Employment Opportunity - Collective Action and Parliamentary Stream Manager

Employment Opportunity – Collective Action and Parliamentary Stream Manager

The Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU) program is a flagship gender initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT)  that aims to improve the lives of poor women in Indonesia by strengthening gender interested organizations and parliamentarians in order to influence government policies and services. BAPPENAS is the host agency for the MAMPU Program.

MAMPU’s Theory of Change for achieving the program’s goal is that collective, evidence-based advocacy by strong Partners will catalyse change in government policies to increase access of services and livelihoods for poor women in Indonesia.

MAMPU has five thematic areas: access to employment, social protection, improving conditions of overseas migrant workers, improving women’s leadership to reduce violence against women, and reproductive health. Under Component 1 of the program, civil society and gender interested organizations will be supported to form coalitions with the public and private sectors to advocate for change using evidence. To support this reform from outside government, the Program will also support women’s parliamentary caucuses and male and female gender advocate parliamentarians to advocate for reform from within government (Component 2).

Component 2 will focus on three areas:

·         strengthening the individual capacity of women parliamentarians to perform core parliamentary functions

·         supporting male and female parliamentarians to form coalitions with MAMPU partners to advocate for pro-gender/poor reforms

·         strengthening the institutional capacity of women’s caucuses to act an anchor for the above activities.

Component 2 will primarily engage with district women’s parliamentary caucuses as an ideal entry point to increase awareness and action towards practical reforms that directly benefit poor women.

Decentralization has meant that district parliaments are now responsible for managing significant government budgets and drafting legislation that has a direct impact on poor women. Despite this, District Parliaments (and especially District women’s parliamentary caucuses), have not often been the subject of research to understand and analyze the complex set of interactions that inform policy making at the local level and prevent or support MPs to advocate for pro-poor/gender reforms.

The Collective Action and Parliamentary Stream Manager will manage and coordinate all collective action initiatives and Parliamentary activities, ensuring the efficient and effective use of DFAT resources (value for money) in order to maximize MAMPU outcomes and provide recommendations for future MAMPU strategies in both these critical areas of the program.

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Interested candidates and particularly women are invited to send their application with:

a) Cover Letter

b) Detailed Curriculum Vitae

c) Three referees (preferably former direct supervisors)

Applications including a cover letter and current CV should be sent in confidence to recruitment@mampu.or.id by 9 January 2014 noting " Collective Action and Parliamentary Stream Manager" in the subject line. While all applications will be read, only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

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