Vacancy at Lembaga Fajar Harapan

Lembaga Fajar Harapan is an independent non-governmental organization based in Medan, North Sumatera and has program operations in Aceh Province,North Sumatera Province and Siberut Island, West Sumatera Province. FH has been working in Indonesia since 2005 and aims to alleviate all forms of poverty through wholistic programming and approach.
Currently, FH works in the Agriculture, Economic Development, Education sectors as well as addressing cross cutting issues such as Gender Balance and Equity, Good Governance and Disaster Risk Reduction. Our goal is to walk with families and community leaders to bring sustainable change.

Title: Area Coordinator
Location: Meulaboh
Report to: Country Representative

Main purpose of the role

The Area Coordinator is based in Meulaboh, West Aceh and reports to Country Representative on all matters pertinent to her/his job. He/she is responsible for supervising all program activities in his/her area and ensuring program quality. Area Coordinator is also responsible for providing guidance and direction to program and support staff.

This role will:

- Work closely with Country Representative (CR), Senior Programming Advisor (SPA) and other staff in the Meulaboh office
- Responsible for developing good working relationships with local partners: other NGO's, government agencies, etc
- Conduct continuous needs analysis in participation with key steak-holders, including community members
- Assure the successful implementations of all programs

Responsibilities (JD)

• Supervise program and support staff
• In coordination with CR and SPA design and implement programs
• Assure quality and effectiveness of all programs
• Together with the Finance Officer assure compliance with all FH financial policies
• Monthly submission of Financial Reports and weekly program updates
• Maintain Inventory lists and update Logistics officer as needed
• Represent FH in key meeting with government officials and look out for the best interest of the organization Essential
• Ability to read, write and communicate in Indonesian, strong command of English
• Computer literate, highly organized
• Ability to get along with people from all walks of life
• Ability to handle details and contribute to team building environment
• Experience of working and participating effectively as part of a team
• Attention to detail
• Teachable spirit, passionate about FH vision, mission and values
• Ability to effectively present information
• Interpret general business periodicals, technical procedures, and/ or government regulations
• Familiarity with MS Office
• Strong analytical skills
• Bachellors degree in a relevant field
• Good working knowledge of Participatory Assessment (PRA) tools
• A minimum of 4 years experience in managing (from design to implementation) of social programs
• At least 2 years experience in managing staff
• Willingness to stay in remote area

Desirable
• Working knowledge of the local language and prior working experience in the area.

Please send your application, updated CV, recent photograph, salary expectation and three latest references (max 300kb) to ina-applications@fh.org no later than Friday, November/25th, 2011 by 4PM. Please put "title/position" as email subject (e.g "Livelihood Officer"), and please put your name after CV and/or cover letter title (e.g CV-John.Johnson, Cover letter-John.Johnson).
No telephone calls please.