Program Manager

In 2007, Papua’s and West Papua’s first directly elected governors introduced an ambitious new community-driven development program, channelling community grants of 100 million Rupiah to each of over 4,000 villages in the two provinces to fund development activities in the areas of (i) nutrition and food security; (ii) education; (iii) primary health care; (iv) village infrastructure; and (v) economic livelihoods. In 2008, the governors’ RESPEK -- Strategic Village Development Plan -- was integrated with the National Community Empowerment Program (PNPM Mandiri Rural), bringing hundreds of professionally trained development facilitators and field engineers to assist communities in planning and implementing these funds. One major challenge facing the PNPM-RESPEK program has been a chronic shortage of qualified community facilitators, especially field engineers. The program requires over 400 technical facilitators but has only been able to recruit less than half of the needed number, mostly from outside Papua, and turnover tends to be very high. In February 2012, almost 300 of the technical facilitator positions were empty. In order to address this acute and chronic shortage, the PNPM Support Facility and PNPM National Management Consultants designed a special program, called Barefoot Engineer Training, to provide local senior high school graduates and technical school graduates from Papua and West Papua with basic training in civil engineering, mechanics, micro-hydro power generation, construction/building analysis, budget planning and infrastructure design, implementation and construction supervision, social facilitation and empowerment, whom later on could be recruited as technical facilitators under PNPM Rural in the region. This type of training was conducted twice since 2003 and it’s now entering into the third round aiming at providing skills to around 300 successful applicants. The training will combine classroom teaching and practical application of the most common small-scale village infrastructure issues. Funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund managed by the PNPM Support Facility (PSF) of the World Bank, Yayasan Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia (BaKTI) was engaged as the lead implementing partner for the third wave barefoot engineer training from June 2012 until December 2013. To make the planned training successful, BaKTI requires highly dedicated and committed Program Manager. Under direct supervision of Program Development Manager Yayasan BaKTI. The Program Manager will perform, but not limited to, the following tasks: 1. Manage the the overall implementation of the Third Wave Barefoot Engineer Training, including oversight to financial management; 2. Conduct supervision to the training implementation, including supervision to consultants recruited for the training purpose; 3. Ensure good quality of the narative reports and are submitted to donor (PSF) in timely manner; 4. Build relationship with UnCen, Provincial Coordinator of PNPM- Mandiri/Respek, Bappeda, Satker PNPM (representing BPMK) , PSF World Bank, AusAID and other relevant stakeholders;. 5. Provide inputs to BaKTI’s semi annual and annual reports; 6. Provide other duty as required Output • Monthly Narrative Report of the Barefoot Engineer Training highlighting key issues i.e. progress against work plan, challenges and recommendations;. Reporting Procedures The Program Manager will report to the Program Development Manager of Yayasan BaKTI but will be under overall supervision of the Executive Director of Yayasan BaKTI. Length of Contract The Program Manager will be contracted as a consultant from June 2012 to December 2013 (18 months) Qualifications • Master (S2) degree, majoring in civil engineering is preferred; • At least 5 years experience in the area of project/program management; • Self-starter (initiative) and ability to work under minimum supervision; • Strong inter-personal and communication skills with ability to work under pressuring working environenment in managing team members effectively;. • Good understanding of local context, dynamics and being sensitive to local culture: • Good comment of written and speaking Indonesian and English; Please submit your applications including cover letter, CV and references (with full contact details) to: info@bakti.org Application should be submitted no later than June 27, 2012