VACANCY USAID IUWASH Tangguh: National Government Partnership Specialist, Jakarta

(JOB CODE: LTTA/NGPS_JKT)

USAID Indonesia Urban Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (USAID IUWASH Tangguh) is a five-year Activity to advance Indonesia’s development goals in increasing access to safely managed drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in vulnerable urban areas and strengthening climate-resilient WASH services and water resources management. In close partnership with the Government of Indonesia (GOI), USAID IUWASH Tangguh supports Indonesia’s work to achieve their Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets to ensure access to water and sanitation for all (SDG 6) and to make cities and settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable (SDG 11).

Using an Integrated Resilient IUWASH Systems (IRIS) approach—which aligns actions and incentives between upstream and downstream actors, while crowding in collaboration with key stakeholders through partnerships that accelerate the enabling environment and key enabling factors, such as finance and data—the USAID IUWASH Tangguh team will provide technical assistance to GOI, private sector and civil society stakeholders to achieve four objectives: 1) Strengthened WASH and WRM Sector Governance and Financing; 2) Increased Access to Poor-Inclusive, Climate-Resilient, Safely Managed Drinking Water and Sanitation Services; 3) Improved Water Resources Management to Support Resilient Drinking Water Services; and 4) Increased Adoption of Behaviors and Improved Women’s Participation and Leadership Roles that Contribute to Improvements of WASH and WRM.

To achieve these outcomes USAID IUWASH Tangguh need high caliber candidates to fill the position of
 
National Government Partnership Specialist (JOB CODE: LTTA/NGPS_JKT)
 
In general, the tasks and responsibilities of the consultant will include, but not limited to:
• Support the coordination of USAID IUWASH Tangguh activities with other relevant national and sub-national government agencies, including all non-government beneficiaries;
• Under collaboration with other member of the Secretariat, contribute in developing the Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) of UWASSH Program implementation;
• Develop system on tracking of progress reports as concerns the implementation of the activities;
• Involve in UWASSH Program design as well as project work plan;
• Support the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities on the implementation of the activities periodically;
• In coordination with Biro Ortala, Bappenas to deliver and monitor the progress of UWASSH Portfolio activities, both substantive and administrative purposes (including VAT Exemption and VISA for Expatriate);
• Support the preparation of the requirements of administrative documentation and correspondence to facilitate the work of the Secretariat;
• Plan and manage the Secretariat meetings and events;
• Support all activities, especially in administrative under UWASSH portfolio, including preparing BAST every year for each technical team;


Minimum Qualifications
• Minimum a bachelor degree in a relevant field such as environmental engineering, urban planning, or other development studies.
• At least five (5) years of experience in working in WASH sector, having an understanding of relevant aspects of water supply, sanitation and WRM issues will be an advantage;
• Has experience working with BAPPENAS and relevant Ministries to support WASH programs, especially in coordination mechanism internal BAPPENAS and external among the relevant ministries;
• Possesses good writing personal communication skill to lead the coordination among relevant ministries and other WASH project implemented by other donors;
• Possesses good verbal and written communications skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English;
• Flexibility to travel within project locations in Indonesia when required.
 
Expected Start Date: As soon as possible
 
APPLICATION SEND
Interested applicants are invited to send a complete application with 3 references to Tangguh_recruitment@dai.com before April 18, 2022. Please write the job CODE in the subject line of the email. We regret that we are unable to acknowledge receipt of all applications and only shortlisted candidates will be notified.