CARDI - Senior Project Manager

CARDI, an international NGO consortium providing support to persons affected by conflict and natural disaster is looking for qualified national candidates to fill in position to be based in Calang - Aceh Jaya, NAD :

Senior Project Manager - Calang (SPM - CL)

BACKGROUND

Founded in 2001, CARDI (the Consortium for Assistance and Recovery towards Development in Indonesia) is a coalition of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the Dutch refugee foundation Stichting Vluchteling (SV) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). CARDI’s clients are Indonesians affected by poverty, conflict and natural disaster in the provinces of Aceh, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Central Sulawesi, Maluku and North Maluku. By investing in Economic Development, Health and Children and Youth Initiatives, CARDI’s support provides resources that enable Indonesians to articulate their needs, advocate for change and affect improvements in their lives through social and economic entrepreneurship. CARDI also equips its clients with the ability to recover from disasters and conflicts, and prevent the reoccurrence of future conflicts, through Disaster Response and Mitigation programming. Four strategic, cross-cutting approaches—Advocacy, Rights,
Good Governance and Gender—are evident in all CARDI programs, and ensure that change is both durable and sustainable. While still addressing basic needs for displaced populations and returnees, CARDI increasingly provides transitional, post-conflict recovery and development programs.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY
The Senior Project Manager is the most senior staff member in the Aceh Rural Recover Project. S/he reports to the Field Coordinator in Calang and is in charge of the team of Senior Community Facilitators. S/he is responsible for achieving the objectives set out in the Aceh Rural Recovery Project documents, i.e. community cohesion strengthened at the village level and linkages between communities and service-providers re-established.
S/he is responsible for accessing and collecting information on service provision for dissemination to the communities and supporting linkages between service providers and targeted communities. His/her job is to guide, stimulate, organize and correct the Senior Community Facilitators who are interacting directly with the targeted communities. S/he will be responsible for monitoring and reporting progress to the Field Coordinator as well as monitoring adherence to CARDI policy and guidelines by the targeted communities/ Grant recipients and reporting deviations from these.

Essential Job Functions:
• Lead the team of Senior Community Facilitators in implementing this project in line with the project objectives ensuring the realization of the outputs set in the project document.
• Coordinate the implementation of this programme regularly and adequately with the Field Coordinator.
• Where necessary liaise with the CDR Field Manager in order to avoid overlap of the two projects and to ensure the exchange of lessons learned.
• Ensure that the Senior Community Facilitators are sensitive to CARDI’s rights-based approach to ensure impartiality, equal access to services and programs, especially of vulnerable people, and supportive of people to claim for their rights.
• When requested represent CARDI in coordinator meetings with other donors and Provincial Government
• Support donor and other visitors field trips to project sites
• Other duties as requested by supervisor
• Liaise with other, similar projects, implemented by different donors, e.g. UNDP, AIPRD-LOGICA, LGSP, IOM, World Bank
• Lead ARRP weekly meeting to share findings, data, field log sheet, village’s/community’s context and development analysis, to formulate project implementation strategy regularly.
• Analyze Senior Community Facilitators’ Field Log Sheet, Community Situation Report and FGD with vulnerable group result to assist ARR project development, evaluations and strategy to achieve its objective.
• Share skills with colleagues, partner organizations and other CARDI teams

Supervision of staff
• Supervise closely the work of the Senior Community Facilitators
• Train CARDI’s Senior Community Facilitators when needed to guarantee the quality of the program
• Conduct performance appraisals in a timely manner

Human Resources / Staffing:
• Assist in the orientation of newly arrived national and international staff on the team when requested
• Strive to improve and maintain overall team atmosphere and foster team-building relationships
• Schedule Calang based ARRP staff’s vacation and time-off of to ensure staff utilizes allowed vacation, while maintaining operational activities

Logistics /Finance
• Ensure that CARDI’s Micro Project Guidelines are adhered to by both staff and the sub-grant receiving community
• Provides information to CARDI Administration, Logistics, and Finance Departments as requested to ensure smooth operations
• Provides information to logistics for tracking and identifying CARDI assets;
• Ensures that project materials, tools, equipment and vehicles are efficiently used.

CARDI Representation
• Ensure positive interaction and good relations with partner organizations
• Accompanies donor or other CARDI tours to field sites, when requested

Reporting
• Provides accurate project progress information in English to the Field Coordinator
• Updates all project monitoring and reporting forms on project activities
• Document and communicate project planning, progress and results
• Provides input as required in English to complete donor reports

Qualifications
• 3 years experience in the following fields:
 Community development, if possible with conflict effected communities
 Carrying out and coordinating PRA work
 Conducting community based resource mapping
 Managing micro grants and sub-grants
• Second degree (e.g. MSc/MA/MM) in an appropriate field, e.g. fisheries, agriculture, civil engineering, social science, anthropology, public health. First degree with additional two years additional experience acceptable
• Excellent communication skills
• Documentation and report writing skills in English
• Computer literate (Microsoft Word, Excel and e-mail) is a must
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Fluency in Achenese an asset
• Able to work under pressure in a potentially unstable security environment
• Self motivated, honest, highly responsible, and punctual
• Leadership
• Ability to work as part of a larger team as well as to work autonomously when required
• To be able to use initiative and make appropriate decisions
• Able to work in a multi-cultural environment

Application should include a detailed CV and cover letter to be submitted by e-mail to recruitment@ cardi.or. id at the latest Thursday, July 17th, 2008..
Please put the code of position applied in the subject of your e-mail. No phone calls contact. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

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