Gita Swasti

Head of Portfolio

Black Licorice

Leads portfolio strategy for a philanthropic accelerator making early bets on Indonesian founders working in maternal health and malnutrition. Modeled on the Mulago Foundation and the Community Health Impact Coalition, Black Licorice identifies the most promising hyperlocal NGOs, de-risks them, and builds them into institutionally fundable organizations.

• Direct portfolio strategy for a network scaling toward 25 partner NGOs across the archipelago, building on a model that delivered a 19% reduction in childhood stunting across two districts of East Nusa Tenggara (2021–2024), outperforming 18 of 22 comparable districts.
• Established due-diligence and grant-readiness criteria used to screen and onboard the accelerator's first cohort of hyperlocal NGO partners in 2026.
• Coordinate portfolio-level reporting that consolidates field data from multiple grantees into a single donor-facing view, supporting a leverage-over-scale funding strategy.

Social Impact Manager

Nuanu Social Fund

Managed a five-pillar community fund (Living, Nature, Education, Health & Wellness, Arts & Culture), covering rolling-basis grants to Beraban Village and a youth leadership grant program.

• Assessed and funded community project proposals on a rolling basis for Beraban Village, Kediri, Tabanan, over 14 months, matching funding levels to demonstrated community need.
• Ran Dana Asa Kriya, a capacity-building program for Bali-based social initiative leaders aged 12 to 35, taking 5 project leaders through structured workshops each cycle and selecting 2 for full project funding.
• Implemented an impact measurement framework spanning all five pillars, standardizing how the fund tracked outcomes.

Program Manager

Pratisara Bumi Foundation

Managed a multi-initiative portfolio spanning sustainable enterprise incubation, women-led environmental leadership, and indigenous climate innovation across eastern Indonesia.

• Managed INKURI (Inkubasi Usaha Lestari), a sustainable-economy incubation initiative supporting youth-led agricultural micro-enterprises across three regencies of Flores (West Manggarai, Nagekeo, Ende), aiming to grow a regenerative economy ecosystem within three years.
• Oversaw the Women Earth Alliance partnership's four program lines: the 4-month WEA Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator, the Para Para alumni forum across 6 regional groups, RIPPLE post-program M&E support, and Communal Forest Monitoring pilots in Bali and NTT.
• Managed the Indigenous Technology Innovators in Residence & Hackathon, a 4-month journey with 20 young rural innovators and 40 local enablers across 10 regencies, enhancing traditional technologies for climate challenges in wellness, architecture, craft and food.

Impact Lead

Kulaku Indonesia

Led training delivery and impact measurement for a coconut-farmer social enterprise, running a scholarship program and women's capacity-building curriculum alongside a 500+ farmer network.

• Delivered training to 100+ coconut farmers on improved farming techniques and 50+ women on financial literacy, water sanitation, basic writing and household management across Banyuasin Regency.
• Administered the BTMI (Beasiswa Tunas Muda Indonesia) scholarship for farmers' children over 2 years, from application to disbursement and outcome tracking, supporting 10+ recipients.
• Built consolidated impact reporting across training, women's programs and scholarships, giving leadership a single view of beneficiary reach.
• Supported farmers across the whole growing cycle, from seed selection, seedling care and land preparation to maintenance and fruit sorting.

Enterprise Development Officer / Project Officer

Instellar Indonesia

Enterprise Development Officer · Jan – Sep 2022Project Officer · Feb – Dec 2021

Managed a six-program portfolio of accelerator and capacity-building initiatives for social enterprises, handling RFPs, grants, and funder and vendor relationships.

• Managed the Hyundai Startup Challenge, a 7-month national accelerator, across the 2021 and 2022 cohorts of social enterprises in employment, environment and education.
• Ran the Instellar and IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Indonesia Accelerator, a 24-month program growing the quality and number of social enterprises outside Java, with a focus on the circular economy.
• Delivered four more concurrent programs: ImpactX by Crevisse (B Corp certification, sustainable cross-border trade and investor readiness), the UK FCDO Tech Hub Cyber Security for Women program (training, mentorship and cyber hygiene), a COVID Recovery Programme for Hyundai Startup Challenge 2020 alumni, and the Rikolto Foodpreneur Generation Program, an ideation program built on the SEED starter modules.

Project Officer

Kinara Indonesia

Supported two national and regional youth and women's economic-empowerment programs, managing implementation logistics and government stakeholder relationships.

• Supported delivery of Youth Co:Lab Indonesia, a UNDP and Citi Foundation program advancing SDG-aligned youth leadership, social innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Contributed to WEAVE by the Cherie Blair Foundation, a digital-technology program that reached over 12,000 women running small businesses across Vietnam and Indonesia.
• Managed short-term contracts and budget-implementation monitoring across both programs.

Research Assistant (Part-Time)

Doctoral Research Project, Ivy Londa

DREAM+PLAN Program · LUT University & RMIT University

Support a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe-funded doctoral project on cross-sector collaboration.

• Structured an open-ended research question into a 116-article systematic literature review corpus drawn from Scopus and Web of Science, assessed against a structured, multi-dimensional analytical framework.
• Contributed to a paper accepted as a developmental paper at the British Academy of Management Conference 2026.

Visiting Research Fellow

Pacific Gateway Center

Produced an intersectional policy research report to inform a new immigrant and refugee farm program in Haleiwa, Oahu, benchmarked against comparable US nonprofit farm programs.

• Placed through the YSEALI Professional Fellows Program (Economic Empowerment theme) in PGC's Social Enterprise Program, which supports ventures creating jobs for vulnerable populations.
• Analyzed the existing Kunia, Oahu farm program, which leases 176 acres to refugee and immigrant families, against comparable US nonprofit programs, delivering a modernized policy brief used to pitch the new Haleiwa program.
• Built an intersectional framework examining how race, gender, socioeconomic status and immigration status shape outcomes for immigrant and refugee farm owners.
• Delivered the final brief on schedule, giving the Center ready-to-use language for future funding proposals.

Research Assistant

Department of Accounting, Universitas Indonesia

• Supported department research projects over two years, in parallel with a full undergraduate course load in Accounting.

Auditor

Ernst & Young Global Consulting Services

• Completed audit workpapers and documented test results and findings across client engagements.
• Appraised internal control systems via structured audit questionnaires, feeding policy and procedure recommendations into final audit reports.
• Verified client assets and liabilities against source documentation, confirming internal-control compliance.

Audit Associate

KPMG Indonesia

• Analyzed financial statements and internal operations for accuracy, compliance and risk exposure.
• Planned and executed audit test procedures across multiple client engagements.
• Co-authored final audit reports with process-improvement recommendations, communicated directly to clients.

Joined full-time after an audit internship at KPMG earlier in 2018.

Corporate Governance Specialist

PT. Sinergi Daya Prima

• Reviewed internal procedures and policies for alignment with OECD principles and Indonesian Financial Services Authority (POJK) governance regulation.

Audit Internship

PT Prodigi Konsultan

• Supported statutory audits of public-sector and government-affiliated bodies, and examined the finances of private businesses working with government, alongside chartered and certified accountants such as the National Audit Office.

Manager & Contributing Writer

Infoscreening

Manager · Part-time · 2018 – May 2019Contributing Writer · Freelance · 2018 – 2019

A mass-media community sharing information about alternative screenings and film festivals in Indonesia since 2012.

• Held stewardship of client media budgets, including signed media authorizations and post-buy reporting.
• Coordinated account, creative and activation-producer teams to deliver client campaigns and special projects on time.
• Published cultural criticism, including pieces on the film Laut Bercerita (The Sea Speaks His Name), the Keluarga ala Indonesia anthology launch, and a documentary on Kampung MacArthur's place in Indonesian history. Read the articles →