The American Red Cross Vacancy

The American Red Cross helps vulnerable people around the world to prevent, prepare for and respond to disasters, complex humanitarian emergencies and life-threatening health conditions. It is a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and works closely with Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI).

Currently the American Red Cross has programs in Aceh, Central Java and West Sumatra, with new programming planned for JABODETABEK, West Java and central Java. The American Red Cross American Red Cross Program works with the Indonesia Red Cross (PMI) focuses on four main program areas: Disaster Management, Health Organizational Development and Water & Sanitation.

Therefore, the American Red Cross is currently seeking the qualified candidate to fill below position and be the IRP Program team:

SENIOR MONITORING, EVALUATION & REPORTING (Sr. ME/R) OFFICER

The position is based in Jakarta, at Palang Merah Indonesia Head Quarter Office. This position offers a competitive compensation package with 12 months contract (extendable) and opportunity to grow professionally. The position reports to the Head of Planning PMI and Liaise with M&E & Health Manager – AmCross

Standard Function Description

The Sr. ME/R Officer will be specifically responsible for developing PMER (Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting) System and strategies and providing technical assistance to PMI in each level on the system implementation. The Sr. ME/R Officer must be able to work collaboratively with the entire team in PMI to support ME/R related functions. The Sr. ME/R Officer responsible to develop capacity in PMI Head Quarter, Provinces, and Districts in PMER for program management purpose. The Sr. ME/E Officer will support PMI, as required, to enlist support form PNSs and IFRC technical staff to develop M&E methodologies and approaches and to socialize completed and agreed systems and methodologies to other PNSs and IFRC as determined by the Head of Planning.

Duties and Responsibilities:

a. Assist PMI to establish a comprehensive organizational PMER system to increase organizational performance to provide high quality service delivery.

b. Support Planning Bureau in developing its annual work plan based on the developed strategic plan and operational plan and ensuring program designs PMI have rigorous logic between activities, outputs, results, objective and goal with its Key Performance Indicators; support this process in other PMI Divisions as well.

c. Support PMI in all level to implement the PMER system, starting from developing monitoring and evaluation tool and methodologies including baseline surveys, specialized studies and final evaluations.

d. Support development Management Information System (MIS) in PMI, harnessing new information technology for the compilation, analysis, storage, and retrieval of data for program developments.

e. Assist PMI, particularly Planning Bureau, in developing reporting forms and data flow mechanisms according to PMER and MI system.

f. Contribute to build the PMER capacity of PMI at all levels via training and through developing an interactive and well-coordinated cross-divisional approach to PMER .

g. Promote improved organizational behavior to use information for decision making and action.

Qualifications:

a. Minimum S1 degree in related field (Master degree is preferable)
b. Experience in planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting in at least 4-5 years in development and/ or humanitarian organizations.
c. Experience in M&E approaches, including research both quantitative and qualitative.
d. Strong analytical and conceptual skills to think and plan strategically and the ability to translate this into practical and feasible operational program planning both in written and verbal formats.
e. Demonstrated facilitation skills in training and PMER capacity development to staff.
f. Problem-solving skills, mature personality, result oriented.
g. Computer proficiency including general office software applications (i.e. MS Office, preferable advance in Excel and statistical data management packages (SPSS)
h. Excellent written and oral communication skills in Bahasa Indonesian and English.

Please submit your application and curriculum vitae with photo in English to hr@amredcross.org, placing the job title in the subject line and label your CV with your name (CV max. 200KB size). Only short listed candidates will be notified. Applications submitted by Friday, May 18, 2012 after 5pm will not be considered.

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