Konservasi Indonesia Job Vancancy: Coalition for Sustainable Livelihoods Lead
· Konservasi
Indonesia is a national foundation established to support sustainable
development in the country. We are the main partner of Conservation
International in Indonesia. For more information, please visit: www.konservasi-id.org
· We envision
a healthy and prosperous Indonesia where biodiversity is valued and preserved.
With offices and project sites across Indonesia, we promote a sustainable
landscape-seascape approach and establish partnerships with multiple stakeholders
across sectors and jurisdictions to deliver lasting impacts for people and
nature in Indonesia.
· As we are
constantly expanding, we are currently hiring to fill the following position
for our office in Medan:
· Coalition for Sustainable Livelihoods Lead
· (Code: CSL-Lead)
· The
Coalition for Sustainable Livelihoods (CSL) is a place-based platform aimed at
aligning initiatives, financing opportunities and local, governmental, and
market interests to collectively drive livelihood gains for farming
communities, economic development, and improved natural resource management.
CSL’s efforts are focused in Aceh and North Sumatra provinces and are developed
with partners and processes aimed at enabling replication as appropriate.
· Alignment
and action are achieved through targeted engagement and specified activities
coordinated across three levels – CSL platform, provincial, and
district/landscape. As a platform, CSL convenes stakeholders from across
sectors to focus on the advancement of shared goals and impacts and government
endorsed sustainable development plans in Aceh and North Sumatra by
facilitating shared knowledge and learning opportunities among stakeholders.
CSL is currently seeking a Program Lead for the CSL Secretariat. The Program
Lead will lead implementation of the CSL strategy and plans, lead
communications and outreach across CSL members and stakeholders (including
government, private sector and civil society), facilitate linkage with relevant
government agencies and initiatives, and coordinate and collaborate with
other jurisdictional & landscape initiatives. We are seeking a leader who
is energized about engaging a broad group of stakeholders – both international
and local – public and private partners – to share solutions to achieve mutual
goals for livelihoods and conservation. We are looking for a self-starter who
can effectively drive decisions and processes for successful outcomes of the
CSL platform.
· The CSL Secretariat will be hosted within Konservasi Indonesia (KI).
· KEY
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Platform Management: Stakeholder engagement, communications, and
event planning
- Organize and facilitate quarterly platform meetings with CSL’s
Steering Committee, creating preparatory materials, presentations and quarterly
reports, as well as sending monthly email updates to partners in both
English and Bahasa Indonesia
- Oversee CSL-supported events, working with CSL members and partners
to develop strategic agendas, coordinate logistics and lead/coordinate
participant outreach for dialogues, exchanges, meetings, workshops, and
the Annual Network Meeting, to create engaging opportunities for
international and local stakeholders to collaborate and share knowledge.
- Lead overall communications and outreach strategy for CSL,
cultivating new stakeholder relationships and managing existing partner
relationships.
- Maintain external communications, including reporting annual
platform progress, maintaining CSL’s bilingual website and supporting CSL
outreach via presentations, panels and other communications channels to
promote CSL activities and member contributions.
- Manage Secretariat budget and workplan to ensure platform-level
activities are executed on time and in budget (initially in collaboration
with host organization finance team)
- Enabling alignment and collective action:
- Lead engagement with relevant government agencies and actively
participate in other relevant platforms in the provincial and national
level to understand their priorities and needs and identify opportunities
for collaboration.
- Facilitate processes that enable private sector, government, and
civil society to identify common goals and objectives shared between
respective policies, initiatives and investments.
- Facilitate processes to develop collaborative strategies and plans
to achieve mutually agreed goals and objectives.
- Engagement and recruitment of new members and participants:
- Increase exposure, awareness, and support for CSL, recruiting
members and participants to engage and support CSL’s activities across
all operating levels. This may include speaking and outreach at
conferences, knowledge exchange meetings/workshops, and sharing lessons
learned.
- Lead engagement with partners in the regional and district level,
including private sector and civil society.
- Develop and drive a stakeholder engagement and outreach strategy,
as it relates to CSL’s workplan.
- Lead establishment of CSL’s Steering Committee and recruit
companies and other members to join.
- Development & Implementation of CSL plans
- Build and facilitate ongoing collaboration and coordination across
CSL’s NGO members to ensure clarity in roles, expectations, expected
costs, and budgets in implementation of CSL-supported activities in the
annual workplan and beyond.
- Lead development of annual workplans and budgets. Fundraise
support for annual workplans through CSL membership.
- Development and Fundraising for a sustainable finance model
- Lead engagement with government, financial sector, and commodity
buyers to position CSL as a mechanism to deliver investment ready
projects that can deliver policy, finance and supply chain outcomes.
- In collaboration with secretariat host organization and members of
the Steering Committee secure financial support to deliver activities across
CSL’s annual workplan and lead fundraising activities such as donor
engagement and recruitment, proposal development and contract agreements,
and reporting.
- Develop long-term funding model to sustain CSL’s Secretariat as
well as support and grow ongoing provincial and district/landscape level
activities.
- Coordinate closely with district/landscape leads to ensure plans,
priorities, and timelines are captured through strategic fundraising
models.
· ADDITIONAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working closely with KI team members and other personnel relevance
to ensure the successful reach of goal, objective, output, and outcome
targeted of KI portfolios.
· PEOPLE AND
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Selected candidate will lead the CSL Platform and will work very
closely with CSL Steering Committee, local partners and local government
offices.
· QUALIFICATIONS
- Fluent in written and spoken English and Bahasa Indonesia with
excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Bachelor’s degree and/or secondary degree with preference for
communications, economics or sustainable development background
- Self-motivated, strong organizational ability, and willingness to
work on own initiative to drive programmatic decisions
- Minimum 5-10 years leadership experience driving multi-stakeholder
programs or initiatives, with strong leadership, social, and communication
skills
- Strong collaborator, with demonstrated experience leading outreach
and communications with international, private sector, civil society, and
government stakeholders.
- Demonstrated strong oral and written communications skills, with
ability to create compelling presentations and maintain frequent email and
in-person communications in English and Bahasa Indonesia that speak to a
wide range of stakeholders (I.e. both international and local)
- Knowledge and understanding of agricultural commodity supply chains
and commodity production systems for crops and commodities relevant to N.
Sumatra and Aceh.
- Understanding of Indonesia’s evolving sustainable land use, climate
and carbon policies and emerging climate finance opportunities.
- Strong project management, fundraising, donor management, and
reporting experience
- Experience working in conservation or international development and
working with bilateral agencies
- Must be willing to travel domestically (regularly) and
internationally (occasionally)
· ADDITIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS
- A people person who is energized by bringing different stakeholders
together to realize a common goal
- Knowledge and expertise related to key production sectors relevant
to North Sumatra and Aceh (oil palm, coffee, cacao, rubber, etc).
- Experience in managing complex multi-stakeholders’ program and good
interpersonal skills
- Strong management experience.
- Direct experience and networks in N. Sumatra and Aceh.
· OTHER
- Working together and working in team.
- Personal communication capabilities.
· Please send
your current resume, cover letter and portfolio to:
· indonesia.hrd@konservasi-id.org
· Please fill
the “subject” column of the e-mail with this format:
· < CSL-Lead
> – < your name >
· Closing
date for the application is May 21, 2023
· (Only short-listed candidates will be notified).
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