Historique

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UNDP Indonesia's mission is to be an agent for change in the human and social development of Indonesia. We aim to be a bridge between Indonesia and all donors as well as a trusted partner to all stakeholders. We work in four key areas of development: Governance Reforms, Pro-Poor Policy Reforms, Conflict Prevention and Recovery, and Environment Management, with the overarching aim of reducing poverty in Indonesia. Besides the four priority areas, UNDP Indonesia is also engaged in a variety of crosscutting initiatives focused on HIV/AIDS, gender equality, and information and technology for development.”

Papua Island with the two provinces of Papua and West Papua is the easternmost region of Indonesia. It is strategically positioned as Indonesia’s border region with PNG, Australia, and the Pacific countries. While endowed with abundant natural resources, Tanah Papua still faces considerable development challenges in terms of poverty, human development, natural resource management and local governance. For those reasons, the current Indonesia administration under President Joko Widodo is placing Tanah Papua development as the corner stone of its policy and priorities.

UNDP remains committed to support Papua development. In June 2015, UNDP concluded the People-Centered Development Programme (PCDP) as the main instrument for UNDP technical assistance for Papua and West Papua. Since then UNDP remained engaged with its key partners to formulate new programs for Papua and West Papua on key areas such as local economic development, local governance reform, multi-stakeholder partnership platform, and gender-based violence (GBV).

Based on the lessons learned and best practices of PCDP project, UNDP will implement a successor project which is titled “Local Economic Development Programme for Native Papuans”. This project is intended to continue UNDP’s engagement in supporting local development in Papua and West Papua, which has two primary objectives, namely, (a) to advocate for replication of the PCDP model in local economic development (LED); and (b) to test new approaches in response to the new challenges and priorities in Tanah Papua. This project provides opportunity for UNDP to remain engage with partners in Papua Provinces and ensures that UNDP maintains its presence and valued institutional memory in Papua. Through this project, UNDP will support Papua Provinces to address challenges such as low growth, high poverty rate, low HDI, violence against women, problems on social cohesion and peace building and increasing disparity, and to accelerate its development goals.   

UNDP’s partner for this project is the Association for Local Economic Development Innovation (ALEDI) or stated in Bahasa Indonesia as Perkumpulan untuk Inovasi Pengembangan Ekonomi Lokal. ALEDI is a civil society organisation recognised as a valid legal entity in the territory of the Republic of Indonesia, in the form of an Association, established by a group of individuals with the primary objective to promote local economic development. In view of the upcoming project implementation, UNDP is recruiting a Technical Officer, who will work together with ALEDI’s project team to implement this project.

Under the supervision of DGPRU’s Team Leader and ALEDI’s Executive Director, the Technical Officer supports management of the UNDP’s Local Economic Development portfolio. The main role is to provide key guidance to project personnel and other relevant stakeholders, support services for projects under his/her portfolio while ensuring quality of project outputs are delivered – in line with the agreed result country programme and in compliance with GoI and UNDP procedure. The incumbent also will support to the new partnerships with development partners and the private sector to strengthen the Local Economic Development Programme for Native Papuans  project, while providing project assurance, providing technical assistance to project when required and overall monitoring and other relevant operational issues.

The Technical Officer supervise project support team and work in close collaboration with the programme team, operations in the CO, technical advisors, experts, Government officials, and other relevant stakeholders to successfully implement the project.

Devoirs et responsabilités

1. Ensures implementation of  project strategies focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Effective monitoring of project trends, including delivery of projects outputs against usage of project resources.
• Thorough analysis on contribution of project outputs toward achievement of outcome level results within the context of the political, social and economic situation in the country.
• Active participation in various policy and partnership fora, as well as relevant international conferences and meetings on local economic development area  to keep abreast of the sector and facilitate programme development;
• Effective support to the Executive Director and the Programme Team in identifying new local economic development programme/project ideas through consultation with the Government, other donors, UN agencies and NGOs.

2. Participates in effective management of the project  focusing on quality control from  formulation to implementation of the projects, achieving the  following results:

• Provision of substantive input and support to the initiation/ design  some parts of CO projects within the area of responsibility as well as translation of  UNDP’s priorities into local interventions in coordination with the Executive Director and the Programme Team.
• Initiation of a project, presentation of the project to PAC, finalization of contribution agreement; determination of required revisions; coordination of the mandatory and budget re-phasing exercises, closure of projects through review.
• Timely regular project board sessions to review progress against deliverables.
• Provision of input and support to the regular internal project assurance monitoring (IPAR), identification of operational and financial problems, development of solutions.
• Preparation of inputs for project reporting, including donor reporting and risk management.

3. Maintain  partnerships for project implementation with implementing partners   focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Regular assessment on the implementing partner’s capacity and ensure that capacity development strategy is embedded within the framework of the project implementation
• Established and maintenance of link of communication between Project Management Units in the implementing partner and the country office for provision effective support and assurance
• Effective support and facilitation on wider partnership with project stakeholders to encourage coordination and synergies between various actors and  thus ensure more impactful results
• Promotion of stakeholder awareness on project activities and results to support partnership and resource mobilization for future project implementation, replication and up-scaling.

4. Provides top quality support services to the nationally implemented projects focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Facilitation the development of annual workplan, including detail plans for procurement, recruitments and other country office support services in collaboration with the project management units,
• Effective support to the project management units in identifying the appropriate modalities for acquiring inputs for project activities (e.g. recruitment & procurement modalities)
• Effective organization and facilitation of training for projects staff as necessary on UNDP operational issues.

5. Facilitation of knowledge building and management, producing and disseminating lesson learnt from designated projects and support to the promotion of cross-project, cross-unit knowledge fertilization focusing on the following results :  

• Identification of entry points for knowledge generations and knowledge sharing from project experience;
• Effective contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Identification of sources of information related to policy-driven issues. Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned directly linked to project and programme country policy goals
• Provision of support to the  information sharing event and dialogue within the donor community by initiating and/or participating in consultative meetings that will address the issues and needs in collaboration with key partners.
• Maintenance of established advocacy networks which are linked to international networks and proposed for expansion of network to the Executive Director, thus relevant, high-impact advocacy campaigns are implemented with key partners.
• Effective support to the establishment of showcase to external stakeholders on progress made and impacts delivered
• Organization of training for the operations/ projects staff on various issues.
• Professional growth through active learning.

Compétences

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity  
• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
• Self-development, initiative-taking
• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
• Creating synergies through self-control
• Managing conflict
• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.
• Informed and transparent decision making

Functional Competencies:       

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda

Preparing information for advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate

Results-Based Programme Development and Management

Contributes into results through primary research and analysis

• Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work
• Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration
• Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation

Building Strategic Partnerships

Maintaining a network of contacts

•  Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches

Enhancing processes or products

• Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things
• Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches

Resource Mobilization

Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies

• Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing

Basic research and analysis

• Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things
• Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

Fundamental knowledge of own discipline

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position
• Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks
• Analyzes the requirements and synthesizes proposals
• Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning
• Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments

Global Leadership and Advocacy for UNDP’s Goals

Preparing information for global advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for UNDP’s goals for a variety of audiences
• Maintains a functioning network of contacts in the media and civil society, to promote a

Client Orientation

Establishing effective client relationships

• Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion
• Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines

Willingness to take Prince2 training and certification, RMG

Qualifications et expériences requises

Recruitment Qualifications
Education:   

• Master degree in Economics, Development Studies, Public Administration or other relevant fields of study, but it is not a requirement.

Experience:  

• Minimum with 6 years of relevant experience for candidate with Bachelor Degree  or 2 years’ relevant experience for candidate with Master Degree  in providing project management services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects and establishing inter-relationships among project stakeholders. Experience including analytical work, programme/project development in the areas of local economic development.

Language Requirements:    

• Fluency in written and spoken English is an absolute necessity;
• Fluency in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia is required.

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrated strong familiarity with development projects and UNDP programmes in Indonesia.
• Knowledge of local economic development programmes and experience in implementing value-chain projects is highly desirable.
• Strong familiarity and experience in working at Papua and West Papua Provinces is an advantage.
• Strong knowledge and experience in project management are essential and ability to write high quality reports.
• Excellent inter-personal and team building skills.
• Full time availability for project management duties is essential.
• Familiar with Government and UNDP procedures.
• Up-to-date computer skills required.

APPLICANT MUST COMPLETE P11 FORM AND SUBMIT AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION. Click here to download the form http://bit.ly/P11SC

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

UNDP Indonesia reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP Indonesia at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements