Technical Officer (Multistakeholder Engagement and Collaboration)

The Technical Officer will lead and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration and inclusive stakeholder engagement at national and subnational levels for the FOLUR Project in Indonesia. The role involves coordinating with various partners, supporting implementation of sustainable commodity and landscape management activities, and ensuring compliance with UNDP standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration and inclusive stakeholder engagement at national and subnational levels for the FOLUR Project across all commodities and target jurisdictions.
• Provide input to the National Project Manager on strategic approach to stakeholder engagement with governmental and non-governmental partners.
• Execute and implement multi-stakeholder collaboration and stakeholder engagement plan.
• Organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration dialogues in accordance with jurisdictional approach and integrated landscape management principles.
• Coordinate with Private Sector Engagement Specialist to engage private sector coalitions and develop new partnerships.
• Represent the project on landscape and commodity-level platforms advocating for public-private-community partnerships.
• Provide strategic guidance in developing clear messaging for project stakeholders.
• Strengthen partnerships with national, regional and international institutions and expert groups.
• Increase cooperation with key national and subnational FOLUR stakeholders and build their capacities.
• Visit project sites to build relationships and understand contexts.
• Co-lead learning sessions with National Project Manager to surface best practices and lessons learnt.
• Manage implementation of activities related to coffee, rice, cocoa and palm oil commodities to achieve project outputs.
• Support implementation, coordination, engagement and monitoring of landscape level project activities.
• Ensure coordination with existing multistakeholder platforms.
• Work closely with partners including Ministry of Agriculture and UNDP/FAO Country Office focal points.
• Support drafting of ToRs for expert consultants, meetings and workshops.
• Identify critical issues, troubleshoot problems and develop solutions for landscape activities implementation.
• Support effective monitoring of commodity related implementation work streams.
• Prepare high quality progress reports for UNDP Country Office.
• Provide inputs and data for external project reports.
• Ensure compliance with UNDP Social and Environmental safeguards.
• Provide technical advisory services on grading for value additions of oil palm.
• Provide technical and strategic advisory support for priority locations and capacity building of extension services and smallholder farmers.
• Generate knowledge products such as best practices and lessons learnt for knowledge sharing.
• Participate in training and technical discussions organized by Global FOLUR or others.
• Lead coordination, implementation and oversight of Low-Value Grant Agreements to foster local partnerships and ensure impactful grant delivery.
• Coordinate identification, assessment and engagement of LVGA partners including CBOs, NGOs, producer groups, academic institutions and local organizations.
• Lead stakeholder consultations and outreach related to LVGA implementation.
• Monitor grant implementation progress and evaluate partner performance.
• Facilitate communication, learning networks and knowledge exchange among LVGA partners.
• Ensure compliance with UNDP requirements, environmental and social safeguards, gender and social inclusion considerations.
• Consolidate lessons learned and good practices from LVGA-supported initiatives for knowledge management and reporting.
• Ensure human rights and gender equality are prioritized and activities are inclusive and accessible.
• Introduce necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within committees, meetings and trainings.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, Forestry, Social and Political Sciences, or related fields, is required or a first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the same fields with an additional two years of qualifying experience.
• Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in sustainable agriculture, environment and/or natural resource management, and climate change.
• Experience in writing reports, summarizing papers, and delivering presentations to international and national audiences.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• At least 1 year of experience on sustainable coffee, rice, cocoa, or palm oil issues including social and environmental issues at the global and national level.
• Experience liaising, coordinating and working with NGOs, private sector and government entities, private sector and/or smallholders.
• Experience in organizing and facilitating multi-stakeholder meetings and workshops.
• Experience in implementation of projects with components on sustainable development, green commodities, climate smart agriculture, environmental policy, environmental management, climate mitigation or project management.
• Experience in managing/coordinating development projects or providing technical expertise at UNDP and/or other UN agencies.
• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Skills

• Sustainable Agriculture
• Natural Resource Management
• Climate Change
• Report Writing
• Presentation Delivery
• MS Word
• Excel
• Spreadsheet Management
• Database Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Workshop Facilitation
• Project Implementation
• Sustainable Development
• Green Commodities
• Climate-Smart Agriculture
• Environmental Policy
• Environmental Management
• Climate Mitigation
• Project Management
• Development Program Coordination
• Technical Expertise UNDP

Languages

English, Bahasa Indonesia