Junior Program Officer, Rights and Citizenship

Duty Station : Jakarta

Duration : One year, with a possibility of extension for one more year.

Closing date : 2 December 2011

I. Supervisor

Director Regional Office, Southeast Asia

II. Coordination

SEA Regional Office –

Program Officers for Rights and Citizenship, Finance Officer, Office Manager

III. Main Responsibilities

The Junior Programme Officer is a traineeship position for emerging young leaders in development work, which offers a learning trajectory through practical on-the-job training, mentoring, and capacity building opportunities for a maximum of 2 years. The main responsibility for this position is to assist the management of Hivos portfolio for the Rights and Citizenship programme, especially for the violence against women, women leadership, and good governance components.

Specific Tasks:

A. Programme Management Support

• Managing the partnership with a small number of civil society organizations working on violence against women and good governance, including performing monitoring and evaluation through out-of-town travels.

• Assisting studies or researches for the development of Hivos’ Rights and Citizenship programme, including performing desk reviews.

• Organizing workshops, meetings, trainings, and the design and printing of publications as necessary.

B. Project Administration

• Assisting the Programme Officers in processing proposals leading to rejection or taking into proper assessment procedures.

• Assisting the preparation of all necessary documents and administrative handlings for new outgoing contractual commitments for partner organizations and consultants according to existing procedures (rejection letters, organisation assessments, project summary and organisation descriptions, entrance of data in project administration, contract letter and cover letter to partners).

• Processing of annual progress reports and informing partners on the outcome.

• Monitoring the timeliness of report submission from partners.

IV. Qualifications:

Excellent knowledge of development issues with emphasis on gender, women leadership and good governance issues in Indonesia. Good understanding of and strong affinity with civil society, in particular with non-governmental organizations. Strong organizational, administrative and communication skills, particularly proficiency of writing in English. A good team worker. Prior experience in grant making will be regarded as an asset.

VI. Information :

The following application set should be send, in English, to hrd@hivos.or.id with the subject ‘JPO Rights and Citizenship’ by 2 December 2011 the latest:

• A cover letter expressing motivation for the position.

• A CV, no more than 4 pages, that highlights how the candidate meets the expected qualifications.

• A maximum two-page document that answers the following questions:

1) Explain and provide example, drawn from your experience, why you consider you have an excellent knowledge of development issues with an emphasis on gender, women leadership, and good governance in Indonesia, especially from the civil society perspective.

2) Provide example, drawn from your experience, of why you consider you have excellent organizational and writing skills in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.

This post is only open to Indonesian nationality and only short-listed candidates will be contacted. For more information about Hivos, visit www.hivos.nl/eng