Team Leader, Indonesia

CDM Smith is seeking an experienced Team Leader for an opportunity in Indonesia funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

The Team Leader will provide strategic, technical, and operational leadership for the CDM Smith team supporting the delivery of the Australia-Indonesia Climate, Infrastructure and Financing Partnership (KINETIK). This AUD650 million, 10-year program supports Indonesia’s transition to inclusive green growth through sustainable infrastructure, climate-resilient development, and innovative finance. The Team Leader will ensure program coherence, adaptive management, and high-impact delivery across water, sanitation, waste management, clean energy, and sustainable transport sectors, with cross-cutting themes of gender equality, disability, social inclusion (GEDSI), and digitalization. Team Leader will be responsible for program design, implementation, management, risk oversight, reporting, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment with DFAT policies and program objectives.

Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Program Management
- Lead the planning, implementation, and adaptive management of the KINETIK project portfolio, including leading the establishment of guidelines, standards, and monitoring systems ensuring economical, efficient, effective, and ethical delivery of outcomes aligned with DFAT’s strategic objectives, Indonesian government priorities and program logic. This will include but is not limited to overall leadership and management of projects across the project lifecycle, project advisory services for infrastructure projects during implementation and delivery, as well as policy and analytical initiatives, training events and technical and advisory products.
- Oversee the development and execution of Sector Engagement Strategies, Thematic Strategies (GEDSI, digitalization, climate resilience), and annual work plans.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and innovation across all delivery partners, including government agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and multilateral banks.
- Oversee all key personnel, resources, and management services for program activities, including monitoring, evaluation, liaison, consultation, subcontracting, and administration.
- Ensure integration and coherence across the program portfolio, including common approaches to activity identification, selection, approval, and reporting.

Technical and Advisory Services
- Oversee and coordinate high-level technical advisory services in core sectors (renewable energy, water, sanitation, waste management, transport, GEDSI, digitalization) in infrastructure planning, climate adaptation/mitigation, and innovative financing.
- Ensure integration of GEDSI and digitalization across all activities, including universal design principles and inclusive consultation processes.
- Oversee project screening, feasibility studies, and preparation of bankable projects, ensuring alignment with climate and sustainability objectives.
- Support or oversee policy analysis, research, and over-the-horizon monitoring of economic and political landscapes.
- Facilitate capacity building, professional development, and institutional strengthening.

Stakeholder Engagement, Partnership Building and Governance
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Indonesian government counterparts, DFAT, delivery partners, private sector actors, civil society organizations, subcontractors, CDM Smith home office team and other partners.
- Serve as Secretariat policy and advisory support for relevant committees, including the Program Steering Committee and Technical Working Groups, facilitating policy dialogue, reporting, and governance processes.
- Support effective governance arrangements, policy dialogue, and engagement with GOI and other stakeholders.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Reflection & Learning (MERL)
- Oversee MERL team’s design and implementation of program-wide MERL framework, ensuring robust data collection, reporting, and learning cycles.
- Working in close coordination with MERL team, ensure regular reflection, reporting, and evaluation of program activities, outputs, and outcomes.

Risk, Safeguards, and Compliance
- Lead risk management, including maintaining the program risk register, overseeing environmental and social safeguards, and ensuring compliance with DFAT and CDM Smith policies (PSEAH, child protection, fraud, anti-corruption, gender equality, disability, environmental and social safeguards, and workplace health and safety.).
- Appoint and manage specialist advisers (Safeguards, GEDSI, Climate, PSEAH) as required.
- Manage program risks, keeping DFAT and CDM Smith regularly informed and promptly advising on emerging risks and mitigation measures.

Financial & Contract Management
- Oversee financial management, budgeting, and reporting for program activities, grants, and contracts.
- Ensure transparent, fair, a