Project Officer RISE UP, GIRL!

The Project Officer will coordinate day-to-day project implementation, liaise with partners and stakeholders, and ensure the project achieves its objectives based on the Detailed Implementation Plan. The role includes providing technical advice, managing project risks, supporting monitoring and evaluation, and embedding safeguarding and gender equality principles in the project.

Responsibilities

• Lead the assessment, design refinement, and technical development of project strategies related to prevention of Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Unions (CEFMU), adolescent pregnancy, gender equality, child protection, and SRHR
• Provide technical advice to ensure project interventions are evidence-based, gender-transformative, and aligned with national and international standards
• Support the development of project implementation tools, training packages, guidelines, and knowledge products
• Provide expertise on child protection, positive parenting, adolescent development, girls’ empowerment, safeguarding, and social norm change approaches
• Review and strengthen project theory of change, indicators, and intervention models to contribute to intended outcomes on girls' education retention, delayed marriage, and delayed pregnancy
• Ensure technical quality of assessments, research processes, policy reviews, and capacity-strengthening activities
• Engage and coordinate with relevant government institutions, including DP3AP2KB, Health Office, Education Office, village governments, schools, and community leaders
• Facilitate consultations, validation workshops, and technical discussions with key stakeholders at district and provincial levels
• Promote meaningful participation of adolescents, especially girls, in project design and learning processes
• Support the design and implementation of baseline survey, end-line survey, impact measurement, and learning activities
• Analyse findings and generate evidence-based recommendations to improve project effectiveness and sustainability
• Present findings and recommendations to Plan Indonesia, government counterparts, and relevant stakeholders in a clear and professional manner
• Contribute technical inputs to advocacy, policy dialogue, and knowledge-sharing initiatives related to protection, gender equality, adolescent wellbeing, and CEFMU prevention
• Align the implementation of the project with Plan International principles of safeguarding children and young people as well as Gender Equality and Inclusion
• Develop and update the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) of the project and monitor its implementation
• Manage partners and consultants to ensure delivery of quality outputs as required and planned in the project
• Lead the financial management (budget planning and expenditure) of the project, achieving accuracy and reliability of financial reports by YPII and donors’ standards and compliance
• Identify project risks and mitigation strategies, submit information on the new risks and possible mitigating measures to the PIA Manager for consideration and update the status of these risks by maintaining a Project Risk Registry
• Establish good practice of partnership management aligning with Plan International Guidelines for Building Better Partnership
• Initiate, establish, and maintain good relationships and coordination with government and private sector stakeholders with support from the PIA Lembata Team
• Be the focal point for contact with local partners and governments; attend regular update calls, respond to email requests, attend meetings, and exchange learning and ideas
• Initiate conversations around advocacy and impact, contributing to sustainable project outcomes
• Work and coordinate with the PIA MER Officer to manage and monitor the implementation of the project using agreed monitoring tools and M&E Framework
• Establish proper monitoring procedures with key stakeholders and project partners
• Coordinate data collection and support provision of project reports for periodic reporting, Donor and YPII Quarterly and Annual Reporting
• Supervise development of knowledge products from the project including fact sheets, policy briefs, modules, research, and publications
• Maintain quality standards of document keeping, retrieval, and sharing mechanism
• Ensure Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design and implementation
• Participate actively in capacity building and learning events on Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion
• Submit required documentation to implement policy, standards, and approach on Safeguarding and GESI
• Understand and put into practice responsibilities under Safeguarding and GESI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct, ensuring concerns are reported and managed appropriately

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 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, traditional figures and local public figures
• Affinity to work with and for young people on economic empowerment
• Understanding of Indonesia Government policies, laws, and institutions about youth economic empowerment and gender in the economy
• Good oral and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Ability to function efficiently and effectively with minimum day-to-day supervision
• Demonstrated skills in problem-solving and people management
• Willing to be placed in Lembata, NTT
• Demonstrated experience in working with children, adolescent and youth (desirable)
• Experience in managing programs in child protection (desirable)
• Experience in working in a multi-cultural organisation (desirable)
• Demonstrated knowledge in international development tools: program logic, Monitoring, and community empowerment (desirable)
• Demonstrated knowledge of gender transformative approach, gender-based violence, child rights, and inclusion (desirable)

Skills

• Project Management
• Budget Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Quality Project Reporting
• Government Coordination
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Youth Empowerment
• Indonesian Government Policies
• Gender in Economy
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Problem Solving
• People Management
• Programming Logic
• Community Empowerment
• Gender Transformative Approaches
• Gender-Based Violence Awareness
• Child Rights Understanding
• Inclusion
• Child protection program management

Languages

English, Bahasa Indonesia