[newdevjobsindo] GIZ Indonesia for the Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains in Indonesia (SASCI+) project: Sustainable Landscape Finance Advisor
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations on behalf of the German Government. The global program "Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains" is part of the special initiative "Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems". On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the program promotes the sustainability of selected agricultural supply chains in partner countries.
Agricultural commodities play an important role in rural development in many developing and emerging countries, forming the basis for the life of millions of households. However, their production and processing are accompanied by numerous ecological, economic, and social challenges. With consuming markets and multi-national companies strengthening their efforts to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from their supply chains, the sustainability of raw materials is increasingly becoming a precondition for market access. To address these challenges, the program implements the project "Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains in Indonesia" (SASCI+). SASCI+ focuses on natural rubber, palm oil, cocoa, and coffee in two biosphere reserves in West Kalimantan and Central Sulawesi. SASCI+ follows a jurisdictional approach to align relevant stakeholders on shared objectives for sustainable production as a means for long-term market access and security of supply.
With additional resources from the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO) through the Sustainable Landscape Program Indonesia (SLPI) and the partnership with Tanah Air Lestari (TAL) and Proforest, SASCI+ supports the Sustainable Landscape Initiative in Kutai Timur, East Kalimantan (Sustain Kutim). Building on the success of previous projects, Sustain Kutim aims to facilitate the sustainability transformation of East Kutai District in palm oil and rubber production, to benefit local communities, primary producers, workers, and the East Kutai District Government. GIZ's contribution to Sustain Kutim is planned for three years and comprises the following outputs:
- Foundational elements (Work Package-1): Kutai Timur District Government manages a functioning multistakeholder platform with active members, representing the interests of local communities, smallholders, workers, and businesses in the focused value chains (palm oil, natural rubber), financiers, and civil society organisations.
- Tenurial and operational legalities (Work Package-3): The strengthened tenurial and operational legalities of local communities and smallholders improve business certainty for primary producers and incentivise sustainable land use in the priority sub-districts.
- Sustainable production (Work Package-4): Smallholders and companies in the priority sub-districts implement sustainability principles.
- Sustainable Public Finance Mechanism (Work Package-5&6): Diagnostic Study and Improvement of Public Finance Mechanism for Sustainable Landscape approach
GIZ is recruiting an advisor to lead the implementation of Work Package-5&6:
Sustainable Landscape Finance Advisor
(Job Title in SAP: Public Finance and Administration Advisor)
A. Core Tasks
In your role, you are responsible for the technical, substantive and organizational implementation of a project's measure and activities. In consultation with your line manager, you also assume tasks related to planning, steering and monitoring the project, including project administration tasks in some cases. You are also responsible for providing specialist support to colleagues in band 2 and 3 and ensure the quality of the commission's outcomes.
In addition, you contribute to the conceptual design of the project, in particular its modification or realignment.
You make technical and substantive contributions to overarching issues in cooperation with commissioning parties/clients, partners and other actors and thereby support the achievement of the agreed objectives of the respective project and provide impetus for further strategy development.
In coordination with the country director and your line manager, you also use your contacts for the acquisition of contracts on behalf of the company.
In consultation with your team colleagues and line manager, you also coordinate all issues within your area of work and ensure that they are dealt with promptly and competently. You resolve problems that arise in your area of responsibility on the basis of existing rules and draw attention to more complex challenges in your team.
You are involved in ongoing process development within your remit, are responsible for knowledge management and prepare and share documentation. If required, you also support other experts in familiarizing themselves with and performing their tasks.
You perform the tasks assigned to you by your line manager, where required.
B. Main Activities
- Support the strategic and operational planning on the development of a public finance mechanism to support the landscape approach in East Kutai.
- Advice and increase the capacity of East Kutai District Government on public finance based on suitable approaches and methodologies
- Advice the East Kutai District Government on strengthening the capacity to improve the management of public finances to support sustainable landscape management through planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and regulatory improvements
- Lead the preparation process and implementation of consultancy works on diagnostic study to develop policy recommendations and promote strategic approaches for better public finance mechanisms
- Facilitating the need assessment, implementation and the measure of capacity development for East Kutai in formulating budget planning and landscape program planning, monitoring and evaluation, and supporting the policy framework
- Assist the Cluster Coordinator and Country Director on overarching issues related to the implementation of GIZ corporate strategy (eq. Vision 2028)
- Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside on the job description
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in public administration, economic, social, political science, management, natural resource management or a related field
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience, related to capacity development, public policy framework, public finance mechanism and management, governance on public finance, fiscal transfer and management
- Experience on formulating capacity need assessment, designing capacity development and measurement of capacity development monitoring and evaluation
- Knowledge and understanding on landscape management, agriculture and supply chain management, sustainable forest management, preferably related to sustainability in the palm oil and natural rubber plantation.
- Knowledge and experience in stakeholder engagement, consultation, negotiation technique and organisational development.
- Experience in coordinating small teams and/or external consultants.
- Proven experience working in, or in close cooperation, with government agencies at the province and district level, preferably in East Kalimantan Province and East Kutai on district level.
- Work experience for, or in cooperation with, the private sector in agricultural supply chains is strongly preferred; work experience in, or in cooperation with, an international organization is considered an advantage
Joining Date: ASAP
Direct Supervisor: Team leader for the SASCI+
Please submit your motivation letter and comprehensive resume (including training and list of references) to recruitment-indo@giz.de by October 15th, 2024 with subject line SASCI+ SLFA
Please name your file as follow format:
[Your Complete Name]_[Motivation Letter/CV/Latest Education Certificate] (i.e: Nakula Sadewa_CV or Nakula Sadewa_Motivation Letter or Nakula Sadewa_Reference)
Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
