Currently we have immediate vacancy for high caliber Indonesians with high integrity to fill the following position:

Project Officer for Green Village REDD+

Organizational Context	:
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% of Indonesia’s estimated annual emissions. Indonesia has made steady progress in recent years in responding to the global challenge of climate change. President Yudhoyono’s commitment to reduce Indonesia’s CO2 emissions by 26 percent by 2020 gave new momentum to efforts to develop a national action plan for delivering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions On May 26, 2010 the Governments of Indonesia and the Kingdom of Norway signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to establish Partnership for REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) that aims to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest and peat land degradation. REDD+ is a global mechanism that provides an opportunity for developing countries like Indonesia to move towards a sustainable green economy. For Indonesia it also offers a way to achieve the Indonesian government’s voluntary commitment to the world to reduce emissions as much as 26 percent or up to 41 percent with international support by 2020. Following the LoI, Central Kalimantan is selected and announced as a REDD+ Pilot Province by the president on 23th December 2010. Following the selection of Central Kalimantan as the REDD+ Pilot Province, REDD+ Taskforce and Provincial Government of Central Kalimantan through a Local Commission of REDD+ (known as KOMDA REDD+) developed and agreed on 7 (seven) working programs to be implemented in Central Kalimantan. Amongst these programs, there are 3 (three) main activities successfully facilitated by the REDD+ Task Force in the readiness phase that showed significant and promising results that are worthy for further expansion, improved to a more advanced level and replicated to other jurisdiction. The 3 activities are: 1) Community-based Forest Fire Management (CBFFM) that was designed to strengthen the skills of community organization to independently handle the threat of forest fires and land in their respective territories; 2) Special project in Ex-Mega Rice Project (EMRP) that was designed mainly to improve livelihood of communities, reduce forest fire, and starting to undertake reforestation in EMRP areas; and 3) Green School Program, which is part of the environmental education activities to support initiative of the Education for Sustainable Development. Summary of key functions : Scope of Activities: The Project Officer is expected assure the project implementation based on the project objective and to coordinate the project activities in 3 districts in Central Kalimantan, Murung Raya district (Olong Soloi, Saruhung, Kolam village), Pulang Pisau district 9 Jabiren, Garung, Mentarenm Buntoi, Tumbang Nusa village) and Kapuas district (Tambak Bajai village). There are 7 local partners who implement the Green Village in 9 targeted villages under the Project Officer and a Finance Admin Assistant as the Project Management Unit which is located in Palangkaraya. The PMU coordinates with the local government of Central Kalimantan as well with the Joint Secretariat and the REDD+ Special Taskforce. The aim of this program is to develop the Green Village model in line with the REDD+ strategy in the national and subnational level. The approach is to harmonize all of the activities integrated to the village level to achieve the REDD+ strategy’s goal. Each activity acontrubutes to the five pillar of REDD+ National Strategy: 1) Institunalization and process, 2) Legal framework and law regulation; 3) Strategic Program; 4) Paradigm shift and Work Ethic and 5) Multi-stakeholder involvement. Key Function: The Green Village REDD+ Project Officer to assist and to coordinate with the Project Officer of the PMU and conduct his/her main functions: •    To coordinate the program implementation throughout the field locations carried out by local partners based on the project planning programmatically •    To manage and to assist communication, both informal and formal approach to harmonize the work relation between Kemitraan, partners and other relevant stakeholders in central Kalimantan. •    local government related to project implementation. •    To manage the project implementation, to facilitate the implementing partners in planning, program modelling and implementation including monitoring •    To gather data, information regarding the project progress and to analyze during report drafting.   Recruitment Qualifications : Education Background     Bachelor Degree (S1) degree in forestry, agricultural, social science or related educational area Experience    Min 3 years experiences in program management, facilitation and participatory research; climate change or forestry policy environment;  experience in working with local government,  experience in working with CSO at local level, familiar with local context of Central Kalimantan will be an advantage

Please visit our website http://www.kemitraan.or.id/main/publication_detail/21/44/1312  for more details of the position. Only application submitted through our website will be processed. All applications are appreciated and will be treated with confidential manner. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline : 6 March 2014.