With almost 30 years of experience working in the world’s toughest places, Mercy Corps believes that without a well informed and mobilized constituency in the developed world, there is a fundamental limit to the success we will have in pursuing our mission of alleviating suffering, poverty and oppression.
To that end, Mercy Corps has launched its Global Engagement initiative to radically alter the way people think about the world, and their role within it. This includes the opening of two museum-types high-tech Action Centers in NYC and Portland (OR) (www.actioncenter.org), and the management of the Global Citizen Corps (GCC) (www.globalcitizencorps.org) program which educate young people about global issues while building their leadership skills.
Through digital stories (video/photo) , structured youth-to-youth dialogues across continents, and leadership opportunities, young people discover peaceful ways to advocate for a better future and make a difference in their world community. To date, thousands of Arab and American youth have engaged in global citizenship education and community projects that transform the way they see their role in society.
Our web 2.0 portal www.globalcitizencorps.org aggregates educational and user-generated content into a youth-friendly platform that equips and inspires young leaders in Iraq, West-bank/Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, USA, UK and for the first time this year, Pakistan and Indonesia.
JAKARTA
1. Program Manager – Global Citizen Corps (GCC)
The Program Manager (PM) for the Global Citizen Corps Program (GCC) will lead the overall implementation of GCC activities in one of the multiple countries involved. The CM will work with the Global Management Team serving eight countries to optimize the effectiveness of project activities worldwide. The PM will report directly to the Mercy Corps Country Director in his/her country, and indirectly to the Global Program Coordinator. The PM’s work will also include donor relationship management for fundraising to ensure sustainability and expansion of activities as needed.
S/he will be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of the GCC program are executed effectively and in alignment with their respective grant agreements. S/he will be responsible for assessing the effectiveness and impact of program activities on participants through direct supervision, results of pre- and post-surveys, participant interviews, etc and for solving problems to ensure continuous improvements.
Qualifications:
- 3 years experience in international relief and development with field positions;
- Proven leadership, project coordination and communication skills;
- Ability to function as a goal-oriented and inspiring social entrepreneur – to work both independently and cooperatively with team members is required;
- Experience in building, training, motivating and managing a team;
- Ability to anticipate and solve problems, and communicate effectively across cultures and learning styles;
- Expertise with tools and innovations in Information Communication and Technologies;
- Experience in youth development, and community organizing;
- Baccalaureate or equivalent in international development, management, or related field;
- Ability to travel regularly to field locations and out of the country for international coordination and training;
- Rich experience in cross-cultural work;
- Experience in program evaluation;
- Proven fund development experience helpful.
Mercy Corps aims to address the complex underlying causes of malnutrition in urban poor settlements by building healthy physical environments, cultivating positive social contexts, and strengthening supportive economic relationships that facilitate access to and utilization of affordable adequate nourishment.
This project will contribute to healthy physical environments in urban poor settlements by increasing access to clean water supplies and improved sanitation, services that are necessary to reduce the incidence of infectious disease, one of the main underlying causes of malnutrition. Building on the core capacities, government relationships, and lessons learned developed through the DAP program, this project will also continue to address the social constraints to improved nutrition, increasing awareness and social support for new behaviors through the existing Ministry of Health RW Siaga program. Both the hardware and the software interventions will
be integrated with existing government priorities and programs, in particular the RW Siaga health program, allowing for significant building of capacity and improving the chances for government replication and scaling. The program will also be timed to coincide with the musrenbang government budget allocation process, supporting the potential for communities to seek matching funds and promoting the sustainability of the project intervention.
The overall aim of the project is improved health and nutrition of residents in poor urban communities in Jakarta and Bekasi through increased household access to clean water supplies and improved sanitation.
Access to water supply and sanitation services is crucial to preventing the infectious diseases that are a major cause of child mortality and malnutrition in Indonesia.
The program will be implemented in 3 kelurahan of West Jakarta and 1 kelurahan of Bekasi
JAKARTA
1. Capacity Building Officer
The Capacity Building Officer will work under the supervision of the Program Manager, and is responsible for the successful implementation of all project activities in the assigned targeted area. The Capacity Building Officer will coordinate and oversee the activities of the project, and will directly participate in conducting participatory field research, community based mobilization and outreach providing training, mentoring and coaching to government and community to implement water and sanitation infrastructure projects and hygiene and nutrition behaviors promotion , project development and implementation, and monitoring and evaluation in the Project communities.
Qualifications:
- 3-4+ years of field-based urban community development experience, with a focus on capacity building, community mobilization, water supply and sanitation and/or community health and nutrition, urban livelihoods; including problem solving; program monitoring and evaluation, and communication and report writing;
- Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
- BA/S or higher in social science, public health, environmental sciences, community development, similar field;
- Fluency in English verbal and written communication is highly preferred;
- Ability to multi-task, follow procedures, meet deadlines and works independently and cooperatively with team members essential;
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Word and Excel are mandatory;
- Willing to travel and work in difficult area;
- Willing to work during evenings and weekends for community mobilization activities.
Please send your CV with position applied on the email subject to: hrd@id.mercycorps.org
Vacancies will be closed 6 December 2009.
Thanks,
Human Resources Deparment
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