In 2007, Papua’s and West Papua’s first directly elected governors
introduced an ambitious new community-driven development program,
channelling community grants of 100 million Rupiah to each of over
4,000 villages in the two provinces to fund development activities in
the areas of (i) nutrition and food security; (ii) education; (iii)
primary health care; (iv) village infrastructure; and (v) economic
livelihoods. In 2008, the governors’ RESPEK -- Strategic Village
Development Plan -- was integrated with the National Community
Empowerment Program (PNPM Mandiri Rural), bringing hundreds of
professionally trained development facilitators and field engineers to
assist communities in planning and implementing these funds.
One major challenge facing the PNPM-RESPEK program has been a chronic
shortage of qualified community facilitators, especially field
engineers. The program requires over 400 technical facilitators but
has only been able to recruit less than half of the needed number,
mostly from outside Papua, and turnover tends to be very high. In
February 2012, almost 300 of the technical facilitator positions were
empty. In order to address this acute and chronic shortage, the PNPM
Support Facility and PNPM National Management Consultants designed a
special program, called Barefoot Engineer Training, to provide local
senior high school graduates and technical school graduates from Papua
and West Papua with basic training in civil engineering, mechanics,
micro-hydro power generation, construction/building analysis, budget
planning and infrastructure design, implementation and construction
supervision, social facilitation and empowerment, whom later on could
be recruited as technical facilitators under PNPM Rural in the
region.
This type of training was conducted twice since 2003 and it’s now
entering into the third round aiming at providing skills to around 300
successful applicants. The training will combine classroom teaching
and practical application of the most common small-scale village
infrastructure issues.
Funded by the Multi Donor Trust Fund managed by the PNPM Support
Facility (PSF) of the World Bank, Yayasan Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan
Timur Indonesia (BaKTI) was engaged as the lead implementing partner
for the third wave barefoot engineer training from June 2012 until
December 2013.
To make the planned training successful, BaKTI requires highly
dedicated and committed Program Manager. Under direct supervision of
Program Development Manager Yayasan BaKTI. The Program Manager will
perform, but not limited to, the following tasks:
1. Manage the the overall implementation of the Third Wave Barefoot
Engineer Training, including oversight to financial management;
2. Conduct supervision to the training implementation, including
supervision to consultants recruited for the training purpose;
3. Ensure good quality of the narative reports and are submitted to
donor (PSF) in timely manner;
4. Build relationship with UnCen, Provincial Coordinator of PNPM-
Mandiri/Respek, Bappeda, Satker PNPM (representing BPMK) , PSF World
Bank, AusAID and other relevant stakeholders;.
5. Provide inputs to BaKTI’s semi annual and annual reports;
6. Provide other duty as required
Output
• Monthly Narrative Report of the Barefoot Engineer Training
highlighting key issues i.e. progress against work plan, challenges
and recommendations;.
Reporting Procedures
The Program Manager will report to the Program Development Manager of
Yayasan BaKTI but will be under overall supervision of the Executive
Director of Yayasan BaKTI.
Length of Contract
The Program Manager will be contracted as a consultant from June 2012
to December 2013 (18 months)
Qualifications
• Master (S2) degree, majoring in civil engineering is preferred;
• At least 5 years experience in the area of project/program
management;
• Self-starter (initiative) and ability to work under minimum
supervision;
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills with ability to work
under pressuring working environenment in managing team members
effectively;.
• Good understanding of local context, dynamics and being sensitive to
local culture:
• Good comment of written and speaking Indonesian and English;
Please submit your applications including cover letter, CV and
references (with full contact details) to:
info@bakti.org
Application should be submitted no later than June 27, 2012
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Yayasan BaKTI (Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia)
Jl. Dr. Sutomo No. 26 Makassar Sulawesi Selatan
Ph/Fax: +624113650320-22 / +624113650323
Email: info@bakti.org
Website: http://www.bakti.org, http://www.batukar.info
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