Water Resource and Distribution Expert-Team Leader with Dutch Citizenship

Overview of Crisil

Crisil is a leading consulting arm of Crisil that provides advisory services for infrastructure development to governments, investors, and public and private sector firms in emerging economies. Their work focuses on developing enabling frameworks for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), strengthening the infrastructure financing ecosystem, and improving public finance management to foster inclusive, sustainable, and financially resilient infrastructure development across sectors like urban, energy, transport, and water.

Overview of the Project

The Government of the Netherlands (GON) through the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the Government of Indonesia (GOI) through its Ministry of Public Works (PU) have a long-lasting cooperation on water which is secured in a Memorandum of Understanding on Water (MoU-Water) for 2022-2027. Within the framework of the MoU, the Joint Steering Committee (JSC) in November 2023 approved to facilitate joint working groups (WGs) enhancing strategic dialogues resulting in (an outline for) a programmatic approach

Building on the strategic vision, stakeholder alignment, and contextual understanding established during Phase I (Setting the Scene), the ambition of this assignment is to collaboratively advance the development of resilient, inclusive, and integrated water-related interventions in the Greater Semarang Region, by bridging the gap between visionary planning and tangible investment.

• Create an enabling environment that mobilizes commitment and financing from local, national, and international stakeholders through facilitation of meaningful multi-level dialogues that align policy, planning, and investment priorities. Build local ownership and capacity through inclusive and interdisciplinary processes such as design ateliers and community dialogues;
• Co-develop pre-feasibility level project concepts for two priority hotspot areas that are technically sound, environmentally, economically and socially viable, and financially feasible. The pre-feasibility concepts are prepared to meet International Financial Institutions (IFIs) / Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) / local and regional governments appetite to provide technical assistance to prepare the feasibility study to get to a tender-ready infrastructure project;
• Provide a clear pathway towards project implementation, including recommended steps for the transition to the feasibility study phase;
• Develop a communication and dissemination package with visually attractive materials that support the stakeholder dialogue, design process and decision making and allow for effective replication of the process in relevant areas across Indonesia.

With the Setting the Scene Process (Phase I) being finalized in August 2025 and Phase II starting from late November 2025 onwards, the intermittent period will be used to continue stakeholder consultations as to bridge the two phases, maintain stakeholder momentum and commitment and advance ongoing discussions.

Under Phase 1 of the project which has completed, 6 hotspots have been identified and under Phase 2 which is this assignment, detailed discussions and consultation would need to be carried out followed by shortlisting the 6 hot listed projects to 2 host listed projects. A pre-feasibility study of the project would need to be carried out under this assignment for the 2 hot listed projects.  

Qualification Required

• Degree - University degree (master's level or comparable level of experience) in Engineering, Hydrology or Any Related Field
• Experience (Years) – Atleast 10 Years Experience in Preparation of Pre-feasibility studies, Detailed Project Report and feasibility Studies for Large water sector projects
• Experience (Assignments) -  at least two (2) projects, similar (= € 350.000 euro excl. VAT for each project) in with international project management, specifically in developing countries in the South East Asian context as mentioned on the OECD DAC list (2020): 'least developed countries',' other low-income countries', 'lower and upper middle-income countries and territories'.
• The project leader and deputy team leader both have good written and oral command of the English language, at level B2 or higher (language level indication according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
• The project leader has good written and oral command of the Dutch language, at level B2 or higher (language level indication according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Timelines and Location

• The estimated timelines for the project is 16 months with a possible extension of 8 additional months.
• The project location is in Semarang, East Java, Indonesia