Assignment: WASH Coordinator
Responsibility: Daily management of WaterCredit program to ensure
the workplan runs accordingly
Location:
Jakarta
Duration: 1 year contract, with possibility of extension
Type:
Individual
Reports
to:
Bina Artha Ventura
operational team
BACKGROUND
Water.org is a U.S.-based, non-governmental organization working
to increase access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Under WaterCredit program, Water.org provides technical support to PT. Bina
Artha Ventura (BAV) to enable access
for sanitation amongst low-income communities.
Bina
Artha Ventura is an Indonesian
Ventura company started in 2011 to deliver financial services to the economically active
low
income population in a fair,
transparent, efficient and sustainable manner.
The company offers
uncollateralized group-loans
ranging from US$ 150-300 to economically-active, low-income women. The target of
BAV group
loans are women with
a daily income of US$ 2-6,
mainly living in semi-urban and semi- rural areas. BAV’s lending
approach is joint liability group lending with no collateral requirements. As of December 2015 BAV serves over
173,000 clients and seeks to reach 1,000,000 clients by 2020.
BAV
clients are organized into groups of
5-7 members. Groups are organized
in centers of 2-4 groups fortnightly (every two
weeks) center meetings in the client residential
areas are the primary point of contact
between BAV and the
clients.
Each BAV branch office has a services
area radius of approximately
15 kilometers and serves around 100 center meetings.
Since June 2014, Bina Artha Ventura has developed and launched a loan product to finance household
level facilities such as toilets
and septic
tank. Currently, BAV is planning to roll out the WASH loan product into new
branches across Java. Bina Artha Ventura
seeks one WASH coordinator to
support program implementation during the expansion phase.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Support and coordination of the
WaterCredit program implementation
- Coordinate with internal BAV departments such as operations, finance, MIS, marketing, senior management, branch offices, and other groups to ensure successful implementation of program activities and development of WASH loan program
- Supervision and analysis of the monthly WASH activity reports
- Coordinate and collaborate with WASH experts
- Provide feedback to internal staff based on field visits and monitoring, including borrowers, loan officers, and branch managers
- Mitigate internal risk by immediately notifying the MFI leadership, WASH experts and other team members in the event of challenges
Technical supervision, and
evaluation of the WASH team, in coordination with Internal BAV and Water.org
- Develop standard technical guidelines, documents and formats in collaboration with WASH experts
- Develop and produce IEC materials in collaboration with the Wash Expert and based on research findings
- Manage WASH Experts to ensure technical assistance related to WASH loan product is disseminated properly
- Coordinate with Water.org, including regular reporting and on-going communications in a quality and timely manner
- Ensuring that both BAV and Water.org are properly informed on any updates occurred during partnership
- Manage upload of monthly loan data to the Water.org portal website
- Oversee the development and submission of monthly and quarterly reports to Water.org
- Other tasks as requested to support the WASH loan program
APPLICANT
QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS
Required:
- Academic background at least bachelor degree
- Has management and leadership skills and motivation to help the poor
- Has working experiences in MFI operations
- Has the ability to work in team or alone, able to achieve targets
- Honest, responsible, creative, innovative, initiative, and professional
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written in Bahasa and English
- Capable of using Microsoft Office
Preferable
- Has experience in engineering, construction, WASH
Application Information
Proposals should be submitted
to Kiki Tazkiyah (ktazkiyah@water.org) and Neksi Triwidiyanti (neksi.triwidiyanti@bina-artha.net) no later than April 6, 2016 noting “WASH
Coordinator” in the subject line.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
