Various Positions JRS Aceh

The Jesuit Refugee Service seeks to accompany, serve and defend the rights of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Our programs flow from direct humanitarian services and personal involvement with persons exposed to the sufferings and limitations of refugee life.

JRS will serve the IDPs in post natural disaster and conflict to empower them to prepare and prevent any possibility of displacement due to natural and human made disaster. It will be for the first time that JRS serves the natural disaster and conflict survivors in the post disaster phase to seek some durable solution. A programme, “Community Capacity Empowerment for Displacement Prevention and Responses”, was designed to build capacities of rural communities and preventi0n mechanisms against displacement. It will be realised in some projects like Education/School, Community Building, and Youth focusing on peace education, disaster risk reduction, and early preparedness system. The programme should not only result in the success of programme implementation indicated by the survivors empowerment, but also some analysis by a simple research conducted by advocacy division on the characteristics of the post disaster area, and how far is JRS intervention in the
communities and the lives of returnees and relocated ones.

Project : Community Capacity Empowerment for Displacement
Prevention and Responses
Project Duration : June 2008 – May 2010
Duty Station : Tapaktuan, Aceh Selatan
Closing date : 25 May 2008

The programme content is designed at building community capacity and we require staff at various levels to work with communities and transfer knowledge and skills into these communities in the spirit of JRS charter and guidelines:


Emergency Preparedness and longer term Disaster Risk Reduction skills
Participatory rural appraisals (PRA)
community risk assessments primarily in earthquake and flood prone areas:
risk reduction and mitigation concepts,
community managed disaster and crisis management,
school managed disaster and crisis management
early warning systems,
local level emergency action plan,
rehabilitation of settlement,
infrastructure and natural resource training activities for potential disaster victims.
Village Planning strategies.

Additional skills we also require are staff who have the ability to conduct workshops and transfer skills in both.


Conflict Management skills
Knowledge on Aceh Conflict
Conflict mapping; conflict analysis; communication; negotiation; facilitation mediation and the various strategies


Advocacy skills
Campaigning and policy skills, communication tools,

In addition to specific expertise we require staff who have :-

Motivation and commitment to humanitarian ideals
A willingness to self study and continually improve knowledge and skills
Ability to conduct work in a professional and mature manner
Ability to work within a fluid situation (changes within the team, location)
Ability to take initiative where appropriate to deal with difficulties encountered in daily work.

JRS will be unable to notify all applicants and will only contact those who have the necessary skills, training and experience .

Positions offered:
School Project Coordinator (1)
Education Information- Advocacy Officer (1)
Information and Advocacy Officer on Conflict Management (1)
Information and Advocacy Officer on DRR/Environment (1)
Early Preparedness System (EPS) Officer (1)
PRA Officer (1)
Youth Officer (1)
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Officers (1)
Inclusion Officer (1)

Indonesian National citizens Only
Bahasa Aceh is an advantage

Only short list of qualified candidates will be called for interview.
To apply for this job, send or email your cover letter and application form of JRS (below) as soon as possible to:
Lino M Sanjoyo
Address: Gg. Cabe no 17, Puren, Pringwulung, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta
Email: linosanjaya@ jrs.or.id