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 experienceQualifications
- 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