SNV is a global development partner, deeply rooted in the countries where we operate. Driven by a vision of a better world where all people live with dignity and have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably, SNV strengthens capacities and catalyses partnerships that transform agri-food, energy, and water systems. We help strengthen institutions and effective governance, reduce gender inequalities and barriers to social inclusion and enable adaptation and mitigation to the climate and biodiversity crises.  
With 60 years of experience and a team of approximately 1,600 people, we support our partners in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia, tailoring our approaches to different contexts to achieve large-scale impact and create more equitable lives for all. 

Our core values of people-centeredness and respect, equity and equality, and diversity and inclusion, are fundamental to who we are, and what we do. This is reflected in our vision and mission, and strategy, which sets out our aspirations and commitments as our compass towards 2030. 

For more information on SNV, please refer to our website: Impact that matters | SNV

We are currently looking for a:

Country Director Indonesia

National contract / Fulltime /Jakarta
Reporting to Deputy Director of Country Programmes

Are you looking for an exciting position, in which you are crucial for the success of SNV in spearheading SNV’s impact, business development, operational excellence and partner engagement in Indonesia? Then this is your role!

SNV has a long-standing presence in Indonesia, where its country team implements programs supported by international donors and private-sector collaborations. Currently, the portfolio showcases our efforts in the agri-food and water sectors. This includes promoting sustainable agricultural and developing deforestation-free supply chains, enhancing sustainable and regenerative agriculture, fostering institutional business development, and improving financial literacy among farmers of all genders. We also focus on strengthening equitable water resource management capacities, ensuring sustainable and inclusive irrigation, promoting climate-resilient rural WASH services, and supporting sustainable urban water cycles. Country specific information can be found here: www.snv.org/country/indonesia.

Country Director Indonesia
SNV seeks a hands-on, entrepreneurial, results-oriented, people centric director to lead the Indonesian country team in delivering high impact programs. You are a champion on SNV culture, representing our values and encouraging a team culture of learning, creativity, and innovation.

This is a great opportunity for an entrepreneurial leader with a focus on developing and strengthening country operations through high-quality program delivery, as well as further developing SNV’s position and opportunities with investors and partners alike. In this role, you are further developing the country program portfolio in an interesting and, at times, challenging development context.

The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program and overseeing the successful implementation of all projects within the country through their team and local implementation partners.

This position strongly emphasizes private-public cooperation, working with an extended partner base, and further developing our SNV localisation signature. It also has a clear vision of alternative revenue streams for NGO.

The current EUR 3.5 – 5 million per annum program portfolio includes support from various funding organisations from public to private partners. The Country Director leads, coaches and supports their country management team (CMT) and inspires over 40 members.

The Country Director is a key member of SNV’s global senior leadership team, making meaningful contributions across the wider organisation to further shape and enable the future of SNV.

Your role  
The Country Director is responsible for leading and enabling the country program with and through their team and local implementation partners. It is a multi-faceted role, focused on upscaling and strategically strengthening the country position with an ambitious country strategy, ensuring high-quality delivery of operations, and securing adequate funding to sustain and grow opportunities to deliver impact. The Country Director needs to be well informed about national and international development priorities and steer the sectors and themes in response to these priorities. The Country Director is expected to forge partnerships and alliances between SNV and important national and international actors and stimulate collaboration for impact. She/he will be the face of SNV in the country and ensure our positive image and visibility.

In this role you will also be responsible for the following tasks:

• Strategic leadership of the country programme. Providing innovative leadership and encouraging people to take an active role in programme design and proposal development and ensuring quality and implementation in line with the strategic directions within the annual Plan and SNV’s global strategy.
• Strong and supportive people leadership enabling the country team: creating and nurturing an environment that supports high performance, continuous learning and teamwork at all levels.
• Representation and profiling: building partnerships and maintaining excellent relationships with national and local governments, donors, partners, businesses, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders.
• Oversight and quality assurance of project implementation (including project director roles) ensuring the delivery of impact to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and compliance with national Indonesian government regulations, SNV’s and the donor’s financial standards and monitoring protocols.
• Business development to grow the country position and its programmes, ensure financial sustainability of SNV in Indonesia and ensure high-quality project design.
• Collaboration with other SNV countries to effectively exploit opportunities for synergy, deliver at scale (including multi-country projects), exchange knowledge and strengthen SNV’s positioning.
• Foster innovation of SNV products and services: facilitate learning, documentation and evidence-based knowledge development in collaboration with SNV’s global team and partners; and ensures collaboration with renowned knowledge institutes and networks.

Candidate profile
The ideal candidate brings a minimum of five years of relevant senior leadership experience at an end-responsible level in Indonesia. We expect you to be a strong people leader with an understanding and curiosity about diversity and inclusion. You thrive in an environment where evidence-building is required, and you engender passion for motivating others. You have experience in cooperation with governments, private sector organisations and partners, donor relations, and actors in SNV’s three sectors and core thematic areas.

You have strong business acumen accompanied by demonstrated business development experience in climate-related issues, innovative financing, and private-sector engagement. You have developed a vision on alternative revenue streams for NGO in Indonesia and have experience with funding from multilateral development agencies and donors, private sectors or foundations.

You have a proven track record in portfolio management in a complex stakeholder field and a solid understanding of country operations and its related procedures and processes.
Your role model successful resource mobilisation, including strong networking and positioning skills at multiple levels. Your people-centric focus allows you to mobilise teams against strategy.

You are able to coach, lead, stimulate, and inspire professionals in a development context. Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required.

Working at SNV
SNV offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. We offer a stimulating work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling and diverse working environment. Our team members benefit from, and contribute to, an internal global network of experts.

SNV strives to be an inclusive employer, thriving on the diversity of its people and does not discriminate on the basis of disability status, religion, ethnic origin, gender and sexual orientation, etc.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package in a stimulating work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling international working environment.

Additionally we offer:

• Contract Type: Full time (40 hours per week)
• Contract Duration: 3 years initial assignment, with the possibility to extend  
• Expected Start Date: As soon as possible
• Duty Station: Jakarta, Indonesia

How to apply
If you believe that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to apply by uploading your CV and letter of motivation by 12 March 2025. All information will be processed in the strictest confidence. 

Reference & vetting check 
At SNV, we conduct thorough background and reference checks for all candidates applying for internationally determined positions, with a strong focus on safeguarding. You will be asked to provide contact details for two individuals who can serve as references. Please note, we will only contact your referees with your explicit permission. 

As a participant in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, our reference checks also include a request to your previous employers to complete a "Statement of Conduct" questionnaire. This questionnaire addresses any instances of misconduct, including sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment, in line with the Scheme's definitions. 

 
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