recommendations of the survey / study to the LCS and PKPPIM managements;
- Assist in the management of research activities; and
- Any other activities assigned by PKPPIM and the LCS Senior Communications Consultant as Work Supervisor.
Interested
applicants should submit a current CV and a brief letter of capacity to meet
the TOR that can be obtained by email at recruitment@lcs.or.id and info.indonesiaoffice@opml.co.uk
no later
than 17 April 2015.
