Vacancy RTI International - KSI Project: EOL Senior Program Officer

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The Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) is a joint initiative between the Governments of Indonesia and Australia to improve the quality of public policies in Indonesia through the use of research, analysis and evidence. The program seeks to achieve this by supporting the capacity building of policy research institutes (the supply side), to improve the quality of their research to meet policy maker’s needs, improve systems and regulations in government to support research-based policy making (enabling environment), and to develop effective models for procuring and using research to strengthen policies that will benefit the country’s poor (the demand side), and working with various intermediary organizations involved in making research-based evidence accessible to policy makers including civil society organizations and the media (intermediaries). The program, projected to be 15 years in duration, started implementation in May 2013.

 

RTI-KSI is currently looking for highly qualified candidates to fill in the EOL Senior Program Officer, to be based in Jakarta, Indonesia. This is a senior position requiring a minimum of 10 years program management experience.

 

 

Job Summary:

This position has two key components. First, because KSI is an experimental program, learning is critical to the program’s success.  In order to be adaptive and responsive, KSI has to build on the evidence of its work. The Learning Office therefore plays a critical role in ensuring that the team and its partners build the skills and systems to learn from experience. Second, strengthening organisational systems and capacities is a key part of KSI’s support to its partners in government, civil society organisations and policy research institutes. Knowledge of and experience in organisational development practice as well as knowledge management are a central part of this role, complementing the evaluation skills on the EOL team.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

Under the direction of the EOL Advisor, the Senior Program Officer, Organisational Development and Learning, will support organisational development and learning activities across the Knowledge Sector Initiative. In collaboration with the M&E officers, the SPO will engage with program staff from the supply, demand and intermediary teams as well as partners, to assist them in building effective organisational development and learning into their systems. The SPO, Organisational Development and Learning will:

 

·         Work closely with the EOL Advisor and external organisational development experts to develop and maintain an organisational development strategy for KSI;.

·         Work closely with the EOL Advisor to design organisational development and learning events with KSI partners as well internally in KSI;

·         Support knowledge management to foster the use of monitoring and evaluation results;

·         Provide advice and guidance to KSI partners on strategies and approaches to organisational development, knowledge management and organisational learning;

·         Identify resources to support organisational development and organisational learning; and

·         Support the EOL Advisor in developing strategies and activities for cross-program learning.

 

 

Terms of Reference:

 

·         Support the EOL Senior Advisor to develop and maintain an organisational development strategy for KSI;

·         Support the EOL Senior Advisor to maintain the knowledge management strategy and to support its socialisation in KSI;

·         Provide regular support to the EOL team in designing and running  learning activities as an integral part of  the program’s monitoring and evaluation system;

·         Lead the implementation of a capacity building program for skills in organisational development, knowledge management and learning with KSI partners;

·         Work closely with the KSI component teams to ensure that clear, feasible and monitorable organisational strengthening strategies are developed for all KSI partner organisations (governmental organisations, non governmental organisations, policy research institutes);

·         Work closely with the KSI M&E team and KSI component teams to ensure that all KSI partner organisations implement a regular program of organisational development performance review and learning events and build the results into their plans and business processes;

·         Support reporting on progress to KSI partners and its donor, including on relevant performance parameters;

·         Contribute to the intellectual development of KSI during implementation, leading the learning processes in KSI;

·         Under the guidance of the EOL Advisor, develop  approaches and tools to support continuous and shared  learning within the KSI program both in support of partner learning as well as program learning; and

·         Provide ongoing training and access to resources for organisational development and organisational learning for KSI and its partners.

 

 

Minimum Required Qualifications:

 

·         A masters or higher degree in a relevant subject;

·         At least 8 years related professional experience;

·         Training in organisational development and/or organisational learning;

·         Excellent facilitation skills;

·         Excellent communication and inter-personal skills;

·         Fluency in writing in Bahasa Indonesia; and

·         Fluency in reading English and strong capacity to draft reports in English.

·         Experience of developing and implementing organisational development strategies in government and/or non-government or private sector organisations);

·         Experience in leading/facilitating organisational performance review and learning events in government and/or non-government organisations (or private sector organisations);

·         Experience in developing and supporting the use of knowledge management tools and processes in organisations;

·         Experience working in a research environment or a policy environment;

·         Demonstrated ability to facilitate organisational development and learning by groups/individuals through the generation and  use of evidence in decision making in their organisations;

·         Demonstrated ability to build capacities for organisational development and learning (inter alia, data use, facilitation, consultation, organisational development capacities);

·         Demonstrated experience in building organisational development and learning into development programming;

·         Demonstrated commitment to keeping up to date with developments in the organisational development field.

 

 

Interested candidates should send the following documentations: Application letter and CV with 3 referees.

Please indicate the position you are applying for in the email subject, and submit the application by 5 September 2014 to hr@ksi-indonesia.org.

RTI values equal employment opportunities. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

 

For more information about the Knowledge Sector Initiative, please visit: http://www.ksi-indonesia.org and http://aid.dfat.gov.au/countries/eastasia/indonesia/Pages/initiative-knowledge-sector.aspx