Implementation PMO - Project Lead
ORGANIZATION AND PROGRAM PROFILE
Delterra is an environmental nonprofit on a mission to create a world where human activities protect and restore a healthy planet. Delterra’s founding partner is McKinsey & Company, and its flagship initiative, Rethinking Recycling, works with communities in emerging economies to build rapidly scalable, self-sustaining waste management and recycling ecosystems that redirect waste into productive use while improving the lives of the people it touches. In the coming years, Delterra will add other initiatives to its portfolio, all with a view to developing innovative scalable solutions that redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet. Learn more at: https://www.delterra.org
POSITION DETAILS
We are looking for a passionate, high-performing individual to join a collaborative program team of Delterra colleagues, external staff, and partners as Implementation PMO – Project Lead in Indonesia. You will drive the delivery of our Rethinking Recycling program through the implementation of project management practice and collaboration with a wide set of internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities include:
- Program Delivery: Lead successful on the ground delivery of program milestones to the community, village & regency level waste management site, relevant local and regency level government agencies.
- Project & Program Management: Tailor and implement project and program management practice based on multiple methodologies into program delivery and continuously improve and evaluate the implemented practice.
- Problem Solving & Prioritization: Provide day-to-day problem solving, leading a collaborative process to prioritize between trade-offs, and manage the distribution of tasks and escalate capability building needs of the implementation teams.
- Stakeholder Management: Build trusted, collaborative relationships with community leaders to ensure strong ownership and sustained support from both villages and regency, and other local government stakeholders or delivery partners.
- Team Synergy: Foster collaboration and continuous improvement culture between on the ground implementation team and work stream group. Become escalation points of implementation team to be solved together with leaderships.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant work experience in both agile and traditional program delivery, project & program management, and/or community transformation.
- Experience in managing and executing complex program with diverse team and stakeholders, with on-time, on-budget, and on-quality milestones delivery.
- Proven track record of establishing trust and credibility with community workers, leaders, and local government officials and leaders.
- Demonstrated aptitude in conceptual and analytical problem solving with the ability to communicate to a highly diverse set of audiences.
- Comfortable in managing the ambiguity and risks inherent to innovation, adapting to the situation at hand, helping implementation team prioritize dynamically based on new information.
- Passion for contributing to society and making change happen in the environmental and/or waste space.
- Experience in waste management or broader related sustainability topics is preferred.
- Professional fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English required. Native Bahasa Indonesia speaker is preferred, fluency in Balinese will be a plus.
Further details:
This position will be based full-time in Bali, Indonesia.
Read more about our work and see a video of our program on our website: https://www.delterra.org and on www.rethinkingrecycling.org.
