Exciting Opportunities in Indonesia - 2015
Disaster Management & Risk Reduction

Long term positions based in Jakarta

URS International Development delivers practical solutions to companies and donors that support community relations, poverty reduction and economic growth to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Our people form one of the largest environmental, social development and engineering teams world-wide operating with a global network of more than 50,000 people located in 50 countries.

URS is currently seeking disaster management and risk reduction specialists for up-coming projects in Indonesia. The projects will focus on building the resilience of communities through a community based disaster risk management (CBDRM) approach. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate experience using this approach, including building the capacity of institutions at the national and sub-national levels.

We are seeking applications from suitably qualified candidates for the following positions:

Team Leader – Disaster Management (job code 661)

· Proven experience managing large donor funded projects, preferably for DFAT and/or in Indonesia

· Responsible for program implementation and ensuring the application of international best practices, in line with DFAT expectations

· Ensure program results and delivery, quality assurance and control

· Sound knowledge of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and CBDRM

· Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, community-based organizations and the private sector to develop policy and strategies related to DRR/CBDRM

· Understanding of the range of national disasters that impact Indonesia and the institutional bodies responsible for disaster response

· Proven experience building and managing successful multi-cultural teams

· Fluency in written and spoken English (essential) and Bahasa Indonesia (desirable)

Operations Manager (job code 662)

· Proven experience in overall program leadership and management on large donor funded projects, preferably for DFAT and/or in Indonesia

· Strong financial qualifications and experience

· Ability to build successful multi-cultural teams

· Understanding of Human Resources, logistics, financial control and administrative aspects of large projects

· Working knowledge of Indonesian regulatory environment desirable

· Experience managing grants and strong fraud control processes

· Fluency in written and spoken English (essential) and Bahasa Indonesia (desirable)

Candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of DFAT’s cross-cultural policies, cultural sensitivity and have strong ability to respond to and manage program risks and issues in a timely and effective manner.

To Apply

· For further information and to apply, please visit our website: www.urs.com/InternationalDevelopment/ProjectRecruitment and enter the relevant job code.

Your application will need to include:

· A signed CV and cover letter (in English) explaining how you will address the position criteria, including a declaration that the information provided is true and correct.

Applications close 16 January 2015

URS is an equal opportunity employer of choice and is committed to child protection. We encourage women and men to apply.

Engility Corporation, building on IRG’s legacy in international development, seeks an experienced Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated USAID-funded project in Indonesia. The goals of the project are to support the Government of Indonesia’s efforts to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation into core development plans and investments; strengthen the resilience of communities to the effects of natural disasters and climate change; strengthen the development and delivery of key climate information services; and provide technical support to other USAID projects in mainstreaming climate and disaster resilience into their activities.

Please note this is a five-year, long-term opportunity in Indonesia.

Chief of Party (COP) Responsibilities:

The Chief of Party will provide overall technical, administrative, and financial management leadership; prepare, review and monitor contract reporting and deliverables; oversee the recruitment and engagement of technical staff; liaise with the Engility home office, relevant USAID personnel, and project partners; and provide technical implementation expertise as necessary to project components.

MINIMUM TANGIBLE QUALIFICATIONS:

This is a contingent position based on contract award and client funding.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

About the Programme

Save the Children is an independent child rights development organisation, and is a member of an international non-government organisation (INGO) consortium called the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Partnership Group (APG), led by Oxfam GB, comprising of Save the Children, Plan International, World Vision, Child Fund, Help Age, and Mercy Malaysia. This consortium has developed a work plan that aims to strengthen ASEAN in implementing AADMER. The implementation of the Safe School activities and the integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Education have been identified as two sub-components of the AADMER Work Programs for 2010-2015. This has resulted in the current ASEAN School Safety Initiative (ASSI).

Plan International has been designated by the APG to lead the ASEAN Safe School Initiative (ASSI), which has been endorsed and approved by ASEAN. Implementing partners are Plan International, Save the Children, World Vision, and Mercy Malaysia. In addition, relationships regionally through the Asia Pacific Coalition for School Safety ensure engagement with other school-safety stakeholders in the region, including IFRC, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNISDR and others.

The specific objectives of ASSI are to: 1) increase funding, tools, local expertise and guidance for the Safe Schools Initiatives in the ASEAN region; and 2) improve capacities at national level through inter-agency collaboration and the use of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework.

The ASSI project will benefit from the combined extensive experience of APG members in DRR and education and wider humanitarian work in the targeted countries and at regional level. This includes their existing presence and influence in shaping the delivery and strengthening the capacity of national policies and institutions with regards to school safety. The capacity to secure greater coordination and capitalise on each agency's work in this area will ensure wider impact and outreach for the project's interventions. Both Plan and Save the Children and other ASSI partners' engagement in the APG will ensure project outputs and learning are shared at the ACPF regional coordination mechanisms.

Save the Children engages with national and sub-national authorities to support their education sector development goals and applying the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative framework develop support for global and regional collaboration for advocacy and standards, and to establish research priorities and research-practice linkages. We are represented on the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector's Steering Committee, and co-lead the School Disaster Management Working Group and the Ad Hoc Task Force on CSS Indicators. Over the past nine years, Save the Children has implemented more than 130 school safety programs in 49 countries worldwide, with significant activities and outcomes in DRR and Education and combined budgets of almost $60m USD. Three quarters of these began after 2008. Collectively these programs have reached nearly one million children making Save the Children a significant DRR in education agency across the region. Almost two-thirds of the total numbers of projects were implemented in Asia, with half of them in Southeast Asia.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit a Technical Advisor (TA) as part of the ASSI Project Management Team (PMT) to support the development and implementation of the ASSI, helping support strategies to go to scale with risk reduction and resilience in the education sector through at least December 2015. Key objectives which the TA will lead include the development and adoption of standards, tools, and approaches to support ASEAN and individual countries in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating indicators and minimum standards for school safety. The Technical Advisor works in close collaboration with ASSI Technical Committee and other key stakeholders such as Asian Coalition for School Safety.

You will have

To apply, please submit your cover letter and Resume via our careers page: http://www.savethechildren.org.au/about-us/careers.html

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