Tiered Approach

  • Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
  • Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
  • Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background

  • 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

Reporting directly to National Project Manager and working closely with other technical project team, the Programme Manager for Natural Resources Management Cluster and the Global FOLUR team National Chief Technical Advisor, Stakeholder
- Partnership Officer, and M&E-Knowledge Management Specialist

Lead relevant activities related private sector engagement across all project component, at global, national and landscape (district) level activities, focusing on the achievement of the following results:

  • Effective liaison with private sector co-financing partners, ensuring synergies and facilitating durable partnerships.
  • Active engagement with private sector coalitions and other stakeholder groups, representing the project and developing new partnerships.
  • Coordination with UNDP and FAO in Indonesia, in the region and globally, including with the Green Commodities Programme (GCP) and other relevant initiatives
  • Effective support to the National Project Manager in linking up with the advisory and facilitation activities available through the FOLUR Global Platform.
  • Effective coordination with the Technical Officer (Multistakeholder Engagement and
  • Collaboration) in representing the project on landscape and commodity-level platforms, advocating for public-private-community partnerships on sustainable and resilient production, diversified livelihoods for local communities and conservation and restoration of degraded lands and forest areas.
  • Active engagement with donors, local financial institutions, including microcredit schemes, to increase access of smallholders to credit and financing, thus enabling them opportunities for genuine collaborative arrangements with private sector partners.
  • Effective implementation, coordination and monitoring of the landscape level project activities related to private sector engagement
  • Effective coordination for policy dialogue, analysis and reform activities, including recruitment of specialized policy experts, facilitation of policy task force meetings, liaison with national and subnational government officials.
  • Effective coordination on the institutional capacity enhancement activities, including the systems leadership approach and other trainings.
  • Support provision to the National Project Manager with the implementation of relevant private sector engagement activities to achieve outputs under the four components of the FOLUR project
  • Effective coordination with all respective government partner, namely Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environment and Forestry and BAPPNEAS, in ensuring efficient implementation of the landscape level activities in Indonesia, in coordination with relevant UNDP and FAO Country Office focal points

To ensure timely reporting and effective capacity development focusing on the achievement of the following results:

  • Timely report to the National Project Manager on activity progress related to policy institutional