General Overview of
the Position

Sector Coordinator Seaweed acts as VECO Indonesia focal
point for this specific sector commodity (seaweed), although the incumbent is
also required to familiarize him/her self with other commodities such as
coffee, cocoa, rice, cinnamon and for all upcoming VECO Indonesia program in
general. The incumbent should pro-actively represent VECO Indonesia on a local
and national level both with internal and external partner/stakeholders in the
area of his/her responsibility. As the internal point of contact, Sector Coordinator Seaweed plays an active role in contributing ideas, program reporting and monitoring
evaluation of the program, as well becomes
a contributor in the whole agriculture value-chain, with particular attention to sustainable practices.

Sector Coordinator Seaweed report directly to Program
Director. Responsible to ensure that program activities is in line with the respective
donors/partners. In coordination with the Programme Director, he/she
contributes to make decisions related to the programme and activities and
responsible to implement the program in collaboration with other technical
staffs and relevant partners.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Planning and Implementation :

• Initiate, coordinate and ensure the implementation of the seaweed
  program of VECO Indonesia; in coordination with other technical staff member to
  improve and develop program and its activities;
• Ensure that the program to achieve
  synergy and integration among other program activities.
• Facilitating of and participating in program event, dialogues on
  agricultural chain development among stakeholders in related sectors;
• Identifying and developing partnerships with relevant
  stakeholders for concrete collaboration to scale up the program results;
• Promoting, developing and implementing sustainable
  agriculture and innovative agribusiness models;
• Report and discuss program planning and progress with Program
  Director and provide regular updates to the VECO programme team.
• Support and coordinate program planning and budgeting
  of the partners, and ensuring the compliance to the program direction and the
  administrative and financial regulations

Report  – Monitoring
and Evaluation

• Prepare and produce
  regular narrative reports related to the program activities: update, provide
  ideas and recommendation as necessary in base on field observations.
• Contribute for monitoring and evaluation of the
  program implementation in the sector, in coordination with the PLA Coordinator;
• Contributing to VECO’s communication programme
  (website, magazine, Facebook, Instagram, special publication materials, etc.)
  in coordination with the Communication team

Network / Stakeholder Management

• Monitoring developments and opportunities in the value chains in the related sector including potential partners, markets
  and potentially new products;
• Facilitating business links between farmer
  organizations and the private actors, financial institutions, decision makers
  and commodity networks;
• Facilitating farmer organisations and private actors
  in adopting inclusive business practices;
• Regularly communicate, coordinate, engage and ensure synergy
  with the local and provincial governments.

Operational and Team Management

• Managing the day to day administration and financial
  administration of the program and to follow both VECO and Donor administration policy
  and procedures.
• Coordinate regularly with other sector
  managers/coordinator and support staffs.
• Contributing to the fundraising activities of VECO
  Indonesia; especially the respective sector.
• Taking the responsibility to protect the dignity,
  values, identity and reputation of VECO Indonesia;
• Being open to and contributing to Teal Management practices;

Requirement:

Education and Experiences:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Agriculture,
  Agronomy, Economics, Environmental Sciences and Business or equivalent.
• About 3 to 5 years work experience in agriculture
  value-chain, rural development, sector development, agricultural development or
  equivalent.

Specific Knowledge:

• Concepts of sustainable agriculture, value chain
  development and inclusive business in the respective sector;
• Farmer organization development strategies and tools;
• Agriculture commodity development and marketing;
• Monitoring, evaluation learning tools and
  methods;
• Knowledge of the actors in the sector at local and national
  level.

Specific skills:

• Communication
  and  networking
  skills
• Lobby and advocacy
  skills;
• Being able  to engage with government, private sector and
  other stakeholders in a value chain setting;
• Excellent writing
  and reporting skills (in Bahasa Indonesia and English);
• Facilitation skills
  to assist partners and organize stakeholder platforms, meetings, workshops,
  etc. ;
• Affinity with sustainable, human and environmentally friendly practices.

General skills:

• Good knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,
  Office365;
• Excellent proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia (speaking
  and writing);
• Good proficiency in English (in reading, speaking, understanding
  and writing).

Attitude:

• Has strong affinity with the mission and value of VECO
  Indonesia;
• Act with integrity and respect others;
• Reliable and responsible;
• Collaborative and Result
  oriented;
• Well-organized;
• Analytical; Innovative;
• Communicative and diplomatic;
• Enterprising;
• Facilitating;
• Flexible;
• Team-oriented;
• Willing to learn
  and share

If you find
this job with VECO Indonesia interest you and that you are meeting the
requirements, we invite you to submit your letter
of interest, very recent CV and salary expectation to: VECO Indonesia email: [email protected]  no later than September 13^th 2017.

To maintain a good gender balance in
our team we especially encourage female candidates to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.