Legal Expert is Needed for USAID Financed Project

SENADA, a USAID financed Indonesian Competitiveness Project is looking for a qualified and motivated individual to join our team as the Legal Expert (Code: LE) based in Jakarta. SENADA is a four year, USAID financed project whose goal is to increase Indonesia’s economic growth and employment by improving the competitiveness of selected light manufacturing industry.

As a Legal Expert, your primary responsibilities will be to:
Conduct analyses of laws and regulations affecting Indonesia’s business climate in areas including but not limited to labor, competition, customs, tax, finance, decentralization and technology.

In collaboration with SENADA managers and other stakeholders, develop and prioritize recommendations to improve the regulatory environment for business.

1. Develop and draft legislation and regulation reforms in the above areas with the objective of facilitating market development and, more generally, of improving the business enabling environment; to achieve this, the Legal Expert will identify additional legal and economic expertise required.
2. Develop and implement legal and regulatory advocacy initiatives with stakeholders, other donors and government institutions.
3. Develop, together with SENADA Communications Manager and stakeholders, initiatives to raise awareness about legal and regulatory policy constraints. Provide legal research and advisory services to SENADA management and to SENADA counterparts.
   Strengthen counterpart organizations’ capacity through training and other initiatives.
   

To qualify, candidates should have the following qualifications:

1. Law degree required (essential); economics or business degree desirable.
2. Minimum 3 years professional experience for those with Masters Degree, or 5 years for Bachelors Degree.
3. Working knowledge of Indonesian commercial law as well as other legislation relevant to the business enabling environment (essential).
4. Experienced in carrying out research and analysis of Indonesian economic laws and regulations (essential)
5. Proven experience in presenting and advocating legislative and regulatory reform to business and government leaders (desirable).

Strong understanding of economics and finance (desirable)

If you meet the criteria above, please send your CV and three professional references via email to SENADA@dai.com (include the position code in the subject of the email) or fax to 021-579-32578 by November 25, 2007. Please
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