Minggu, 31 Januari 2016

Hivos

Hivos Southeast Asia is a Dutch non-governmental organization guided by humanist values. It aims at structural poverty alleviation with a strong focus on civil society building and sustainable economic development. Hivos
Southeast Asia provides financial support for local NGOs, is active in networking, lobbying and exchanging knowledge and expertise. For its Hivos Southeast Asia seeks qualified Indonesian candidates for the position of:

Title : Community Engagement & Gender Officer-SII (2 Position)

Duty Station : Sumba, Indonesia 

Duration : One year, with possibility of extension

Report to : Field Project Manager

Functional context

In 2010 Hivos Southeast Asia started the Iconic Island initiative. The Indonesian island of Sumba was chosen as the 'Iconic Island'. Hivos Southeast Asia aims to provide access to reliable renewable forms of energy
to the population of this island, and in doing so, ending their dependency on fossil fuels and support development and economic activities of the local population. With years of experience working with partner organizations to
establish access to sustainable energy in developing countries, Hivos Southeast Asia is convinced that converting to sustainable energy while combining poverty reduction, is possible on a large scale. The results of
the Iconic Island initiative should become an example for other parts of the world.

In December 2015, Hivos Southeast Asia signed a partnership agreement with the Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia (MCA-I) which allows Hivos Southeast Asia to rapidly scale up renewable energy access and income benefits by replicating the successful approaches and business models developed under our Sumba Iconic Island (SII). The partnership agreement is working to achieve two outcomes; improvement of rural livelihoods through utilization of renewable energy in rural communities; and sustainable business models to create market (energy market and energy appliances market) of off-grid RE technologies adopted. 

The Community Engagement and Gender Officer will be responsible for implementing gender related activities under the Sumba Iconic Island and fostering local community active engagement in the project. He/she will
report directly to Field Project Manager and working closely with the field team and Gender Consultant. This position will be based in Sumba office, NTT.

Roles and responsibilities

1. To play a proactive role in the implementation of the multi stakeholders Sumba Iconic Island initiative which aims at realizing 100% renewable energy at Sumba Island.

2. Develop instruments to integrate and monitor gender aspects in Sumba Iconic Island activities 

3. Prepare and deliver a gender mainstreaming programme to team members, partners and target beneficiaries

4. Ensuring that gender agreed indicators are efficiently being met according to Hivos Southeast Asia and donor's requirements

5. Where appropriate deliver a ToT programme for local people to create a group gender and energy advocators

6. Provide support to surveys and research activities undertaken in the programme target areas to ensure proper gender integration

7. Together with Field Project Implementor, identify new locations/areas for potential gender and renewable energy implementation involving local community and partner especially women

8. Provide support and guidance to local implementing partner to ensure projects activities are promoting active involvement of community member especially women and implemented in accordance with approved project
documents and meet Hivos Southeast Asia' donor compliance standards, rules and regulations.

9. Identify capacity gaps and gender training needs for local partners to improve their skills in project management and implementation.

10. Contribute to the development and implementation of gender sensitive monitoring systems and do regular field visits to program targeted districts and communities and assist ME&L Officer in monitoring the implementation.

11. Contribute to knowledge development and facilitate document processes, models, best practices and lessons learnt on community engagement and gender mainstreaming into access energy activities 

12. Advocate to local authorities and communities on gender inclusive approach in energy projects

13. Ensure expenses are reported in parallel with activities implementation and coordinate with finance staff on financial reporting.

14. Contribute to dissemination of results and sharing of information through website articles, presentations, contributions to brochures, travelling exhibit, etc.

Knowledge, experiences and competencies

* A degree in social science or equivalent 
* Proven experience and understanding in gender mainstreaming in development programmes/projects in particular renewable energy * Experience knowledge of the challenges with respect to gender mainstreaming, preferably within renewable energy
* Good understanding of the socio-economic, gender and development projects.
* Professional written and verbal communication skills including public speaking in Bahasa Indonesia, working knowledge and experience in English.
* Show successful track record working in and within multidisciplinary team.
* Experience in coordination of research activities and monitoring and evaluation
* Strong interpersonal communication to effectively interact with civil society organizations, government officials and community.
* Sound experience in contributing to partnerships and multi actor initiatives
* Previous working experience in an international environment/organization would be an advantage
* Having respect for humanitarian or humanist principles and willing to work in a non- discriminating, neutral, impartial and gender equal environment.

What do we offer? 

An inspiring and dynamic working environment, dedicated colleagues and the possibility to work for an ambitious new international initiative.

How to apply?

To apply for this position please submit your CV and a cover letter to application.id@hivos.org no later than 11 February 2016.

This is an opened position at national level.

Please specify the position name you are applying for ('Community Engagement
& Gender Officer-SII') in the 'subject' line of your email. Only shortlisted
candidates will be notified.

For more information about Hivos Southeast Asia, visit https://hivos.org/.

Hivos

Hivos Southeast Asia is a Dutch non-governmental organization guided by humanist values. It aims at structural poverty alleviation with a strong focus on civil society building and sustainable economic development. Hivos
Southeast Asia provides financial support for local NGOs, is active in networking, lobbying and exchanging knowledge and expertise. For its Hivos Southeast Asia seeks qualified Indonesian candidates for the position of:

Title : Field Project Implementor-SII

Duty Station : Sumba, Indonesia 

Duration : One year, with possibility of extension

Report to : Programme Officer Sustainable Energy

Functional context

The Iconic island initiative aims to provide access to reliable renewable forms of energy to the population of a medium sized Indonesian island thus ending their dependency on fossil fuels and increasing access to energy
sources. This in turn is expected to stimulate economic activities of the local population. The project will focus on the energy needs of households,public facilities, offices and small industries, and is to be carried out as
a collaborative initiative between stakeholders. 

The Iconic Island initiative has been launched by Hivos Southeast Asia end 2010 with support of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) of Indonesia. Since then several stakeholders from private sector, civil
society and governments have engaged in the initiative. The ministry and Hivos Southeast Asia have formed a taskforce that comprises officials from national government, the regional government of NTT, the district
governments of Sumba, PLN's national and regional offices, private sector, higher education and civil society organizations. The structure of the task force includes a steering committee, working groups and a national
secretariat as set up by the Ministry. Hivos Southeast asia has been tasked to run the secretariat.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has decided to support the Iconic Island initiative with technical assistance (TA) to design and implement energy access programs based on renewable energy sources until April 2015. The TA addresses key priorities elaborated in the ADB energy sector assessment, strategy and road map for Indonesia (ASR), namely: improving access to reliable sources of power in rural areas, and expanded use of renewable
energy. And in 2013, the Norwegian Embassy has also assumed a role in supporting the implementation of Sumba Iconic Island initiative.

The Field Project Implementor will be responsible for monitoring, coaching/mentoring and facilitating local partners in implementing a successful renewable energy projects in Sumba according to Hivos Southeast
Asia 's standard and project indicator.

He/she will report directly to Programme Officer Sustainable Energy and in close coordination with Field Coordinator. The Field Project Implementor will be based in Sumba.

Roles and responsibilities

1. To play a proactive role in the implementation of the multi stakeholders Sumba Iconic Island initiative which aims at realising 100% renewable energy at Sumba Island.

2. To support the effective communication with the Sumba Iconic Island Task Force and other stakeholders in Sumba.

3. Support the implementation of Hivos Southeast Asia' project funded activities in Sumba.

4. Identify new locations/areas for potential renewable energy implementation involving local community and partner.

5. Provide support and guidance to local implementing partner to ensure projects activities are implemented in accordance with approved project documents and meet Hivos' donor compliance standards, rules and regulations.

6. Identify capacity gaps and training needs for local partners to improve their skills in project management and implementation.

7. Conduct regular field visits to program targeted districts and communities and assist in monitoring the implementation.

8. Ensure high quality of service provided to communities by providing technical review and feedback on findings and recommendations, and also ensuring adequate follow-up.

9. Facilitate document processes, models, best practices and lessons learnt are integrated into activities implemented.

10. Advocate to local authorities' community's needs, and rising awareness on vulnerability identified.

11. Ensure expenses are reported in parallel with activities implementation and coordinate with finance staff on financial reporting.

12. Ensure high-quality narrative and finance reporting; and assist partners to provide reports within agreed time frames.

13. Represent Hivos Southeast Asia for outreach and general coordination (i.e. local or provincial meetings, commune coordination meetings) as requested.

14. To support and facilitate visits or visitors (journalists, consultants, politicians, donors) to Sumba including logistics preparation as requested.

15. Together with Hivos Southeasat Asia team in Jakarta and the Netherlands develop and implement fundraising strategy to support a successful implementation of Sumba Island initiative.

Knowledge, experiences and competencies

1. A bachelor degree in rural development, sustainable energy, environmental and natural resource management, economics of natural resources or other comparable education.

2. An excellent understanding of energy project development, project management and community engagement.

3. Good understanding of the socio-economic aspects, including gender, of development projects.

4. Professional written and verbal communication skills including public speaking in Bahasa Indonesia, working knowledge and experience in English.

5. Show successful track record working in and within multidisciplinary team.

6. Minimum 3 years of professional experience in energy access programmes.

7. Strong interpersonal communication to effectively interact with donors, civil society organizations, government officials and community.

8. Sound experience in contributing to partnerships and multi actor initiatives

9. Good understanding of and strong affinity with civil society, in particular with non-governmental organizations.

10. Previous working experience in an international environment/organization would be an advantage.

11. Having respect for humanitarian or humanist principles and willing to work in a non- discriminating, neutral, impartial and gender equal environment.

What do we offer? 

An inspiring and dynamic working environment, dedicated colleagues and the possibility to work for an ambitious new international initiative.

How to apply?

To apply for this position please submit your CV and a cover letter to application.id@hivos.org mailto:application.id@hivos.org> no later than 11February 2016.

This is an opened position at national level.

Please specify the position name you are applying for ('Field Project Implementor-SII') in the 'subject' line of your email. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

For more information about Hivos Southeast Asia, visit https://hivos.org/.

Hivos

Hivos Southeast Asia is a Dutch non-governmental organization guided by humanist values. It aims at structural poverty alleviation with a strong focus on civil society building and sustainable economic development. Hivos
Southeast Asia provides financial support for local NGOs, is active in networking, lobbying and exchanging knowledge and expertise. For its Hivos Southeast Asia seeks qualified Indonesian candidates for the position of:

Title : Finance Officer Green Energy

Duty Station : Jakarta, Indonesia 

Duration : One year, with possibility of extension

Report to : Grant Finance Manager

Functional context

In December 2015, Hivos Southeast Asia signed a partnership agreement with the Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia (MCA-I) which allows Hivos Southeast Asia to rapidly scale up renewable energy access and income benefits by replicating the successful approaches and business models developed under our Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme (IDBP) and Sumba Iconic Island (SII). The partnership agreement is working to achieve two outcomes, including: 

1) Improvement of rural livelihoods through utilization of renewable energy in rural communities; and

2) Sustainable business models to create market (energy market and energy appliances market) of off-grid RE technologies adopted.

The Finance Officer supports Green Energy project teams in both the resource mobilization process and the result delivery process. The Finance Officer is responsible for the overall administration and financial operations for the
Green Energy Project funded by MCA-I. The Finance Officer has oversight of internal control systems and procedures, financial reporting, auditing, forecasting project budget. The Finance Officer is also responsible for
working closely with the Project Manager(s) and team to prepare budgets, do budget monitoring, and provide technical assistance for budget modification, financial aspects of project reporting and compliance as required by the donor; administers the donor and implementing contract and manages the related cash flow and reporting schedules. The Finance Officer administers and reviews the income statements of Green Energy projects implemented by Hivos Southeast Asia and assist the Project teams with their internal and
external reporting obligations.

The Finance Officer position is part of the Green Energy project team and ensures the compliance of Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia requirements as donor: results, budget and contract (implementation). The
Finance Officer coordinates with Project Development Manager, Project Manager (s) and DMEL Officer.

Roles and responsibilities

1. Budgeting and forecasting.

a. Controlling and monitoring budget to ensure fund availability for each programme.

b. Checking and assessing budget proposals from partner organizations and consortium partnes in accordance with donor standards and procedures.

c. Preparing Hivos Southeast Asia and partners' forecast to request fund to donors to ensure the availability of budget.

2. Assessing financial reports from partner organizations.

a. Assessing team and consortium members' financial reports to ensure the accuracy and correctness of budget charging, and also to ensure the consistency with project deliverables.

b. Verifying all office equipment rented/procured to assess if these are in accordance with donor requirements.

3. Preparing financial reports.

a. Ensuring the availability of all financial information for the reports in Hivos Southeast Asia database. 

b. Liaising with all related parties in preparing the financial reports.

c. Preparing financial reports by consolidating financial report of consortium members and partner organizations and Hivos Southeast Asia for checking and approval of Finance Grant Manager and Hivos Southeast Asia
Office Donor Relations.

d. Ensuring the completeness of supporting financial documents as required by donors

4. Filing financial documentation

a. Establishing filing system to ensure the availability of required financial documents of programmes.

b. Ensuring all office equipment purchased by programmes are registered, maintained and handed over as required by donors.

5. Organizing external audit for partner organizations

a. Scheduling external audits for partner organizations as required by donors.

b. Coordinating with the appointed auditor and partner organizations to ensure the timeliness of audit report submissions to donors. 

c. Providing data to auditor.

6. Assisting consortium member and partner organizations in financial management.

7. Other

a. Helping manage all start-up and close-out project activities.

b. Providing advices on financial matters related to programmes.

c. Supporting Hivos Southeast Asia office accounting as required.

d. Contributing to project update as well as project coordination meeting.

Knowledge, experiences and competencies

1. Relevant academic level of working and thinking.

2. Relevant working experience minimum 3 years.

3. Work experience in international environment.

4. Expertise in accounting and working with external customers.

5. Work experience in international environment and financial project management.

6. Experience supporting international donor-funded programs, preferably USAID-funded contracts

7. Experience working in a grants and contracts environment with the U.S. government, including working knowledge of donor regulations systems and procedures for managing many sites, partners and customers

8. Shows attention to details and is a good team player

9. Passion in the development sector would be an advantage

10. Having respect for humanist principles and willing to work in a non-discriminating, neutral, impartial and gender equal environment.

What do we offer? 

An inspiring and dynamic working environment, dedicated colleagues and the possibility to work for an ambitious new international initiative.

How to apply?

To apply for this position please submit your CV and a cover letter to application.id@hivos.org no later than 11 February 2016.

This is an opened position at national level.

Please specify the position name you are applying for ('Finance Officer
Green Energy') in the 'subject' line of your email. Only shortlisted
candidates will be notified.

For more information about Hivos Southeast Asia, visit https://hivos.org/.

Hivos

Hivos Southeast Asia is a Dutch non-governmental organization guided by humanist values. It aims at structural poverty alleviation with a strong focus on civil society building and sustainable economic development. Hivos
Southeast Asia provides financial support for local NGOs, is active in networking, lobbying and exchanging knowledge and expertise. For its Hivos Southeast Asia seeks qualified Indonesian candidates for the position of:

Title : Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Officer -SII

Duty Station : Sumba, Indonesia 

Duration : One year, with possibility of extension

Report to : Field Project Manager-SII 

Functional context

In 2010 Hivos Southeast Asia started the Iconic Island initiative. The Indonesian island of Sumba was chosen as the 'Iconic Island'. Hivos Southeast aims to provide access to reliable renewable forms of energy to the population of this island, and in doing so, ending their dependency on fossil fuels and support development and economic activities of the local population. With years of experience working with partner organizations to establish access to sustainable energy in developing countries, Hivos Southeast Asia is convinced that converting to sustainable energy while combining poverty reduction, is possible on a large scale. The results of the Iconic Island initiative should become an example for other parts of the world.

In December 2015, Hivos Southeast Asia signed a partnership agreement with  the Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia (MCA-I) which allows Hivos Southeast Asia to rapidly scale up renewable energy access and income benefits by replicating the successful approaches and business models developed under our Sumba Iconic Island (SII). The partnership agreement is working to achieve two outcomes, including: 

1) Improvement of rural livelihoods through utilization of renewable energy in rural communities; and

2) Sustainable business models to create market (energy market and energy appliances market) of off-grid RE technologies adopted.

The ME&L Officer (SII) is responsible for monitoring, evaluation and learning dimensions of Sumba Iconic Island programme and operates in accordance with the Hivos Southeast Asia policy and donor requirements, which in this case is the Millennium Challenge Account-Indonesia (MCA-I). 
The ME&L Officer works closely with Field Project Manager SII, PM/Deputy PM Green Energy, Hivos Southeast Asia' DMEL Officer and Consortium Partners (Village Infrastructure Angels, Winrock International and Yayasan Rumah Energi) to accurately monitor the phases of the project to ensure proper roll-out, monitoring results indicators using the SMART concept and analysing the evaluation results. S/he translates the project's Result Chain into tangible indicators for monitoring and evaluation; analyses, validates and aggregates outputs, outcomes and learning in all phases of the process, in close partnership with other project staff. 

Together with Hivos Southeast Asia' DMEL Officer, the ME&L Officer validates the potential sustainability and scalability of innovations, experiments and tests solutions through formative, summative and real-time evaluation on the basis of relevant expertise and experiences and also manages the assessment, validation and improvement of performance during the project cycle itself.
At the beginning, s/he focuses on the procedural and logistics aspects of accountability and transparency: data collection, reporting, etc and in a later stage wilkl take the lead on collection of material and writing the
best practices/lesson learned from the Sumba Iconic Island project.

The ME&L Officer will lead in delivering fact-based evidence according to the proposed project outputs based on MCA-I's requirements and will enhance the quality of new and/or ongoing project activities.

The ME&L Officer position is part of the Sumba Iconic Island programme delivery team, coordinating with Hivos Southeast Asia and consortium partner's M&E staff. The ME&L Officer provides the technical evidence to be
used by the Sumba Iconic Island projects teams and works in close partnership with all positions mentioned above, to provide back-up and support to successfully implement activities and put forward proof to
convince donors of Hivos Southeast Asia' Theory of Chance and operational capacities.

Roles and responsibilities

1. To play a proactive role in the implementation of the multi stakeholders Sumba Iconic Island initiative which aims at realising 100% renewable energy at Sumba.

2. To sharpen, manage and implement the monitoring evaluation and learning framework and systems according to the MCA-I reporting templates and data collection tools.

3. To ensure project compliance with MCA-I reporting requirements.

4. To coordinate, manage and be responsible for data collection from the field, analysis and reporting performance indicators by programme/project team members and programme/project counterparts with Hivos DMEL Officer.

5. To provide overall management for the implementation of the framework in coordination with Hivos Southeast Asia DMEL Officer.

6. To coordinate or facilitate specific areas of data collection as defined in the framework.

7. To assist the project staffs in the development of regular progress reports according to MCA-I requirements.

8. To regularly review and update the project's monitoring evaluation & learning plan.

9. To assist on the progress of the project, including: monitoring and evaluation of the impact and outcome, providing regular progress report.

10. To be responsible in research, studies and survey and evaluation activities.

11. To prepare lessons learned from the project and develop a plan for future activities.

12. To support the knowledge dissemination through trainings, mentoring an field visits.

13. To contribute to Hivos Southeast Asia's overall organizational and policy development.

14. To be a reliable and supportive team member to the whole team.

Knowledge, experiences and competencies

1. Relevant work experience: at least 3 years.

2. Experience with project and programmme monitoring and evaluation

3. Extensive experience in developing M&E framework and its ongoing management within renewable energy issues

4. Work experience in an international environment.

5. Track record in writing/compiling/editing proposals

6. Excellent understanding on data collection methods and analysis raw data into project intelligence.

7. Is attention to details and a good team player

8. Passion in development sectors would be an advantage

9. Having respect for a humanitarian or humanist principle and willing to work in a non-discriminating, neutral, impartial and gender equal environment.

What do we offer? 

An inspiring and dynamic working environment, dedicated colleagues and the possibility to work for an ambitious new international initiative.

How to apply?

To apply for this position please submit your CV and a cover letter to application.id@hivos.org no later than 11 February 2016.

This is an opened position at national level.

Please specify the position name you are applying for ('ME&Learning Officer-SII') in the 'subject' line of your email. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

For more information about Hivos Southeast Asia, visit https://hivos.org/.