Background
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The unsustainable management of globally traded commodity crops (cacao, coffee and oil palm), and their expansion into forest areas, are leading to major impacts on globally important biodiversity, the degradation of soil and water resources, the loss of carbon stocks, and the degradation of watersheds that are vital for maintaining water flows to rice production areas. Rice production is itself a source of globally significant environmental impacts, in the form of the contamination of soil and globally- important aquatic ecosystems due to excessive and inappropriate use of agricultural chemicals, and the generation of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from flooded paddy systems.
A narrow focus on the production of globally-traded cash crops by farmers is environmentally and socially unsustainable – even in the case of perennial crops such as coffee and cacao that have the potential to yield environmental benefits if appropriately managed – because of the volatility of global markets for these crops and their vulnerability to the effects of global climate change. A large number of major global value chain actors have committed to sustainable sourcing of the products that they trade, in order to comply with corporate social and environmental responsibility goals and to satisfy consumer requirements for sustainable production. This presents farmers with a major potential source of market-based incentives for sustainable production, but at present their ability to take advantage of this opportunity is constrained by their disconnection from these “green” value chains and their limited technical capacities to satisfy their requirements in terms of environmental standards, product quality and reliability of supply.
Despite significant policy commitments to sustainability by the Government of Indonesia, capacities, knowledge, tools, regulatory instruments and incentives for putting these into practice are still inadequately developed, and the gricultural and environmental sectors continue to be highly compartmentalized, lacking the integrated vision that is required if social and economic development and landscape management are to be sustainable.
With the funding support from the Global Environmental Faculty (GEF), the Government of Indonesia, led by the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs and with technical support from UNDP and FAO is preparing the full-size project implementation entitled “Strengthening sustainability in commodity and food systems, land restoration and land use governance through integrated landscape management for multiple benefits in Indonesia (FOLUR)”. The project aimed to ensure sustainable value chains of palm oil, coffee and cocoa via application of a comprehensive land use approach linking biodiversity conservation, restoration and production at scale. The project will assist the country to address above-mentioned development challenges through four areas of interventions as follow:
1. Development of integrated landscape management systems
2. Promotion of sustainable food production practices and responsible value chains
3. Conservation and restoration of natural habitats
4. Management, Coordination, Collaboration, and M&E
The project will be implemented in 5 provinces (jurisdictions) and 5 districts (pilot landscapes): Aceh (Central Aceh), North Sumatra (Mandailing Natal), West Kalimantan (Sanggau), South Sulawesi (Luwu) and West Papua (Sorong).
This position is under overall guidance and report to the National Project Manager. S/he will support the Project Management Unit. The incumbent will coordinate with various units to support the large and highly complex project on finance, procurement, HR, security, communication, monitoring, reporting and project administration.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Support the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation focusing on achievement of the following results:
• Compiles, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on specific project and related topics or issues.
• Implement project standard operating procedures in line with the government and UNDP's regulations.
2. Support to the effective reporting on progress of project implementation.
• Support the administration in preparing annual and quarterly work plans as well as project board meetings, audit, operational and financial closure of a project.
• Support to the preparation of quarterly project reports, in line with the monitoring and reporting guidelines and presents it to the project assurance team on a timely manner.
• To provide administrative support for preparation of results-oriented progress reports.
3. Provides administrative support to the Project Management Unit focusing on achievement of the following results: 2
• Support the focal point for Administrative and office coordination of project
implementation activities to process and follow-up on administrative actions,
e.g. recruitment and appointment of personnel, travel arrangements, training/study tours, authorization of payments, disbursement of funds, procurement of equipment and services, security compliance, etc.
• Provision of general office assistance such as response to simple information requests and inquiries; reviews, logs and routes incoming correspondence; establishment of filling system and maintenance files/records; organization of meetings, workshops; routine administrative tasks, including maintaining attendance records, assessing telephone billing, etc.
4. Support strategic partnerships, communication, and support to the implementation of resource mobilization.
• Support in updating database of the relevant public and development partners private sector, civil society and other stakeholders who are counterparts for the project.
• In coordination with UNDP's Communication unit and other relevant counterpart communications department, support documentation of the project activities as a tool to communicate results, deepen stakeholder knowledge and buy-in to the project, and resource mobilization for the project.
5. Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following results:
• Participation in the training for the operations/ projects staff.
• Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice
6. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:
• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with \"Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”.
• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected with in all implementations including data production.
• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered.
• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created.
• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.
7. The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
The NPSA holder will work under the overall supervision of UNDP's FOLUR National Project Manager.
Competencies
Core
Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies Thematic Area Name Definition
Business management
Digital Awareness and Literacy
Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed
Business Management Portfolio Management
Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment
capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment
Business Management
Communication
Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate Channels
2030 agenda- people
Gender Gender mainstreaming
Administration and operations
Documents and records management
Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving
Administration and operations
Events management (including retreats, trainingsand meetings)
Ability to manage events, including venue identification, accommodation, logistics, catering, transportation, and cash disbursements, etc.
Business Management
Customer Satisfaction/Client Management
Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
Required Skills and Experience
Min. Academic Education
Secondary education is required.
University degree (Bachelor's degree) in public administration, business administration, management, social study and related will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.
Min.years of relevant
Work experience
Minimum 4 years (with High School) or 1 year (with bachelor’s degree) of professional experience in administrative tasks especially in development project
Required skills and competencies
• Fully computer literate (MS Office);
• Demonstrated keen interest in the workof the
UN;
• Demonstrated the ability to successfully interact with individuals from different cultural backgrounds and beliefs which include willingness to try and understand and betolerant of different opinions and views.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Full time availability for project management
support duties is essential.
Desired additional skills and competencies
- Experience working with Government and UN/UNDP procedures would be desirable.
- Experienceworking computer: spreadsheet and database packages.
- Experience in collecting administration reports.
- Previous experience supporting the team for travel or procurement management arehighly desirable.
- Experience supporting recruitment/ personnel management would be highly desirable
- Experience in managing database especially database relevant to public and development partners private sector, civil society would be highly desirable
Required Language(s) (at working level)
- Fluency in English is required.
- Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia is required.
Professional Certificates
N/A
Equal opportunity
As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination.
UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.
Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority
UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles.
Right to select multiple candidates
UNDP 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 at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
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