Lowongan High Carbon Stock Project Manager & Member Manager Asia Pacific, Jakarta

TFT is a global non-profit organization that helps companies and communities deliver Responsible Products (see www.tft-forests.org for more details). We act on the ground in forests, farms and factories to help create products that respect the environment and improve people's lives. The position is full-time and based in either TFT’s Jakarta or Semarang office with frequent travel required. To support our projects to deliver Responsible Products, we are urgently seeking a qualified, hardworking and motivated person to fulfill position as follow:

Member Manager Asia Pacific

The successful candidate will have experience in supply chain management, procurement, certification, or Quality Assurance and will be numerate, articulate and well-organized, as well as passionate about environmental and social issues.

The position is full time and based in TFT’s Jakarta office with frequent travel required

Key Roles

·         Business development: attract new companies to join other TFT Members in bringing transparent, responsible, deforestation-free palm oil to the market

·         Stakeholder communication: build strong relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders active in responsible palm oil including NGOs, governments, and donors

·         Member responsibility: key contact between assigned Members and TFT

·         Project/program responsibility: ensure delivery of donor and member requirements in line with client expectations and those of TFT

·         Develop member-related communication tools and documents

·         Support the development of TFT’s activities in S.E. Asia, including in pulp & paper, wood products, and other supply chains as required.

·         Mapping the supply chain, identifying key social and environmental risks;

·         Establishing traceability systems all the way back to the raw material source;

·         Providing on-the-ground technical assistance to help tackle key sustainability risks;

·         Achieving legal compliance and certification;

·         Communicating the changing product story with stakeholders.

·         The Member Manager will be responsible for bringing in new companies to work with TFT to deliver responsible products, especially palm oil, as well as working with other TFT team members to ensure that client goals are met.

·         Expected to travel ~30%, mostly in S.E. Asia but with occasional long-haul to Europe and/or project sites in L. America or Africa

·         Required to devote as much time as necessary to fulfill the duties of employment or as reasonably required, whether or not within office hours

Required:

·         Fluent spoken and written Bahasa Indonesia

·         University degree or higher-level qualification;

·         A minimum of three years working with businesses ideally in the consumer goods sector on business development/sales, supply chain management, procurement, quality control, and/or sustainability;

·         Strong understanding of business supply chains and sourcing issues a must;

·         Strong writing, editing and formatting skills in English;

·         Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required to enable completion of daily tasks as well to facilitate reporting, project management, internal communications etc.;

·         Good understanding and high interest in environmental and social responsibility issues;

·         Ability to work within a multidisciplinary and multicultural team;

·         Fluency in written and spoken English (other additional languages an advantage);

·         Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills;

·         Willingness and ability to travel nationally and internationally;

·         Able to work flexible hours (outside 9-5 workday), as required;

·         Able to handle multiple tasks and work autonomously;

·         Flexibility, ability to show initiative and a positive attitude;

·         Eager to continually learn and develop as part of a team;

·         Experience in business development;

·         Experience in Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives;

·         Knowledge of commodity trading and/or certification.

High Carbon Stock Project Manager (HCS)

Description

The successful candidate will have experience in land use planning, GIS mapping, forest inventory, participatory mapping and will be articulate and well-organized, and passionate about environmental and social issues.

The HCS forest conservation approach a practical, scientifically robust and cost effective methodology for palm oil or forest plantation development without causing deforestation. The approach categorizes land areas into 6 vegetation strata using satellite photos and correlating with measurements of carbon in the above ground biomass, allowing areas with High Carbon Stock (HCS, i.e. forests) to be distinguished from degraded areas with lower carbon stock that are potentially available for plantation development. The approach is designed a practical land use planning tool; it is not a carbon assessment such as for carbon accounting.

The position is full-time and based in either TFT’s Jakarta or Semarang office with frequent travel required.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

·         Collaboration and coordination with TFT staff working to carry out the responsibilities of the TFT HCS Program, which are often dynamic in nature.

·         Providing strategic support as required to TFT’s Senior Program Manager.

·         Engage with stakeholders (communities, industry, government, NGOs and research institutes) with the view to explaining the HCS process and benefits.

·         Coordinate the HCS team to execute all relevant stages of the HCS process on a partner by partner basis.

·         Report writing, meeting documentation and communications

·         Clear reports submitted according to deadlines, written in professional business language (Bahasa and English) and requiring minimum editing before submitting to clients.

·         Strong rapport and strategic collaboration with TFT palm oil program staff.

·         Staffs are often required to work outside office hours to fulfill the duties of employment.

·         This position will require regular meetings with leaders in large, multi-national corporations, as well as travelling extensively in Indonesia and/or South East Asia to visit palm oil plantations and forests. For this reason, the Project Manager should be prepared to work in both corporate and field settings. 

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia
• Strong writing skills.
• Ability to manage a multi-disciplinary and multicultural team.
• Minimum five years professional work experience in one of the following disciplines; land use planning, forestry and/ or GIS.
• Bachelors degree or higher in Natural Resource, Forestry or GIS.
• Understand environmental and social issues related to palm oil production and/or wood plantation establishment.
• Demonstrate ability to understand technical, environmental and social requirements.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office program and in GIS & Remote Sensing Software (ArcGIS/ENVI/Erdas etc).
• Strong understanding of statistics and sampling methodologies.

            If you have those qualifications above please send your CV within March 31, 2014 to: c.wisnuwardhana@tft-forests.org

Cc- to:

c.lachaux@tft-forests.org and d.lewis@tft-forests.org

Salam, 

Wisnu wardhana