GIZ Indonesia for the develoPPP.de Public Private Cooperation Projects: Technical Advisors of Coffee Smallholder Development, Bandar Lampung, Lampung

With its develoPPP.de programme, Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) helps drive forward private companies’ innovative projects in developing countries and emerging markets while generating long-term benefits for the local population. Without the involvement of the private sector there can be no sustainable development. develoPPP.de pools public and private resources with the objective of bringing sustainable improvements to the living conditions of people in developing and emerging countries – particularly in areas where the need for action is greatest.

In Indonesia, GIZ on behalf of BMZ is implementing a number of partnership projects with private companies, mostly in the Agribusiness sector, focusing on smallholder development and integration of smallholder farmers into supply chains. From 2018 onwards, GIZ will be engaged in four partnership projects, working in with coffee, pepper and rice smallholder farmers in different regions of Indonesia. In the course of 2018, more projects, covering additional commodities and project locations are expected to start subsequently. To enable synergies between the projects, all projects will be bundled in the newly set-up Agribusiness and Private Sector Hub, coordinated out of Jakarta, and implemented in two regional offices.

One partnership project aims at strengthening the productivity of smallholder coffee farmers in Lampung province, increasing their income and supporting integrated farming systems. Activities will include smallholder training (GAP, farmer business school), strengthening of farmer groups and intermediate organisations and supply chain management. All activities are jointly developed and implemented together with the partner company.

To support this project, GIZ is currently recruiting 2 (two) Indonesians for the following positions:

Technical Advisors of Coffee Smallholder Development, Bandar Lampung, Lampung

The Advisors will be responsible for:

• Drive forward the implementation of activities in the project in accordance with the operational plan and project goals and activities agreed with the partner, team agreements and/or agreements with the supervisor
• Provide technical advice with regards to smallholder development, coffee farming, strengthening of farmer groups and intermediate organizations and supply chain management
• providing professional advice to partners and cooperating with important stakeholders

A.     Tasks

1.      Technical support of coffee smallholder development activities

• Drive forward all activities agreed in yearly operational plans and make sure that all activities are implemented in line with GIZ regulation
• Coordinate the activities of field facilitators and sub-contractors implementing activities on behalf of the project. This includes formulation of job descriptions and terms of reference and selects and supervises third parties in the course of carrying out activities, including performance evaluation
• Provide technical advice with regards to smallholder development, coffee farming, strengthening of farmer groups and intermediate organizations and supply chain management
• monitor the development and implementation of activities in close consultation with counterparts and the project manager
• support the design, preparation and implementation of workshops, seminars and other events on issues related to the partnership projects areas of activity
• support the development and organization of quality assurance measures and suggests necessary changes, improvements and initiatives
• support the monitoring of project progress and the activities partnership projects, reviews reports and documents on the progress, identifies bottlenecks and recommends alternative management options to the team leader
• travel regularly into the project region to monitor activities

2.      Networking and cooperation

• Support project manager in ensuring cooperation, regular contact and dialogue with company partners at local level and ensures smooth implementation of all joint activities
• Support project manager in liaison and if necessary cooperation with local communities, relevant organisations non-governmental agencies and individuals in the partnership projects’ environment and with other projects to improve and maintain good working relationships
• travel occasionally to Jakarta, in accordance with project requirements

3.      Knowledge management

• Together with responsible colleagues ensures knowledge transfer between different partnership projects
• Support in developing reports and presentation documents
• Support in formulation appropriate input for various projects reports including annual reports, and contributes to the other reports required by the team leader and GIZ Head Office
• assists with research activities and studies on political issues which benefit joint programmes.

4.      Other duties/additional tasks

• Support in Monitoring and Evaluation of the project as well as occasionally in Public Relations related measures and activities
• performs other duties and tasks at the request of management
• occasionally support in business development activities

B.     Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualifications

• Masters/MSc or doctorate in Business, Economics, or Agriculture or similar disciplines

Professional experience

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience, with at least 3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position
• Profound and proven experience working in agriculture development projects and working with smallholder farmers in Indonesia
• Profound and proven experience working in direct cooperation with private companies or in the private sector
• Technical knowledge and solid experience working with the commodity coffee, other commodities a plus
• Experience working in or with German Development Cooperation would be a plus

Other knowledge, additional competences

• very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
• fluent written and oral knowledge of English, native speaker Bahasa Indonesia
• existing network in Indonesian agricultural sector (NGO, private sector or public sector) would be a plus
• willingness to up-skill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management

Duty Station: Bandar Lampung, Lampung

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

Direct Supervisor: Senior Advisor Private Sector Engagement

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 15 April 2018.

Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: DeveloPPP- TAPS

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