GIZ Indonesia for The Sustainable Urban Transport Improvement - Implementation of the NAMA Facility (SUTRI NAMA) project: Project Officer Technical Support Unit (TSU)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

SUTRI NAMA as registered with the UNFCCC aims to tackle challenges of growing urban traffic congestion and increasing urban transport related greenhouse gas emissions by transforming urban transport in Indonesia with a mix of capacity-building and investment measures provided through a national sustainable urban transport programme. SUTRI NAMA is implemented starting December 2017 with the support from the NAMA Facility through GIZ as the delivery organization.

A technical assistance component namely Indonesia Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Development Project (INDOBUS), funded by the State Secretariat of Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) added to SUTRI NAMA for the development and start-up of bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors in selected pilot cities of Indonesia. The component has been working at both local and national levels in the field of BRT planning, project management support, BRT operations management, public transport funding as well as reform of the private minibus-sector towards participation in operating consortiums. At national level coordination has to be sought between the several relevant line ministries; best-practice examples / project achievements have to be documented, published and promoted for replication. 

We are seeking one qualified Indonesian candidate for the following position:

Project Officer Technical Support Unit (TSU)

Responsibilities

• In coordination with Senior Coordinator and relevant project team members, supporting activities of the Technical Support Unit (TSU), Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and Steering Committee (SC) including but not limited to the meeting scheduling, preparation, implementation and reporting
• Coordinating relevant project team members in providing technical inputs to the TSU and TSC
• Become liaison of the project team in the daily activities of the TSU
• Providing inputs of the project progress status to the Project Officer
• Together with project team, under the coordination of Programme Director, to ensure all milestones in both SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS components are achieved timely

1. Task

1.     Professional Advisory Services

·         Support daily work of the TSU, including but not limited to TSU internal meeting scheduling, preparation, implementation and reporting

·         Provide minutes of relevant meetings between TSU and external parties

·         Provide technical inputs in developing standard operating procedures (SoP) of the TSU

·         Document TSU activities as lessons learned for continuously improving the SoP

·         Ensure smooth communication flow between TSU members as well as between TSU and project team

·         Provide inputs to the monitoring and reporting activities done by Project Office

·         Support relevant activities in SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS, whenever necessary

2.     Networking and Cooperation

·         Under the coordination of Programme Director, become a contact person and liaison in the TSU

·         Maintain networking and linkages with relevant activities conducted by other developing agencies

·         Manage main counterparts’ expectation (Kemenhub, pilot cities) through good communication

·         Ensure smooth flow of information between GIZ transport and climate projects in Indonesia, as well as relevant GIZ bilateral, regional and international projects

3.     Project and Knowledge Management

• Support Advisor National Policy to design and develop knowledge management system under his purview
• Together with the project team to implement the system
• Monitor, evaluate, provide inputs/feedback to continuously improve implementation
• Ensure that lessons learned are documented and shared

               

4.     Other duties/additional tasks

·         Support relevant project team members in achieving milestones of the project, both in SUTRI NAMA and INDOBUS

·         Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management

B.     Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualifications

• Essential: bachelor degree in relevant subjects
• Desirable: additional background and knowledge on transport engineering or science, urban planning

Professional experience

·      At least 5 years professional experience in a comparable position

·      Essential: project management, public administration

·      Desirable: experience in sustainable urban transport projects

Other knowledge, additional competences

·      Proficiency in the Indonesian and English language (reading and writing)

·      Presentation and writing skills

·      Excellent communication skills in both Indonesian and English

·      Excellent command of MS – Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

·      Fluent language skills in English

·      Willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management 

Duty Station: Jakarta

Expect to join: a.s.a.p.

Direct Superior: Principal Advisor of SUTRI-NAMA INDOBUS project

Interested candidates should submit a motivation letter, CV, trainings attended and list of references (a must), addressed to recruitment-indo@giz.de. The closing date to submit the application letter is on May 18^th, 2018.

Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: SN – Project Ofcr. TSU

Please name your file as follow format:

[Your Complete Name]_[Motivation Letter/CV/Latest Education Certificate] (i.e: Nakula Sadewa _CV or Nakula Sadewa _Motivation Letter or Nakula Sadewa _Reference)

Only short-listed candidates will be notified