Economist

Job Description Title Position: APINDO – EU ACTIVE Economist Project Title: APINDO – EU ACTIVE Project Duration Post: 12 months Starting Date: 1 August 2012 Introduction ACTIVE is a three years join cooperation APINDO - European Union, aims to to strengthen APINDO’s policy making and advocacy capabilities.This action will address the lack of capacity in the Indonesian Employers Association (Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia – APINDO) to analyse, evaluate and advocate adequately the Indonesian business sector’s interests in a CEPA with the EU and the associated domestic reforms that are needed to improve competitiveness for a CEPA. The goal is to empower APINDO to play a more direct and substantive role in (1) preparations for a CEPA thereby creating a conducive international business environment to expand exports and attract investment, and (2) developing critical reforms in the two top priorities for competitiveness, namely logistics and transport and the labor market, thereby creating a competitive national business environment to enhance the potential opportunities from a CEPA for business and jobs creation. Description of Duties Under the direct supervision of APINDO EU ACTIVE Project Manager and Eecutive Director, the Economist work as part of a new Economic Research and Analysis Department in the APINDO Secretariat funded initially by the EU Active Program to undertake research on and analysis of the needs and strategies of the business sector in Indonesia to enable it to compete effectively and productively in global and regional markets including with the EU through the development of a Comprehensive Partnership Agreement Under the guidance of the APINDO Board and Executive Director: · Conduct policy oriented research and develop relevant policy recommendations on issues on a range of topics such as sectoral trade issues, investment, services, and barriers to competitiveness, logistics and transport and capacity building requirements for business. · Assist in the preparation of negotiating positions and submissions to government on Indonesia’s Comprehensive and Economic Partnership Agreements, Free Trade Agreements and Strategic Partnership Agreements · Prepare presentations and policy position papers for the APINDO Board in cooperation with the Public Outreach and Media Officer and other team members · Work with member survey information and economic data and prepare supporting graphs, charts for the APINDO Board and for publication · Devising methods and procedures for obtaining the data · Understanding and intrepreting data · Providing technical and non-technical reports on economic trends related to CEPA · Supervise research project · Assist in building and maintaining a relevant economic and information database · Communicate effectively in spoken and written Bahasa Indonesia and English · Participate in APINDO training and capacity building programs conducted by local and foreign technical experts Academic Qualifications: Good Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or higher with Majors oriented toward areas like economic policy, economic analysis, trade, investment, industry, international economics, data, competitiveness, 3 years working experience with economic research, ability to operate particular research application; ACCESS, SPSS, etc. If you or think of those who might be interested, please feel free to circulate the information. Send the application and CV by 30 June 2012 to APINDO-EU ACTIVE Project Manager Gedung Permata Kuningan Lt-10, Jalan Kuningan Mulya Kav.9C Guntur – Setiabudi, Jakarta 12980 - INDONESIA Phone: +62-21-83780824 (Hunting) Ext.118 Fax: +62-21-83780824 Email: tiarma@apindo.or.id. Website: http://apindo.or.id/ Facebook: APINDO - EU ACTIVE Project Twitter ID: @DPN_APINDO