Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
The Opportunity
The project manager will be key to achieving the project objectives, including implementing climate-smart agriculture, livelihood, green skills, and gender-responsive climate action in NTT and South Sulawesi. S/he is accountable for the successful implementation of projects with the highest level of quality on Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) of GAC. S/he will support the Humanitarian Manager and the country leadership team in striving to strengthen YPII’s implementation of its mandate as a development organization and building the nexus between humanitarian and development. This role is critical for Plan in Indonesia, given the country’s high vulnerability and exposure to climate change.
Key Responsibility :
1. Project Planning, Design and Development
- Support further project development relevant thematic area, and liaise with the Program Development Unit and Fundraising Department for resource mobilization for targeted donors.
- Provide facilitation and technical advisory during project development and acquisition process – with partners.
- Align the project design and implementation with Plan International principles on gender transformative and Programme and Influencing Quality Performance (PIQP).
2. Delivery of Project Implementation
- Lead the project delivery activities, while providing technical inputs to leverage project quality results and adhere to the value for money principle.
- Develop coordination and communication efforts with Area Implementation Managers NTT and PIA Manager to seek alignment with sponsorship program delivery and target.
- Lead the delivery and monitoring of financial management (budget planning and expenditure) of the project, achieving accuracy and reliability of financial reports, following Plan Indonesia’s and donors’ standards and compliance.
- Lead the monitoring of technical outputs from project, to ensure the quality and governance of mobilization of goods and services to support project activities.
- Identify and manage the project risks and mitigation strategy, and plans for measures as well as keeps updating the Project Risk Registries.
- Lead the project closure process, audit, and transfer of project assets, ensuring compliance with Plan International policies and donor guidelines.
- Ensure adherence to the existing financial, procurement, and administrative processes in line with prevailing YPII rules and regulations.
3. Advocacy and Influencing
- Lead the advocacy and influencing of the project thematic area of expertise to inform policies at sub-national levels, and enrich CSO discussions and public opinion, contributing to the effort to build Plan Indonesia’s thought leadership in child rights and girls’ equality.
- Identify opportunities for deepening the cooperation and collaboration with the Government, NGOs, International Organisations (such as UN Agencies), and development partners on the project-related topics.
- Participates in Plan Indonesia and PII global and national campaigns and works with strategic partners on these issues.
- Participate and represent Plan Indonesia in sub-national and national platforms or conferences, should this opportunity arise.
4. Reporting and Knowledge Management
- Ensure project Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) Framework, through coordination and working together with MER Coordinator/Specialist to design the framework.
- Develop the quality and timely submission of periodic reporting requirements (monthly, quarterly and annually) as per Plan Indonesia’s and donor’s reporting schedule.
- Lead monitoring the implementation of projects by using agreed monitoring tools, in the M&E Framework, supervise and monitor the baseline, midline, and end-line reporting process for ensuring the feedback loops.
- Plan, coordinate, and oversee the development of quality knowledge products as part of learning and strengthening Plan Indonesia’s thought leadership in project thematic topics.
- Ensures quality standards of document keeping, retrieval, and sharing mechanism.
5. Communication, Partnership and People Management
- Establish good practice of partnership management aligning with Plan International Guidelines for Building Better Partnership, from partner assessment process to monitoring the partnership risk and agreement promoting mutual accountability and compliance.
- Lead and coordinate with relevant government stakeholders at sub-national levels, as well as establish new strategic partnerships and forum with relevant stakeholders sub-national and national.
- Adhere to RASCI in decision-making and communication in the implementation of projects.
- Be the focal person for the contact with Regional and Global Hub for project thematic, establish a good network and exchange learning and ideas with other Plan International Country and National Offices and Regional Offices.
6. Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GESI)
- Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation, and as principles applied in day-to-day work.
- Participate actively in capacity building and learning events on Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion.
- Submit required documentation (reports, checklists, action plans) to implement policy, standards, and approaches on Safeguarding and GESI.
- Understand and put into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GESI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
