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Program Officer of Kabupaten Merauke

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Job Reference Number

Program Officer of Kabupaten Merauke 10

Job Type

International Development Assistance/Emerging Markets

Schedule

Contract

Job Location

Asia; Indonesia; Papua

Job Summary

The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Decentralisation (AIPD) supports the Government of Indonesia to improve the performance of provincial and local governments. More specifically, AIPD aims to improve public service provision in health and education. AIPD works with the central government as well as five provincial governments, namely Papua, West Papua, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara and East Java, and 20 district governments within those provinces, starting from 2011 to 2015.
 
In the remaining one and half years of the program, AIPD will accelerate the implementation by prioritizing the interventions that improve specific frontline service priorities. With its mandate and core competence in Public Financial Management, AIPD will focus implementation more at the level of frontline service providers and citizen/community levels, forging stronger links between all key stakeholder to ensure the greater participation, in planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of provision of basic services particularly in education and health sector in targeted location of Landasan Papua program. AIPD and local government of Papua and West Papua, has selected 3 Kabupaten in Papua and another 3 in West Papua as location to pilot the program.
 
AIPD has a vacancy for Program Officer of Kabupaten Merauke, to strengthen the capacity of AIPD's Landasan Papua (Community Facilitation) Program in Kabupaten Merauke. The target program locations cover the districts of Okaba, Kimam and Nokenjerai in Kabupaten Merauke, Papua Province.
 
​Job Type: Local Engagement Staff
Schedule: Contract
Job Location: The job will be based in the city of Merauke with travel as needed to the 3 districts/kecamatan and 15 villages where the Landasan Papua (Community Facilitation) Program activities are located in Kabupaten Merauke, Papua Province.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Supporting the Project Coordinator/Governance Advisor in the development of effective planning, implementation and monitoring to achieve the program targets;
  2. Building good relations with Implementing Partners (IP) to ensure the quality implementation of the program in accordance with the time frame that has been set, under the direction of the program's Specialists;
  3. Organising the necessary meetings and trainings and developing institutional links as needed, under the direction of the Specialists;
  4. Collecting relevant best practice experiences and examples of learning from the field;
  5. Periodically and/or as needed, undertaking the monitoring and supervision of the implementation of the Landasan Papua (Community Facilitation) Program through visits to the districts (kecamatan), villages and service units; and providing input as well as reports to the Project Coordinator/Governance Advisor and Specialists, using an effective strategy and approach;
  6. Providing written inputs and/or reports on activities, 6-monthly reports, and annual reports to the Project Coordinator/Governance Advisor;
  7. Giving information and input, whether requested or not, on matters outside of the program that may influence the implementation of the program;
  8. Building good relations with the media, NGOs/CBOs, other donors and other parties in the kabupaten;
  9. Developing mutually synergistic teamwork among the three (3) districts that constitute the program area in the kabupaten;
  10. Other tasks as needed.
A copy of the Terms of Reference and Selection Criteria for this position can be found by clicking on the link: Terms of Reference.

Other Requirements

​Please click on the Terms of Reference for selection criteria and how to apply.

Employee Benefits

​To be contracted full time over the term of the contract.

Contact

​By email: email your application with the reference “Program Officer of Kabupaten Merauke 10” in the subject line torecruitment@aipd.or.id.
Closing date: 04 May 2014, 5.00pm Jakarta time.
Late applications will not be considered.

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