Lowongan Sebagai Policy Adviser on Extractive Industry Governance

JOB VACANCY: POLICY ADVISER ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRY GOVERNANCE at Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR)
Start of Assignment: Jan/Feb 2014
Place of Assignment: Jakarta, Indonesia
Application: Cover letter, Full CV, Reference Letter, before 22 January 2014, send by email to: recruitment.iesr@gmail.com, subject: “Policy Adviser EI Governance”

Background
Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) is implementing a project called “Southeast Asian Partnership for Better Governance in Extractive Industries”. This is a collaborative project funded by USAID IKAT Project through Revenue Watch Institute (RWI), with a number of partner organisations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, and Timor Leste.
The project is expected for 3 years, starting from 2012. One of the project’s goal is to develop regional campaign on ASEAN support to implementation of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). IESR is responsible for regional (Southeast Asia) advocacy component that targeted ASEAN and cooperation under ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint, particularly ASEAN Mineral Cooperation and ASEAN Energy Cooperation.
IESR’s project component concentrates its activities on the following fields of activities:
Advocates extractive industries transparency and accountability targeting ASEAN
Building regional campaign on EI transparency, and linking to national advocacy by regional partners
Build networking with ASEAN institutions, academic institutions, and CSOs in the region that works in the area of Extractive Industries transparency
Responsibilities
•   Follow and update developments in extractive industries in the ASEAN member countries and in the region.
•   Initiate dialogue and build cooperation with relevant institution to support IESR’s regional advocacy and campaign.
•   Communicate with regional partners, and other relevant organisation/institutions.
•   Implement regional component activities which are under IESR’s responsibility.   
•   Represent in project meetings, workshop and other professional forums.
Main Task
Project Implementation:
•   Plan and implement IESR’s 2014 workplan, together with the project team
•   Conceptualize, prepare, and assist the implementation of workshops, seminar, trainings and other events that are related to the projects.
•   Support knowledge exchange and transfer within project team, IESR, and project’s partners.
Networking and Cooperation:
•   Maintain communication with project’s partner, develop close contact to relevant counterparts.
•   Maintain relation and foster dialogues with project’s partners, NGOs/CSOs, government agencies, and inter-governmental agencies in the ASEAN
Management and Cooordination:
•   Develop term of reference for consultant or service providers
•   Closely manage and coordinates project consultant and other service providers.
•   Monitor project progress, review report and documents concerning the progress, determine bottlenecks, and recommend alternative approaches of management actions.
•   Liase and coordinate with USAID and RWI.
Knowlegde Management:
•   Stay abreast of development in regional (ASEAN) and national (ASEAN member countries) extractive industries.
•   Prepare input for reports/publication used in the project.
•   Prepare relevant papers, training modules, etc.
•   Assist the update of SEA EI website
•   Assist regular reporting to RWI and USAID.
Qualifications
•   Preferably Master Degree (or equivalent) with minimum 3 years working experience, or Bachelor Degree with minimum 5 years relevant experience to the position.
•   Good understanding about the extractive industries governance
•   Good writing and communication skill
•   Preferably Indonesian nationality
Professional Experience
•   In-depth understanding about governance of extractive industries (oil, gas, minerals)
•   Indonesian
•   Working experience in advocacy/campaign in national and/or regional level in the area of human rights/environments/social accountability/governance.
•   Experience in communicating and engaging government, private sector and civil society
•   Excellent network with CSOs/NGOs in Indonesia and in Southeast Asia
•   Dynamic and hard-working person.
Other knowledge, additional competence
•   Excellent knowledge of English, including writing capabilities
•   Good knowledge with ITC technology and PC application
•   Good skill in moderating and facilitating discussion, meeting, etc