Program Overview
WRI Indonesia is an independent research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity, and human well-being. At WRI Indonesia, we aim to bring innovations in research and business approaches in order to create the enabling conditions for Indonesia to achieve robust economic growth while respecting environmental and social values. We seek to contribute to the accomplishment of ambitious sustainable development goals through working with leaders in public and private sectors, as well as collaborating with civil society organizations, in turning big ideas into action.
Within our Agriculture, Forest and Land Use (AFOLU) Program, we envision critical ecosystems such as forests and peatland across Indonesia to be governed fairly and sustainably. We believe sustainable land use management is key for Indonesia to meet its climate goal, in line with keeping the global climate target below the 1.5 degree Celcius warming threshold, while providing sustainable livelihoods to forest-dependent communities and conserve biodiversity in the landscape. We intend to achieve this through safeguarding the remaining forest and peatland from deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation; maintaining forests and peatland quality through sound stewardship; and restoring degraded ecosystem to improve its productivity, conservation value, and ecosystem services.
To achieve Indonesiaโs climate goal while at the same time improving the livelihood of the communities and protecting biodiversity, we work together with partners to mainstream nature-based solutions (NbS) as an approach to address global climate challenge. We aim to achieve this through research, policy advocacy, and creation of a community of practice to develop new financing model for forest conservation, advocate regulatory framework that are conducive for NbS approach, and development of multi-stakeholder platform to amplify and accelerate NbS approach in Indonesia and South East Asia region.
WRI Indonesia has joined with 7 other NGOs to form the Southeast Asia Climate and Nature-based Solution (SCeNe) Coalition in recognition of the scale of action required, the time-bound opportunity for impact and the risks to people and nature if we do not act collaboratively to speed up and scale up design and implementation of high-integrity and high-quality NbS. The extensive experience of these environmental NGOs in the development and execution of NbS offers a powerful, shared platform to inform and influence this rapidly growing sector.
The SCeNe Coalition is aimed to develop Web-based Tool and Website for Southeast Asia Climate and Nature-based Solution (SCeNe) Coalition. The tool will help to identify high impact future NbS opportunities, ensuring a targeted pipeline of NbS supply that focus on geographies with the highest conservation, social development and carbon potential. This tool will also help to validate triple benefit quality, giving the projects additional scientific credibility; to ensure finance is flowing transparently; and to increase ecosystem participation
Job Highlight
The GIS research analyst is also responsible to provide GIS data and spatial analysis for development of Web-based tool for SCeNe Coalition. The GIS data include baseline mapping and is related to the triple benefit (biodiversity, climate, and social) for NbS Project. This position will be based in Jakarta, reporting directly to NBS Financing Senior Program Lead while working closely with GIS Research Analyst and the rest of project team.
What You Will Do
Research (80%)
- Conduct rigorous, methodical spatial analysis related to measurement of triple benefit (biodiversity, climate and social) for NbS projects;
- Conduct analysis, and data management on issues related with spatial analysis and remote sensing, and other relevant research topic as necessary;
- Provide advice in development of relevant dashboard application(s) as one of main products in related projects mentioned in the overview of this job description;
- Actively contribute to WRI Indonesia's research activities, in particular, for topics related to Nature-based Solution project development and financing;
- Liaise with WRI Indonesia RDI team for any research and knowledge products output of the project.
Outreach and Stakeholder Engagement (20%)
- Support the execution of the engagement and partnership strategy, in particular, manage project's relationship with national government, local government in priority provinces, and CSOs within the regions;
- Contribute to blogpost & briefs writing, and conduct media interviews for topics related to Nature-based Solution project development and financing as necessary and in coordination with Project Lead/s;
- Liaise with WRI Indonesia communication team for any communication-related products and events.
What You Will Need
- Legally able to work in Indonesia;
- Bachelorโs Degree in geography, geodesy, forestry, or any other related field;
- Studies, interest or experience working on environmental issues and specifically spatial plan issues;
- Proven extensive experience in geospatial analysis using GIS software;
- Familiarity with functions of GIS software;
- Experience in land use land cover classification using remote sensing platforms (e.g. ERDAS, ENVI, GEE);
- Experience in operating Google Earth Engine;
- Ability to communicate, coordinate, and well organized;
- Ability to manage professional relationships to effectively communicate with people at all levels and from various backgrounds;
- Highly organized and systematic with strong time management skills and ability to juggle competing priorities and deadlines required;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Mastersโs degree in geography, geodesy, forestry, or any other related field;
- Experience in coursework of forestry, land use management, social issues, and sustainable development;
- Familiarity with spatial modelling under Python programming language;
- Familiarity with working system and culture within local government.
Deliverables
- Spatial Data products stored and managed using Google Earth Engine and other cloud platform;
- Research manuscript for scientific and/or WRI peer-reviewed publications (e.g., issue brief, working paper) on spatial analysis for topics related to Nature-based Solution project development and financing;
- Documentation of technical and comparative analysis of data processing to measure triple benefit of NbS projects.
Period of Contract
This position is expected to join immediately for an initial contract period up to 31 December 2023 with possibility of extension subject to individual performance evaluation, project needs, and budget availability.
Terms of Payment
Daily-rate based Consultant with maximum 18 (eighteen) working days per month.
Contract Arrangement
Individual consultancy contract (Part-time, limited term)
What we offer:
- Consultant rate that is commensurate with experience and skills
- Travel insurance for both domestic and international for any travel duty as assigned by WRI Indonesia
- Access to the WRI global network
- A workplace that strives to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work