Program Manager – Financial Access Indonesia Liquidity Facility After Disasters

Mercy Corps helps people turn the crises they confront into the opportunities they deserve. Driven by local needs, our programs provide communities in the world's toughest places with the tools and support they need to transform their own lives. Our worldwide team in 41 countries is improving the lives of 19 million people.

Mercy Corps Indonesia is currently seeking to fill the post through external candidates:

Program Manager – Financial Access Indonesia Liquidity Facility After Disasters (ILFAD) - Jakarta Base

The ILFAD Program Manager will be based in Jakarta and will be directly responsible for program planning, oversight and implementation of the ILFAD program. S/he will supervise national program officers.

Responsibilities include: rigorous planning, design, monitoring and evaluation, staff supervision, budget management, donor relations, report writing and staff management. Close engagement, partnership and capacity building with MICRA, MFIs, and government, private sector, and community partners are critical. The Program Manager will provide leadership and mentoring to the program team and will be responsible for staff development.

Program Description:

In post-disaster environments, MFIs can serve as a critical and immediate vehicle to provide much needed financing for community members to repair damage to businesses, homes, and family assets, as well as deal with injury and trauma to family members; but MFIs themselves are affected by the same disasters that increase the vulnerability of their clients. Mercy Corps proposes to build on its pioneering approach following the Yogyakarta earthquake in 2006 to help key MFIs prepare for emergencies and provide stabilizing liquidity and product support immediately after disasters strike. This will allow disaster-affected MFI clients to access much-needed savings during that critical period, while enabling the MFI to expand lending in its community to support recovery efforts. As the short-term deposits are repaid after the crisis passes, they will form a long-term emergency liquidity facility for supporting MFIs following subsequent disasters. During the 12-month program, tools and products specifically designed for lending during emergencies will be developed and rolled out to MFIs in the disaster-prone target areas of DKI Jakarta; Yogyakarta, Central Java; and Padang, West Sumatra.

The learning, emergency loan products, and initiation of an Indonesia Liquidity Facility After Disasters (ILFAD) that are developed through this program will provide an improved blueprint for future post-disaster financial access interventions, including disaster risk reduction activities that build resilience in the financial services sector, and will lay the groundwork for an expanded regional Emergency Liquidity Facility to scale microfinance services in disaster recovery.

Qualifications:

BA/S required; higher degree in management, international development or other relevant field preferred;

Minimum 3 - 5 years of field experience, in positions of increasing responsibility;

Prior experience in DRR in rural and urban settings required;

Demonstrable expertise working in the micro finance sector;

Experience with developmental programming, particularly in the areas of DRR, microfinance, capacity building, and training;

Fluent written and spoken English.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Program Implementation

Responsible for ensuring the program is implemented in ways responsive to the partners, MFIs, communities’ and governments’ priorities, in line with Mercy Corps principles and values and following Mercy Corps compliance procedures.

Directly supervise the program officers; provides strategic direction to work plans, ensures the program is coordinated and with other key stakeholders.

Sub-grant management. Responsible for managing the sub grants issued to national partner MICRA, this will include reporting and program activity monitoring.

Team-Building and Staffing

Responsible to build a team of dedicated and professional officers, who meet targets on time

Ensure program staff are communicating; provide vehicle for cross-fertilization of programming.

Representation and Diplomacy

Develop and maintain internal and external relationship to ensure program success, including MC regional and country offices and staff, international and local NGOs, government and military officials, donor community officials, vendors, media and the general public.

Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation

Establish and maintain effective program reporting, monitoring and evaluation systems for both internal and external use in coordination with the M&E team and program staff.

Communications

Nurture appropriate MC public relations, visitor/ donor and agency relationship; represent Mercy Corps to national and international media in coordination w/ Mercy Corps leadership in Jakarta.

Organizational Learning: As part of Mercy Corps’ agency-wide Organizational Learning Initiative, all team members are responsible for spending 5% of their work time in formal and/or non-formal professional learning activities.

Accountability to Beneficiaries: Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Please send your CV with position applied on the email subject to: hrd@id.mercycorps.org

Vacancy will be closed 20 September 2011.

We look forward to hearing from those who are interested in taking this opportunity to grow and develop with us.