National Project Officer - MAMPU

Vacancy No: JAKARTA/2012/036

Position title: National Project Officer
Deadline for application: 25 January 2013

Project title: MAMPU – Access to Employment and Decent Work
Organization unit: CO ILO Jakarta

Grade: NO-A (Indonesian nationals only may apply) Duty Station: Malang

Contract type: Fixed-term

Duration: One year (with possible extension)

Expected starting date: 25 February 2013 This position is subject to confirmation of funding.

For any questions related to this post, please contact: – Ms. Miranda Fajerman, Chief Technical Adviser, ILO CO Jakarta - fajerman@ilo.org .

Background
Introduction: general information about the context in which the official will work / background on the project:

The MAMPU Access to Employment and Decent Work project is designed to promote economic and social empowerment of women through strategies that strengthen women’s access to and equitable involvement in formal employment in Indonesia. The Project will work with various institutions and organisations in Indonesia to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders to promote the Project’s objectives – to strengthen poor, vulnerable and marginalised women’s access to employment and equality in employment.

Specifically, the national project officer will be required to coordinate and support the implementation of project activities in East Java. The project officer will be the main focal point for all provincial stakeholders, including the Government, private sectors, women CSOs and trade unions. The national project officer will be required to manage relationships, actively seek to understand and respond to the needs of stakeholders, liaise with the project managers and CTA in Jakarta to effectively implement activities and provide continuous monitoring and evaluation of project interventions.

These responsibilities fall within the broader MAMPU project objectives of economic and social empowerment for target beneficiaries. Economic and social empowerment of women workers will be pursued through the following strategic interventions :

• Strengthening the organisational capacity and representation of targeted vulnerable women workers;
• Supporting women to transition from informal to formal employment;
• Strengthening the ability of partner civil society organisations to provide services and facilities to women to reduce barriers to decent work in the formal sector;
• Supporting employer incentives to empower women and implement better working conditions and innovative employment responses; and
• Influencing and strengthening national and local policies, programs and laws to promote women’s economic empowerment and equality.

The main areas of intervention of the project will take place through a series of pilot projects. Pilot projects will include:

1. Supporting home based workers to formalize and access better working conditions and livelihoods;
2. Strengthening the ability of trade unions and women’s organisations to organize and better represent women’s rights and interests at work;
3. Technical assistance to employers to support decent work for women and substantive equality in terms of labour market outcomes; and
4. Supporting women’s cooperatives and groups to provide accessible childcare services and other facilities to enable poor women to access or return to employment.

These pilot programs have a strong focus on institution building of local project partners to strengthen the visibility, representation and social and economic empowerment of women workers in Indonesia. In addition to these pilot programs, the project will support policy reform and provide programme support at the national and local levels to promote a more conducive environment for women to access formal employment. Awareness raising and advocacy on principles of equality and non-discrimination in employment will also be promoted.

1. Reporting lines: supervision to be received by the incumbent (level and type) and supervision to be given by the incumbent.

The National Project Officer will be supervised by the Project Technical Chief Adviser (CTA).

1. Main duties and responsibilities:
2. Provide input and backstopping to the implementation of the activities of the Women in Leadership Project in East Java with a view to ensuring high quality and timely outputs;
3. Lead the recruitment, coordinate and provide backstopping support to at least 7 community facilitators supporting pilot programs;
4. Collaborate with Project partners to support Project strategies and activities in East Java;
5. Coordinate and liaise with implementing partners and stakeholders in order to strengthen local CSOs, trade unions, Apindo and Government capacity to promote better working conditions and social protection for homeworkers, home-based MSEs and women in employment generally;
6. Support the dissemination of data, research and advocacy and engage local partners to develop strategies to address challenges identified;
7. Coordinate and support training seminars, workshops, meetings and capacity building activities for partners, particularly the Government, trade unions, women CSOs and employers at the provincial and district level in East Java;
8. Promote awareness-raising on gender equality and visibility of homeworkers;
9. Undertake technical missions independently or in collaboration with other ILO staff;
10. Disseminate information on programmes through publications and press releases, including through engagement with local media to raise awareness and support understanding of gender issues in employment among local media;
11. Assist the CTA in preparing budgets, technical briefs and reports on project status, including achievements, persistent challenges and contributions;
12. Monitoring the implementation of project outputs and activities by collecting relevant base line data, indicators of progress and reviewing, verifying and analysing workplans, progress reports, final reports and other data for reporting purposes;
13. Undertake missions to project sites with project officials and/or stakeholders;
14. Draft and translate into Bahasa Indonesia, various project documents, statements or other public information;
15. Contribute to knowledge sharing for all project activities within the ILO Jakarta Office, with MAMPU partners and relevant ILO units and departments; and
16. Perform other duties as may be assigned by the CTA or ILO Country Director for Indonesia and Timor Leste. .
17. Qualifications requirements: (please refer to the generic job descriptions in HRD’s intranet site and to the ILO’s core competency and values framework).

Education – First level university degree in international development, gender studies, law, social sciences, employment, economics or related field.

Experience – At least 3 years of professional experience in relevant field.

Languages – Native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia and excellent command of spoken and written English.

Competencies :

• Knowledge of project management and implementation, programming and budgeting and evaluation.
• Demonstrated experience working with women’s CSOs, local government and a variety of stakeholders
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of gender issues and decent work
• Demonstrated ability to interpret information, and to identify and analyse problems with implementation.
• Good drafting skills. • Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Good computer skills.
• Organizational skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team.
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy.

How to apply:

Additional Information
All applicants are required to submit a CV and a written statement that addresses each of the above competencies. The written statement should be no more than 2 pages in total and must address each of the listed competencies to be considered for the position. Cover letter is optional.

Written Examination and Interview Prospective candidates will be required to sit a written examination and take part in an interview.

Application
Qualified women and men are encouraged to apply. Only qualified candidates will be notified. Please submit application indicating the Vacancy Announcement Number along with CV, 3 references and other supporting documents to:

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE
Email: hrdjkt@ilo.org

Only qualified candidates will be notified.

The ILO promotes opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive employment in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity