Thursday, June 30, 2011

Vacancy for Program Director (PD/CFI)

ChildFund (CF) Indonesia is an international child-development agency working in 33 countries to create lasting and meaningful change in the lives of more than 10.5 million vulnerable, deprived and excluded children, families and communities, regardless of race, creed, gender or national origin. In Indonesia it has been operating for 34 years, since 1973 in areas where the need is the greatest and currently reaches out to 900,000 children and families in partnership with 50 local NGOs spread across 8 provinces.

ChildFund Indonesia is currently seeking:

Position : Program Director
Reporting to : National Director

Based in Jakarta

Key and responsibilities:

1. Ensures that organization develops strong partnerships necessary to deliver sustainable, responsive and legitimate programs; that program interventions contribute to strengthening an enabling environment that reduces risks of vulnerability and provides children with opportunities to develop and thrive
2. Responsible for developing the Country Strategic Plan and ensure that Area Strategic Plans supplement and complement the CSP
3. Leadership for establishing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems to help measure organization’s progress towards its core outcomes, monitors programs for compliance through participation in auditing, regular reporting, frequent communications and routine on-site visits, providing guidance and implementing corrective action as necessary
4. Responsible for management and technical leadership for maintaining and improving program quality
5. Responsible for oversight for administrative, financial, and human resources for national office programs; responsible for resource mobilization planning
6. Facilitation and coordination of partnerships with government institutions, NGOs and community groups
7. Leads the development and implementation of national office’s grants acquisition by building key relationships with potential donors/partners leading to successful revenue generation and organizational growth
8. Ensures that national office and its affiliated partners complies with the terms and conditions of all awards, grants and NSPs; ensures that organization’s values, core intent, global strategy and CSP and priority concerns are understood by all staff and partners, and reflected in program design and management
9. Provides timely documentation and situation analysis reports of active programs for review by the National Director and other key personnel; ensuring that our core outcomes and area of excellence are clearly outlined
10. Oversee and coordinate the technical review of reports (quarterly, annual) donor reports and technical papers to ensure the highest quality possible in conformity to organizational and donor requirements
11. Ensures that national office commitment developed in the AOPB is aligned with the organizational funding model and all affiliates receive and account for required funds for the implementation of planned activities; ensures that the affiliates develop annual budget and AOP consistent with organization’s policies and/or donor requirements
12. Oversee linkages between national office program team and technical support at the regional and headquarters level; ensure integration and collaboration with others in the community, local government and non government organizations in the district/project community
13. Document & disseminate best program practices in order to promote program quality and learning; identifies needs and organizes relevant training in collaboration with HR Officer for staff capacity building


Qualification:


Master Degree in a relevant discipline (preferably economics, politics, sociology, humanities) or substantial experience
15+ years experience managing development programs in an NGO, preferably in a technical area, community development and/or child-focused programming.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English.
Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social and political issues.
Conflict management and ability to pragmatically solve problems, plan a course of action using analytical, conceptual, strategic and forward thinking abilities to achieve an effective resolution
Demonstrated technical expertise in such areas as: project, budget and resource management
Demonstration of knowledge of program design; grant acquisition and management; resource stewardship, and cross functional coordination
Highly developed analytical skills and the ability to assimilate and process information on a wide range of issues
Experience in resource mobilization, coordination and negotiation and social policy
A minimum of 15 years experience in providing a whole range of financial services to an organization, ideally with at least five years in the INGO or public sector

Please transmit CV and cover letter (in English) with the post title on the subject line explaining why you are qualified for these positions to recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org by close of business day of July 15th , 2011.

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