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JOB DESCRIPTION

Background

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With the funding support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Government of Indonesia, led by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs and with technical support from UNDP and FAO is implementing a full-size project entitled "Strengthening sustainability in commodity and food systems, land restoration and land use governance through integrated landscape management for multiple benefits in Indonesia (FOLUR)". The project aims to ensure sustainable value chains of oil palm, coffee, rice and cocoa through an application of a comprehensive land use approach linking biodiversity conservation, restoration, and production at scale.

The project will support the country to address the above-mentioned development challenges through four areas of interventions: 1) Enabling environment for sustainable value chains and integrated landscape management; 2) Promotion of sustainable crop production practices and responsible value chains; 3) Conservation and restoration-rehabilitation of natural habitats; and 4) Knowledge management, coordination, collaboration and monitoring and evaluation.

The project aims for a transformational change in sustainable commodity and crop supply chains and land governance, leading to a reduction in loss of high conservation value and high carbon stock forests in five jurisdictions in the country: Aceh Province (target district: Central Aceh), North Sumatera Province (target district: Mandailing Natal), West Kalimantan Province (target district: Sanggau), South Sulawesi Province (target district: Luwu), and West Papua Province (target district: Sorong). The targeted commodities are: oil palm, cocoa, rice, and coffee.

In line with the GEF-7 FOLUR Impact Program, the project strategy is predicated on integrated landscape management approaches facilitated through multi-stakeholder collaboration in achieving genuine systems change that results in durable global environmental benefits and sustainable livelihoods for local communities both men and women.

Duties and Responsibilities

a. Ensure effective and collaborative implementations amongst government institutions, in national, sub-national, and district level for the following tasks:

• Liaison between project and ministries (Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bappenas, Ministry of Agriculture, and Ministry of Environment and Forestry).

• Liaison between national, sub-national, and district level government institutions.

• Facilitate multi-stakeholders process in connection amongst ministries.

• Support the facilitation of government engagement workplans into project deliverables.

• Act as a focal point for the coordination of FOLUR with the Government of Indonesia.

• Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with contributing governments, by planning and facilitating workshops, through policy and partnership dialogues.

• Provides substantive support by planning meetings with ministries and project and sending regular updates on the initiative.

b. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;

• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with "Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP";

• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production;

• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;

• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;

• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.

Institutional Arrangement

Under the overall guidance of the National Project Manager, the Technical Assistant will support the project on a day-to-day basis to cover relationship with government partners during project implementation.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Business management

Digital Awareness and Literacy Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed

Business management

Working with Evidence and Data

Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making

Business Management

Communication Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels

2030 agenda- people

Gender

Gender mainstreaming

Finance

Budget management

Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets

Admin and operation

Events management (including retreats, trainings and meetings)

Ability to manage events, including venue identification, accommodation, logistics, catering, transportation, and cash disbursements, etc.

Business Management

Customer Satisfaction/Client Management

Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

University degree (Bachelor's Degree) in Forestry, Agriculture, Environment Studies, Natural Resources Management, Communication, Political Science or relevant fields will be given due consideration but is not a requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years (with Secondary education) or 2 years (with Bachelor ́s degree) of relevant experience preferably in the field of development.

• Relevant experience in administrative/financial/ procurement/ asset management and project activities would be necessary.

• Relevant experience in government relationship would be an asset.

Required skills

• Good inter-personal and communications skills.

• Ability to work in a team

• Capacity to establish and maintain excellent relationship with key partners.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Familiar with Government and UN/UNDP procedures would be desirable

• Experience in project implementation using Government and International Organization rules and regulation

• Experience in collecting, analyzing, and summarizing administration report

• Demonstrated ability in government engagement, demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills

• Ability to mobilize resources amongst government institutions

Required Language(s) (at working level)

Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.

Professional Certificates

N/A

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