AIP PRISMA Job Vacancy - Provincial Manager (East Nusa Tenggara)

Provincial Manager (East Nusa Tenggara)

AIP-PRISMA

 

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 role:

Provincial Manager will be responsible to:

•        Ensure the buy-in from the local and provincial governments on AIP PRISMA program and activities in their respective regions;

•        Liaise and become the focal point between the provincial/local governments including members of parliament, advocacy stakeholders and AIP PRISMA for activities in the region;

•        Provide inputs for intervention concept ideas/notes in the respective province particularly in regards with the critical constraints and opportunities to business enabling environment of the region;

•        Support AIP PRISMA activities in the region by providing and updating critical information and advice on activities regarding the local situations particularly in relation with local governments and/or provincial governments as well as arranging meetings with the relevant stakeholders particularly local/provincial governments;

•        Oversee all assigned interventions in their respective Province ensuring that all interventions are implemented on time and with the anticipated impacts;

•        ensure the collection of secondary socio-economic data and reports specific to their province and ensure the preparation and regular update of area competitiveness strategies relevant to their provinces;

•        Prepare, on a quarterly basis, provincial progress reports for management that highlight key intervention objectives, anticipated outreach for their program area, budget plans, intervention progress and updated risks and mitigation strategies.

 

Selection criteria:

The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate:

·        Over 5 years “working knowledge” and experience in working with local governance or conversant with governance issues;

·        Good understanding of private sector, if possible with private sector experience;

·        A good understanding of area competitiveness or economics and the drivers of change;

·        Background in economics, public law, public administration, or political science;

·        Working experience in the program target area (East Nusa Tenggara);

·        Existing network among public and private stakeholders in target area (East Nusa Tenggara).

• Excellent communication and relationship management skills;
• 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 in the subject line by Sunday 7^th of September 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.