Background

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UNDP Indonesia's mission is to be an agent for change in the human and social development of Indonesia. We aim to be a bridge between Indonesia and all donors as well as a trusted partner to all stakeholders. We work in four key areas of development: Governance Reforms, Pro-Poor Policy Reforms, Conflict Prevention and Recovery, and Environment Management, with the overarching aim of reducing poverty in Indonesia. Besides the four priority areas, UNDP Indonesia is also engaged in a variety of crosscutting initiatives focused on HIV/AIDS, gender equality, and information and technology for development.”

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UNDP Indonesia's mission is to be an agent for change in the human and social development of Indonesia. We aim to be a bridge between Indonesia and all donors as well as a trusted partner to all stakeholders. We work in four key areas of development: Governance Reforms, Regional Development and Poverty Reduction, Conflict Prevention and Recovery and Environment Management, with the overarching aim of improving human development in Indonesia. Besides the four priority areas, UNDP Indonesia is also engaged in a variety of crosscutting initiatives focused on HIV/AIDS, gender equality and information and communication technology for development.

UNDP works in four priority areas:

• Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs);
• Democratic Governance;
• Environment and Sustainable Development;
• Crisis Prevention and Recovery.

Climate change is one of the largest challenges facing Indonesia in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. For mitigation, successful emissions reductions from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) will benefit not only the country and provide opportunities to protect the country’s vast biodiversity, but significantly contribute to global climate change mitigation efforts. On mitigation, UNDP supports the implementation of the partnership between the Government of Indonesia and Norway for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest and Peat-land Degradation (REDD+). The partnership focuses on quantifiable reduction of GHG emissions by 2020 and addressing underlying root causes, including private sector engagement and supporting tenure rights and livelihoods of forest dependent communities. The Partnership is formalized by a Letter of Intent which pledges up to one billion dollar disbursed as performance-based payment for verified emission reduction. UNDP has supported the initial phase of the LoI. Under this phase, Norway has contributed a total amount of approx. USD40m to Indonesia. The second phase - now in preparation - amounts to USD160m; the final phase is estimated at $800 million. UNDP is also supporting Indonesia in establishment of financing mechanisms to prepare the country for long-term investment - domestic and foreign - that meet the twin objectives of climate change mitigation and economic growth.

With the establishment of the REDD+ Agency, the appointment of its head, the enlistment of a core team of staff, and the initiation of activities to enter Phase 2 of the Letter of Intent with Norway, both the Government and UNDP are gearing up for large scale REDD+ programming activities in Indonesia. There are many critical challenges ahead for the REDD+ Agency and in-coming staff including the coordination of complex inter-ministerial partnerships and the sequencing of a wide range of important and time-sensitive activities to achieve results under the Letter of Intent. In addition to the programmes and activities of the Agency, a range of initiatives will be undertaken. These include: the strengthening of the national REDD+ Funding Instrument and the REDD+ Agency secretariat, the expansion of the current Knowledge Management initiative into an advanced Data and Geospatial Centre, and a series of campaigns to address cross-sector issues including gender, poverty and the marginalisation of communities adversely affected by inadequate land governance. This multi-faceted approach is required to ensure the establishment of a viable REDD+ model in Indonesia and that fundamentals behind the current REDD+ partnership remain solid and on track to achieve a national contribution-for-verified emissions by Phase 3 (up to USD800 million). Achievements reached during Phase 1 and those expected during Phase 2, are the cornerstone results for the REDD+ Agency’s preparedness to enter Phase 3.
For UNDP, the REDD+ programme and related climate change initiatives currently account for the largest share of the CO portfolio. The REDD+ project alone is expected to grow into a US$100 million project for the CO, with sizeable amounts of resources being mobilized for other related initiatives. To assist the CO to provide direction on technical and strategic issues of the REDD+ programme and to design cross-project synergy and collaboration, the services of a System Integrator Specialist for REDD+ is required.

Under the guidance of the Technical Advisor, the incumbent will delivers set of services and solution to the Head of BP REDD+ and Deputy of Technology, System and Monitoring within the following areas:

• Fostering innovation - ensuring that the latest innovation expertise and methodologies are systematically identified, tested and made available.
• Capacity development support to meet the sustainable development and resilience challenges of today, with an emphasis on expanded collaborative and networking capacities across institutional, professional and constituency boundaries and the ‘how’ of capacity development.

The System Integrator Specialist will supervise and work closely with the Research team data and information analysts and other technical parties.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of key functions:

• Advice to UNDP REDD + Project on data management;
• Advice to Government counterparts and facilitation of knowledge building on data management centre;
• Establishment of ICT reporting mechanism on REDD+-related activities; incorporating satellite imagery, geospatial data sets, big and small data , incorporating ground trothing; and
• Facilitate knowledge building and management for and from the project implementation, focusing on achievement of the following results.
• Team Management/Coordination.

Advise UNDP REDD + Project on data management, focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Provision of top quality technical guidance in establishing working relations with national and provincial data custodians;
• Appropriate methods for utilising/accessing the data maintained by data custodians and;
• Provision of advice on designing data integration/sharing for incorporating into the One Data platform.

Advise REDD+ Agency team and Government counterparts:

• Provision of strategic advice on system administration, web operations and the servers co-located at the REDD+ Agency’s Data Centre;
• Advising on technology required to expand the data types and to maintain it within the One Data environmen and;
• Effective support to the REDD+ Agency ICT team in development of reporting modules that support the formation of a Management Reporting System - dashboard - for policy and decision making.

Establishment of ICT reporting mechanism on REDD+-related activities; incorporating satellite imagery, geospatial datasets, big and small data , incorporating ground truthing , focusing on the following results:

• Establishment of data sharing through automated data retrieval mechanisms and provide a framework for REDD+ Agency ICT team to implement the data retrieval mechanisms;
• Ensuring proper research methods is applied for displaying and presenting reports that incorporate geospatial rendering and dynamic data retrieval, in a manner that is accessible in remote areas with limited access to high-performance internet.

Facilitate knowledge building and management for and from the project implementation, focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Formulation and facilitation on capacity building and knowledge transfer to designated staff of the REDD+ Agency to ensure an eventual hand-over of the duties of system and web operations;
• Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learn from similar project at national and international level to achieve better and more innovative outcomes and;
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice through identification of best practices and lessons learned.

Team Management/Coordination -Substantive Leadership:

• Provide substantive and managerial leadership of the team or teams under his/her supervision;
• Lead advocacy for and support to knowledge management and sharing in the provincial level  including promotion of national policies, norms and standards and the sharing of national experience;
• Collaborate closely with other teams within BP REDD+ ensuring synergies and complementarity;
• Coordination and Management;
• Develop and implement team work plans where required;
• Manage all activities related to  team functions including direct supervision, when appropriate, of the policy advisors and specialists, create positive team environment and ensure access to learning opportunities for all staff.

The incumbent will also perform other tasks as required by the Head of the Environment Unit and UNDP Senior Management.

Impact of Results

The incumbent will significantly contribute to UNDP’s strategic positioning and interventions on addressing climate change and environmental challenges especially through REDD+ in Indonesia. With climate change being a cross-cutting issue, the assignment will contribute also to integrating climate change in the broader UNDP Country Office Programme. In addition, results are expected to serve as important inputs to UNDP’s efforts with regard REDD+ and climate change at the regional and global level.

Competencies

Competencies and Critical Success Factors

Functional Competencies:

Building Strategic Partnerships

• Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments;
• Takes responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved;
• Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners;
• Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments.

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing

• Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches;
• Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
• Develops and/or participates in the development of tools and mechanisms, including identifying new approaches to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal methodologies.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

• Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines;
• Serves as internal consultant in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff;
• Continues to seeks new and improved methods and systems for accomplishing the work of the unit;
• Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally;
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments.

Promoting Organizational Change and Development

• Provides counseling and coaching to colleagues who are dealing with change Assists in the development of policies, communications, and change strategies;
• Performs appropriate work analysis and assists in redesign to establish clear standards for implementation.

Design and Implementation of Management Systems

• Makes recommendations regarding design or operation of systems or programmes within organizational units;
• Identifies and recommends remedial measures to address problems in systems design or implementation.

Client Orientation

• Anticipates client needs;
• Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider;
• Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective;
• Keeps the client informed of problems or delays in the provision of services;
• Uses discretion and flexibility in interpreting rules in order to meet client needs and achieve organizational goals more effectively;
• Solicits feedback on service provision and quality.

 Promoting Accountability and Results-Based Management

•  Provides inputs to the development of organizational standards for accountability and results-based management;
•  Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
• Develops and/or participates in the development of tools and mechanisms, including identifying new approaches to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal methodologies.

Conceptual Innovation in the Provision of Technical Expertise

• Leverages different experiences and expertise of team members to achieve better and more innovative outcomes;
• Leverages multidisciplinary, institutional knowledge and experience of other countries and regions to promote UNDP’s development agenda;
• Participates in dialogue about conceptual innovation at the country and regional levels.

Core Competencies:

• Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents;
• Building support and political acumen;
• Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
• Building and promoting effective teams;
• Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
• Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
• Leveraging conflict in the interests of UNDP & setting standards;
• Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
• Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member;
• Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: 

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Information Technology, Social Sciences or Business Management related studies;
• A first-level university degree in combination with additional 2 years of relevant working experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:  

•  A minimum of 7 years working experience for Advanced University degree related to IT and/or Knowledge Management System development;
• Experience working with government stakeholders in Indonesia is highly desirable;
• Experience working in UN/UNDP highly desirable;
• Knowledge of cloud environment;
• Experience in migration of systems.

Language Requirements:  

• Good knowledge of written and spoken English;
• Familiarity with Bahasa Indonesia would be an advantage.

Application procedure:

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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply . All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP Indonesia reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP Indonesia at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements.