Public- Private Partnership Manager (Partnerships For Productivity, Indonesia)

Banyan Global is an international development consulting firm committed to improving livelihoods through market approaches for a broad and lasting impact. The firm is headquartered in Washington, DC with staff working in a number of developing countries. Banyan Global operates seamlessly within six practice areas youth and workforce development, finance and investment, enterprise development, gender, health, and evaluation and learning.

Banyan Global is recruiting a Public-Private Partnership Manager for the USAID-funded Partnerships for Productivity (PADU) Activity. PADU is a five-year activity that aims to enhance private sector investment in technical and vocational and education training (TVET) institutions through partnerships with private sector firms and government-owned vocational training centers called Balai Latihan Kerja (BLKs). Banyan Global is working to facilitate and catalyze the establishment of partnerships to improve the capacity of BLKs to address skills gaps in the labor market and promote the implementation and utilization of tax deductions/incentives for the private sector.

The Public-Private Partnership Manager will be responsible for providing technical leadership and strategy for partnership-driven institutional strengthening for BLKs as it relates to private-sector partnership development at national and sub-national level. Includes identification and collaboration with Indonesian and international private sector actors for increased investments. The position is full-time, based in Jakarta. Only Indonesian candidates will be considered.

• Develop the design and implementation of national and sub-national private sector engagement, advocacy and outreach for PADU and subsequently the supported TVET programming, respective partnership-driven institutional strengthening efforts of BLKs and leveraging private-sector resources toward TVET programming.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Provide strategic and operational direction for pilot to scale strategy of private sector engagement and respective TVET institutional strengthening efforts with counterparts.
• Mentor and coach staff to support their professional development and application of skills and knowledge.
• Support PADU technical team to identify and develop lessons learned and best practices related to public private partnership program.
• Indonesian citizen.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant U.S. government and Banyan Global policies throughout project implementation.
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of project deliverables and work products related to private sector engagement and capacity building.
• Serve as a project liaison with the private sector and public/private TVETs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex teams with strong program management to meet deliverables, demonstrating outstanding supervisory, facilitation, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Experience using and applying methods, tools (platforms, applications) and techniques for managing tasks and action plans preferred.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office application packages like Excel, Word, or other customized project management software and comfort in a Windows PC environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, public policy, social science, communication, development studies or related field. Commensurate experience may be considered in lieu of an academic degree.
• Serve as liaison and representative of Banyan Global as delegated by Chief of Party.
• Demonstrate diplomacy and leadership to foster an atmosphere of teamwork, productivity, creativity, fairness, equity, and innovation, and support for diversity.
• Demonstrated understanding of advocacy and stakeholder engagement management principles and has capacity to deliver them.
• Strongly support design and implementation of needs assessments, skill gap analysis, other evaluations as identified.
• Willingness to travel to project sites in other provinces.
• Identify best practices and workforce development (WFD) partnership model that improves effectiveness of private sector engagement.
• Excellent cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skills demonstrated by ability to interact professionally with culturally and linguistically diverse staff, clients, and consultants.
• Support development, packaging, and dissemination of deliverables and knowledge management and communication products according to agreed formats (i.e., workplan, reports/deliverables, success and impact stories, human interest stories, video clips, and others relevant website content.
• Directly supervise core technical team members and provide indirect supervision and support to national and sub-national implementation of a diverse team of subcontracted or consultant-based team members working on private sector engagement, advocacy and outreach and TVET institutional strengthening related to partnership.
• Demonstrated experience with local as well as USG rules and regulations preferred; other donor funded WFD experience accepted.
• Experience working directly with Ministry of Manpower’s TVET system or provincial and district government TVET system. Experience working directly with Indonesia’s private sector.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a positive team player, assessing priorities, applying creative problem-solving, and managing a variety of simultaneous activities with attention to details, and produce quality results in timely manner; including tight deadlines
• Demonstrated experience networking with GOI in national and sub-national level, private sector and/or business associations and other relevant stakeholders, such as higher education institutions, media, local and international NGOs.
• Other related duties as assigned.
• Professional fluency in Indonesian and English is required.
• 7 years of demonstrated progressive technical experience and leadership experience related to (i) private-public partnerships, (ii) private sector engagement strategies to plan and implement vocational training programs; (iii) institutional strengthening for workforce development; and (iv) outreach to various stakeholders which included but not limited to business association, Ministry of Manpower, local government at provincial or district, media, education institution and community.

Applicants must submit their resume through Banyan Global's career portal. It is highly encouraged that applicants tailor their materials to highlight experiences in the above listed task. Please no phone calls.

Banyan Global is an equal opportunity employer. Banyan Global is committed to diversity and inclusion in our workforce. We do not discriminate against employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender expression. We recognize the importance of a diverse and inclusive workplace and intentionally strive for diversity and inclusion at all organizational levels.