The Government of Indonesia (GoI) is committed to accelerating the pace of poverty reduction and the President of Indonesia has declared that poverty reduction is among the highest development priorities of his administration. This commitment is reflected in Indonesia’s national medium-term development plan (Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional, RPJMN, 2015-2019), as poverty rate is set to decrease from 11.25% in 2014 to 7-8% by 2019. Indonesia’s achievement to reduce poverty has been significant, as poverty rate since 1998 to date steadily decreases. However, more than 28.3 million Indonesians continue to live below the poverty line, while 30% of the population within 12.5% of the poverty line remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. In a bid to intensify the poverty reduction effort, GoI has elevated the overall oversight and coordination of poverty and social protection programs to be under the Vice-President’s Office. Through Presidential Regulation No. 15/2010, the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (Tim Nasional Percepatan Penanggulangan Kemiskinan, TNP2K) was founded and given the mandate to carry out those oversight and coordination roles.

TNP2K - KIAT Guru Project
To improve frontline service delivery in education sector, starting in 2014, the National Team for Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K), under the Secretariat of the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia has been implementing a pilot project to improve teacher performance and accountability of teachers (KIAT Guru: Kinerja dan Akuntabilitas Guru). The primary objective of KIAT Guru is to empower communities to make investments that contribute to improvements in the quality of primary education service delivery, measured in terms of reduced levels of teacher absenteeism, improved quality of service, and improved levels of student learning outcomes.

BaKTI Foundation
The KIAT Guru Project is supported by the Government of Australia - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and its financing is provided through the PNPM Support Facility (PSF) multi-donor trust fund managed by the World Bank. The Social Development Unit at the World Bank is responsible for the program governance in support to TNP2K, and therefore has appointed Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia (BaKTI) Foundation as the Grant Recipient to provide management, operational, and fiduciary oversights for technical assistance and activities implementation at national and sub-national levels. The post is a part of KIAT Guru Program Office at TNP2K, which responsible for managing program activities implementation and operations support.

Purpose of Job

The purpose of the Public Finance Management Specialist is primarily to lead the development of government regulation and financial mechanism for a pilot of tying service provider’s allowance with performance and diverting undisbursed allowance in order to increase service delivery by teachers in remote areas; also to oversee, analyse, and draw recommendations from the implementation of pay for performance pilots for national, provincial and district policy reform.

Responsibilities

The Public Finance Management Specialist will be responsible to deliver following services:

1. Carry out primary and secondary research and analysis on: (i) financial policies and mechanisms for budgeting and disbursement processes from the national to district governments; (ii) national and district level budgeting processes and financial mechanisms for securing national, provincial and district budgets for the pilot of pay for performance of civil servant allowance; and (iii) financial mechanisms from previous experiments or piloting on pay for performance or community grant that tap into existing government budgets.
2. Assess, analyze and identify financial policies and mechanisms which would enable piloting from selected existing government budget and utilize it for Pay for Performance and community grant schemes.
3. Formulate financial mechanisms and structures including its related institutional arrangement to enable greater community monitoring and control over service provision in remote areas.
4. Work with relevant ministries in national level and piloting districts and provinces to secure government regulation, budget allocation and disbursement for the pilot of KIAT Guru.
5. In collaboration with relevant ministries and piloting districts and project partners develop financial, institutional and managerial mechanisms that: (i) as much as possible tap into existing mechanisms; (ii) secure for the project the selected government allowances and budgets for service providers in education sectors, (iii) enable community engagement in monitoring, and (iv) ensure transparency and accountability.
6. Working closely with Legal and Governance Specialist of KIAT Guru develop technical operational manual in close collaboration with the national and district government and project partners, and lead the training and coaching of project and district government staffs and KIAT Guru field staff.
7. Working closely with Legal and Governance Specialist and Local Governance Specialist advise relevant national ministries staff, KIAT Guru field staff and district government staff for the development and implementation of national and district regulations that tying government allowance with performance and community involvement for the implementation of the KIAT Guru pilot project.
8. Oversee the process of implementation of the pilot at the districts, analyze issues and findings, and write progress report.

Duty Station :
KIAT Guru National Office, Jakarta; with frequent travel to KIAT Guru pilot’s fields

Type of Contract :
Individual Consultant Expected Duration of Assignment : Initial Contract 1 year; extendable based

Coordination

The Public Finance Management Specialist will work under technical supervision of the Program Coordinator - Technical of KIAT Guru.

Competencies and Requirements

Education:

Master degree in Finance, Management, Public Administration or similar discipline

Work experience:

1. Minimum 3 (three) years of experience in working in public finance reform, a majority of which is conducted at the district level.
2. Proven experience and knowledge of public finance mechanism, preferably in education and health sectors.
3. Proven analytical, problem-solving and quantitative/qualitative skills.
4. Proven ability to liaise and coordinate with government officials at the national and sub-national levels.

Detailed information about our program is available at www.tnp2k.go.id. Please submit CV to:  personnelKG@tnp2k.go.id no later than 19 August 2016. E-mail size must not be more than 250 kb. Please indicate in the e-mail subject : “……..(name of position)…….-…(your name)…..