Indonesia Economic
Climate Change Assessment
Chemonics
International is implementing the USAID-funded Climate Change Adaptation
Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project and one particular activity
under this project assesses the economic costs of climate change in key sectors in
Indonesia. For this activity, ATLAS seeks an
Indonesian national to support the work of a pre-identified Economic
Assessment. The activity and position descriptions are detailed below.
To apply,
please send your statement of interest, current daily rate, and CV to vfulton@chemonics.com with the subject line: Project
Coordinator. Deadline is August 11,
2015. Only final candidates will be contacted.
Indonesia Economic Climate Change Assessment
The objective of this activity is to provide
USAID/Indonesia and the Government of Indonesia with actionable information
about the potential economic costs of climate change in water-related sectors
in order to raise awareness for the need for climate resilient development
across the economy. The assessment will identify climate risks, adaption
options, and costs of those risks and options to key economic sectors that are
particularly relevant to both the climate change adaptation programming at
USAD/Indonesia and the Jokowi administration. These include coastal and marine
infrastructure, coastal, riverine and marine natural resources, agriculture and
hydro-meteorological disasters.
Project
Coordinator (35-45 days level of effort)
The
Project Coordinator will support the Economic Assessment Specialist with
logistics and data analysis and research. For logistics, she/he will schedule
meetings, arrange transportation, provide oral translation from Bahasa to
English as needed, and generally support the consultant with other logistics
related tasks. On the research side, the Coordinator will review websites to
find relevant information, perform informal translations of survey
questionnaires and data table headers, and summarize or discuss contents of
documents in originally published in Bahasa. The Project Coordinator will
support the Economic Assessment Specialist and the Senior Climate Change
Analyst with calculations and data management as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in social sciences or another technical field related to analysis of social and economic impacts of climate change.
- At least one year (preferably 2-3 years) of relevant work experience involving administrative work, research assistant work, statistical analysis, and/or data collection and reporting
- Fluency in Bahasa and professional proficiency in English required
Approximate timeline of
work:
Aug 2015: Intermittent work to set up meetings/collect information
Sept 2015: Full time work for approximately three weeks
Oct-Dec 2015: Intermittent work, collecting information and meeting with
people in Jakarta
Jan 2016: Full time work for approximately two weeks
