Project Manager - Indonesia - BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative

About the Opportunity 

BRAC’s Ultra Poor Graduation Initiative (UPGI) is dedicated to scaling up the Graduation approach globally, empowering the world’s poorest to achieve sustainable livelihoods and overcome extreme poverty. We are seeking a qualified national candidate based in Indonesia to support all aspects of operations and administration processes to deliver the UPGI scale-up strategy. This position requires close collaboration with staff in Jakarta and 6 other provinces in Indonesia, namely West Sumatera, West Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, East Nusa Tenggara, and West Nusa Tenggara.

UPGI is looking for a Project Manager to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of the project and represent to key national, sub-national, and international partners, overseeing the project outputs, milestones, project implementation, financial management, ensuring that project activities are following donor regulations, BRAC International’ss rules and regulations & project management policies, thereby preparing the projects’ external and donor audits, working closely with UPGI - Global team to update project implementation in Indonesia.

About BRAC and the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative

BRAC is the world’s largest Global South-led international non-governmental development organization, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential.  BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist impoverished and marginalized communities in low-income countries. It is an organization of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. 

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. As of today, BRAC has reached more than 100 million people and works in 16 different countries across Africa and Asia . BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programs that include microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights. BRAC invests in communities’ own human and material resources, catalyzing lasting change and creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives.

The Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative is a global unit within BRAC International that was founded in 2016 to build off the success of BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation program in Bangladesh. Graduation is an evidence-based, scalable intervention proven to break the poverty trap for the long term. To help eradicate extreme poverty, BRAC UPGI is working to scale globally by integrating Graduation into existing government programs and help 21 million more people lift themselves from extreme poverty by 2026. At present UPGI has interventions with governments in South Africa, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.  

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the project and represent the project team to key national, sub-national, and international partners.

• Oversee the project outputs, milestones, project implementation, financial management, and supervise the project support staff.

• Responsible for ensuring project activities follow donor regulations, BRAC International’s rules and regulations and project management policies, thereby preparing the project internal and external as well as donor audits.

• Support BRAC International’s Country Lead in overseeing all management aspects of the project, both in the project implementation and operations covering programmatic aspects and administrative financial services.

• Develop project management and oversee project’s budget implementation and financial management, and supervise the project’s support staff.

• Work closely with the BRAC International - UPGI global teams.

• Other (Safeguarding Responsibilities)

  ●      Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation.

  ●      Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action. 

  ●      Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so. 

• Master’s degree in public policy, business, international development, or a related field. 

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working in project management.

• Having knowledge on poverty reduction and social protection in Indonesia, and being able to present this subject that relates to the project’s activities to the external audiences.

• Excellent track record managing donor projects.

• Excellent track record managing USAID projects and expert knowledge of USAID and USG regulations are beneficial.

• Demonstrable knowledge of USAID project management, finance, procurement, and USAID financial management reporting, and compliances.

• Given that the Project Manager is expected to support the Country Lead in all aspects of the project, in the Country Lead’s absence, the Project Manager must also possess a proven ability to liaise with and communicate effectively with senior government officials, donors, and partners.

• Good knowledge of project and finance management as well as procurement processes.

• Proven capacity in supervising project teams.

• Must possess superb analytical and planning skills, good judgment, and ability to meet tight deadlines.

• Fluency in English with excellent writing and presentation abilities.

How to Apply

This is an outstanding opportunity to support a highly effective, collaborative, and innovative non-profit. BRAC International offers a competitive salary and benefits package.  If you feel you are the right match for the position mentioned above, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Please submit your resume and detailed cover letter, via the below link ;

Project Manager - Indonesia

Only complete applications will be accepted, and short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: September 27, 2024

BRAC is an equal opportunities employer.

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment process includes extensive reference and background checks, self-disclosure of prior issues regarding sexual or other misconduct and criminal records and our values are a part of our Performance Management System.