Overview
The Climate, Resilience and Sustainability (CRS) team at Oxford Policy Management is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager on a 6-month fixed term basis, with possibility to extend for up to 5 years.
The position will be located in our Jakarta, Indonesia office.
We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet.
Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver projects with expert knowledge and experience, and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change.
Position Summary
The CRS team's work aims to safeguard ecosystems, ensure resource availability, curb environmental degradation, mitigate climate change and protect against disasters, helping to foster a resilient planet for current and future generations.
The E&S Senior Project Manager will be part of the senior leadership and management of a project team in Indonesia, delivering a programme of work that supports of the country's ambitious energy transition plans over the next five years.
The position of Senior Project Manager leads all aspects of the programme's financial and operational management, ensuring that it is delivered to an excellent standard whilst meeting OPM’s professional standards/frameworks, client requirements, relevant industry regulations and ensuring effective governance.
As a Senior Project Manager at OPM you will:
- Set-up, update, manage, monitor and report against the project workplan and budget, aligning with OPM’s internal project management and financial systems as required.
- Lead on the preparation of financial and non-financial reports for clients, and key stakeholders as required, working closely with OPM’s Indonesia Country Director.
- Prepare and enforce project-specific rules and guidance for the entire project team, related to logistics, invoicing, reporting, and document sharing protocols which align with OPM Indonesia requirements.
- Coordinate and liaise with all key and non-key experts on the project, including preparation of contracts, on-boarding them and organising/managing team coordination calls.
- Overseeing the work of a Project Administrator in managing the logistics and administration of the project, including processing invoices, booking travel, organising events.
- Setting up and managing an internal Sharepoint document sharing system for the project team.
Key Qualifications / Experience / Skills / Behaviours
- At least 10 years of experience in programme management of development funded projects of a similar size and scale in Indonesia.
- At least 5 years of experience working in a consulting firm, ideally working across different geographies and national offices.
- Advanced IT skills and proficiency in setting up and using online financial and other databases, experience using Microsoft dynamics is an advantage.
- Advanced English language skills and ability to prepare high-quality reports in English.
Our Offer
- We enable colleagues’ capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
- Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
- We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
- Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
- Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.
We are strengthened by the diversity of colleagues across our global business and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace for all.
Our recruitment practices reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more inclusive and firm belief that our work delivers the best outcomes when we actively include a diversity of perspectives and experiences.
Application
If you share our vision for fair public policy that benefits both people and planet, we would love to hear from you.
We review and interview applicants on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply by way of CV via our careers site at the earliest. We may close this advertisement before the published closing date, should a suitable candidate be identified.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role and candidates must have a pre-existing right to work in Indonesia for their application to be considered. Please note that this position is based in Jakarta and there is no relocation allowance available.
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