Opportunity: Country Directors in Southeast Asia - Anticipated USAID-funded Sustainable Landscapes Activity

Country Director - Indonesia

Green Invest Asia

Chemonics International seeks local national Country Directors (CDs) for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded sustainable landscapes activity in Southeast Asia. The project’s objective is to catalyze private sector finance to upscale and drive investments in agriculture, forestry, and other land use toward low emission, profitable business models. This position will be based in Jakarta and will report to the Chief of Party (COP) based in Bangkok.

The Country Director (CD) is responsible for:

• The technical oversight in assigned country
• Timely delivery and quality of technical deliverables
• Timely development of coordinated, standardized work plans
• Coordination with the COP and other CDs in the design and implementation of activities
• Developing and implementing knowledge management and learning activities for effective country-to-country learning and knowledge dissemination within the project’s overall knowledge management strategy

 Qualifications:

• Advanced degree desirable in Environmental Policy, Natural Resource Management, Economics, Business or related field
• Minimum 10-years professional experience in sustainable landscapes, natural resource management, private sector development, and/or related experience 
• Minimum 5-years professional experience in the Indonesia, and extensive knowledge of Indonesian environmental policy, law, economics, investment financing, and/or public private partnerships preferred
• Demonstrated experience in a position of supervisory responsibility on a USAID or international donor-funded project
• Experience building institutional capacity of counterparts at national or local level
• Ability to supervise teams to achieve contractual objectives
• Excellent written and oral communication 
• Fluency in English required and proficiency of language of assigned country preferred 

Please submit electronic submissions of CV and cover letter to GreenInvestAsia@chemonics.com by November 23, 2016. Please include “Country Director - Indonesia” in the subject line. No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted.