Background

“UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground in 177 countries and territories, UNDP offers global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.”

UNDP Indonesia’s mission is to be an agent for change in the human and social development of Indonesia.  We, the UNDP Country Office (CO), aim to be a bridge between Indonesia an all donors as well as maintaining our status 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.

Background

The Government of Indonesia recognizes that unrestrained natural resource exploitation will undo existing development gains and render certain development goals unachievable. Neither do turnkey solutions for low carbon development exist. Thus, Indonesia continues to work to pioneer solutions for sustainable development. The commitment to balance and enable social equity, environmental health, and economic growth is clearly outlined within Indonesia’s National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJM-N) 2015-2019. These goals are underpinned by Indonesia’s unprecedented voluntary commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26% and up to 41% by 2020, with international support including the REDD+ Indonesia-Norway Partnership. Indonesia’s successful actualization of sustainable development, including the protection of its vast forests, is critical not only for its own national development and wellbeing, but in its significant contribution to global climate change mitigation.

To this end, Phase 1 of the REDD+ Partnership persistently emphasized collaborative ways to create enabling conditions for sustainable development: Work to strengthen the nation’s geospatial infrastructure reinforced cross-ministerial collaboration. Information sharing under initiatives like the moratorium—and tackling unsustainable environmental exploitation through a Multi-Door Approach to regulatory due diligence and law enforcement—emphasised coordination and information sharing. Decade long participatory mapping efforts by masyarakat hukum adat (MHA) were integrated into the national One Map initiative. Key achievements include the release of the National REDD+ Strategy (Stranas) in September 2012, completing the groundwork for a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system, the design and preparation of a Fund for REDD+ (FREDDI) and the development of safeguards called Principles, Criteria and Indicators for REDD+ Safeguards in Indonesia (PRISAI).

Following the completion of Phase 1, the National REDD+ Agency was established through Presidential Regulation 62/2013 to ensure the continued implementation of REDD+ in Indonesia. The Partnership entered into an Interim Phase centered on building the institutional capacity of the REDD+ Agency. This ensured that the foundational work completed by the Working Groups of the National REDD+ Task Force (SatGas REDD+) in gathering baseline information, supporting the establishment of and monitoring the moratorium, and ensuring the overall body of knowledge from Phase I was transferred. The Interim Phase also included a portfolio of time sensitive issues including preventing forest and peat fires, implementing the Constitution Court Ruling No. 35/2012 (MK 35) recognizing the tenure rights of masyarakat hukum adat, land conflict resolution in national parks, and strengthening gender inclusion.
Integration into Ministry of Environment and Forestry

In 2014, the newly elected Jokowi-Kalla administration laid out their priority agenda, Nawa Cita, and decisively integrated Indonesia’s on-going reforms for more efficient, transparent, and accountable government with the country’s commitment to achieve the “triple wins” of sustainable development: social equity, economic growth, and environmental sustainability. REDD+ serves a critical role in helping fulfil the prioritization on alleviating rural poverty and enabling development, emphasizing good governance and anti-corruption as keys to improve forest and peat land management, and supporting the shift towards low emissions development, a commitment reflected by the decision of the Administration to reduce fuel subsidies by 70% between 2014 and 2015.

Most markedly, these priorities resulted in merging the ministries of environment and forestry, and—through Presidential Decree No. 16 of 2015 issued on 21 January 2015—consolidating ad hoc climate change related institutions—including the REDD+ Agency and the National Climate Change Council (DNPI), previously responsible for representing Indonesia at the UNFCCC—under the new Directorate General for Climate Change Control (DG-CCC) within the new Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF).

For the Partnership, this means continued implementation is led by a new Directorate General, where it is understood that REDD+, as a multi-sector programme, will be mainstreamed in policies and plans across several Directorate Generals (Echelon I) within the ministry, as well as with the requisite engagement of other relevant ministries. The new, more streamlined bureaucracy has the potential to ensure better coordination of climate change issues by one mandated body, including REDD+.

The integration of the former National REDD+ Agency into the new directorate general includes responsibility for overseeing the entirety of the former Agency’s mandate, namely coordinating, synchronising, planning, facilitating, managing, monitoring, supervising, and controlling the implementation of REDD+ in Indonesia and ensuring the following:

1.    Decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to deforestation;
2.    Reduction of emissions from degradation of forest and peat lands;
3.    Maintenance and enhancement of forest carbon reserves through conservation, sustainable forest management and rehabilitate and restoration of degraded forest land; and
4.    Improvement in environmental quality, biodiversity, and welfare of local communities and masyarakat hukum adat (MHA).

While the integration of the REDD+ Agency into the new Directorate General delayed the start of Phase 2, this period has been instrumental to ensure thorough handover of the functions and responsibilities of the former REDD+ Agency to the DG-CCC.  

Transition Phase

The Interim Phase remains the implementation platform of the Partnership for nine (9) more months. Under this arrangement, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry is mandated to establish both a REDD+ funding instrument and the mechanism for Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV).
The Interim Phase will also focus on providing technical support to the MoEF on six priority REDD+ programs based on the foundational work completed in Phase 1 and by the former National REDD+ Agency, and in line with the objectives of Indonesia’s National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJM-N) 2015-2019. These are:

1.    Forest and Peat fire prevention in fire prone provinces;
2.    Law enforcement, Legal review of licenses and compliance audit for fire management;
3.    Improvement of community welfare and sustainable land and forest management through social forestry;
4.    Resolution of land-related conflicts;
5.    Participatory mapping of territories by masyarakat hukum adat and local communities; and
6.    Institutional strengthening, stakeholder engagement and awareness raising on related social, economic, and environmental issues for the preparation of Phase 2

Context of this TOR
In coordination with Directorate General of Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, the REDD+ Project provide support and facilitation of the following Legal Reform activities:
-    Development of Presidential Regulation on integrated environmental law.
-    Development of environmental case management system through cooperation between Directorate General of Law Enforcement of MoEF and Environment Working Group of the Supreme Court.
-    Multidoor training in managing the environmental and forestry cases.
To support all activities mentioned above, the REDD+ Project is seeking to engage a Technical Officer for Legal Reform. Under the supervision of National Project Manager, the incumbent will responsible for providing technical coordination and support to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in the area of planning and implementing Legal Reform activities. The incumbent shall liaise with relevant Directorate Generals within MoEF and other key stakeholders within Legal Reform activity. He/ she will also provide technical inputs, technical review, data analysis and feedback for law enforcement issues related to REDD+ Programme implementation in general. In conducting his/ her work, the Technical Officer will work in coordination with the Work-stream Coordinator and will be supported by Technical Associate for Legal Reform.    

Duties and Responsibilities

Functions/Key Results Expected

Summary of Key Functions:

• Support to the Project Coordinator in providing strategic inputs for the design and implementation of programmes/projects in Legal Reform.
• Support to the management of the project/programme, including ensuring effective quality assurance and oversight, and application of  Results Based Management across the portfolio.
• Support to the Project Coordinator in creating strategic partnerships, and in the implementation of a resource mobilization strategy related to specific high-priority outputs.
• Production and dissemination of lessons learnt across the portfolio and ensuring effective cross-project and cross-unit knowledge fertilization

1.  Support to the Project Coordinator Manager in providing strategic inputs for the design and implementation of programmes/projects in legal reform.  

• Provide inputs and strategic recommendations for the development of Legal Reform programme/project proposals in line with UNDP’s Country Programme;
• Provide Legal Reform policy advice and technical support to the design and implementation of programmes/projects in the portfolio through consultation with the Government, donors, UN agencies, NGOs/CSOs and other partners.
• Support the implementation of capacity development strategies related to legal reform programme to enhance its quality and impact.
• Create a category of cases that have the potential to win in court
• Provide the supporting materials to back up the cases.
• Liaise and engage all stakeholders in law enforcement.
• Provide technical input, technical review, data analysis and feedback for Law enforcement issues

2. Support to the management of the project/programme, including ensuring effective quality assurance and oversight, and application of Results Based Management across the portfolio.

• Support the creation of strategic partnership model among key actors in the Legal Reform circle by identifying pressing challenges as well as their formidable risks towards the values and projected results within the scope of Project’s Result framework.
• Support National Project Manager in monitoring legal reform programme and activities to ensure they are progressing according to plan, and assist project authorities to problem-solve and implement corrective measures by providing recommendations to manage risks and challenges posed by the programmes/ projects dynamics.

3. Support to the Project Coordinator in creating strategic partnerships, and in the implementation of a resource mobilization strategy related to specific high-priority outputs.

• Facilitate the communication and engagement among national, sub-national and district stakeholders related to the Legal Reform establishment to ensure the transparency and sustainable progress of each mentioned program streams.  
• Actively facilitate the consultation and coordination processes both in national and sub-national levels with development partners, government agencies, private sectors, civil societies and academia to garner resources, substantial progress and supports for ensuring effective portfolio.   
• Actively participate as a member of various Special Teams/Taskforces established by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and donor community related to the Legal Reform issues in order to facilitate information sharing and dialogues within the government and donor community.

4. Production and dissemination of lessons learnt across the portfolio and ensuring effective cross-project and cross-unit knowledge fertilization:  

• Support knowledge generation and knowledge sharing based on programme/project experiences, and, when appropriate, make contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Compile key sources of information and best practices for projects and thematic issues within the portfolio and facilitate access to this information by programme and project staff and other relevant counterparts. Maintain knowledge and advocacy networks which are linked to thematic issues or projects within the portfolio.
• Prepare briefs, talking points, and other documents as required by UNDP Headquarters, UN agencies and other stakeholders.
• Ensure that key programme and project results data and promotional material are available to showcase the progress, achievements and impacts of UNDP’s work in the REDD+, Social Forestry, Conflict Resolution and Indigenous Community area.
• Conduct training programme for project staff as necessary on UNDP operational/ project policies and procedures.

Competencies

Competencies and Critical Success Criteria
    
Functional Competencies:       

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda
Preparing information for advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate

Results-Based Programme Development and Management
Contributes into results through primary research and analysis

• Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work
• Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration
• Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation
• Analyzes country situation to identify opportunities for project development
• Participates in the formulation of project proposals and ensures substantive rigor in the design and application of proven successful approaches and drafts proposals accordingly

Building Strategic Partnerships
Maintaining a network of contacts

• Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues
• Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches
Enhancing processes or products

• Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things
• Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches

Resource Mobilization (Field Duty Stations)
Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies

• Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors
• Develops a database of project profiles.  Identifies opportunities for project proposals for presentation to donors

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Basic research and analysis

• Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things
• Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise
Fundamental knowledge of own discipline

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position
• Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks
• Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning
• Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments

Global Leadership and Advocacy for UNDP’s Goals
Preparing information for global advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for UNDP’s goals for a variety of audiences
• Identifies and takes advantage of opportunities for advocating for UNDP’s mandate

Client Orientation
Establishing effective client relationships

• Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion
• Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines
• Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity  
• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
• Self-development, initiative-taking
• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
• Creating synergies through self-control
• Managing conflict
• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member.
• Informed and transparent decision making

Required Skills and Experience

V. Recruitment Qualifications

Education :

• University degree in law.

Experience :

• A minimum of two (2) years of work experience for Master degree or minimum of six (6) years of work experience for Bachelor degree.
• Proven networking, team-building, organizational and communication skills and ability to build strong relationship with government and other external actors
• Experience in Law Enforcement issue especially in forest and land fire is desirable.
• Experience in facilitating recognition and/or protection of indigenous community rights.
• Experiences working in UNDP or other UN Agencies will be an advantage.

Language Requirements :

• Fluency in written and spoken Indonesian; and Fluency in spoken English and a working ability in written English.

Other Requirements   

• In addition to the scope and output stated above, the incumbent will be required to undertake other ad hoc tasks that may arise during the contract period. These tasks will be delegated by the incumbent’s supervisor who will ensure that these ad hoc tasks do not impede on the incumbent’s ability to meet contractual obligations/deliverables.
• All materials and other intellectual property produced while working under contract including, but not limited to, documents, presentations, white papers, photographs and other media, will remain the property of UNDP and are required to be submitted for archiving.

APPLICANT MUST COMPLETE P11 FORM AND SUBMIT AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION .  Click here to download the form : http://bit.ly/P11SC

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


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