Background
While Indonesia has seen a decrease in overall unemployment rates post COVID-19, this remains above pre-pandemic levels at 5.32% (5.15% Female and 5.42% Male) according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (2023). There are continued efforts to sustain economic recovery and create more job opportunities across various sectors to stabilise and further reduce unemployment rates.
Gender inequality is a significant social issue in youth employment in Indonesia. Young women face a range of challenges to enter the labour market and in advancing their careers, including cultural and social norms that prioritise male employment and limit progression opportunities for women. Only 39% of young women (aged 15-29) are part of the workforce compared to 58% of young men within the same age range (Ministry of Labour, 2022). To further compound the issue, young women are more likely to be in informal or precarious employment in Indonesia, with 63% in such jobs compared to 56% of young men (National Labour Force Survey, 2023).
To respond these situation, Plan Indonesia with support from Standard Chartered Foundation will launch FutureMakers 2.0 Project. The project will target 1,900 young people as project participants. Of these, 75% will be young women (aged 18-29) and approximately 5% will be youth with disabilities (aged 18-35) living in Greater Jakarta Region, Greater Surabaya Region, Greater Semarang Region, and Special Region of Yogyakarta. All project participants will be young people from low socio-economic backgrounds (earning less than $2.50 USD per day), who might also face other markers of disadvantage, such as being out-of-school, a single mother, of a minority background, a victim of domestic violence, having a disability, being of a minority gender/sexual identity. This project will led by Project Manager.
The Opportunity
The Project Manager will lead project implementation in Jakarta Greater area, Central Java, DIY and East Java. She/he responsible to achieve project goals effectively. She/He also should ensure the project expenditure comply with Plan International regulation as well as with Donor regulation.
Accountabilities for The Role
Effective and Efficient Project Management
- Develops and update Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) of the project and monitor its implementation, ensuring timely implementation of the project;
- Be responsible for managing partners and consultants to ensure delivery of quality outputs based as required and planned in the project;
- Leads the financial management (budget planning and expenditure) of the project achieving accuracy and reliability of financial reports, in accordance with YPII and donorsโ standards and compliance;
- Oversees the mobilization of goods and services to support project activities, including drafting TORs and works/product requirements and specifications;
- Identifies project risks and mitigation strategy, submits information on the new risks and possible mitigating measures to the Program Manager for consideration and updating the status of these risks by maintaining a Project Risk Registry;
- Ensures adherence to the existing financial, procurement and administrative processes in line with prevailing YPII rules and regulations;
- Coordinates the maintenance of project financial tracking in SAP in accordance with YPII procedures;
- Prepares for project closing, audit and transfer of project asset.
Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Knowledge Management
- Works and coordinates with YPII YEE MERKM to manage and monitor the implementation of the project by using agreed monitoring tools, M&E Framework and achieving quality of baseline, midline and end line data collection;
- Coordinates the data collection and support the provision of project report in Indonesia for periodic reporting to Donor and YPII Quarterly and Annual Reporting mechanism in timely manner in coordination with Grant Acquisition Manager and with supervision from Program Manager;
- Leads and supervises the development of knowledge products from the project, including fact sheets/project brief, policy briefs, modules, research and publications, in quality and timely manner;
- Maintains quality standards of document keeping, retrieval and sharing mechanism.
Effective Working Relationship with Partners, and Other Plan Offices
- Establishes good practice of partnership management aligning with Plan International Guidelines for Building Better Partnership, from partner assessment process to monitoring the partnership agreement promoting mutual accountability and compliance;
- Facilitates regular coordination and quality assurance with YPII YEE Program Team;
- Adheres to RACI (Responsibility, Accountability, Consult and Inform) in decision making and communication in the implementation of projects;
- Supports YEE Program Team in ensuring coordination with government and private sector stakeholders;
- Be the focal person for the contact with the team partner and Microsoft with regards to implementation; this entails attending regular update calls, responding to email requests, attending global calls and exchange learning and ideas with other coordinators around the world.
Requirements for The Role:
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in social fields or other related field in the promotion of youth employment.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in project management, including budget management, monitoring and evaluation and quality project reporting
- Minimum of 3 years experienced working in coordination with Government agencies/offices
- Affinity to work with and for young people on work readiness
- Understanding of Indonesia Government policies, laws, and institutions in relation to work readiness
- Good oral and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia