NOW HIRING: EDUCATION SPECIALIST

ChildFund is an international child focused 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
ChildFund 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 family
members in partnership with 50 local NGOs spread across 8 provinces. For more
information please visit www.childfund.org


ChildFund Indonesia is currently seeking:

Position        :Education Specialisdt
(Code: ETS)
Reporting to  : Program
Director
Based in       : Jakarta
Duration: One year fixed term with extension subject to funding availability and performance

    Summary
TheTechnical Specialist – Early Childhood Development reports to the
Program Director and is responsible for providing technical guidance on early
childhood development issues. This includes designing new interventions,
preparing program guidelines, monitoring program quality, documenting promising
practices and reporting. This also includes facilitating learning and capacity
building through internal and external resources to support projects designed
on ECD.

The Technical
Specialist – Early Childhood Development will be part of ChildFund’s internal
team of experts on specific age-groups that ensure overall program quality and
incorporation of best practices as relevant to ChildFund Indonesia.

Key Responsibilities

·         Work closely with the
Indonesia Office’s Life Stage 1 (0-6 years) core group
·         Carrying out an assessment of
the current ECD portfolio. This involves mappingcurrent ECD interventionsto identifyareas of strengths/gaps based on
the core outcomes that ChildFund proposes to achieve.
·         Designing and developingthe National Office’s “Niche Core Program” (NCP)
inline with the Theory of Change (ToC) with support from the
International/Regional Office.
·         Providing technical input to
the development of ChildFund Indonesia’s ‘Advocasy and Visibility’ Plan and the
‘Communication and Public Engagement’ Strategy
·         Work cooperatively and
collaboratively with the Maternal Child Health Technical Specialist on the
rollout of the NCP program to partners/program/sponsorship teams and local
stakeholders.
·         Assuring the NCP/ECD program
is implemented as planned within the local environment.
·         Documenting NCP/ECD
experiences and best practices to share globally within the region and
nationally.
·         Supporting the M&E specialist design
appropriate standards and quality checklist for ECD
·         Building the capacity of field offices
and partners to implement high quality programming in the field
·         Identifying funding opportunities and providing technical support to proposal development at all levels of the
organization as requested
·         Representing the National
Office in relevent networks, public speaking, legislative advocasy events,
donor contract
·         Providing timely reporting as
required by RO/IO/NO and grant requirements etc
·         Providing technical assistance to the field and assessesthe
effectiveness of the interventions in the attainment of ChildFundIndonesia’s core outcomes.
·         Serving as a liasion in
providing information to regional countries within NCP
·         Willingness to
travel nationally and internationally
as well as to remote areas


Qualifications and experience

·         At least 10-15years of providing technical assistance to ECDprograms
·         Experience as an Early
Childhood Development training facilitator
·         Outstanding
written and oral communication skills in Englishand Bahasa Indonesia
·         Strong computer skills

Education

·         An Honors orMasters Degree in Child
Development and/or Early Childhood Education from a reputable university of
institution

This position is opened for Indonesian national
only.

ChildFund requires electronic lodgment of applications.
Please send by email your resume or CV & include Job Title & Position
Code in the email subject field. Any enquiries should be directed by email to: recruitment@indonesia.childfund.org

Deadline for lodging applications: June 30, 2013