We are currently looking for a:
Country Director Indonesia
National contract / Fulltime /Jakarta
Reporting to Deputy Director of Country Programmes
Are you looking for an exciting position, in which you are crucial for the success of SNV in spearheading SNV’s impact, business development, operational excellence and partner engagement in Indonesia? Then this is your role!
SNV has a long-standing presence in Indonesia, where its country team implements programs supported by international donors and private-sector collaborations. Currently, the portfolio showcases our efforts in the agri-food and water sectors. This includes promoting sustainable agricultural and developing deforestation-free supply chains, enhancing sustainable and regenerative agriculture, fostering institutional business development, and improving financial literacy among farmers of all genders. We also focus on strengthening equitable water resource management capacities, ensuring sustainable and inclusive irrigation, promoting climate-resilient rural WASH services, and supporting sustainable urban water cycles. Country specific information can be found here: www.snv.org/country/indonesia.
Country Director Indonesia
SNV seeks a hands-on, entrepreneurial, results-oriented, people centric director to lead the Indonesian country team in delivering high impact programs. You are a champion on SNV culture, representing our values and encouraging a team culture of learning, creativity, and innovation.
This is a great opportunity for an entrepreneurial leader with a focus on developing and strengthening country operations through high-quality program delivery, as well as further developing SNV’s position and opportunities with investors and partners alike. In this role, you are further developing the country program portfolio in an interesting and, at times, challenging development context.
The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program and overseeing the successful implementation of all projects within the country through their team and local implementation partners.
This position strongly emphasizes private-public cooperation, working with an extended partner base, and further developing our SNV localisation signature. It also has a clear vision of alternative revenue streams for NGO.
The current EUR 3.5 – 5 million per annum program portfolio includes support from various funding organisations from public to private partners. The Country Director leads, coaches and supports their country management team (CMT) and inspires over 40 members.
The Country Director is a key member of SNV’s global senior leadership team, making meaningful contributions across the wider organisation to further shape and enable the future of SNV.
Your role
The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program with and through their team and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. She/he will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure our positive image and visibility.
In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks:
- Strategic leadership of the country programme**.** Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation in line with the strategic directions within the annual Plan and SNV’s global strategy.
- Strong and supportive people leadership enablingthe country team: creating and nurturing an environment that supports high performance, continuous learning and teamwork at all levels.
- Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders.
- Oversight and quality assurance of project implementation (including project director roles) ensuring the delivery of impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and compliance with national Indonesian government regulations, SNV’s and the donor’s financial standards and monitoring protocols.
- Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Indonesia and ensure high-quality project design.
- Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s positioning.
- Foster innovation of SNV products and services: facilitate learning, documentation and evidence-based knowledge development in collaboration with SNV’s global team and partners; and ensures collaboration with renowned knowledge institutes and networks.
Qualifications
Candidate profile
The ideal candidate brings a minimum of five years of relevant senior leadership experience at an end-responsible level in Indonesia. We expect you to be a strong people leader with an understanding and curiosity about diversity and inclusion. You thrive in an environment where evidence-building is required, and you engender passion for motivating others. You have experience in cooperation with governments, private sector organisations and partners, donor relations, and actors in SNV’s three sectors and core thematic areas.
You have strong business acumen accompanied by demonstrated business development experience in climate-related issues, innovative financing, and private-sector engagement. You have developed a vision on alternative revenue streams for NGO in Indonesia and have experience with funding from multilateral development agencies and donors, private sectors or foundations.
You have a proven track record in portfolio management in a complex stakeholder field and a solid understanding of country operations and its related procedures and processes.
Your role model successful resource mobilisation, including strong networking and positioning skills at multiple levels. Your people-centric focus allows you to mobilise teams against strategy.
You are able to coach, lead, stimulate, and inspire professionals in a development context. Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.
How to apply
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/SNV/744000044308604-country-director-indonesia