GIZ for The Sustainable Urban Transport Programme Indonesia (SUTRI NAMA): Senior Advisor Funding Mechanisms

The
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is an
international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide
operations. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on
a sustainable basis. SUTRI
NAMA as registered with the UNFCCC aims to tackle challenges of growing urban
traffic congestion and increasing urban transport related greenhouse gas
emissions by transforming urban transport in Indonesia with a mix of
capacity-building and investment measures provided through a national
sustainable urban transport programme. SUTRI NAMA will be implemented starting
from the year 2017
with support from the
NAMA Facility provided through GIZ as the delivery organization. SUTRI
NAMA has been added a technical assistance component funded by the State
Secretariat of Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO). The new component
targets at technical advisory related to the development and start-up of bus
rapid transit (BRT) corridors in selected pilot cities of Indonesia. The
component will be active both at local and national level in the field of BRT
planning, project management support, BRT operations management, public
transport funding as well as reform of the private minibus-sector towards
participation in operating consortiums. At national level coordination has to
be sought between the several relevant line ministries; best-practice examples
/ project achievements have to be documented, published and promoted for
replication.  Further
information: www.transport-indonesia.org We are seeking one qualified Indonesian candidate
for the following position: 
Senior Advisor
Funding Mechanisms

 Responsibilities

  • Support
    of the NAMA-SUTRI program’s initiative to provide professional advice and input
    to, and to cooperate with, a broad range of target groups particularly in the
    fields of the elaboration of financial cooperation agreements and funding
    mechanism development for infrastructure projects between MoT, MoF,
    Financial Institutions,
    city administrations and the private sector. Also support of the integrated
    program component INDOBUS which is aiming to implement BRT-corridors in five
    selected pilot cities. This component is co-financed by Swiss SECO;
  • Active
    contribution to achieving the program´s results and preparation of deliverables
    in a timely and qualitative sell satisfactory manner as specified in the
    program concept;
  • Innovation
    and knowledge management as well as transmission of innovation to a wide range
    of persons;
  • Integration
    of results and experiences into team efforts and into all relevant groups.

 A.   Tasks1.    
General SUTRI NAMA Program

  • Analyzes
    and makes recommendations using international best practice in fund management,
    advanced financial mechanism planning and statistical methods,  as well as
    budgeting and financial analyses;
  • Provides guidance and input to program
    components in cooperation with other professional staff and consultants;
  • Develops
    work plans and budget estimates for program components;  
  • Prepares
    and conducts public presentations and materials;
  • Prepares
    training materials and conduct training session on sustainable urban transport
    themes, financial-related topics and subsidy mechanisms (as per the candidates specific
    specialization);
  • Prepares
    planning reports involving extensive written and graphical material;
  • Gathers
    and analyzes data and information; prepares transportation planning or
    financial subsidy mechanism studies and analyses and acts as a resource for
    data used in the course of the program
  • Researches
    planning literature, news articles etc. to prepare abstracts and
    bibliographies;
  • Assists
    with planning studies or surveys as a team member or performs portions
    individually under close supervision;
  • Answers
    inquires and disseminates information regarding topics related to the program;
  • Coordinates
    and serves as support staff for meetings; attends various transportation and
    financing meetings as
    required;
  • Develops
    work plans and program based M+E system for all targeted work in cities, and
    maintain and update it regularly;
  • Links and coordinates program to other related on going
    projects (other GIZ
    projects, INDII, CDIA, World Bank etc.)
  • Prepares
    reports.

 2.    
Tasks specific to Financing System Unit of the program

  • Be
    the “face and voice” (contact person) for the Ministry of Transportation (MoT)
    and the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), Ministry of Finance (MoF) and other
    related financial institutions (e.g. PT. SMI, etc) on funding mechanisms for promotion of transport infrastructure
    development at GIZ Indonesia;
  • Give
    technical advice to MoT, MoF, BAPPENAS
    and other working groups
    on funding mechanisms for promotion of transport infrastructure development;
  • Link
    program to ongoing GIZ activities (e.g. TCC, TRANSfer);
  • Establishment
    of a funding mechanism for public transport and TDM projects as follows:
  • Assessment of existing and potential mechanisms
    to increase co-funding of sustainable transport measures substantially;
  • Conduction a dialogue and achieving an agreement
    with financing partners on standard operation procedures for the new funding
    mechanism of the urban transport program;
  • Development of rules and regulations, including
    the definition of access criteria for co-financing high-quality sustainable
    urban transport measures (e.g. technical and environmental standards, operation
    and maintenance plan, up scaling potential);
  • Formulation of a financing agreement / basket
    funding framework for the new mechanism of the urban transport program which
    can be adapted by other potential donors;
  • Pilot testing of the mechanism, analyzing
    potential adjustment needs and executing necessary adjustments;
  • Development and implementation of a fundraising
    strategy to leverage additional funding from national and international public
    and private sources;
  • In
    cases when for the above tasks additional external resources will have to be
    deployed for specialized contributions, the incumbent shall identify those
    contribution packages, prepare terms of references for third party
    subcontracts,  monitor and evaluate its proper execution and eventually
    align outputs in the overall context of the program;
  • Organize
    and manage the program tasks to be carried out in Indonesia;
  • Regularly
    report according GIZ regulations;
  • Assist
    preparing missions, workshops, etc.

 3.    
Other duties/additional tasks

  • Assists in and/or carry out other program
    activities and any other tasks according to needs, as assigned by the Senior
    Office Coordinator or the Program Director;

 B.     Required
qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications

  • University degree at masters level with relevant
    specialization and qualification in the field of public policy, budgeting,
    financial management, budget financing, fiscal balance, or equivalent;

 Professional
experience

  • At
    least 8 years professional experience in a comparable position

 Other
knowledge, additional competences

  • Sound communication and writing skills in the
    English language
  • Team leadership skills 
  • Strong methodological and conceptual skills in
    project management
  • Strong social and communication skills
  • Proficiency in the Indonesian and English
    language (reading & writing)
  • Excellent command of MS – Office (Excel,
    PowerPoint, Word)
  • Fluent language skills in English
  • Willingness to up skill as required by the tasks
    to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management 

 Duty Station: JakartaExpect to join: a.s.a.pDirect Superior: Principal Advisor of SUTRI NAMA Project Interested candidates should submit a motivation letter, CV,
trainings attended and list of references (a must), addressed to recruitment-indo@giz.de. The closing date to
submit the application letter is on 5 July 2017. Please
indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: SN-SAFM Please name your file as follow
format:
[Your Complete Name]_[Motivation
Letter/CV/Latest Education Certificate] (i.e: Putra Pangeran_CV or Putra Pangeran_Motivation
Letter
or Putra Pangeran_Reference)
 
Only short-listed
candidates will be notified
    

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