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GIZ Vacancy - Advisor: Sustainable Urban Transport & MRVs NAMA SUTRI (Jakarta)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. In order to fulfill Indonesia´s international commitments in reducing national greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector as the third largest source of energy-related CO2 emission in Indonesia, a new project will be launched: “NAMA SUTRI” (Nationally appropriate mitigation actions – Sustainable Urban Transport in Indonesia). The programme is developed by the Ministry of Transport with the assistance of GIZ. It has been awarded through the NAMA FACILITY, which is funded by the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change as well as the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUB).

NAMA SUTRI aims in its pilot phase to contribute to climate change mitigation through establishing funding mechanisms for the financial promotion of sustainable urban infrastructure development as well as the provision of technical advisory services on such projects to seven pilot cities.

In a pilot phase NAMA SUTRI addresses urban transport infrastructure development promotion with specific focus on public transport improvement, parking management and non-motorised transport. NAMA SUTRI seeks a qualified Indonesian candidate for


Advisor
For Sustainable Urban Transport and MRVs


A.      Responsibilities
The incumbent is responsible for the
  • Support of the NAMA-SUTRI program’s initiative to provide professional advice and input to, and to cooperate with, a broad range of target groups particularly in the fields of Sustainable Urban Transport and MRVs
  • Active contribution to achieving the program´s results and preparation of deliverables in a timely and qualitative sell satisfactory manner as specified in the program concept
  • Innovation and knowledge management as well as transmission of innovation to a wide range of persons
  • Integration of results and experiences into team efforts and into all relevant groups.
 
B.       Tasks
1.   General NAMA-SUTRI Program
§  Analyzes and makes recommendations using advanced transportation planning and statistical methods, financial subsidy mechanism modeling, as well as  budgeting and financial analyses;
§  Provides guidance and input to program components in cooperation with other professional staff and consultants;
§  Develops work plans and budget estimates for program components;   
§  Prepares and conducts public presentations and materials;
§  Prepares training materials and conduct training session on sustainable urban transport themes, MRVs and subsidy mechanisms (as per the candidates specific specialization);
§  Prepares planning reports involving extensive written and graphical material;
§  Gathers and analyzes data and information; prepares transportation planning or financial subsidy mechanism studies and analyses and acts as a resource for data used in the course of the program
§  Researches planning literature, news articles etc. to prepare abstracts and bibliographies;
§  Assists with planning studies or surveys as a team member or performs portions individually under close supervision;
§  Answers inquires and disseminates information regarding topics related to the program;
§  Coordinates and serves as support staff for meetings; attends various transportation meetings as required;
§  Develops work plans and program based M+E system for all targeted work in cities, and maintain and update it regularly;
§  Links and coordinates program to other related on going projects (other GIZ projects, INDII, CDIA, etc.)
§  Prepares reports.

2.    Tasks specific to SUTP & MRV Unit of the program
§  Be the “face and voice” (contact person) for the Ministry of Transportation (MoT) and the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) on transport MRVs (measuring, reporting and verification mechanisms) at GIZ Indonesia
§  Give technical advice to MoT and BAPPENAS working groups on transport MRVs
§  Link program to ongoing activities of SUTIP, TRANSfer and others
§  Establishment of a MRV System for urban transport in Indonesia
o   Exchange with other more general projects of GIZ and other organizations in the field of MRVs and work towards the development of applied concepts and blueprints for sustainable urban transport MRVs in Indonesia  
o   Development of a common MRV methodology agreed upon by the relevant stakeholders in the pilot cities and at national level;
o   Provision of technical advice for the standardisation of data collection and processing of urban transport data in the five cities as part of the operationalisation of the MRV strategy (MRV Roadmap Process);
o   Monitoring of the implementation of the national program and the impacts of mitigation actions in the pilot cities;
o   Provision of support and technical advice for reporting on GHG emission reductions, co-benefits, upscaling potential and leverage effects in Indonesia and internationally.
o   Desired output: A consistent system for the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emission reductions and co-benefits of urban transport development projects is in place at the end of the program and is applied by national and local implementation partners. (Indicators: a) Relevant and reliable urban transport data for the bottom-up calculation of GHG emissions (vehicle fleet, modal share, travel data, fuel) is available in five pilot cities and at national level. b) The MRV strategy is applied and institutionalised according to the monitoring and evaluation plan (to be developed throughout the first 6 months of program implementation)
§  Support of the Financing Systems Unit in the following:
o   Development of technical rules and regulations, including the definition of qualification criteria for co-financing high-quality sustainable urban transport measures (e.g. technical and environmental standards, operation and maintenance plan, upscaling potential)
o   Assistance in the pilot testing of the mechanism by review technical success of the co-financed projects (in terms of achievement of SUTP and reduction of GHG emissions)
o   Contribute to development and implementation of a fundraising strategy to leverage additional funding from national and international public and private sources;
§  In cases when for the above tasks additional external resources will have to be deployed for specialized contributions, the incumbent shall identify those contribution packages, prepare terms of references for third party subcontracts,  monitor and evaluate its proper execution and eventually align outputs in the overall context of the program
§  Organize and manage the program tasks to be carried out in Indonesia
§  Regularly report back to GIZ Eschborn (TRANSfer) and PAKLIM
§  Help preparing missions, workshops, etc.
 
3.     Other duties/additional tasks
§  Assists in and/or carry out other program activities and any other tasks according to needs, as assigned by the Senior Office Coordinator or the Program Director
 
C.      Required qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications
§  University degree at masters level with relevant specialisation and qualification in the field of transport engineering, civil engineering or similar
 
Professional experience
§  At least 3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position
 
Other knowledge, additional competences
§  Good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (particularly MS Office)
§  Very good knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia and the English language, ideally a knowledge of German
§  Willingness to further develop skills as required by the tasks to be performed 

Interested candidate should submit the application letter, CV with list of references (Max. 300 kb) to paklim@giz.de before 19th March 2015.  Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: SUTP & MRV-NAMA-SUTRI