View Vacancy – JKT – Sustainable Infrastructure Manager, EO

Main Purpose of Job:

This is an exciting opportunity to drive growth in business and government partnerships across the sustainable infrastructure space, as part of the UK’s Department for Business & Trade (DBT). This is an exciting time in infrastructure in Indonesia, with the development of major national projects to drive progress on sustainable infrastructure development across the whole country. The DBT team is leading some truly innovative campaigns across transport, notably in the rail sector, as well as working closely to support ambitions for Indonesia’s New Capital City Nusantara (IKN) and driving cooperation on critical minerals to secure resilient supply chains that can support our future energy transition ambitions.

This role of Sustainable Infrastructure Manager – Trade in DBT Indonesia’s Infrastructure Team will drive trade promotion engagement on infrastructure, supporting UK companies and organisations to win business in the infrastructure sector in Indonesia, unlocking new opportunities for export and investment, and addressing and resolving market access barriers. You will be a motivated self-starter who can demonstrate a proactive approach to identifying trends and opportunities and developing plans to capitalise on these.

You will work to the Head of Infrastructure and will support delivering strategic long-term campaigns across various sub-sectors, supporting the development of a pipeline of commercial opportunities. You will support the delivery of events, missions, and inward/outward visits, taking a leading role in some instances. You will take ownership of several sub-sectors of sustainable infrastructure development, including critical minerals, and will oversee our work in these areas.

You will champion our work on sustainable infrastructure development in Indonesia’s New Capital City, identifying opportunities for UK companies to partner on this innovative project. You will support the implementation of existing and future MoUs around sustainable infrastructure development in the New Capital City, running events and activities to realise ambitions set out in these agreements.

You will support our work on critical minerals and sustainable mining, a relatively new area of work for DBT in Indonesia, where you will identify sustainable mining opportunities for UK business and develop a plan to increase our engagement in this area. You will also support ambitions around two-way investment cooperation in critical minerals under the UK-Indonesia Investment Cooperation MoU, reporting to the Deputy Country Director on this key workstream.

More broadly, you will support positioning the UK as a partner of choice for sustainable infrastructure development across different parts of Indonesia, and you will advise UK companies on routes to market based on your experience of the most effective ways of partnering and doing business here.

You will support DBT-led ODA and non-ODA programme work in the sustainable infrastructure space, including working with delivery partners, local stakeholders, UK teams, and UK business, to ensure smooth delivery and follow-up actions.

You will develop and manage relationships with stakeholders across the Indonesian government and private sector, and you will be confident engaging them on a regular basis. You will also be responsible for establishing and maintaining relations with UK and Indonesian companies, supporting them with partnership opportunities. You will work collaboratively with teams across the Embassy engaged on infrastructure including teams in London (i.e. the UK Department for Transport, the DBT infrastructure sector team, and FCDO programme teams).

You will also support wider UK Government objectives including UK Export Finance, supporting and identifying trade policy issues and related issues that can be addressed in the government-to-government Joint Economic & Trade Committee (JETCO) trade dialogue.

We reserve the right to review, revise or amend the roles and responsibilities from time to time reflecting the changing needs of business.

What the Jobholder will be Expected to Achieve:

• Identify and promote business opportunities in Indonesia for UK firms in the sustainable infrastructure sector, and develop a pipeline of projects through market intelligence, research, company engagement, relationship management of stakeholders. Support UK business to secure these projects.
• Take ownership of and lead sub-sectors within the sustainable infrastructure space, scoping opportunities, developing plans to grow our activity within them, and driving progress across these areas. This will include leading on a new area of work in critical minerals and sustainable mining, identifying opportunities for trade and investment engagement in this area, as well as exploring new sub-sectors e.g. airports and/or sports economy etc.
• Support development of the UK commercial offer for Indonesia’s New Capital City (IKN), working in partnership with UK sector teams and UK industry, and support our increased engagement on IKN projects.
• Proactively support trade missions, events, activities, webinars and forums in support of identifying business opportunities, and working with DBT/embassy marketing teams to showcase information.
• Develop a network of stakeholders across the Indonesian infrastructure sector, including national, provincial and local government, and the private sector.
• Account management of UK and Indonesian clients, providing assistance and advice to support market entry and business wins.
• Work closely with DBT London including the infrastructure sector team, trade policy teams, and UK regions (e.g. Northern Powerhouse) on opportunities and expanding UK companies interested in the market.
• Support resolution of market access barriers in the infrastructure sector to unlock business opportunities for UK organisations.
• Identify opportuniteis to use UK Export Finance (UKEF) for sustainable infrastructure project development, working closely with the UKEF Country Lead to identify and secure opportunities.
• Support inward and outward visits of senior officials and Ministers as necessary, contributing to programmes and ensuring the UK business features prominently. This may include supporting areas that fall outside of our core business area but are in support of wider DBT objectives.
• Support strategies to take forward next steps following delivery of ODA and non-ODA programmes in the sustainable infrastructure space. This will include delivering work on unlocking sustainable mining opportunities following a recent study to identify engagement in this area, as well as planning for UK companies to capitalise on opportunities identified through a transport study in Bali.
• Proactively bid for and deliver small-medium scale ODA and non-ODA programmes in the infrastructure sector, in order to unlock opportunities and/or secondary benefits for UK companies.
• Support marketing and comms campaigns and materials to showcase UK sector capabilities and celebrate successes.
• Work collaboratively with the UK and Indonesian trade associations (e.g. British Chambers of Commerce Indonesia, UKABC, etc).
• Work on emerging priorities as appropriate and in concert with emerging priorities across the team.
• Corporate: All staff are expected to participate in wider Embassy activities which can include active work on various committees and other corporate roles, as well as play a role in crisis management activities on an ad-hoc basis.

Resources Managed (staff and expenditure): There may be opportunities to bid for funds and manage bespoke projects related to sustainable infrastructure.

We are looking for a proactive, confident and creative self-starter who can deliver ambitious projects and programmes at pace and be flexible to changing priorities. You will need excellent interpersonal and communications skills to build strong relations within the Embassy and with senior stakeholders at the regional and national level as well as with UK and Indonesian infrastructure companies. In addition:

• At least 2 years of experience working on trade and/or investment
• A strong understanding of the Indonesian infrastructure system, its strengths and weakness, and knowledge of UK infrastructure capability areas
• Good understanding of business development and how UK companies operate overseas. Existing knowledge of UK companies active in Indonesia in the infrastructure space would also be a desirable knowledge set
• Able to take ownership of projects and work unsupervised when required
• Strong project management skills and ability to deliver at pace
• Good communicator at all levels, both spoken and written
• Market research and analysis experience
• Ability to liaise with and manage external stakeholders’ relationships
• Experience of working on large scale events, arranging visit programmes for delegations
• Computer literate, working with Microsoft Windows and able to manage information effectively with available computer system

Language Requirements:

• Excellent working levels in English and Bahasa Indonesia, both written and spoken
• Level of language required: Fluency