Institutional Coordinator/Senior Coordinator.

ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM PROFILE

Delterra is an environmental nonprofit on a mission to create a world where human activities protect and restore a healthy planet. Delterra's founding partner is McKinsey & Company, and its flagship initiative, Rethinking Recycling, works with communities in emerging economies to build rapidly scalable, self-sustaining waste management and recycling ecosystems that redirect waste into productive use while improving the lives of the people it touches. In the coming years, Delterra will add other initiatives to its portfolio, all with a view to developing innovative scalable solutions that redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet. Learn more at: https://www.delterra.org

POSITION DETAILS

We are looking for a passionate, high-performing individual to join a collaborative program team of Delterra colleagues, external staff, and local partners in Indonesia as Institutional Coordinator/Senior Coordinator. We are seeking candidates with passion and experience in government relation, stakeholder management, waste management regulations and capability building.

Responsibilities include:

• Workshop support: Facilitate workshop sessions on institutional matters along with our training and implementation teams.
• Institutional coordination: Ensure that programmatic milestones are integrated and aligned across different levels of government. Prepare for regular meetings and partnerships with local government entities.
• Reporting: Conduct and coordinate program reporting activities to ensure communities meet standards and expectations (e.g., financial report or Source Separation campaign report).
• Capability building: Support the team in building materials to enable the communities to understand best practices in waste management governance.
• Knowledge codification: Undertake institutional-related research, data collection and analysis on the waste management governance and public finance. Contribute to the production of program knowledge in institutional and financial sustainability matters.
• Risk management: Observe, identify, and raise potential institutional issues to the institutional team and wider leadership, as required.

Qualifications

• Proficient understanding of governance and administration pertaining to villages and/or municipalities. Familiarity with waste management regulations and public finance at the national, provincial, and local levels would be advantageous.
• Experience in engaging village, regional, or local government authorities.
• Minimum bachelor's degree in environmental, Public Policy, Sustainability, Development & Governance and/or related fields.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills including work planning and milestone reporting, ability to recognize patterns and capture the learnings in a timely fashion.
• Passion for contributing to society and making change happen in the environmental and/or waste space.
• Professional fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English required (both written and spoken). Fluency in Balinese will be a plus.
• Effective communication and persuasion abilities to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and audiences from different backgrounds.
• Comfortable working with digital collaboration and communication tools (Microsoft 365, Slack, Miro, and Click Up), and excited to learn new tools and techniques.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience, including strong engagement with public sector, and preferably experience in community empowerment and environmental-related issues.
• Experience in waste management or broader related sustainability topics is preferred.

Further detail:

This position will be based full-time in Bali.

Read more about our work and see a video of our program on our website: https://www.delterra.org and on www.rethinkingrecycling.org.