GIZ Job Vacancy: Advisor Green Economy, Jakarta

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Forests and Climate Change Programme (FORCLIME) assists the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry as well as subnational governments to design and implement legal, policy and institutional reforms for the conservation and sustainable management of forests, at local, provincial and national level.

The overarching goal of FORCLIME is the development and refinement of government built institutional and governance frameworks to allow a reduction in GHG gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), biodiversity conservation, livelihood improvement of local communities and a facilitation of local communities towards Green Economy in Indonesia. The programme applies a mix of policy advice, human capacity development (HCD) as well as practical field testing of concepts and methods for sustainable development in the pilot districts in Kalimantan (Berau, Kapuas Hulu and Malinau). In this context the development or strengthening of appropriate and effective finance and incentive/benefit sharing schemes at local level are crucial to built and sustain local capacities and structures for sustainable low carbon development or green growth in the forest sector.

 

The central government, as well as subnational governments have already set up fiscal transfer and financing schemes such as DAK Environment (dana alokasi khusus lingkungan hidup), the GERHAN program with funds derived from dana reboisasi (reforestation fund), or village financing schemes (e.g Conservation Districts, the GERDEMA model in the district of Malinau etc.). These schemes are not yet effective, but can serve as models for public finance schemes supporting REDD+ and green development on local level. With the new Village law the central government plans to push village development with significant money transfers in support of the village development plans. GIZ FORCLIME has identified the need to further develop feasible finance and incentive scheme consistent with the REDD+/green economy concept at district/provincial and village level in its target areas in Kalimantan. The lessons learned of this work shall be used to enrich the public green finance discussion at national level.

 

 

Green Economy/Public Finance Advisor

1. Responsibilities:

The Advisor is responsible for supporting subnational partners in the setup of appropriate public finance and benefit sharing schemes for green development in the forest sector. In that context, he/she will engage in directly supporting activities of FORCLIME’s strategic area Green Economy on regional and local level and feed information from the field to the national level discussion. The position is based in Jakarta and focuses on linking national initiatives to local level implementation.

His/her responsibilities include: 

1. Supporting the implementation of FORCLIME Strategic Area 4 effectively and efficiently in order to assure the achievement of FORCLIME’s goals and objectives on provincial and district level;
2. Providing technical advice to and working closely with governmental and non-governmental organizations to support the development of public finance and benefit sharing schemes in line with the forestry sector as well as climate change and green economy strategies of the Government of Indonesia in the target districts of FORCLIME;
3. Coordinating the activities of short-term consultants in Strategic Area 4 including regular communication, work planning and quality check of products and reports;
4. Cooperating with relevant agencies in ensuring the integration of civil society and private sector into processes, in particular developing public consultation processes on local level.
5. Ensuring close and coherent cooperation with other Strategic Areas especially SAM 1 and SAM 3 for local level implementation as well as the FORCLIME FC module.
6. Produce policy papers and policy recommendation and present these to national and local decision makers
    

  B.    Tasks

He/She

1. Analyses existing public financing and benefit sharing schemes in the forestry sector both national and regional (e.g. DAK, LH, GERHAN, HTR, GERDEMA) and provide input for optimizing these schemes
2. Provides expertise for the conceptional development of public financing schemes relevant for the forestry sector.
3. In cooperation with partners develops concepts for benefit sharing mechanism for REDD+ /public finance schemes to local government entities (province/district).
4. Supports the development of local incentive schemes for green economy such as tax schemes for sustainable development and link them to existing green economy schemes (e.g. kabupaten konservasi, green villages, desa konservasi etc.)
5. Provide capacity development for an improved financial management schemes on district and village level.
6. Conducts economic/social analysis of potentials for improved public finance opportunities (policy, planning and budgeting processes)
7. Provides technical support to strengthen cross-sectoral and intra-sectoral coordination in regards to public sector budgeting process and environment and climate expenditure tracking  (expenditure reviews);
8. Supports the FORCLIME team to convert strategic reports recommendation into policy briefs targeting key decision makers

 

    C.    Required qualifications, competences and experience

            

        Qualifications

• Masters/MA in Economics or an area that is related to the project/programme objectives or comparable working experience

 

Professional experience

• Minimum 5 years’ professional experience, with professional experience in a comparable position
• Proven understanding of Indonesian public finance schemes in the natural resource management and environmental sector
• Expertise in village finance approaches
• Knowledgeable with regards to the current REDD+ and green economy discussion
• Knowledgeable on forestry issues and forest finance schemes
   

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, Knowledge Tree)

• Fluent written and oral knowledge of English

• Willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed –corresponding measures are agreed with management
   
  Duty Station: Jakarta with frequent travels to Kalimantan
   
  Please submit your comprehensive resume to recruitment-indo@giz.de by 10.05.2015 with email subject FORCLIME-PFA