KOMPAK Program Overview
KOMPAK (Governance for Growth) is a large and complex program that is uniquely placed to add value to the Government of Indonesia’s own efforts to improve the social and economic conditions of its citizens; it is aimed at economic expansion and poverty reduction in Indonesia. Abt JTA is supporting frontline services—including health and education—while identifying governance constraints. The work accompanies implementation of Village Law, new national rules that empower local communities and increase the direct flow of money to village governments and services. KOMPAK seeks to strengthen the capacity of all levels of government to improve services, respond to citizen needs and contribute to stable prosperity.
The Opportunity
The L&A Specialist provides overall leadership in learning and analytics to the KOMPAK program, including responsibility for quality assurance/quality improvement of KOMPAK-funded studies.
The position will manage the L&A work unit, which will consist of a small number of research and analytics personnel who will support KOMPAK program staff to identify analytical needs, and where part of a program initiative, help program staff design and manage analytical studies. In particular, the L&A Team will provide technical guidance and assistance in methodologies to ensure they are technically sound, relevant, and offer value for money.
In addition to studies undertaken through the program teams, the L&A Team will be responsible itself for the conduct of studies (either directly or through outsourced contracts). The LEAP Team will set an analytics agenda annually with key stakeholders. Within the work plan, time and resources will be allocated for rapid response analytics of emerging issues.
The L&A Specialist will have the responsibility for the design and management of effective mechanisms for the sharing of learning and knowledge across KOMPAK and amongst stakeholders.
A key responsibility of the L&A Specialist will be to support the development and implementation of multi-stakeholder problem-solving approaches (for example, PDIA, action learning). KOMPAK will support these approaches at subnational level as a means of helping local governments work with their stakeholders to identify systemic issues and trial local solutions. The L&A Team will provide technical guidance and assistance to local evaluators who will help implementing teams evaluate, assess, and adapt the local experiments. The L&A Specialist will be responsible for working with program staff and their local counterparts to ensure evidence from these iterative local evaluations is fed back into not only the local initiative but also more broadly across districts, provinces, and up to national levels. The intention is to have timely evidence inform adaptation of initiatives as well as possible diffusion, replication, and scale-up.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide learning and analytics leadership to the KOMPAK program
- Manage the Learning and Analytics Team
- Learning and Analytics Systems Development
- Strengthening learning and analytics capacity
- Oversee analytics agenda
- Reporting
- Contribute to the LEAP Team
- Manage the Learning and Analytics Team
- Learning and Analytics Systems Development
- Strengthening learning and analytics capacity
- Oversee analytics agenda
- Reporting
- Contribute to the LEAP Team
Our Requirements
Essential:
- Appropriate post graduate qualifications in research or evaluation methods;
- Demonstrated practical experience in research or evaluation design, conduct, and management including analysis and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data;
- Demonstrated ability to unpack and communicate complex concepts simply with a range of stakeholders in multi-cultural settings;
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate learning from research findings with implementation teams and other relevant stakeholders;
- High level communication skills, both written and oral, in English;
- High level of interpersonal skills with a flexible and collaborative personal style and the ability to communicate with diverse groups;
- Ability to work effectively as co-leader of a cross cultural team;
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy;
- Ability to meet deadlines and deliver high quality work;
- Ability to use a range of computer applications; and
- Ability to travel across Indonesia, including to the remotes part of the country in Papua.
Desirable:
- Demonstrated experience in delivery of international development projects in Indonesia, particularly within the Australian aid system and environment;
- Ability to communicate in Bahasa Indonesia;
- Experience in working with the complexity of Indonesian government settings, public sectors and civil society organizations at the national and subnational levels, preferable in district arenas;
- Demonstrated ability in facilitation and training;
- Deep understanding of safeguards issues such as social inclusion, gender equality, and child protection; and
- Experience in sectors relevant to KOMPAK such as regional economic development, governance, decentralisation and community development.
For Further Information and Application Details
Applications should be made online via our dedicated careers website and include a current CV. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted and provided with detailed position descriptions and interview details. Shortlisted applicants may also be asked to undertake a work-simulation exercise or other skills test as part of the selection process. We welcome and thank all applicants but only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
The deadline is 5pm, Monday 22 June 2015 Australian Eastern Standard Time.
About Abt JTA
Abt JTA is a recognised leader in the international development sector. Working with our many partners, Abt JTA implements bold innovative solutions to improve the lives of the community and deliver valued outcomes for our clients. We provide a comprehensive range of services from policy to service delivery in the public and private sectors contributing to long term benefits for clients and communities. Operating in remote and challenging environments, we offer innovative solutions, extensive experience in the region, strong technical capacity, and a proven project management track record.
