Project Manager

Position Available

IKAT ASIA PACIFIC - PROJECT MANAGER

Revenue Watch Institute August 2011

The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) is seeking a Project Manager to supervise a three-year USAID-funded IKAT partnership project on extractive industry governance in Asia-Pacific. Through interventions at the regional, national and sub-national level, the IKAT partnership project proposes a comprehensive approach to addressing natural resource governance - combining grants with continuous facilitation, mentoring, training, and technical assistance to Indonesian NGOs to design, build, and operate projects to improve governance in the extractive industries sector, thus enabling them to become capacity building and technical assistance providers to NGOs in other Southeast Asian countries. The technical nature of the extractive industries poses a number of challenges for civil society organizations to engage in informed dialogue and be successful advocates; Revenue Watch’s role is to serve as a resource, facilitator and enabler for our civil society partners.

The Project Manager will be based in RWI’s office in Jakarta, Indonesia and will oversee a consortium of three implementingorganizations, including the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), the Indonesia Parliamentary (IPC) and the Pattiro Institute (PI). The position will lead on project administration, coordination and strategy; provide technical assistance to Indonesian co-implementing partners and access to RWI’s global expertise on a demand basis. The position will be supported by existing RWI administrative and capacity building personnel, as well as three central program managers, one from each implementing partner organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead on project coordination and strategy in line with the approved project proposal from USAID.

- Coordinate reporting requirements for the USAID grant in a timely manner, ensuring that all reports are of high quality.

- Organize and facilitate a program implementation planning workshops for all three partners, with a focus on (1) providing project design, planning, and management knowledge and skills, (2) and helping each partner produce a project implementation work-plan.

- Regular coordination withprimary implementing partners including facilitation of quarterly partner meetings, overseeing project branding and marketing strategy, ensuring timely provision of agreed outputs and project deliverables, and identifying technical consultants.

- Supervising the administration of sub-grants to project partners throughout the region.

- Organizing skill building workshops for project partners as needed.

- Drafting communications materials and updates as requested for the USAID IKAT grant and for RWI.

- Provide specifically targeted content through the online mentoring service for partners.

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

- Advanced degree in related field (international affairs, economics, finance, business, political science)

- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a relevant field

- Familiarity with the global natural resource revenue transparency movement, in particular the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Publish What You Pay campaign

- Strong management and supervisory skills, and ability to work effectively and diplomatically with people of different nationalities and cultures

- Experience engaging with civil society organizations at the international and local level

- Extensive project management experience; specific USAID project management experience a plus

- Monitoring and evaluation experience

- Strong relationship builder and communicator with experience leading diverse work teams and building partnerships

- Ability to work collaboratively in a small, highly skilled team is essential

- Fluency in required; preference for fluency in Bahasa Indonesian as well

- Significant experience traveling and working in a developing country context

START DATE: September 1

TO APPLY: Please send a CV, writing sample of no more than 10 pages and letter of interest to: skaimal@revenuewatch.org.

Applications are encouraged at your earliest convenience or by Monday, August 15.