Program Summary - Mobile Solutions for Smallholder
Farmers Assessment
Mercy
Corps Indonesia has been engaged in conversations with an agribusiness company
and multi-stakeholder partnerships to enhance agriculture development in
Southeast Asia to develop a
mobile-based approach for farmers. This requires developing a better
understanding of farmer needs and how they can be met through mobile
technology, as well as an overview of what solutions exist or need to be
created. The overall objective is to use mobile technology to enhance the
livelihoods of smallholder farmers by helping them to become more sustainable
and efficient, increase their access to markets, reduce transaction costs,
enhance the traceability of raw materials, drive loyalty and secure supply for
companies.
Given
these factors, Mercy Corps Indonesia has designed a project with the objective
of developing a proof of concept for an open source mobile platform in
Southeast Asia with applications that can meet the needs of smallholder farmers
for specific crops in specific geographies. The aim is to start with soybean
farmers in East Java, Indonesia with potential for scale-up across geographies
and crops.
Jakarta
Program Manager – Mobile Solutions for Smallholder Farmers Assessment
The
Program Manager will be responsible for overall coordination and implementation
of the assessment that focuses on the assessment instruments development and
test, data collection through in-depth interviews and FGDs, data analysis,
report writing and present the findings and recommendations. S/he will
supervise a project team consisting of 2 staffs as well as local assessment
coordinator and local enumerators and collaborate closely with soybean value
chain actors, farmer organizations (including female farmer group) and local
government agencies in the assessment locations in East Java Province.
Qualifications:
- University degree, preferable in social sciences, economics, rural development;
- 3+ years’ experience working in the demand assessment (experience in agriculture and mobile solutions would be an advantage);
- 3+ years’ experience working as program manager with strong project management skills, including financial/budget, operational and HR management skills;
- Experience working with the private sector (with agribusiness companies would be an advantage) and with government agencies (especially at District level);
- Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative measurement tools;
- Computers skills with strong familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
This position will be as temporary staff for 3 months.
Lombok
Finance and Admin Assistant - PRISMA
The PRISMA finance and admin assistant
will closely
with PRISMA team in administering the administrative paper works and their
operational requirements for logistic, travel, and financial report supporting
documents that comply with standard procedures of the organization. She/he will
also maintain regular archiving of supporting program documents as directed by
PRISMA Program Manager. [Describe overview of job mission]
Qualifications:
- At least 2 years of hospitality/administration/secretarial experience is required;
- The candidate must have strong communication skills;
- He/she should have pleasant personality with great hospitality nature, well organized, efficient, proactive, flexible and able to work under pressure and with tight deadlines when required;
- Proficiency in email communication, Microsoft Word, Excel is important.
This position will be as temporary staff for 6 months.
Please send your CV with position applied on
the email subject to: hrd@id.mercycorps.org
Vacancy will be closed 12 December 2015 and
only short listed candidates will be contacted for interview.
We
look forward to hearing from those who are interested in taking this
opportunity to grow and develop with us.
Thanks,
Human Resources Department
Mercy Corps Indonesia
