Vacancy at Mercy Corps (Deputy Program Manager - Ambon Based)

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: 

AMBON

Program Summary:
Mercy Corps is implementing a three-year program to
support the successful integration of IDPs in Maluku – Aid to Uprooted People
(AtUP) / Matasiri. The overall objective of this action is to empower ex-IDPs
to integrate into scure, productive, and just communities, supporting
sustainable peace and development in Maluku. This will bring conflict-affected
households that have been left behind into mainstream development and into
greater participation within their communities. The specific objective for this
action is to improve access to economic opportunities, water and sanitation
facilities, health care, and governance in IDP communities. This is expected to
result in: economically sustainable, market-driven livelihoods for IDPs;
improved water, sanitation, and health care in IDP communities; and greater
social integration of IDPs, including greater capacity for resolution of land
issues. Mercy Corps will work to build community capacity in project
identification, development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.

1. Deputy
Program Manager
The Deputy Program Manager will support Program Manager in
all aspects of program implementation for AtUP/Matasiri with communities in
Maluku.

Responsibilities include: rigorous planning, design, monitoring and evaluation, staff
supervision, budget management, donor relations, report writing and overseeing
all elements of program implementation. Close engagement, partnership and
capacity building with local government, local NGOs, private sector and
community partners are critical. The Deputy Program Manager will assist with
the leadership and mentoring to the AtUP/Matasiri team provides recommendations
for staff development. He/She will actively participate in all management
meetings for strategic planning of the program. He/She will also spend
considerable time at project sites to monitor program quality and compliance.

Qualifications:
·         5
– 7 years of field-based experience in staff management and project
implementation;
·         Demonstrated
experience and expertise in economic development, governance and /or
peace-building, including understanding of international norms         and frameworks,
prominent actors, best practices;
·         BA/S
or equivalent in social science, management, international development or
similar degree;
·         Fluency
in English, written and spoken, essential.

 Please
send your CV with position applied on the email subject to: hrd@id.mercycorps.org 
Vacancy will be closed 16 February 2013 and
only short listed candidates will be contacted for interview.

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