vacancy announcement: ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER SPECIALIST (Jakarta based)

Tetra Tech ARD is currently accepting expressions of interest for the
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER SPECIALIST (Jakarta based) on our USAID Indonesia
Forestry and Climate Support Project (USAID IFACS).

USAID IFACS seeks to reduce the threats of deforestation and climate change,
and help the Government of Indonesia (GOI) conserve the country's tropical
forests, wildlife, and ecosystem processes (including carbon sequestration).

JOB SUMMARY:

He/she will work with other members of the Project's Best Management
Practice (BMP) Unit to inform selected natural resource concessionaires,
SMEs, community enterprises and members of multi-stakeholder forums on BMP
approaches to conserve high conservation values in their areas of concern.
And to assist them incorporate these strategies into their conservation
management planning and implementation processes.

The Project has developed MoUs with a portfolio of 15 large business
enterprises, and community conservation livelihood agreements (CCLAs) with a
similar number of SMEs and community enterprises (as part of the Project's
subcontract and grant mechanisms). It has modified existing technical
guidelines regarding BMPs. In particular, it has developed - in
collaboration with the Indonesian High Conservation Value Network- working
guidelines for the development of conservation management and monitoring
plans (CMMPs) with natural resource concessionaires. It has also developed a
protocol for the development of CCLAs to ensure that Project partner SME and
community enterprises make commitments to conserve HCVs in their areas of
interest. The BMP Unit has also conducted BMP training programs in almost
all Project target landscapes. Through collaboration with the Tropical
Forest Foundation (TFF), reduced impact logging training is being conducted
in the partner concessions. During and after the development of CMMPs in
each natural resource concession, specific topical BMP trainings may be
conducted as required.

USAID IFACS will implement a phased approach to incorporate BMPs into
conservation practices in target concessions. First, training; secondly,
planning; thirdly, implementation; and fourthly, monitoring & evaluation of
performance.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

1. Using integrated spatial planning approaches, work with 8 natural
resource concessions and develop CMMPs using the Guidelines developed by
the Project and HCV-NI.

2. Work closely with one of these concessions, to develop a more
intensive collaboration that, in addition to the facilitation of a CMMP for
their COW in the Project Landscape, will involve collaboration to support a
proposed mangrove conservation project in this landscape.

3. Provide support to those Project grantees and subcontractors to
assist them identify HCVs when this is requested.

4. Work with selected multi-stakeholder forums to guide them in the
development of their landscape scale conservation road maps.

5. Work with Project consultants developing Strategic Environmental
Assessments (SEAs) for targeted Districts and assist in identification of
district level HCVs for input into these SEAs.

6. Work collaboratively with the BMP Unit and the Forestry, Climate
Change, and Biodiversity Conservation Advisor to achieve all goals and
deliverables listed in the work plan and task order contract.

QUALIFICATIONS (MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS):

University degree in related discipline

Three years' experience working in conservation spatial planning and natural
resource management

Familiarity with all technical aspects associated with identification of
HCVs and their management and monitoring

Good knowledge of conservation issues related to forests, biodiversity,
environmental services and Climate Change

Familiarity with objective based conservation management plans

Experience working with natural resource concessionaires and their staff

Strong communication skills, both interpersonal and written.

Native fluency in spoken and written Indonesian.

Professional competency in spoken and written English.

Ability to engage in activities occurring in multiple field sites with
multiple stakeholders across Indonesia.

Willingness to travel extensively in Indonesia.

Please submit your recent CV as of 31 January 2013 (the latest) with subject
ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER SPECIALIST to: recruitment@ifacs.or.id>
recruitment@ifacs.or.id

Tetra Tech ARD is an equal opportunity employer.