The Asia Foundation : Program Officer Tangkal

The Asia Foundation; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 180,000,000 - 300,000,000; Full time

Job summary

The Asia Foundation seeks a Program Officer for the TANGKAL initiative in Jakarta to translate strategy into practical action across recruitment safeguards, financial protections, and information sharing. You will support the Program Director, coordinate across workstreams, and engage with government, private sector, civil society, and research partners to advance anti-scam and safeguarding objectives.

Partnering with regional and global teams, you will help monitor budgets, track progress, and

Qualifications

• Minimum five to seven years of experience coordinating or managing development programs.
• Experience working with government ministries, regulators or agencies.
• Experience in financial-sector fraud, digital governance, or migration and anti-trafficking is an advantage.
• Experience supporting sub-grant or consultant management and donor reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support the Program Director in developing and implementing annual work plans, budgets and activity plans.
• Coordinate implementation across three workstreams and ensure logical sequencing.
• Assist in institutional, regulatory and policy analyses to inform priorities and changes.
• Design and test program interventions with partners to ensure practical, evidence-based approaches.
• Monitor progress, address issues, and maintain program documentation and follow-up actions.
• Build relationships with government, private sector, civil society, and other partners for collaboration.
• Support sub-grantee selection, oversight and donor compliance, including budgets and reports.
• Work with MEL to establish baselines, track indicators and draft learning notes.
• Ensure safeguarding, data protection and compliant handling of sensitive information.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in law, public policy, economics, finance, or related field

Master’s degree in a relevant field (advantage)

Job description

THE ASIA FOUNDATION : Program Officer TANGKAL

Role overview: TANGKAL (Hardening Indonesia’s Recruitment and Payment Systems Against Southeast Asian Scam Networks) is a three-year TAF Indonesia Impact Initiative that strengthens how critical scam information triggers protective action across recruitment, payments, digital channels, and response. The Program Officer will support the Program Director in translating TANGKAL’s strategy into effective implementation. The position will coordinate activities across the initiative’s three interconnected areas of work: recruitment and labor-mobility safeguards; financial-system protections; and information flow, institutional response, and learning.
The Program Officer will play an important role in maintaining relationships with government, regulatory, private-sector, civil society, research, and technical partners; coordinating program activities and partnerships; supporting institutional and policy analysis; managing grants and technical assistance; monitoring implementation and budgets; and contributing to program learning and reporting.

The position requires strong program-management skills and the ability to work comfortably across policy, institutional, and technical issues. The Program Officer is not expected to be a cybersecurity or financial-sector technical expert but should be able to work effectively with specialists and translate technical discussions into practical program actions.

REPORTS TO

WRI Program Director, who provides overall strategic direction for the initiative

JOB FUNCTIONS

A. Program implementation and coordination

1. Support the Program Director in developing and implementing annual work plans, budgets, implementation strategies, and activity plans in line with TANGKAL’s objectives and agreed results framework.
2. Coordinate implementation across TANGKAL’s three workstreams, ensuring activities are well sequenced, mutually reinforcing, and responsive to emerging evidence and institutional opportunities.
3. Support the design and implementation of institutional, regulatory, political-economy, and system assessments that inform program priorities and identify realistic pathways for institutional change.
4. Coordinate the development and testing of selected program interventions and institutional safeguards, working with relevant partners and technical specialists to ensure that proposed approaches are practical, evidence-based, and have a clear institutional owner.
5. Monitor implementation progress, identify operational or strategic issues, and work with the Program Director and relevant teams to adjust activities where necessary.
6. Maintain clear program documentation, including key decisions, institutional commitments, implementation progress, and follow-up actions.

B. Partnership and stakeholder engagement

7. Build and maintain working relationships with relevant government agencies, financial-sector institutions, law-enforcement bodies, private-sector actors, civil society organizations, research institutions, and other partners involved in anti-scam, digital safety, labor mobility, and victim protection platforms.
8. Track institutional interests, commitments, and emerging opportunities for collaboration, and identify potential risks or constraints that may affect program implementation or institutional adoption.
9. Support TAF’s convening role by helping bring together institutions with different mandates and perspectives around clearly defined problems and practical opportunities for reform.
10. Coordinate closely with relevant TAF Indonesia programs and technical teams, as well as regional and global TAF specialists, to draw on expertise in digital resilience, governance, economic development, migration and anti-trafficking, safeguarding, communications, and institutional reform.

C. Sub-grants, consultants and financial management

11. Support the selection, contracting and oversight of sub-grantees and consultants in accordance with TAF policies and donor requirements;
12. Review sub-grantee and consultant work plans, deliverables and reports for quality, timeliness and alignment with program objectives;
13. Monitor program expenditure against budget together with the Finance Unit and Grants & Contracts Unit, and prepare budget variance explanations;
14. Support the payments, travel and event logistics in compliance with TAF procedures;

D. Monitoring, evaluation and learning

15. Work with MEL staff to establish baselines and track agreed indicators, including response time, completed referrals, protective actions taken and changes in institutional SOPs, controls or procedures;
16. Collect and organize evidence from use-case tests and periodic reviews, and draft learning notes on what worked, where decisions slowed down and why;
17. Draft quarterly and annual progress reports, donor updates, briefs and success stories,

E. Safeguarding, data protection and compliance

18. Ensure program activities comply with TAF safeguarding/PSEAH policies, the Personal Data Protection Law, bank-secrecy requirements and agreed data-sharing protocols;
19. Ensure the program does not store or handle identifiable bank, platform, migration or law-enforcement data, using anonymized or simulated cases where required;
20. Apply do-no-harm and survivor-centered approaches in any activity involving trafficking survivors, repatriated workers or scam victims;
21. Perform other related duties as assigned, consistent with the purpose and level of the position.

REQUIREMENTS

Education
Minimum bachelor’s degree in law, Public Policy, Economics, Finance, Computer and Information Systems, or a related field. A master’s degree in a relevant field is an advantage.

Work experience

• Minimum five to seven years of experience coordinating or managing development programs, preferably with an international NGO, NGO, or donor-funded organization;
• Proven experience working with government ministries, regulators or agencies and gathering multi-stakeholder processes;
• Experience in at least one of the following: financial-sector fraud or anti-money laundering, digital or cyber governance, labor migration and antitrafficking, or institutional and regulatory reform in Indonesia;
• Experience supporting sub-grant or consultant management, budget monitoring and donor reporting; experience with USG-funded programs is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Working knowledge of Indonesia’s anti-scam and financial-sector landscape (OJK, Bank Indonesia, IASC, KP2MI, Komdigi) and relevant regulations such as POJK 12/2024, POJK 44/2024 and the Personal Data Protection Law is an advantage;
• Understanding of payment systems, data governance or interoperability concepts (e.g., APIs, BI-SNAP), process mapping and MEL frameworks is an advantage;
• Excellent Bahasa Indonesia and English (spoken/written), including drafting reports, briefs and meeting notes;
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines;
• High integrity, sound judgment and the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion, including safeguarding and survivor-centered approaches;
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and online collaboration tools.

THE ASIA FOUNDATION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.