Sub-district Development Institutional Specialist - Indonesia
KOMPAK Program
KOMPAK is an Australia-Indonesia government partnership supporting the Government of Indonesia's efforts in reducing poverty through improvements in basic service delivery and creating opportunities for work. KOMPAK focuses its efforts on three result areas:
- Supporting Local Governments and Service Units to better address the needs of basic service users;
- Supporting the poor and vulnerable to benefit from improved village governance; and
- Supporting the poor and vulnerable to benefit from increased opportunities for employment and economic development.
The Opportunity
The purpose of this consultation is to provide technical assistance for institutionalization Kecamatan and Village Strengthening (KVS) Flagship especially to support six components kecamatan strengthening: policy; incentives and funding; capacity building; village and community engagement support and oversight; integrated services for MSS acceleration and use of data/information, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Regional Administration (BAK) and provincial levels.
Key Duties
Under the supervision of the KVS Leader, the consultant, will carry out the following tasks:
- Provide technical input for the preparation of general and technical guidelines for sub-district strengthening program at the national and regional level
- Providing technical input on job analysis, organizational structure and job descriptions of the sub-district strengthening program experts
- Based on the direction of the Directorate General of Regional Administration to support the preparation of documents covering the program scale plan, program period, program budget and program annual work plan
- Collecting documents and reports related to the sub-district strengthening program carried out by the government and other parties
- Supporting sub-district strengthening activities in order to fulfill basic services as well as village guidance and supervision that have been and are being carried out by KOMPAK
Further information regarding other key duties is included in the Information for Applicants via this link.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in the relevant disciplines, e.g. sociology, anthropology, economics, public policy/administration, development studies, political science, regional studies, health, education etc.
- Proven and extensive experience in the Kecamatan issues including policy, capacity building, data and budgeting
- Preferably with minimum of ten years of experience working in the development field, especially capacity development of sub-national government
- Demonstrated record of high productivity, independence, initiative, and ?comfort working across multi-organizational partnerships
- Strong advocacy with Government of Indonesia and communications skills; writing and presenting to a wide range of audiences
- Experience working with government agencies, development partners and CSOs
- Fluent written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia and English
- Understanding of gender equality and social inclusion issues
- Bachelor’s degree in the relevant disciplines, e.g. sociology, anthropology, economics, public policy/administration, development studies, political science, regional studies, health, education etc.
Further Information & Application Details
Further information regarding this opportunity can be found via this link.
Applications should be submitted online via the Careers page of Abt Associates’ website and MUST include a CV and covering letter addressing the key requirements listed above.
We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from experienced and capable women.
Applications close: Monday, 18 January 2021 – midnight (AEST)