Technical Specialist(s)

AIP-PRISMA, Surabaya

Background:

The Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) is an ambitious new rural development program which aims to contribute to a 30%, or more, increase in net incomes for 1,000,000 poor rural female and male farmers, 300,000 of which will be reached by June 2017. The project will work in twenty (20) districts of five (5) provinces in Eastern Indonesia: East Java, Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB), Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), West Papua and Papua.

The role:

The objective of this consultancy is to provide technical assistant to the AIP-PRISMA Sector Teams on the area specific commodity:

CHILI	MAIZE
PEANUTS	SHALLOT
SOYBEAN	TOMATO
BEEF

 

This will entail reviewing the Strategy Document and assisting the Sector-Area team in validating the analysis and the interventions thereof.

Selection criteria:

The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate:

·        Established experience/consultancy history in designing the behavior change of actors within the specific sector in order to realizing the sectors’ vision of change.

·        Demonstrate strong knowledge on integration of specific sector.

·        Knowledge of international relations issues on specific sector.

·        Experience in market development approach.  Experience in M4P would be advantageous

·        Experience with conducting field investigation for market development.  Experience in Field Investigation Manuals, or similar, would be advantageous

·        Proven technical experience in the relevant sector.  Experience in the target provinces would be advantageous.

·        Open minded and people oriented.

• Advanced computer skills in MS Word, MS Excel, and the internet.
• Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and a good working knowledge of English.

Applications:

If you would like to apply for this position, please submit your CV to recruitment@aip-prisma.or.id and put the advertised position title with your sector specialization (Shallot, soybean, etc) in the subject line by Friday 1^st of August 2014 at the latest.

Due to the high number of responses, we will only be contacting candidates who are progressing to the next stage. This is a local/national position.