Nature Based Solutions Lead – USAID/Indonesia Climate Change Adaptation Activity

Nature Based Solutions Lead – USAID/Indonesia Climate Change Adaptation Activity

About Palladium:

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

This Opportunity:

Palladium is seeking a Nature-Based Solutions Lead for the anticipated USAID/Indonesia Adaptation Activity, which is a 5-Year USAID-funded program which aims to improve climate and disaster resilience in Indonesia by supporting GOI at the local, district, provincial and national levels. The Activity will support Indonesian government, private sector, and communities to understand and communicate climate information, integrate climate and disaster risk management into planning processes, mobilize finance for climate-resilient infrastructure, and deploy nature-based solutions. The programs objectives may comprise the following four areas:

• Support GOI efforts to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in sub-national core development plans and investments.
  
• Mobilize financing to advance urban climate resilience
  
• Strengthen systems for collection and application of climate data, services and decision support tools to improve planning processes in target cities
  
• Advance Urban Nature-Based Solutions to Promote Climate Resilience

The Nature-Based Solutions Lead will serve as the lead in achieving the Objective 4 goals of the project as listed in the RFI and will be based in Indonesia. The Nature-Based Solutions Lead will play key roles in supporting the COP to work with target municipality governments to identify, finance, and nature-based solutions most appropriate to addressing local adaptation needs.The Nature-Based Solutions Lead will have a firm understanding of urban nature-based solutions andhave a demonstrated awareness of the climate change and disaster risks within the target provinces. The Nature-Based Solutions Lead responsibilities will include providing technical assistance to local actors to implement nature-based solutions and facilitating strategic partnerships between landscape level public and private actors.. The Nature-Based Solutions Lead will work with Palladium HQ to ensure compliance with USAID rules and regulations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

The Nature-Based Solutions Lead will:

• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team of the program and support the COP in leadership and oversight of project staff and activities under Objective 4.
  
• Collaborate with different stakeholders, particularly the Indonesian subnational government, project developers, private sector, and local communities, to foster country-driven, inclusive, locally relevant strategies to advance nature-based solutions. .
  
• Work with key Indonesian actors to develop sustainable technical guidelines and tools to design and assess the viability of NBS projects to promote inclusive benefits to communities and businesses.
  
• Support municipal governments develop natural resource/land management strategies that have an ecosystem-based approach. For example, working in partnership with upstream actors for effective water resource management and flood prevention.
  
• Work with the COP and other project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
  
• Lead and/or reviews and monitors programmatic functions, i.e., development of work plans and budgets and quarterly/annual reports and ensures effective implementation of program strategy for Objective 4 as articulated in the work plan.
  
• Ensure that program implementation is in accordance with Palladium’s and USAID’s regulations and procedures.
  
• In collaboration with the M&E officers ensure relevant staff use, maintain and regularly upload data to the project M&E system.
  
• Participate in and/or prepares necessary project-related reports, including presentations and white papers.
  
• Participate, and represent the organization as needed, in outside associations, conferences, and symposia.

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Master’s degree in climate change, environment, natural resource management, engineering, public policy, urban planning, or related fields and at least 5 years of experience in USAID or similar donor funded projects.
  
• Experience with activity design as well as development and management of projects, preferably including both community-level and national-level activities, with experience in USAID similar donor-funded projects.
  
• Experience with a donor, contractor or international NGOs in a relevant sector such as nature-based solutions, climate change adaptation, natural resource management, land use management, disaster risk reduction, or urban planning.
  
• Proven ability to leverage and manage partnerships and cooperate with host country governments and international partners in implementing donor-funded projects preferred. Experience working with the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), Ministry of Home Affairs and Bappenas preferred.
  
• Demonstrated experience working with private sector actors to integrate NbS/ improve climate risk management.
  
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation experience to high-level audiences, fluency in English.
  
• Fluency in Indonesian preferred.
  
• Strong interpersonal and management skills.
  
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to think and plan strategically, ability to manage a culturally and linguistically diverse staff, consultants, and counterparts.
  
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities, often within a required timeframe.
• Professional and diplomatic demeanor and conduct, especially during interactions with the client and its constituents, particularly regarding the Indonesian government.

Indonesian nationals with relevant experience are encouraged to apply.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

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