Livelihood Specialist

The World Resources Institute is hiring a Livelihood Specialist to support sustainable development initiatives in Indonesia, focusing on reducing GHG emissions through improved forest and land management. The role involves economic and livelihood analysis, research, and consultation, primarily based in Banda Aceh, with travel to other provinces. The position aims to enhance community engagement and support government and private sector efforts in sustainable forestry and land use.
OverviewData Analysis & Technical Research Other Worldwide LocationsWRI Indonesia seeks to support the government, private sector, and communities in Indonesia to reduce its GHG emission through better management of its forest and land use, business operation, and livelihoods. We utilize new technology, multi-stakeholder approach, and research to provide the most up-to-date, accurate, and reliable tools, methodology, and data so that key stakeholders can take part in sustainable development. To advance this cause, WRI Indonesia is championing an ambitious program to transform land use planning and management to be more inclusive and sustainable through several projects, namely The Enhancing Community Forest Tenure & Sustainable Livelihoods in Indonesia and One Map Initiative.The Enhancing Community Forest Tenure & Sustainable Livelihoods in Indonesia Initiative supports national and subnational government agencies to implement and monitor social forestry agenda in reducing GHG emission and improving climate resiliency through sustainable and inclusive forest management, while simultaneously supports indigenous and local communities to secure tenurial security and develop sustainable livelihoods and business models. The One Map Initiative supports national and subnational governments as well as private sector and local communities to enhance forest and land use governance through improved technical capacity and processes, policies, and geospatial databases.The overall objective of the One Map Initiative is to transform land use decision-making processes to be open, accountable, and participatory. WRI Indonesia will achieve this through catalyzing a unified and transparent land use planning and monitoring system that is accessible to all land use stakeholders. Through partnership with local governments, civil societies and the private sectors, WRI Indonesia will develop a model of engagement that could help address conflict on the local level and could be scaled-up into the National One Map Initiative. WRI Indonesia is also committed to provide support to the Indonesian Government's social forestry initiative that exists as an approach to overcome poverty problem in villages inside and around forest area while also ensuring that the forests will be managed sustainably. WRI Indonesia supports particularly in understanding the indicators or success criteria for social forestry schemes, assessing the challenges and enabling factors of social forestry initiative, and examining the effectiveness of social forestry indicative maps.Through these initiatives, we aimed to build a movement among government agencies, companies, NGOs, communities, and society to enhance sustainable and equitable forest and land use management in Indonesia. The role of the Livelihood Specialist is to provide technical and operational aspects of livelihood and economic analysis, research, and consultation in the priority provinces and support the Program Leads and Managers at WRI Indonesia to manage program/projects within the scope of WRI Indonesia’s strategyJob HighlightsThe Livelihood Specialist will be based in Banda Aceh with possible travel to priority districts in South Sumatera and Aceh and other priority provinces. Main responsibility is to undertake the economic and livelihood analysist in technical and operational aspects to strengthen the implementation of social forestry and customary forest schemes in province and district level. He/she will assist local government of South Sumatera and Aceh, and other priority provinces in governing land use towards sustainable landscape. He/she will also support on project management and stakeholder engagement under The Enhancing Community Forest Tenure & Sustainable Livelihoods in Indonesia (NICFI – IPLC), particularly on issues of social forestry and customary forest.Reporting to the Sumatera Selatan and Aceh Senior Program Lead, and the Sumatera Regional Senior Manager of WRI Indonesia, he/she will contribute to the development of sustainable livelihood options for communities, livelihood development strategy, and business plans for communities. He/she will also support the institutional setting, stakeholder engagement, community facilitation, and project coordination required to accelerate its livelihood development strategy to strengthen the implementation of social forestry and customary forest schemes in priority districts and site level.He/she will should coordinate with the regional team and other key personnel of the projects, and will liaise closely with the partners implementing similar programs as well as relevant agencies of the Government, local authorities, and civil society.Job Responsibilities The main areas of responsibility will include the following:Research and Technical Works (70%)Provide expertise on policy, social and economic analysis as well as livelihood assessment in technical and operational aspects to strengthen the implementation of social forestry and…