Job #081815
Job TitleE T Consultant
Job FamilyPublic Sector Management
LocationMakassar, Indonesia
AppointmentLocal Hire
Job Posted28-Aug-
Closing Date19-Sep-2008
Language RequirementsEnglish [Essential]; Indonesian-Malay [Essential]
Appointment TypeExtended Term Consultant (Duration: 1 yrs)
Background / General description
Position: PUBLIC FINANCE OFFICER.
This is a local hired position, open for Indonesian nationals only. If the hired candidate is non-Indonesian, he/she will follow the local grade salary and will have no exposure for international position benefits.
The appointment shall be for an initial period of one-year 'Extended Term Consultant' contract, renewable subject to performance.
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The Public Expenditure Analysis and Capacity Harmonization (PEACH) program is a program of technical assistance to committed local governments in order to allow them to institutionalize processes for increasing the effectiveness of their development planning, budgeting and budget execution.
The primary objective of the PEACH program is to improve public financial management at the provincial and district level of government. Supporting this objective are three secondary objectives:
• Enhancing the capacity of civil society to monitor public financial management;
• Enhancing the central government's understanding of local public financial management issues; and
• Enhancing the capacity of Indonesian research institutions to conduct public expenditure analysis and to transfer capacity in public financial management.
PEACH achieves the above objectives by first analyzing local governments' planning and budgeting processes and how local governments spend their funds. Findings and recommendations from the analysis are then used as the basis to advise governments on public financial management reform and to address capacity problems within the civil service. The public expenditure analysis (PEA) is conducted collaboratively between local research institutions and local governments, with technical support from the World Bank or the Support Office for Eastern Indonesia (SOfEI). The success of the program relies on the strong relationships (especially those between local researchers, local governments and the World Bank/SOfEI team) and the government ownership built during the PEA process. The trust and relationship built becomes the platform to implement other activities, such as capacity building/training, or technical support to local governments in planning,
budgeting and legislative drafting.
The PEACH program has already started implementing in Papua, Gorontalo and NTT, and is about to start in Maluku. Furthermore, the program is expected to expand to North Sulawesi and South Sulawesi in 2008. Demand for the program is high, as there are potentially other requests from South-East Sulawesi and Central Kalimantan and possibility of expansion to NTB. The need to rapidly scale up the PEACH program has led the World Bank/SOfEI team to re-evaluate how the project should achieve its goals and how it can transition from an ad hoc project to one that could be replicated in every province in Indonesia.
The PEACH program is a joint program between the Poverty Reduction Economic Management (PREM) and Sustainable Development (SD) sectors within the World Bank. Within PREM, PEACH is under the Public Finance and Regional Develop (PFRD) team, and under SD, PEACH is within the management of the Decentralization Support Facility for Eastern Indonesia (SOfEI). Loosely, the partnership is based on the premise that the PFRD will provide the public finance, data management expertise to ensure that the quality of the outputs produced by PEACH program meet a set of minimum standards (developed by the PEACH team). SD/SoFEI, on the other hand, provides support on the engagement of all relevant stakeholders to ensure that PEACH continues to be a program that is based on the three principles of demand driven, collaboration and participation.
PEACH is financed by multiple donors including AusAID (Papua, NTT and potentially NTB), Netherlands (Gorontalo, Maluku) and CIDA/Canada (North and South Sulawesi) through various trust fund mechanisms administered by the World Bank. At this stage, all funding is earmarked to particular provinces, but the future is to seek funding that is not tied to any one province.
In response to the demand for PEACH, and the rapid expansion of program across Eastern Indonesia, the program is seeking to recruit a Public Finance Officer to join the team.
Duties and Accountabilities
The Public Finance Officer will have the following tasks:
a. Producing PEAs: 1) provide training, mentoring, and supervision of local research teams to ensure that the quality of the PEA fulfils or exceeds minimum standards; and 2) with the Operations Officer, participate in scoping missions, produce desk reviews, recruit researchers, form research teams candidates.
b. Developing the capacity of Regional Centers of Excellence: one of the key institutional aspects of the program is to build PEACH teams or Centers of Excellence within regional universities with the long-term vision that these CoE will eventually take over the role of SoFEI and the World Bank. This component includes 1) identifying suitable university staff to join the Center of Excellence; 2) providing initial training/socializat
c. Improving the quality of analysis in the PER: the methodology used to produce the PEA is a dynamic methodology that is dependent on the needs to the local government and the capacity of local researchers. While a minimum standard has been developed, the PEACH team should always be striving to continuously improve this minimum and encouraging research beyond the minimum. This function includes: 1) regularly reviewing and improving the PEA methodology; 2) update PEACH team knowledge on developments in methodologies and approaches used elsewhere (in Indonesia and overseas); 3) pilot methodologies; 4) develop collaboration with other researchers to develop new methodologies that can be used in the PEA.
d. Develop tools and activities for local governments: while much of the capacity building activities will be implemented by other agencies/training providers, the PEACH team may also develop its own tools/activities to assist the local governments to improve their public financial management.
e. Develop the strategic direction of PEACH program: with the rest of the team, contribute to the overall strategic direction of PEACH program including 1) building new partnerships; 2) expanding or reducing activities; 3) improving relationships with stakeholders; 4) ensuring financial sustainability for the program.
f. Other: other tasks that may be required from time to time.
The Public Finance Officer, working with the rest of PEACH team to deliver the PEACH program program. It is expected that the majority of his/her time will be spent on supporting the implementation of PEACH in Eastern Indonesia.
The Public Finance Officer will report to the PEACH Coordinator and will coordinate on a day-to-day basis with other members of the Governance team in SOfEI and the PEACH team members in the World Bank Office in Jakarta.
Selection Criteria
• Masters Degree in Economics or Finance.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience working with Indonesian universities and local governments preferred.
• Proven ability to build and maintain trust and effective working relationships with a range of local governance stakeholders, including local governments, research institutions, civil society and media.
• Proven ability to implement project operations to meet deadlines and high quality standards in challenging environments.
• Well developed report writing, networking and communication skills;
• Proven ability of work independently within a team environment.
• Willing to be based in Makassar and to travel extensively throughout Eastern Indonesia.
The applicant should apply online by clicking the above "Apply" button. You will be asked to write a cover letter and please attach your CV and references (at least three names with full contact details).
Direct application through e-mail and phone inquiries will not be accepted.
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