GESI Associate

The GESI Associate supports the integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles across climate and plastics circularity projects in Indonesia. The role involves supporting project implementation, monitoring, reporting, capacity building, and stakeholder engagement to ensure gender-responsive and socially inclusive climate actions and plastics circularity interventions.

Responsibilities

• Support the integration of GESI into implementation, monitoring and reporting systems for REDD+ and NDC implementation at national and subnational levels.
• Conduct and document GESI and safeguard reviews of project documents to ensure compliance with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards (SES), safeguards, and national regulations prior to approval.
• Provide technical advice on the development and implementation of gender-responsive monitoring and reporting frameworks, including integration of GESI indicators into project log frames and MRV systems.
• Contribute to the development of gender-sensitive measurement methodologies, including identification of sex-disaggregated and socially inclusive data sources for tracking project performance and impact.
• Support baseline assessments, surveys, and progress monitoring by ensuring inclusive sampling approaches, gender-disaggregated data collection, and participatory methodologies.
• Facilitate the integration of GESI considerations into REDD+ implementation, carbon market mechanisms (including blue carbon and social forestry), and subnational NDC tracking.
• Support regular monitoring of project implementation to assess inclusiveness, participation, and equitable benefit-sharing, and flag risks related to exclusion or inequality.
• Coordinate with project teams and stakeholders to ensure inclusive monitoring processes, including engagement of women, youth, and indigenous communities.
• Support the integration of GESI considerations into plastics circularity activities, including plastic waste reduction, collection, sorting, recycling, reuse, circular business models, community engagement, and value-chain strengthening.
• Ensure that the role and needs of informal waste workers, women, youth, community groups, MSMEs, and marginalized groups are reflected in project design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Provide GESI inputs to assessments, stakeholder consultations, value-chain analyses, and project activities under the Plastics Circularity Project.
• Provide technical GESI analysis and inputs for quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports with integrated GESI analysis, in line with UNDP, donor, and government requirements.
• Provide inputs for Project Board meetings, audits, and donor reporting, ensuring inclusion of gender equality and social inclusion dimensions.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of gender-related results, including progress on gender mainstreaming and safeguards implementation.
• Maintain proper documentation of gender analysis, GESI action plans, and safeguards compliance, and corrective actions.
• Strengthen reporting systems to capture qualitative and quantitative evidence on inclusive participation and equitable outcomes.
• Provide GESI analysis and inputs for progress reports, donor reports, knowledge products, and project board materials related to the Plastics Circularity Project.
• Track and document gender-responsive and socially inclusive results in plastics circularity interventions, including participation, access to benefits, capacity development, and livelihood-related outcomes.
• Contribute technical expertise to the design and delivery of capacity-building activities for government and stakeholders on integrating GESI into NDC, REDD+, MRV, and carbon market implementation.
• Contribute to the development of knowledge products, including case studies, policy briefs, and lessons learned on gender-responsive climate governance.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and learning across stakeholders, including participation in communities of practice and learning platforms.
• Support documentation and dissemination of best practices on inclusive climate action, particularly in social forestry and community-based approaches.
• Promote awareness and application of GESI principles among project staff and partners.
• Support capacity-building activities on inclusive plastics circularity, including gender-responsive approaches to waste management, circular economy, occupational safety, community engagement, and inclusive livelihood development.
• Contribute to documentation of lessons learned and good practices on GESI integration in plastics circularity and circular economy programming.
• Support stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies to ensure representation of women, youth, indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups.
• Facilitate inclusive consultations and dialogue processes, including application of FPIC principles where relevant.
• Support collaboration with government, civil society, academia, and development partners to advance gender-responsive climate policies and programmes.
• Contribute GESI inputs to resource mobilization efforts, proposals, and donor engagement.
• Support inclusive stakeholder engagement with actors in the plastics circularity ecosystem, including government, private sector, recyclers, waste banks, informal waste workers, women’s groups, MSMEs, civil society, and community organizations.
• Facilitate inclusive consultation processes to ensure that women, informal workers, youth, and marginalized groups can meaningfully participate in project planning and implementation.
• Ensure that gender equality, human rights, and social inclusion are prioritized as core principles in all interventions.
• Ensure alignment with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards (SES) and relevant safeguards frameworks.
• Promote respect for diversity across gender, age, ethnicity, disability, and socio-economic background in all project activities and data processes.
• Ensure gender parity and inclusive participation in meetings, trainings, and decision-making processes.
• Support the creation of accessible and enabling environments, addressing barriers related to language, disability, and social norms.
• Ensure that differentiated needs, roles, and contributions of women and men are systematically considered in programme design and implementation.
• Advise project teams on GESI related risks, mitigation measures, and corrective actions throughout the project cycle.
• Perform other duties within the functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Organization.

Requirements

• Secondary Education is required.
• OR University degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in Gender Study; Sustainable Development, Social Science, or another related field will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.
• Minimum 7 years (with Secondary Education) or 4 years (with Bachelor Degree) of relevant experience in Gender & policy analysis.
• Proven Ability to work in a team.
• Good inter-personal and communications skills/experience.
• Experience supporting project especially with technical expertise in Gender & policy analysis will be required.
• Experience and good knowledge on Indonesia’s policies and national priorities on climate change (desired).
• Experience and knowledge on the current development on innovative policy making (desired).
• Strong knowledge and professional experience in environmental issues, particularly REDD+ implementation, NDC, Carbon Market, or related fields (desired).
• Demonstrated experience in project implementation, monitoring and evaluation including coordination with government institutions, cross-ministerial bodies e.g. Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Environment or key stakeholders (desired).
• Experience working with UNDP or other UN agencies and/or international organizations and/or major donor agencies will be an advantage.
• Solid experience in data collection and analysis especially in gender and policy and in the area of environmental issues would be advantage.
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia (writing and speaking) is required.

Skills

• Gender Policy
• Project Implementation
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Data Collection
• Climate Change Policy
• REDD+ Process
• NDC Knowledge
• Carbon Market Expertise
• Policy Analysis
• Capacity Building
• Inter-ministerial Coordination
• Environmental Issues
• Gender Equality Integration
• Social Inclusion
• UNDP Project Experience
• International Organization Collaboration
• Fluency in English
• Proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia

Languages

English, Bahasa Indonesia