Senior Operations Officer - Agribusiness Development Specialist - Jakarta, Indonesia

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing private capital in local and international financial markets, and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. IFC’s vision is to assist poor people to escape poverty and improve their lives through the development of the private sector.

IFC Advisory Services is organized into four business lines: Access to Finance (A2F), Investment Climate (IC), Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and Sustainable Business Advisory (SBA).

IFC in Indonesia aims to: Reduce the impact of climate change, improve rural incomes, and promote sustainable urbanization. To achieve these objectives, IFC in Indonesia combines investment and advisory services to expand access to finance, extend the reach of infrastructure, strengthen commodity-based supply chains, and improve the business environment.

The IFC Indonesia Agribusiness Advisory Services program focuses on improving the incomes and living standards of rural households in Indonesia through closer integration by them with the commercial sector. The program works in sustainable agricultural supply chain development in a limited number of sub-sectors with large numbers of smallholders—oil palm, coffee, cocoa—agri-finance development and linkage with IFC clients. Scalable and replicable projects that increase the transparency and efficiency of linkages between smallholders and commercial markets and benefit sharing with local communities will be developed and implemented, and projects will interact closely with other IFC Advisory Services business lines and IFC investment to achieve broad, systemic impact.

This position reports directly to the Program Manager, Indonesia Agribusiness, with a secondary reporting line to the Sustainable Business Advisory (SBA) Regional Business Line Leader (RBLL).

Selection Criteria: 

• A minimum ten years of relevant working experience, three of which includes experience in the private sector.
• Graduate degree in a relevant field (Agriculture, Business, Commerce, Economics, etc.).
• Experience working in Indonesia, preferably in the field of agricultural development.
• Expertise in a focus subject matter such as smallholder organization development/governance, commodity traceability, dispute resolution, community investment/benefit sharing, oil palm development, voluntary standards, etc.
• Strong computer skills, with an emphasis on Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Proven ability to build cooperative networks.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently, articulate issues and recommend solutions.
• Experience managing a program with donor funds, preferably including project set-up and exit.
• Ability to anticipate and meet deadlines.
• Ability and comfort working with limited supervision and to think independently.
• Persuasive writing, proven ability to prepare proposals, concept papers and reports to a high-level of English proficiency.
• Capacity to work in Bahasa Indonesia preferred.
• Willingness to travel regularly within Indonesia and to other IFC offices around the world, particularly within the East Asia and Pacific region.

IFC offers rewarding careers in a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary and global working environment. For full job descriptions, and to apply on-line, please go to www.ifc.org/careers - Job reference# 120233. Deadline is February 19, 2012.

IFC’s vision is that people should have the opportunity to escape poverty and improve their lives.

www.ifc.org/indonesia