Country: Indonesia
Closing date: 30 Jan 2015
GERES & StovePlus
GERES - Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités - is a French non-profit NGO created in 1976 after the first Oil Crisis. Environmental conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, reducing energy poverty, and improving livelihood of the poor are the main focus areas for GERES. GERES teams are particularly involved in the implementation - in partnership with the communities and local stakeholders - of engineering solutions for development.
GERES will provide support to CSI Indonesia through the StovePlus program. Funded by the French Global Environment Fund (FFEM), StovePlus aims at facilitating access to improved cooking solutions, by providing technical support to project developers around the world. StovePlus offers service packages designed to respond to the most pressing needs of project developers working in Asia and Africa.
Purpose
The Project Facilitator / Business Development Specialist will act as StovePlus local representative in Indonesia, coordinating the activities in a timely manner, ensuring proper follow-up with the stakeholders and delivering quality reports. More specifically, he will lead the identification and support of market aggregators qualifying for the CSI.
Main Responsibilities
The Project Facilitator / Business Development Specialist will work under the supervision of the StovePlus Regional Coordinator for Asia and the Lead Technical Advisor for the assignment and interact directly with the stakeholders in Indonesia. S/he will be responsible for overall project coordination, including ensuring that all processes, team activities and recommendations are documented and communicated. In the case of issues with schedule or quality of implementation, s/he will propose solutions in cooperation with StovePlus and the other CSI stakeholders.
More specifically, the Project Facilitator / Business Development specialist will lead the identification and support of market aggregators (small to medium scale domestic stove producers) able to produce quality stoves qualifying for the subsidy scheme, coordinating the following activities:
- Screening and diagnostics of identified potential market aggregators
- Support to technical and/or technological processes
- Support to business and/or marketing processes
The consultant’s specific skills will particularly be required for the diagnostics of identified potential market aggregators and the support to business and/or marketing processes while the technical aspect will be supervised by StovePlus Lead Technical Advisor and other specialized consultants.
The consultant will then provide support to selected market aggregators (small to medium scale domestic stove producers) as follows:
- Economic analysis of the production process,
- Market intelligence,
- Definition of marketing mix,
- Business planning,
- Business and management training
- Legal guidance or linkage with legal adviser
- Other identified needs
Deliverables
- Weekly report on activities progress and achievement and status of relationships with stakeholders
- Business analysis of selected market aggregators including data collection, findings and recommendations
- Training documentation including proceedings
- Interim and final reports to donor with the contribution of partners and other assigned consultants
Qualifications
- Master Degree in Business Management or equivalent
- 5 years related experience
- Institutional knowledge of Indonesia
- Excellent interpersonal skills, experience liaising with a range of international stakeholders an
asset - Capacity building and experience working in development project desirable
- Fluent in English, Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese
Conditions
- Consultant position based in Yogyakarta.
- Workload estimated from 100 to 200 days.
- Starting date: February.
- Contract duration: 10 months.
- Remuneration commensurate to experience, please indicate your man/day rate in your
application. - Frequent travels in Indonesia with per diems and accommodation covered.
- The consultant shall be responsible to cover his/her insurance expenses, applicable taxes and
housing costs.
How to apply:
How to apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV including 2 references and a motivation letter to: s.khan@geres.eu by January 30th, 2015. Early applications are encouraged.
Only pre-selected candidates will be contacted for an interview.
GERES is an equal opportunity organization: suitable applications are invited irrespectively of age, race, religion, gender and physical criteria.
