Vacancies at SNV

SNV Indonesia is looking for a:

Urban Sanitation Advisor and Project Administrator for our WASH SDGs project

(Local contract)

SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation. Founded in the Netherlands 50 years ago, we have built a long-term, local presence in 38 of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our global teams of local and international advisors work with local partners to equip communities, businesses and organisations with the tools, knowledge and connections they need to increase their incomes and gain access to basic services – empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and guide their own development.

In Indonesia, SNV works together with local partners to provide technical expertise in two sectors: Agriculture and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). For the WASH sector, SNV is focused on increasing access to safely managed sanitation and in sustaining positive changes in hygiene behaviour, by providing scalable, market driven solutions tailored to rural and urban contexts.

SNV’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sustainable Development Goals (WASH SDGs) project

With an urbanization rate of 4.1% per year, by 2025 Indonesia will have 68% of its population living in cities (WB, 2017). This fast paced urbanization brings many human, environmental and economic opportunities but also substantial development challenges. Safely managed sanitation and hygiene is a critical one, to ensure health and prosperity for everyone, especially the urban poor.

In 2015, around 18 million urban people had no access to a toilet while 20 million more were resorting to unimproved sanitation facilities (JMP, 2015). With sewerage coverage existing in only 11 cities and 2% of city residents having no access to centralized sanitation systems, the vast majority of the urban population relies on on-site sanitation systems that are often sub-standard and/or inadequately managed (WSP, 2013). As a result, an estimated 95% of Indonesia’s wastewater is disposed untreated, and pathogens contaminate land and water sources, making faecal coliform from human waste the most excessive pollutant in Indonesian rivers, exceeding the recommended standards by a thousand-fold or more (WSP, 2013; FAO, 2011). Poor urban dwellers that rely the most on unsafe water sources for drinking, cooking and washing are blighted by the resulting water-borne diseases that keep them trapped in a seemingly unbreakable poverty cycle.

SNV sees safely managed sanitation and hygiene as a pre-condition for health and economic development in cities. Our WASH SDGs project is focused on achieving sustainable and inclusive city-wide sanitation and hygiene services and support the achievement of SDG 6. To achieve this, SNV:

-  Works together with local authorities to create an appropriate enabling policy and regulatory environment for sanitation services at the local level

-  Develops financially viable and sustainable business models also with the private sector on the collection, transport, treatment, re-use and safe disposal of human waste

-  Works with communities to increase their awareness and engagement towards safe and affordable sanitation products and services

- Guides the different stakeholders through a process of informed choice regarding technologies, finance strategies and service delivery models, in particular for low-income groups and slum residents.

Urban Sanitation Advisor

The Urban Sanitation Advisor will work in a cross-cutting advisory role for the WASH SDGs project under the coordination of the Project Manager. The position has the following requirements:

1) Strategic Positioning: Conducts routine supportive analysis on the WASH sector. Participates in strategic positioning meetings as part of the team

2) Networking: Analyze and understand the WASH country context, the organisational environment. Gives input to networking processes. Maintain operational contacts with national and local partners within assignments

3) Advisory Services: Looks up and manages relevant information on local partners. Conducts partners meetings and visits. Conducts administrative tasks on assignment and progress and prepares reporting. Gives technical input to local partners and colleagues. Works together with local partners, providing training/coaching whenever relevant

4) Review and Evaluation of Advisory Services

a. Contribute to feedback processes, coaching and evaluation of achieved results. Supports the collective learning in local partners/activity team and/or expertise group from the assignment

b.. Ensures timely evaluation processes, coordinate and monitor this with account manager and client

5) Knowledge development            

Contributes to internal and external Knowledge development. Participates in knowledge development/ expertise groups and in external and internal networks. Stays informed on trends and developments and updates the team on latest trends. Poses suggestions, shares idea and gives feedback

6) SNV Internal Organisational Development: Identify improvement areas within the local internal organisation and processes. Gives feedback and critically reflect on organisational topics

Candidate Profile

1) University degree in a related field (Public Health, Environmental/Sanitation engineering, Social Sciences, Public Policy)

2) Minimum 5 (five) years of professional experience relevant for the job description

3) Sound knowledge and hands on experience of the urban sanitation environment in Indonesia, including of sanitation national programmes and targets

4) A sound understanding of the WASH SDG 6, notably of the concepts of safely managed sanitation and hygiene, with particular attention to the needs of women, girls and other vulnerable groups

5) Good knowledge of the socio-cultural, financial, regulatory and policy conditions underlying an enabling environment for urban sanitation development

6) Demonstrated ability to communicate with and mobilize different types of stakeholders and partners, including government counterparts and international donors

7) Proven experience in designing and delivering capacity building initiatives to different types of stakeholders, that are in line with roles and responsibilities and meet agreed project objectives

8) Experience in analyzing and using data and research findings for advocacy and decision making processes

9) Ability to critically monitor own performance and project results in view of regular improvements and relevant adjustments

10) Capacity to efficiently work in an international, fast paced, results driven team

11) Experience in awareness raising/communication for behavior change is a plus

12) Proven experience in project activities design, delivery and reporting

13) Proven experience in capacity building, training, coaching in view of long term sustainability and local ownership of project results

14) Ability to document activities and report in an organized, straightforward way

15) Native Bahasa Indonesia speaker with a good command of spoken and written English

16) Good computer skills (Ms. Word, Ms. Excel, Ms. Power Point, Internet and Outlook)

Project Administrator

The Project Administrator will work in a cross-cutting support role for the USHHD project under the coordination of the Project Manager. The role entails administrative & financial management support responsibilities with contribution expected also on communication & visibility. Specific scope of work within the project is the following:

• Ensure Project Management Administrative and Financial requirements in line with SNV’s financial and administrative guidelines (including supporting in procurement good and services, travel arrangements, advance and payment requests, time writing for consultants)

• Provide logistical & general support to project delivery and documentation (including preparing meetings agendas, meeting minutes, support to the recruitment of consultants, project document folders, and financial information)

• Oversee consistency and coherence with SNV, donor and partner visibility guidelines for all activities and products of the USHHD project

• Assist with activities supporting advisors work 

Key Responsibilities

1) Guarantee full alignment of financial and administrative operations within the USHHD project with SNV’s financial and administrative guidelines as per SAP by Design

2) Lead administrative and financial related communication between the Jakarta office and SNV’s main offices in the project locations 

3) Ensure project documentation in line with SNV’s Project Management reporting and accountability requirements

4) Oversee the establishment and day to day management of the Jakarta office

5) Provide timely and high quality response to logistical and general support requests from the USHHD project team and SNV’s main office

6) Guarantee quality and compliance with visibility guidelines, including in the office space, in the documents published and in the public events/activities delivered

7) Provide logistical support and local contextualization for project activities

8) Keep an inventory list of equipment, assets and means of transport, and the relevant contracts and leases, organize equipment and stationary procurements, coordinate maintenance and replacement when required, in consultation with and with approval of the supervisor and conform the given authorization and (procurement) procedures

Candidate Profile

1) University degree

2)  Minimum 2 (two) years of relevant professional experiences, preferably in an International NGO

3) Knowledge in finance and administration procedures

4) Experience in organizing events/activities/training, including logistics and procurement

5) Very organized, results driven, structured work style skills

6) Ability to communicate with a different range of stakeholders and partners, including government counterparts and international partners and donors

7) Ability to document activities (both in writing and visually) in an organized, straightforward way

8) Knowledge in Sanitation issues is a plus

9) Native Bahasa Indonesia speaker with a good command of spoken and written English

10) Good computer skills (Ms. Word, Ms. Excel, Ms. Power Point, Internet and Outlook)

Contract duration:          1 year with possibility of extension.

Desired start date:         July/August 2018

           

Duty station:     Java with occasional travel to Lampung for Urban Sanitation Advisor position and Jakarta for Project Administrator position.

How to apply

If you believe that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to apply by sending your CV and letter of motivation in English to jobsindonesia@snv.org before 22 June 2018 with subject “WASH SDGs Urban Sanitation Advisor” or “PA WASH SDGs”.

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