INOVASI 3 - District Consultant, East Java

Palladium; Jawa Timur; Presencial; IDR 111 600 000 - 178 560 000; Tempo integral

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INOVASI 3 District Consultant, East Java seeks a district-level advisor to support education reform in East Java, including collaboration with local government and schools in Sidoarjo and beyond. The role emphasizes PDIA, inclusive education approaches, and evidence-based policy implementation to strengthen the education ecosystem under the INOVASI Phase 3 program managed by Palladium.

Travel across INOVASI districts is required to coordinate activities with district education offices and

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INOVASI 3 - District Consultant, East Java

INOVASI 3 - District Consultant, East Java

• Duration: 7 months, up to 84 days
• Location: Sidoarjo, East Java, with travel to other INOVASI areas as necessary
• This position is open to Indonesia nationals and permanent residents with authority to live and work in Indonesia, preference will be given to local candidates, and this is a consultant position.

ProgramOverview
Indonesia’s Vision 2045sets the goal for Indonesia to transition from a resource-based economy towardsan advanced service, technology, and knowledge-based economy by the centenaryof its independence (2045). The 2025-2045 National Long Term Development Planemphasises the urgency of Indonesia’s human resource development to fullyrealise 2045 goals.

Faced however withpersistent low student performance that is emblematic of a learning crisis,significant improvement in student learning will be required to reachIndonesia’s 2045 goals. Government of Indonesia (GoI) has started an ambitiousprogram of education reforms. Successive education ministers have set out tomodernise the education system through reforming the national curriculum andteaching and assessment approaches, to produce citizens with strong foundationalskills, open minds, and inclusive values.

Australia is a long-termsupporter of the Indonesian basic education sector, with continuous investmentssupporting education quality improvements for the past two decades, includingthrough the INOVASI program (Phase 1 2016-2020; Phase 2 2020-2023) that focusedon supporting acquisition of literacy and numeracy foundational skills in earlygrades classrooms; exploring local problems and solutions; and generatingevidence to inform government policy development and practices.

This third phase ofINOVASI (2024-2027) builds upon the existing program’s approach and lessonslearned and takes the focus on the development of foundational skills throughto the end of the primary grades. Phase 3 will engage with priority issues ofAustralia’s development policy: gender equality, effective inclusion ofchildren with a disability, responses to the climate change challenge ineducation. It will focus on the challenge of policy implementation and the gaps that exist between national policies and practices at district and schoollevels and use the well attested-success of INOVASI’s local problem-basedapproach to continuously support policy development for effective fit betweenpolicy and implementation context.

INOVASI Phase 3 isimplemented in 25 districts and cities across Indonesia, in the provinces ofWest Nusa Tenggara, East Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, East Java, West Java,and Maluku. The program also works in Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN).

The Program is managed byPalladium on behalf of the Government of Australia through the Department ofForeign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

Purposeof Position
The strategy inINOVASI 3 focuses on strengthening the education ecosystem by providinginclusive education services, guided by principles such as PDIA (Problem-DrivenIterative Adaptation), TWP (Thinking Working Politically), collaboration,locally led, diversity, inclusion, and evidence-based approaches.

East Java Province isone of the regions covered by the INOVASI 3 Program, which aims to strengthenthe education ecosystem in East Java. INOVASI has collaborated with variousstakeholders, including UPT Kemdikbudristek (BBGP, BBPMP), the Ministry ofReligious Affairs Regional Office, BDK (District Education Office), and theEast Java Provincial Government (Provincial Education Office, Bappeda, and BiroPOD Setda), as well as Teacher Training and Education Institutes (LPTK).Additionally, there are collaborations with the Sidoarjo District EducationOffice to support the implementation of the Merdeka curriculum and with theBatu City Education Office for the PPKSP-PUSPEKA pilot program. At theprovincial level, ongoing support includes the establishment of the ProvincialLearning and Development Unit (ULD) through collaboration between the East JavaProvincial Education Office, the Inclusion Working Group (Pokja Inklusi), andBBPMP East Java. Furthermore, efforts to strengthen the implementation of improving the competence of SupervisoryWorking Group (Pokjawas)