Open
Recruitment
RISE Indonesia Coordinator / Country Manager
Posted: 19 December 2018
(Note: This is a repeat posting; previous candidates need not re-apply.)
Deadline: 10 January 2019
Duty Station: Makassar, Indonesia
Reporting to: (1st) RISE Program Manager (2nd) Program Director
Strong working relations to: RISE Executives; Objective Leaders; UNHAS and ADB
Duration: 12 months, extendable up to four years based on performance
Number of posts: 1 post
Key Responsibilities
- Lead in strategic program management and coordination of in-country activities, ensuring cross-fertilisation across program objectives, including:
- Work planning, budgeting, procuring and monitoring of activities;
- Coordination of missions/visits by RISE management and researchers;
- Management of Indonesian offices, staff and logistics;
- Facilitation of on-the-job training and capacity building and knowledge
transfer in water-sensitive cities approaches and technologies as well as human
and environmental assessment;
- Ensure proper documentation of program experiences and lessons learned and
provide input to policy and work planning dialogues.
- Coordination of health and environmental assessments
- Lead in building and maintaining strong relationships and coordination with
assessment partners, including universities, laboratories, government
departments at city and national levels;
- Lead program teams to collect data in line with agreed work p lans, systems
and processes;
- Oversee local data management and coordination with overall RISE systems;
- Ensure full compliance with research ethics procedures;
- Ensure relevant and timely reporting, briefings, meetings and field visits
for the health and environmental assessments.
- Coordination of the upgrading of informal settlements (the ‘Build’)
- Lead in building and maintaining strong relationships and coordination with
local partners including ADB and government agencies responsible for urban
planning, housing, upgrading and environment at city and national levels;
- Support in the development of detailed designs and final approval, including
identifying and securing required technical expertise (consultants) as and when
required, procurement of upgrading works ensuring best value for money, and
oversight in construction works and management of contracts;
- Support the development and implementation of co-design process to maximise
impact;
- Link with local university partners for engagement with students and
researchers in the Build objective.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities within the expertise and experience as required:
- Provide advisory services to support policy and technical processes;
- Support dissemination of program outcomes and impacts to improve future
programs and policies;
- Represent RISE in coordination and information forums such as WASH and
Healthy / Smart Cities clusters or task forces to support program
activities/outcomes;
- Identifying new programmatic opportunities, developing concept notes and
project documents, and building in-country partnerships.
Key Result Areas
- Ensure overall government and partner engagement and satisfaction with program design, progress and outcomes in-country
- Timely implementation of research and build components as per agreed workplan
and budget
Qualifications and Experience
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in business, program/project management, science, engineering, architecture, urban planning/design, environment, management, health sciences or related discipline.
- At least ten years relevant experience with managing complex program
implementation, research program management, urban infrastructure
implementation, community-based development and/or familiarity with and deep
interest in quantitative and qualitative health research.
- Excellent English and Indonesian oral and written language skills
essential.
To Apply
Applications due on 10 January 2019. Please send completed applications or any
queries to: fitriyanty.rise@gmail.com
About RISE
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) is a five-year
interdisciplinary research program which aims to demonstrate a new approach to
water and sanitation management in urban informal settlements. Using a
randomized control trial (RCT) methodology involving 24 informal settlements in
Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji, the RISE theory of change is that the
localized, nature-based Water-Sensitive Cities (WSC) approach to informal
settlement upgrading can interrupt the fecal-oral transmission route, resulting
in an improvement in human gastrointestinal health, especially for children
under 5 years of age. The expected outcome is to provide evidence that
localized, nature-based approaches can deliver, sustainable, cost-effective
improvements in health and the environment in the Asia-Pacific and promoting
further deployments in the region and globally.
