Project Support for FOLUR Project

The unsustainable management of globally traded commodity crops (cacao, coffee and oil palm), and their expansion into forest areas, are leading to major impacts on globally important biodiversity, the degradation of soil and waterresources, the loss of carbon stocks, and the degradation of watersheds that are vital for maintaining water flows torice production areas. Rice production is itself a source of globally significant environmental impacts, in the form ofthe contamination of soil and globally- important aquatic ecosystems due to excessive and inappropriate use of agricultural chemicals, and the generation of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from flooded paddy systems.

A narrow focus on the production of globally-traded cash crops by farmers is environmentally and socially unsustainable – even in the case of perennial crops such as coffee and cacao that have the potential to yield environmental benefits if appropriately managed – because of the volatility of global markets for these crops and their vulnerability to the effects of global climate change. A large number of major global value chain actors have committed to sustainable sourcing of the products that they trade, in order to comply with corporate social and environmental responsibility goals and to satisfy consumer requirements for sustainable production. This presents farmers with a major potential source of market-based incentives for sustainable production, but at present their ability to take advantage of this opportunity is constrained by their disconnection from these “green” value chains and their limited technical capacities to satisfy their requirements in terms of environmental standards, product quality and reliability of supply.

Despite significant policy commitments to sustainability by the Government of Indonesia, capacities, knowledge, tools, regulatory instruments and incentives for putting these into practice are still inadequately developed, and the agricultural and environmental sectors continue to be highly compartmentalized, lacking the integrated vision that is required if social and economic development and landscape management are to be sustainable.

With the funding support from the Global Environmental Faculty (GEF), the Government of Indonesia, led by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs and with technical support from UNDP and FAO is preparing the full-sizeproject implementation entitled “Strengthening sustainability in commodity and food systems, land restoration andland use governance through integrated landscape management for multiple benefits in Indonesia (FOLUR)”. The project aimed to ensure sustainable value chains of palm oil, coffee and cocoa via application of a comprehensive land use approach linking biodiversity conservation, restoration and production at scale. The project will assist the country to address above-mentioned development challenges through four areas of interventions as follow:

• Development of integrated landscape management systems
• Promotion of sustainable food production practices and responsible value chains
• Conservation and restoration of natural habitats
• Management, Coordination, Collaboration, and M&E
• The project will be implemented in 5 provinces (jurisdictions) and 5 districts (pilot landscapes): Aceh (Central Aceh),North Sumatra (Mandailing Natal), West Kalimantan (Sanggau), South Sulawesi (Luwu) and West Papua (Sorong). The project will be commenced for full implementation in February 2022 for 72 months.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provide clerical support to the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation on achievement of the following results:

• Compiles, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on specific project and related topics or issues.
• Implement project standard operating procedures in line with the UNDP and the government’s regulations.

Provide administrative support to the Project Management Unit focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Providing administrative support to other team members in preparation of results-oriented progress reports.
• Providing general office assistance such as response to simple information requests and inquiries; reviews, logs, and routes incoming correspondence, establishment of maintenance of files and records, including but not limited to event attendance records, etc.

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.
• Under the overall guidance of the National Project Manager, the Project Support provides project support services. The organigram in Annex shows the position of this function within the office and unit structure.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Education:

• Secondary Education is required.
• University degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in Social Science or other relevant fields will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of relevant project/administrative experience preferably in the field of development and/or environment
• No experience is required for candidate with bachelor degree

Required Skills:

• Good inter-personal and communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team
• Up-to-date computer skills required, knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages

Additional Skills and Competencies:

• 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, documenting, and filing administration report
• Experience in database maintenance would be desirable

Languages:

• English and Bahasa Indonesia in both writing and speaking

Source: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=117579