UNDP Jobs - 51370- REDD+ Spatial Data Support Consultant

REDD+ Spatial Data Support Consultant - (National, 1 post)

Location :

Jakarta, INDONESIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-Dec-2014

Application Deadline :

21-Nov-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

3.5 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

3.5 months

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. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Context of the REDD+ initiative:

Indonesia is the third largest emitter of CO2 and the world’s largest emitter from agriculture, forestry and other land use. Over the past five years, Indonesia’s annual deforestation rate has averaged around 1 million hectares, which contributes more than 80 percent of Indonesia’s estimated annual emissions.

In response to this situation, on 26 May 2010 the Governments of Indonesia and the Kingdom of Norway signed a Letter of Intent to establish a REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Partnership to tackle greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest and peat-land degradation in Indonesia. REDD+ is a global mechanism which provides an opportunity for developing countries like Indonesia to move towards a sustainable green economy through the implementation of REDD+ activities and, for industrial countries like Norway, to support a reduction in global deforestation by contributing funds for these activities. For Indonesia REDD+ also offers a way to achieve the Indonesian government’s voluntary commitment to the world to reduce emissions as much as 26 percent under a business-as-usual scenario or up to 41 percent with international support by 2020.

The first phase of this REDD+ Partnership is to establish an institute with the capacity to implement and manage REDD+ initially in ten priority provinces across Indonesia and eventually throughout the archipelago. A Task Force (SATGAS) has been establishment to facilitate the setting-up of this REDD+ Institute. Working Groups (WGs) have been formed to assist in developing a legal blanket for the institute, designing financial mechanisms, and establishing an infrastructure to measure, monitor, report and verify carbon stock and carbon stock changes. Other WGs have been established to assist in communications, stakeholder engagement, to support REDD+ trials (learning-by-doing) in pilot and other priority provinces, and a WG for REDD+ harmonisation with national and sub-national development programmes. The implementation of REDD+ will be an important step in the development of a green economy in Indonesia which has some of the most extensive and biologically diverse tropical forests in the world, and an opportunity for the government to reform forest and peat-land governance across the Indonesian archipelago.

The latest progress of REDD+ implementation in Indonesia was the enactment of President’s Regulation No. 62/2013 regarding the establishment of the Indonesia’s REDD+ Agency (Badan Pengelola Penurunan Emisi Gas Rumah Kaca dari Deforestasi dan Degradasi Hutan dan Lahan Gambut/BP-REDD+). By this regulation it is clear that Indonesia is entering the transformation phase of the REDD+ Implementation, where result based payments will be implemented. Within this transformation phase, performance measurement and payment shall be implemented in a stepwise fashion.

Context of this ToR:

The Measuring (and Monitoring), Reporting and Verification (MRV) Working Group of the BP-REDD+ is mandated for handling the process of national and nested sub-national REDD+ measurement and reporting (MR) system in accordance with IPCC Good Practice Guidance. REDD+ MRV implement a robust and transparent system using a combination of remote (satellite) sensing to assess activity data on forest area and forest-area changes; a national forest inventory to determine emission factors on carbon stock and carbon-stock changes; and to estimate and report anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks. The REDD+ MRV will establish a multi-tiered measurement system.

Apart from assisting in identifying appropriate scientific tools and methodologies for MRV operations, efforts are also underway to provide analytical assistance, particularly on spatial data (remote sensing, geospatial data and issues) to support MRV and related units in providing the data and maps.

Objectives of Assignment:

In this context, The MRV through UNDP is seeking to recruit a REDD+ Spatial Data Support Consultant to assist MRV and related activities/unit in managing REDD+ Agency spatial data and technical process of GIS.

To apply for this post, please do the following steps:

Go to the following link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/ (Reference Number: 19265);
Download all documents;
Read carefully the Procurement Notice and follow the instruction given;
Fill out the Offeror Letter, P11, and prepare the technical proposal (if requested);
Submit all the requested documents to the email addresses indicated in the Procurement Notice and put IC/UNDP-REDD+/163/2014 REDD+ REDD+ Spatial Data Support Consultant as the subject of the email.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of work:

Involve the development of geospatial datasets including those prepared internally and acquired from external sources, with particular attention on:

Ensuring the integrity of the polygons;
Completing, where possible, the metadata contained in the datasets, and standardising metadata definitions;
Detail uniformity source of the datasets based on ‘Struktur Data Spasial BP REDD+ Draft 01”; and
Produce monthly report regarding updated spatial database.

Involve in the application and analysis of geospatial datasets and general information related to spatial data including, but not limited to, the following:

Identifying specialised information extracted from datasets (e.g. water sources in a given district); and
Producing spatial maps that clearly illustrate information required for REDD+ activities, projects and programmes (e.g. a green village of a given district).
for 11 partner’s provinces to support KMS units.

Involve in the development, implementation and management of Open Data Kits (ODK).

Involve in providing maps and layout for MRV as well as Karhutla Management System (KMS) unit.

Monitor hot spots for 11 partner’s provinces to support KMS units.

Deliverables:

Report on uniformity the attribute and layers based on national geodatabase for administration and social economic thematic; rename all spatial data layers for Central Kalimantan Province; Daily report on day to day hot spot monitoring to support KMS unit for December period;
Report on uniformity the attribute and layers based on national geodatabase for biophysics thematic; daily report on day to day hot spot monitoring to support KMS unit for January period; rename all spatial data layers for South Sumatera Province;
Report on uniformity the attribute and layers based on national geodatabase for priority area thematic; the development of Open Data Kit (ODK); daily report on day to day hot spot monitoring to support KMS unit for February period and rename all spatial data layers for East Kalimantan Province;
Report on uniformity the attribute and layers based on national geodatabase for spatial planning thematic; the implementation of Open Data Kit (ODK); and daily report on day to day hot spot monitoring to support KMS unit for March period.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modelling the organization’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of the organization;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability; and
Treats all people fairly without favouritism.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning:

Promotes knowledge management in the organization and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;

Development and Operational Effectiveness:

Ability to conceptualise issues and analyse data;
Ability to coordinate the work of others;
Ability to implement new systems (business side), and affect staff behavioural/attitudinal change;
Good knowledge of Results Management Guide and Toolkit;
Ability to demonstrate good knowledge on Climate Change and/or REDD issues;

Management and Leadership:

Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
Leads teams effectively and shows mentoring as well as conflict resolution skills; and
Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills.

Other Requirements:

Knowledge on various donors’ reporting requirements;
Excellent analytical skill and advance computer skills required;
Good inter-personal and team building skills;
Ability to multi-task, learns new material, and manages time effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced working environment and
Ability to work under pressure environment;
Full time availability for project administration support duties is essential; and
Familiar with Government and UN/UNDP procedures would be desirable.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

Diploma or Bachelor degree in forestry, geography, environment, agriculture, or soil sciences.

Experience:

5 years experiences for Diploma; 3 years for bachelor degree in spatial data/GIS/remote sensing or in analytical and practical experiences in REDD/spatial analysis/ technical process of GIS;
Ability in using RS/GIS softwares, spreadsheet software.

Language Requirements:

Fluent in spoken English and Bahasa Indonesia.