International Organization for Migration (IOM) Indonesia is looking for a Project Assistant II (Gender Specialist) according to the terms of reference below:
I. Position Information
Reference No. SVN/ID10/2012/053 (RE-ISSUED)
Position title Project Assistant II (Gender Specialist)
Position grade General Service Staff, Grade 5 (Base salary : IDR 11,616,500 per month)
Duty station Bandung
Type of Contract Special All Inclusive Contract for 3 (three) months, with the possibility of extension
Seniority band: Band III
Job family: Operations
Organizational unit: DRR – West Java
Position number n/a
Position rated ¨ n/a
Subject to rotation n/a
Reporting directly to Head of Office / Project Manager
Overall supervision by Chief of Mission
Managerial responsibility No
Directly reporting staff 0
II. Organizational Context and Scope
Background
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. The organization acts to help meet the operational challenges of migration, advance understanding of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, and work towards effective respect for the human rights and well-being of migrants. IOM’s work includes preparedness and response activities in migration crises and humanitarian emergencies through recovery and transitional settings.
IOM Indonesia has been working in disaster management for more than three decades, and is gearing up to implement a 24-month Disaster Management Capacity Building and Community Resilience project in West Java. The overall project objective is to contribute to the Government of Indonesia’s continuing disaster management efforts, with the end in view of reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience of communities to natural disasters. The project will be carried out by IOM in partnership with the Australia Indonesia Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (AIFDR), Disaster Risk Reduction Platforms, relevant national and sub-national government authorities, the private sector and vulnerable communities in selected districts in West Java province.
Gender based social norms prevailing in Indonesia and specifically in West Java Province impact on gender relations and gender equity. With the aim to promote gender mainstreaming and ensure women’s and men’s access to and meaningful participation in the intervention, the project shall employ a gender-sensitive approach and strategy that will include a full-time engagement of a Gender Specialist for the programme.
General functions:
Under the direct supervision and management of the Head of Office / Project Manager, the incumbent will provide technical assistance to the “STRENGTHENING DISASTER MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN WEST JAVA” project. S/He will work in an integrated manner with relevant project government and civil society counterparts with a particular focus on promoting gender equality.
S/He will be the main interlocutor in the designated area of responsibility and forge good relationships across a broad range of local and regional actors toward the key problems faced by women and men; and girls and boys in West Java. S/He is expected to play an active and constructive role in providing information, analysis and strategic recommendations, including best practices and specific recommendations for entry points on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
III. Responsibilities and Accountabilities
The incumbent will assume primary responsibility for formulating and driving women empowerment and gender equality objectives to be mainstreamed into the project. In particular, this will include:
1. Ensure that gender considerations are taken into account and incorporated in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting;
2. Undertake continuous monitoring/assessment of project activities and recommend appropriate interventions for improved project implementations regarding the inclusion of gender considerations.
3. Delivering quality and timely gender analysis and reporting to IOM (incl. sex disaggregated figures/statistics);
4. Identify and analyse relevant DRR government policies and regulations with regards to gender issues
5. Provide inputs to the development of IEC materials to ensure the incorporation of gender mainstreaming into those documents;
6. Leading the collection of gender sensitive base-line data and the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation;
7. Based on local contextual analysis, recommend gender entry points for the project and advise on who could become ‘agents of change’ who needed to empower women and drive progress towards gender equality and advise on how women can be supported to gain the capacity to function as technical experts in teams for spreading skills and knowledge to others;
8. Provide technical assistance on gender responsive budgeting;
9. Work with the Project Development Office to ensure that lessons learned and good practices are
integrated into future project design;
10. Perform such other related duties as may be assigned
IV. Competencies
The incumbent is expected to demonstrate the following technical and behavioural competencies
Behavioural Accountability
Accepts and gives constructive criticism
Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies
Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs
Monitors own work to correct errors
Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings
Client Orientation
Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients
Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries
Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks
Continuous Learning
Contributes to colleagues' learning
Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills
Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas
Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area
Communication
Actively shares relevant information
Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures
Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience
Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
Creativity and Initiative
Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services
Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones
Persuades others to consider new ideas
Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
Leadership and Negotiation
Convinces others to share resources
Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change
Presents goals as shared interests
Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments
Performance Management
Provides constructive feedback to colleagues
Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers
Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures
Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Planning and Organizing
Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others
Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others* Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Identifies risks and makes contingency plans
Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals
Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members
Professionalism
Masters subject matter related to responsibilities
Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities
Incorporates gender-related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation
Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress
Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity
Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts
Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration Solutions
Teamwork
Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment
Contributes to, and follows team objectives
Gives credit where credit is due
Seeks input and feedback from others
Delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate
Actively supports and implements final group decisions
Takes joint responsibility for team's work
Technological Awareness
Learns about developments in available technology
Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions
Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work
Resources Mobilization
Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs
Technical
a) Effectively coordinates actions with other implementing partners
b) Works effectively with local authorities, stakeholders, beneficiaries, and the broader community to advance country office or regional objectives.
c) A drive for results in a high-volume, quick-paced project environment;
d) Creativity and analytical capability required to respond to evolving programme demands and current events.
e) Theoretical knowledge and proven practical experience in using participative methodologies; conducting needs assessment;
f) Proficient in computer application, including MS Office Suite; knowledge of database software desirable.
V. Education and Experience
a. Minimum University Degree in gender studies or other social sciences field with relevant specialization, or combination of relevant education and experience.
b. At least 5 years of relevant professional experience ideally in a humanitarian and/or development organization and preferably in Indonesia.
c. At least 3 years of direct work experience on gender mainstreaming and gender responsive budgeting; Thorough knowledge and understanding of gender theories;
VI. Languages
Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia, both oral and written.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates are invited to send the application in ENGLISH, with :
a) Cover letter, clearly specify suitability and availability date,
b) Complete the Personal History Form which can be downloaded at the following link :
http://www.iom.or.id/loadpdf.jsp?lang=eng&pgs=pcmain&file=phform.xls
c) Detailed curriculum vitae, including historical salary and minimum three referees (preferably former direct supervisors).
Please submit the application by email to recruitment-indonesia@iom.int and indicating the reference code above as subject.
The deadline for applications is 27 November 2012
Only applicant who meet the above qualification
For more detail info about us, please visit www.iom.or.id
I. Position Information
Reference No. SVN/ID10/2012/053 (RE-ISSUED)
Position title Project Assistant II (Gender Specialist)
Position grade General Service Staff, Grade 5 (Base salary : IDR 11,616,500 per month)
Duty station Bandung
Type of Contract Special All Inclusive Contract for 3 (three) months, with the possibility of extension
Seniority band: Band III
Job family: Operations
Organizational unit: DRR – West Java
Position number n/a
Position rated ¨ n/a
Subject to rotation n/a
Reporting directly to Head of Office / Project Manager
Overall supervision by Chief of Mission
Managerial responsibility No
Directly reporting staff 0
II. Organizational Context and Scope
Background
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. The organization acts to help meet the operational challenges of migration, advance understanding of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, and work towards effective respect for the human rights and well-being of migrants. IOM’s work includes preparedness and response activities in migration crises and humanitarian emergencies through recovery and transitional settings.
IOM Indonesia has been working in disaster management for more than three decades, and is gearing up to implement a 24-month Disaster Management Capacity Building and Community Resilience project in West Java. The overall project objective is to contribute to the Government of Indonesia’s continuing disaster management efforts, with the end in view of reducing vulnerability and enhancing resilience of communities to natural disasters. The project will be carried out by IOM in partnership with the Australia Indonesia Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (AIFDR), Disaster Risk Reduction Platforms, relevant national and sub-national government authorities, the private sector and vulnerable communities in selected districts in West Java province.
Gender based social norms prevailing in Indonesia and specifically in West Java Province impact on gender relations and gender equity. With the aim to promote gender mainstreaming and ensure women’s and men’s access to and meaningful participation in the intervention, the project shall employ a gender-sensitive approach and strategy that will include a full-time engagement of a Gender Specialist for the programme.
General functions:
Under the direct supervision and management of the Head of Office / Project Manager, the incumbent will provide technical assistance to the “STRENGTHENING DISASTER MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE IN WEST JAVA” project. S/He will work in an integrated manner with relevant project government and civil society counterparts with a particular focus on promoting gender equality.
S/He will be the main interlocutor in the designated area of responsibility and forge good relationships across a broad range of local and regional actors toward the key problems faced by women and men; and girls and boys in West Java. S/He is expected to play an active and constructive role in providing information, analysis and strategic recommendations, including best practices and specific recommendations for entry points on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
III. Responsibilities and Accountabilities
The incumbent will assume primary responsibility for formulating and driving women empowerment and gender equality objectives to be mainstreamed into the project. In particular, this will include:
1. Ensure that gender considerations are taken into account and incorporated in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting;
2. Undertake continuous monitoring/assessment of project activities and recommend appropriate interventions for improved project implementations regarding the inclusion of gender considerations.
3. Delivering quality and timely gender analysis and reporting to IOM (incl. sex disaggregated figures/statistics);
4. Identify and analyse relevant DRR government policies and regulations with regards to gender issues
5. Provide inputs to the development of IEC materials to ensure the incorporation of gender mainstreaming into those documents;
6. Leading the collection of gender sensitive base-line data and the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation;
7. Based on local contextual analysis, recommend gender entry points for the project and advise on who could become ‘agents of change’ who needed to empower women and drive progress towards gender equality and advise on how women can be supported to gain the capacity to function as technical experts in teams for spreading skills and knowledge to others;
8. Provide technical assistance on gender responsive budgeting;
9. Work with the Project Development Office to ensure that lessons learned and good practices are
integrated into future project design;
10. Perform such other related duties as may be assigned
IV. Competencies
The incumbent is expected to demonstrate the following technical and behavioural competencies
Behavioural Accountability
Accepts and gives constructive criticism
Follows all relevant procedures, processes, and policies
Meets deadline, cost, and quality requirements for outputs
Monitors own work to correct errors
Takes responsibility for meeting commitments and for any shortcomings
Client Orientation
Identifies the immediate and peripheral clients of own work
Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with clients
Identifies and monitors changes in the needs of clients, including donors, governments, and project beneficiaries
Keeps clients informed of developments and setbacks
Continuous Learning
Contributes to colleagues' learning
Demonstrates interest in improving relevant skills
Demonstrates interest in acquiring skills relevant to other functional areas
Keeps abreast of developments in own professional area
Communication
Actively shares relevant information
Clearly communicates, and listens to feedback on, changing priorities and procedures
Writes clearly and effectively, adapting wording and style to the intended audience
Listens effectively and communicates clearly, adapting delivery to the audience
Creativity and Initiative
Actively seeks new ways of improving programmes or services
Expands responsibilities while maintaining existing ones
Persuades others to consider new ideas
Proactively develops new ways to resolve problems
Leadership and Negotiation
Convinces others to share resources
Actively identifies opportunities for and promotes organizational change
Presents goals as shared interests
Articulates vision to motivate colleagues and follows through with commitments
Performance Management
Provides constructive feedback to colleagues
Identifies ways for their staff to develop their abilities and careers
Provides fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Uses staff evaluations appropriately in recruitment and other relevant HR procedures
Holds directly reporting managers accountable for providing fair, accurate, timely, and constructive staff evaluations
Planning and Organizing
Sets clear and achievable goals consistent with agreed priorities for self and others
Identifies priority activities and assignments for self and others* Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Organizes and documents work to allow for planned and unplanned handovers
Identifies risks and makes contingency plans
Adjusts priorities and plans to achieve goals
Allocates appropriate times and resources for own work and that of team members
Professionalism
Masters subject matter related to responsibilities
Identifies issues, opportunities, and risks central to responsibilities
Incorporates gender-related needs, perspectives, and concerns, and promotes equal gender participation
Persistent, calm, and polite in the face of challenges and stress
Treats all colleagues with respect and dignity
Works effectively with people from different cultures by adapting to relevant cultural contexts
Knowledgeable about and promotes IOM core mandate and migration Solutions
Teamwork
Actively contributes to an effective, collegial, and agreeable team environment
Contributes to, and follows team objectives
Gives credit where credit is due
Seeks input and feedback from others
Delegates tasks and responsibilities as appropriate
Actively supports and implements final group decisions
Takes joint responsibility for team's work
Technological Awareness
Learns about developments in available technology
Proactively identifies and advocates for cost-efficient technology solutions
Understands applicability and limitation of technology and seeks to apply it to appropriate work
Resources Mobilization
Establishes realistic resource requirements to meet IOM needs
Technical
a) Effectively coordinates actions with other implementing partners
b) Works effectively with local authorities, stakeholders, beneficiaries, and the broader community to advance country office or regional objectives.
c) A drive for results in a high-volume, quick-paced project environment;
d) Creativity and analytical capability required to respond to evolving programme demands and current events.
e) Theoretical knowledge and proven practical experience in using participative methodologies; conducting needs assessment;
f) Proficient in computer application, including MS Office Suite; knowledge of database software desirable.
V. Education and Experience
a. Minimum University Degree in gender studies or other social sciences field with relevant specialization, or combination of relevant education and experience.
b. At least 5 years of relevant professional experience ideally in a humanitarian and/or development organization and preferably in Indonesia.
c. At least 3 years of direct work experience on gender mainstreaming and gender responsive budgeting; Thorough knowledge and understanding of gender theories;
VI. Languages
Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia, both oral and written.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates are invited to send the application in ENGLISH, with :
a) Cover letter, clearly specify suitability and availability date,
b) Complete the Personal History Form which can be downloaded at the following link :
http://www.iom.or.id/loadpdf.jsp?lang=eng&pgs=pcmain&file=phform.xls
c) Detailed curriculum vitae, including historical salary and minimum three referees (preferably former direct supervisors).
Please submit the application by email to recruitment-indonesia@iom.int and indicating the reference code above as subject.
The deadline for applications is 27 November 2012
Only applicant who meet the above qualification
For more detail info about us, please visit www.iom.or.id
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