Sun to Sea Manager, Indonesia
On-siteJakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
Job Summary
Lead the Validation Phase for 20 pilot sites in Maluku and Eastern Indonesia, designing and deploying an integrated model of clean energy, cold chain, livelihoods, and ecosystem restoration. Provide technical direction across fisheries, marine ecology, and economics while overseeing solar-battery systems and mangrove restoration. Manage the program budget, risk register, and workplan to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery, and validate cost, revenue, and ecological assumptions for financing and replication. Serve as a senior government interlocutor to align pilots with national initiatives and coordinate with ministries, conservation partners, and private-sector offtakers. Lead a multidisciplinary team of international and national consultants to build local delivery capacity and generate evidence for national scale.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., energy, engineering, natural resource management, marine/environmental science, development economics, or related), or equivalent senior professional experience.
- 12+ years of progressive experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder development, energy, conservation, or coastal/blue-economy programs, including significant experience in Indonesia or comparable archipelagic/emerging-market contexts.
- Demonstrated technical breadth across several of the program's components — clean energy and/or cold chain, fisheries or coastal livelihoods, marine ecosystem restoration, and the economics or financing of community-scale infrastructure — with the credibility to integrate them.
- Proven track record engaging Indonesian government agencies at national and provincial levels.
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams of international and national experts to deliver against ambitious timelines and budgets.
- Strong program and financial management capability across a portfolio of sites or projects.
- Excellent stakeholder, partnership, and communication skills, including with funders, private-sector partners, and communities.
- Professional fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Desired Qualifications
- Direct experience in Eastern Indonesia, including familiarity with local governance systems (e.g., Sasi Laut).
- Familiarity with blue carbon project development, carbon markets, and advance-purchase mechanisms.
- Experience structuring blended finance, productive-use investment, or co-financing with DFIs/MDBs and government.
- Experience designing programs with gender equity as a core design principle.
- Established relationships with conservation organizations, development partners, and private-sector offtakers active in Indonesia's coastal economy.
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