LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OFFICER VACANCY

LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OFFICER (FOR NATIONALITY INDONESIA ONLY)

Location : Sarmi, Papua, Indonesia

Application Deadline : 17-Aug-14

Additional Category: Local Commodity in Production and Marketable Sustainability

Type of Contract : Contracted by Bappeda Sarmi

Expected Duration of Assignment :5 months (extendable)

Background

With focus on remote and disadvantaged regions, UNDP strengthens local governance capacities and improves socio-economic opportunities for the districts and their communities in identified vulnerable regions to increase vulnerable communities' skills to improve their livelihoods and have the ability to access financial services; and to work with the local government and private sectors in strengthening the local economic development initiatives. The target beneficiaries are mostly indigenous-agriculture communities and other local communities who have the potential to be engaged in micro, small and medium scale economic activities.

PCDP has put more emphasis on improving the economic welfare of communities, in particular indigenous Papuans. Output 3 of PCDP works in improving community welfare through sustainable livelihood in Papua and West Papua. It starts with pilots in 5 districts: Jayawijaya, Boven Digoel, Sarmi, FakFak and Manokwari.

One of the programme interventions is aimed to make an impact on the lives of the indigenous communities through livelihood training combined with strengthening the government's capacity by building a territory-based economic development institution or Local Economic Development Agencies (LEDA). By institutionalizing sustainable livelihoods for Papuan communities, the programme expects to facilitate income generation among the rural Papuans, and to create value added of any potential business or agriculture commodities produced in the pilot areas. At present, the PCDP has initiated the coconut based products in Sarmi, and other new local potential commodity, such as seafood.

Six month to the end of PCDP, UNDP collaborates with Local Government in Sarmi District to establish Local economic development agency in district level to strengthen the government team with more technical capacity on Local Economic Development and to ensure long term sustainability and also engage local government buy in. In additional, 2 mini factories in sub-district level has been established.

Local Economic Development Agency Officer is tasked to support marketing strategy development  of local commodities derivatives and to increase the production capacity in community level and mini factory level. He or She is familiar with the concept of value chain analysis. He or she will support LEDA Team Leader`s in particular commodity sector development.

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

1. Supports the effective implementation of Local Economic Development Agency (LEDA) in supporting local government as well as civil society to establish basic system and processes for sustainable livelihood development, focusing on the following tasks:

• Provides technical support to local counterparts in LEDA implementation.
• Supports the strengthening of business development services providers and mini factory.
• Supports the implementation of fund management and local economic development agency operationalization.
• Provides regular updates on local economic development situation to local government and PCDP Team.

2. Supports the effective implementation of LEDA with government counterparts, private sectors, CSOs/NGOs and other development partners, focusing on the following tasks:

• Supports local counterpart to maintain strategic partnerships with key development partners for an effective project implementation.
• Active participation in various policy and meetings on local economic and broader issues of development to keep abreast of the sector and facilitate project implementation.
• Supports coordination with local government, private sectors, and PCDP Team.

 

3. Support the implementation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing strategy, focusing on the following tasks:

• Collect of research reports produced by project and other relevant reports from government research bodies, national and international agencies, etc.
• Provide effective support in identification, documentation, synthesis of lessons learned and best practices focusing on local business development, and the implementation of piloting area.
• Effective contribution to the implementation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing strategy.

Education:

 

Diploma or Bachelor degree in International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Statistic or other relevant fields of study would be desirable, but it is not a requirement.

Experience:

 

Minimum 3 years of professional experience for candidates with Bachelor Degree and 6 years for candidates with Diploma Degree in supporting LED-related project implementation at field level.

 

Other Requirements:

 

- Knowledge of social development programmes and experiences in local economic development highly desirable.
- Experience in networking and establishing close-coordination with the national and provincial government, private sector, CSO, university, development partners will be highly desirable
- Experience in working for/in Papua development projects is highly desirable
- Strong knowledge on Papua development context, especially in the area of local economic development
- Familiar with Government procedures
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc), advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, and handling of web based management systems will be advantage

 APPLICANT MUST SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATION TO celia.siura@gmail.com and cc: celia.siura@undp.org BEFORE AUGUST, 17th 2014