Job Brief
Senior Program Development and Targeting Specialist
Program Background
Poverty Alleviation and Comprehensive, Inclusive and Adaptive Social Protection (PROAKTIF) is a new three-year partnership between the Government of Australia and the Government of Indonesia, to strengthen Indonesia’s social protection policies and systems. A central feature of the program is that it provides support to the Secretariat of the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), a policy think tank which provides evidence-based policy advice and coordination across a range of GoI ministries and agencies. This longstanding partnership has contributed to Australia and Indonesia’s joint goals to address poverty and inequality and reduce barriers to inclusive economic growth.
PROAKTIF has two outcomes that emphasize Australia’s intent to support and empower the TNP2K Secretariat over the next three years: 1) TNP2K makes an effective contribution to reforming and improving poverty alleviation programs in Indonesia, and 2) Enabling facility optimises TNP2K performance, including in the promotion of GEDSI and performance monitoring.
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The Role
Senior Program Development and Targeting Specialist supports the Manager of Research, Development and Data Management Unit in developing an analytical framework and evaluation design for the impact of better targeting on social protection programs and subsidies related to social assistance and income generation.
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- Advanced degree in economics, statistics, mathematics, data science, public policy, or related areas.
- Proven excellent analytical and conceptual skills, ability to interpret and present statistical information.
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience on issues related to poverty, inequality, and policy research.
- Proven track record in various policy analysis issue and reform related to the poverty and inequality.
- Extensive experience in managing large scales quantitative socio-economic data such as Sensus, Podes, Susenas, Sakernas, DTKS, P3KE.
- Proven excellent presentational and writing skills, including working with time constraints in the preparation of high-quality documents.
- Deep understanding of Indonesia’s policy, programs, administration system and having experiences in policy development and reform.
- Strong capabilities to apply mathematical and statistical techniques to economics in the study of problems, the analysis of data, and the development and testing of theories and models.
- Strong capabilities and experiences translating evidence to policy recommendation.
- Strong capabilities in data analysis skills and familiarity with statistical analysis software packages (STATA, SAS/SPSS, R).
- Strong capabilities to interpret and present economic/statistical information in user-friendly formats and able to provide examples of research papers or summary of past projects.
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills.
- Proven record of strong client relations, with ability to work in sensitive situations, challenging policy environments, and within GoI institutions / ministries.
- Proven record of providing prompt and quality response to client requests.
- Ability to effectively communicate internally and externally, share information with colleagues, clients, and management.
- Excellent presentational and writing skills are required.
- Dedication to working in teams.
- Able to work very effectively with a range of government agencies, development partners (including donors, multilateral agencies, and non-government agencies).
- A strong record of working across organizational boundaries is required.
- Ability to prioritize and manage time efficiently.
- Can handle multiple tasks effectively and coordinate a team to meet deadlines.
- Ability to manage uncertainty and adjust to a changing work program.
- Fluent in written and spoken both Bahasa Indonesia and English.
- Willing and able to travel for work.
The remuneration level at which the position is engaged is Locally Engaged Staff and will be based on the successful candidates’ relevant skills and experience. This is a fixed-term position.
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