VACANCY : USAID/IUWASH PLUS BC/Marketing Associate for Regional Offices (JOB CODE: BCMA-REG)
The
USAID Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation
and Hygiene ‘Penyehatan Lingkungan Untuk Semua’ (IUWASH PLUS) program is a
five-year initiative designed to assist the Government of Indonesia in
increasing access to water supply and
sanitation services as well as improving key hygiene behaviorsamong
urban poor and vulnerable populations.
Implemented by DAI Global LLC, IUWASH PLUS works with governmental agencies,
the private sector, NGOs, communities and others to achieve the following
“high level” results:
- An
increase of one million people in urban areas with access to improved
water supply of which at least 500,000 are from
the poorest 40% of the population; and - An
increase of 500,000 people in urban
areas with access to an improved sanitation facility and all of whom are from the poorest 40% of the population.
To ensure
that improvements in access to WASH services are sustained, IUWASH PLUS is
guided by a development hypothesis that focuses on strengthening service
delivery systems so they can more effectively reach the poorest and most
vulnerable segments of the population. In order to achieve this at scale,
IUWASH PLUS undertakes activities through four interrelated components,
including: 1) Improving household WASH services; 2) Strengthening city WASH
institutional performance; 3) Strengthening the WASH financing environment; and
4) Advancing national WASH advocacy, coordination and communication.
To achieve these outcomes
IUWASH-PLUS need high caliber incumbent to fill the positions of
BC/Marketing
Associate, based in Jakarta, Makassar, Medan, Surabaya and Surakarta Regional
Offices (JOB Code: BCMA-REG)
Objective:
The primary objective of the above
position is to implement IUWASH PLUS BC/Marketing activities at the local level
to achieve water supply and sanitation related targets under Component One
“Improving Household WASH Services”. The main activities are creating demand
(including building awareness) and promoting market based approach,
strengthening community and enhancing their relations with external
stakeholders (private sectors and local government).
The BC/MarketingAssociatewill support
BC/Marketing Specialist in coordinating the overall IUWASH PLUS BC/Marketing Programs in the
designated region, including behavior
change/social mobilization and marketing activities, enhancing community
relation with stakeholder, and increasing access to micro-finance or other
support/sources of fund. His/her responsibilities
will include, but not be limited
to the following:
· Supporting Regional BC/MarketingSpecialist to undertake regular
assessments in the area of (both water supply and sanitation) for the target
locations to identify existing conditions, main issues, potential demand,
possible conflict with other programs and commitment from key local partners
and stakeholders (including PEMDA, PDAM, Dewan Pengawas,
MFIs, etc.).
· Increase household demand for WASH Services,
with special focus on:
o
Supporting programs
to increase households demand for WASH services
o
Providing support
to city and district governments and relevant staffs including sanitarians,
local health agency, including kader
Posyandu and local/community leader to implement STBM (urban STBM approach) and
behavior change programming; may include capacity building (training etc.) and
activities
o
Establishing
strong partnership with city and district governments as well as with private
sectors (including local banks, CSR) to create market based approach for WASH
products and services, and financial support (micro finance, etc.) to help
community (especially bottom 40% of population) to access WASH products
o
Conducting social
mobilization activities to build awareness on WASH and promoting behavior
change, in close coordination with WASH Facilitators
o
Promoting WASH
products and building WASH promotion channel at community level, in close
coordination with WASH facilitators
o
Promoting market
based approach for WASH products to build ownership of the product and to
ensure sustainable behavior change
o
Seeking potential
partners to promote WASH products as well as to link WASH service provider to
the consumer (especially bottom 40% of population)
o
Promoting STBM
approach in urban setting and engaging city and local governments to replicate
the approach, this will include financial access and supply to WASH products
·
Support preparation
of IUWASH annual regional work plans and budgets resulting in
agreed action plans with local partners, incorporating
cost-sharing and /or leveraging of local and national
stakeholders.
·
Support
BC/Marketing Specialist to monitor overall WASH BC/Marketing activities in the region, in line
with agreed activities
and budgets, including development of SOW for regional field activities (events, trainings, exchange visits, FGD, discussion forums, etc.)
·
Contribute to the regular IUWASH PLUS progress reports
regarding all Regional BC/Marketing activities
·
Support
BC/Marketing Specialist to track progress against performance indicators through
regular monitoring of activities and results following the relevant indicators
in the approved IUWASH PLUS Activity Monitoring Plan
(AMP).
·
Together with BC/Marketing
Specialists maintaining regular contact with other Regional
BC/Marketing Specialist and Associate, join regular IUWASH meetings, and provide
regular updates to Regional Manager and National coordinator under Component I on ongoing and planned field
work with local partners.
·
Ensure strong linkages between Regional BC/Marketingprograms and activities of Component 1 with other IUWASH PLUS Components, including: Component 2, Strengthening City and Districts WASH Institutional
Performance; Component 2, Strengthening
city WASH institutional performance; and Component 4, Advancing national WASH advocacy,
coordination and communication.
·
Identify
opportunities and support activities to utilize the Local Sustainability &
Innovation (LSI) Program to advance
increased safe water access to poorest 40% of the population.
Minimum General
Qualifications:
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant fields;
• Experience in working with International Donor
Agency Program
• At least 7 years experiences working in
community mobilization, demand mobilization and behavior change, preferably in
WASH sector
• Strong facilitation skill, knowledge and
experience in participatory approach as well as participatory monitoring and
evaluation, preferably experience in WASH sector
• Good communication skill and experience
working with multi stakeholder; government, CBO, PKK, private sector/CSR,
koperasi/MFI, university etc.
• Experience with USAID programs is highly
desirable.
Expected Start Date : Available immediately
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Interested applicants are
invited to send a complete application with 3 references to [email protected] before September 30, 2016. Please write the job CODE in the subject line of
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applications and only shortlisted candidates will be notified.