Country Fund Associate (Indonesia)

Strategy Development and Engagement: 

• Support on continuous context analysis and assessment of local market capacity to identify the most appropriate avenues for interventions and pathways to climate change impact within each key strategic sector; and 
• Support further demand scoping for UK PACT-funded projects in-country, including stakeholder mapping and engagement, identification of complementary existing programmes (funded by the UK and other donors) to avoid programme duplication, and horizon scanning. 

Stakeholder Relationships: 

• Support the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager in promoting UK PACT funding opportunities to potential implementing partners, project and programme outputs to intended beneficiaries, and broader UK engagement on low-carbon development where relevant; 
• Working closely with the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager, contribute to, and where appropriate lead the management of day-to-day interactions with local stakeholders, specifically supporting the relationships with project applicants and grant recipients/implementing partners; and 
• Maintain an excellent working relationship with local FCDO team within the Embassy to collaboratively design and generate buy-in for the programme activities. 

Project Management; Identification, Selection and Design of Interventions 

• Support the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager and Country Programmes core team in coordination of grant funding windows and support market engagement to ensure the right local stakeholders are aware of, and well-placed to apply for, UK PACT funding opportunities; 
• Contribute to the project screening and selection process, particularly with regard to assessing deliverability and impact potential on the ground; 
• Support the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager to oversee timely implementation of projects and regularly ensure the feedback of results, impacts and learning through quarterly and monthly delivery reports to FCDO covering overall progress, progress against outputs, main activities and outputs for the next period, budget, spend and forecast, and risks; 
• Support the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager and Country Programmes core team to adhere to any local due diligence required from Implementing Partners and to support initial briefing to potential Implementation Partners; 
• Support defence against fraud, corruption and safeguarding risks, conducting spot checks and other processes to ensure FCDO grant funding is spent as intended and that Implementation Partners meet FCDO compliance requirements; and 
• Support the UK PACT Indonesia Fund Manager in advising on the potential to extend, scale up or replicate successful projects, and work with successful Implementation Partners to do this with FCDO approval. 

Programme Reporting:

• Support Implementing Partners on project reporting (technical, financial, results and risk), ensuring reporting meets FCDO requirements and Palladium’s MEL framework for UK PACT, providing a coordination and quality assurance function; and 
• Support identification of country and project-specific risk management, working with FCDO in post and in the UK, the Team Leader and Country Programme core team.