Indonesia Urban Water Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) Project

Project Liaison for Climate Change (PLCC)

Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA)

The Indonesia Urban Water Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) Project (or, the “Project”) is a sixty-month program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented under the leadership of DAI. IUWASH works with government, the private sector, NGOs, community groups and other stakeholders to improve access to safe water supply and sanitation in Indonesia’s urban areas. The overall goal of IUWASH is to assist the Government of Indonesia (GOI) in making significant progress in achieving its safe water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets by expanding access to these services. The expected results to be achieved are: 2 million people in urban areas gain access to improved water supply; 250,000 people in urban areas gain access to improved sanitation facilities; and the per unit water cost paid by the poor in targeted areas decreases by at least 20%. To achieve the above, assistance provided by the project is divided under three main technical components, including: 

1.       Mobilizing demand for water supply and sanitation service delivery; 

2.       Improving and expanding capacity for water and sanitation service delivery; and

3.   Strengthening policy and the financial enabling environment for improved water supply and sanitation service delivery.

PDAM Serang District struggles with issues concerning raw water resources sustainability, both surface water and water spring. Based on vulnerability level measurements and studies (CCVA), Serang's water resources is gradually decreasing, including those used by PDAM Al-Bantani as their raw water source. The discharge has declined to 35% up to 50% from the initial discharge. As an example, in 1990, Sukacai water springs has a discharge of 60 liter/second, comparing to today's discharge which only reaches 27 liter/second (about 55% decrease).

Decreasing discharge and quality level of water resources will worsen with climate changes that affect rainfall patterns that tends to be shorter (decreased number of rainy days) but with a higher intensity (heavy rain or storms), also the dry seasons getting longer and more dry. As a result of changes land use and the climate, it will affect to the stability of slopes and ground soil that can lead to landslides or land movements that can damage various water resource facilities, and infrastructures which will also damage PDAM's water distribution facilities and/or other public facilities.

In order to ensure the implementation of climate change adaptation activities in PDAM Serang District and PDAM Lebak District, IUWASH will assists in the construction of 10 infiltration ponds in Serang District as a pilot for the local government, corporations or local communities to replicate in their respective areas. In addition to the infiltration ponds program, IUWASH will also assist in rehabilitating the intake pumps and generators in the Kalanganyar intake, which is expected to be a solution for the problems that occur, which is ensuring service sustainability.

The implementation of these activities will be conducted by a third party (contractor), which will be selected in accordance with the procedures established by the IUWASH team, both technically and administratively.

The objective of this technical assistance program is to assist of the process of monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the infiltration program in Serang District and rehabilitation in Kalanganyar intake will be implemented correctly, including the quality, quantity and timing of the implementation.

To achieve these objectives IUWASH need high caliber incumbent to fill the positions of

Name of Position: Project Liaison for Climate Change

Job Code: PLCC-STTA

Type of Employment: Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA)

Total Level of Effort: four months (80 days) LOE

Location: Serang or Lebak District.

Responsibilities:

-       To provide daily support to local communities;  local government; PDAM staff on construction of up to 10 SR

-       To arrange and monitor local procurement and transport of materials (sand, cement, etc),

-       To arrange with local communities on providing unskilled and skilled labor,

-       To organize the various training events (in which our national team will be the nara sumber / trainers),

-       To Provide daily supervision during construction,

-       To document progress and results of SR construction (including photo's) to be used later in simple buku saku construksi Sumur Resepan Kab Serang

-       As liaison with CSR forum to bring staff from local companies who already pledged CSR funding for replication of SR

Post & Reporting Relationships

PLCC coordinates daily concerning daily work plan, work progress, problems in the field, and so forth with UWSS WJDB team or the raw water team regarding technical aspects. PLCC resides in Serang District or Lebak to facilitate the coordination with the local community and supervision of field work

Qualifications

1. A minimum of Diploma degree on Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering

2. 1-3 years’ experience in drinking water related works

3. Have experience in community organizing

4. Willing to work on holidays or weekends if needed.

3. Have a motorcycle

APPLICATION SEND

Interested applicants are invited to send a complete application with 3 references toIUWASH_recruitment@dai.com by the latest 10 days of the advertisement. 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.