Technical Analyst for Sustainable Landscape and Commodities [Open to internal and external applicants]

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Background

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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Since 2015, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and UNDP’s Green Commodities Programme (GCP) have partnered in Indonesia to drive systemic change in the palm oil sector, an industry vital to the national economy and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders, but also a major driver of deforestation. Recognizing the complexity of the sector, this partnership has embraced a multi-stakeholder, collaborative approach to build a shared vision and address environmental and social challenges. Now in its third phase, the project continues to advance sustainable production, aligned with SECO’s 2021-2024 Economic Development Cooperation Programme, with a strong focus on social and environmental sustainability.

Strengthened by the GEF-6 funded Good Growth Partnership, GCP has operated at national and subnational levels across three provinces and districts. It enabled the establishment of the Indonesian Palm Oil Forum (FoKSBI), a government-led multi-stakeholder dialogue platform that brought together ministries, private sector actors, NGOs, business associations, and smallholder representatives to develop the National Action Plan for Sustainable Palm Oil (NAP SPO), officially adopted in 2019. The process has since transitioned to the NAP Implementation Team (NAP IT), tasked with coordinating the plan’s rollout.

This inclusive governance model is a milestone in Indonesia, where constructive multi-stakeholder dialogue has historically been limited. Today, the initiative is being scaled up to all 26-palm oil-producing provinces under the leadership of the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, involving 14 ministries and key non-state actors. With Indonesia remaining the world’s largest palm oil producer, the sector continues to be a national development priority.

Phase three of GCP seeks to consolidate this governance mechanism and institutionalize sustainability. GCP is supporting the development of a Presidential Regulation on NAP SPO, expected to be rolled out in 2026. This phase also aims to renew multi-stakeholder commitments, align public resources, and catalyze private sector partnerships. At the subnational level, it will facilitate NAP SPO rollout, encourage knowledge-sharing among provinces, and shape the next evolution of the action plan. While the first phase focused on building the framework and developing NAP SPO, and the second on enabling its implementation, the third emphasizes expansion and institutionalization to ensure long-term impact.

Building upon this foundation and funded by the same donor, SECO, the Sustainable Landscape Programme Indonesia (SLPI) complements GCP by applying its principles at the landscape level. SLPI works across key jurisdictional areas in Kalimantan and Sumatra, strengthening governance and promoting sustainable management of natural resources. By adopting a jurisdictional approach, SLPI integrates ecosystem conservation with improved agricultural production and economic opportunities for local communities. It fosters collaboration among government agencies, private sector actors, smallholder farmers, and civil society organizations to achieve sustainable palm oil production, ecosystem restoration, and improved livelihoods.

Together, GCP and SLPI form a coherent strategy. GCP sets the enabling environment at the national level, while SLPI operationalizes sustainability at the landscape level. This continuity of donors ensures credibility and resilience, bridging policy and practice.

Within this framework, the Technical Analyst for Sustainable Landscape and Commodities play a pivotal role in strengthening the technical implementation of GCP and SLPI activities. The Technical Analyst will serve as the operational bridge between national policy processes and landscape-level implementation under GCP and SLPI. The position will be responsible for coordinating implementation across the five SLPI landscapes, monitoring progress against donor commitments, supporting adaptive management, facilitating engagement with provincial and district governments, consolidating technical inputs from landscape partners, and ensuring alignment between field implementation and national policy objectives. These functions require continuous engagement with subnational stakeholders and implementation partners and cannot be effectively performed through periodic policy-focused interventions.

Responsibilities include supporting farmer capacity building, advancing good agricultural practices, promoting sustainability standards, and coordinating with local stakeholders. The position also ensures close collaboration with key ministries, landscape partners, aligning commodity-related interventions with jurisdictional governance approaches to deliver stronger sustainability outcomes. In addition, the Technical Analyst contributes to the Natural Resources Management Cluster under UNDP Indonesia’s Nature and Low Carbon Development Unit (NLCD), providing technical expertise on sustainable agriculture commodities and natural resource management. This role is essential to ensure coherence between national policy processes under GCP, field-level implementation under SLPI, and UNDP’s broader portfolio on sustainable land use and resource management.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Project Analyst, the incumbent will work closely with the Project Management Units of both GCP and SLPI to ensure coherent planning, implementation, and reporting. In addition, the Technical Analyst will contribute technical expertise to the Natural Resources Management Cluster under the Nature and Low Carbon Development Unit (NLCD) of UNDP Indonesia, particularly in advancing sustainable commodity production and broader natural resource management initiatives.

The incumbent will work in close collaboration with key government counterparts, including the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Home Affairs, as well as other relevant national and sub-national institutions, to support alignment and implementation of project priorities. The role requires active coordination with SLPI landscape partners and other implementing entities to ensure effective delivery of landscape-level intervention.

Contributes to effective project planning and implementation, ensuring high- quality delivery of sustainable landscape and commodities interventions, with focus on the following results:

• Lead and coordinate the implementation of technical activities related to sustainable agricultural commodities across project landscapes under GCP and SLPI, ensuring alignment with project objectives and timelines;
• Analyze and synthesize data and evidence on sustainable commodity production (including palm oil and other key commodities) to inform decision-making, adaptive management, and strategic planning;
• Develop and operationalize workplans, technical guidelines, and field implementation strategies to support sustainable agriculture commodity interventions;
• Provide substantive technical inputs to project reports, policy briefs, knowledge products, and documentation, ensuring accuracy, coherence, and relevance;
• Monitor and evaluate field-level implementation of commodity-related activities, tracking progress, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending corrective actions;
• Deliver targeted technical assistance and capacity building to farmers, cooperatives, local governments, and other stakeholders to enhance adoption of sustainable practices and improve productivity;
• Facilitate and strengthen collaboration with SLPI landscape partners and other stakeholders to ensure effective coordination and integration of landscape-level interventions.

Provides technical and coordination support to the Project Management Unit, focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Liaise and coordinate with relevant government institutions at national, provincial, and district levels and other stakeholders including private sector, NGOs, farmer organizations, and landscape partners;
• Support coordination with SLPI landscape partners in implementing agriculture commodity interventions and landscape-level activities;
• Support the organization and implementation of technical meetings, workshops, and consultations related to agriculture commodities and sustainable production;
• Provide technical inputs and support for farmer capacity building activities including training, demonstration plots, GESI mainstreaming, and dissemination of good agricultural practices;
• Contribute to field monitoring, technical assessments, and identification of opportunities to strengthen commodity sustainability practices in project landscapes.

Supports strategic partnerships, communications, and supports the implementation of resource mobilization:

• Support engagement with public sector institutions, development partners, private sector actors, civil society organizations, and landscape stakeholders involved in sustainable commodity value chains;
• Support the documentation of project results, good practices, and success stories related to sustainable commodity production and landscape management;
• Contribute to communication materials that highlight project achievements and impacts in agriculture commodities and natural resource/sustainable landscape management;
• Support collaboration with national commodity platforms, landscape initiatives, and multi-stakeholder forums.

Supports knowledge building and knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Contribute to the organization of training and capacity-building activities for farmers, local governments, and project stakeholders related to sustainable agriculture commodities;
• Support documentation and synthesis of lessons learned and best practices from the implementation of GCP and SLPI activities in project landscapes;
• Contribute to knowledge products such as technical briefs, reports, and case studies related to sustainable commodity production and landscape management;
• Facilitate knowledge exchange among stakeholders and contribute to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
  Ensure gender considerations are integrated into knowledge products, training activities, and stakeholder engagement.
   

The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality are prioritized as ethical principles within all actions.
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with UNDP policies and principles on gender equality and social inclusion.
• Diversity based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, and gender is respected within all implementations, including data production and analysis.
• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered in project design and implementation.
• An inclusive approach is reflected in all actions and implementations, ensuring an enabling and accessible environment for diverse stakeholders.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

• Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements 

• Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

• Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible 

• Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

• Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-functional & technical competencies:

Business management

• Results Based Management: Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results. Knowledge and understanding  of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.
• Monitoring & Evaluation : Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively; Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results; Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria
  and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming; Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools. Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns. 
• Partnership Management: Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

Partnership management

• Emerging Partnership: Ability to engage with emerging partners, develop and manage a strategy and develop approaches to developing and managing these new strategic partnerships
• Strategic Engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives

2030 Agenda : Peace

• Gender: Gender and Environment

Business Direction and Strategy    

• Entrepreneurial Thinking: Identify and seize opportunities to service and add value to clients, create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners, develop clear service offers responding to client needs in line with UNDP’s organizational priorities and mandate.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Public Policy, International Relations, Agriculture, Forestry or any other relevant Social Sciences field. Or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Applicants with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
• Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in sustainable agriculture, commodity value chains, landscape management, or natural resource management.

Desired skills:

• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages;
• Demonstrated experience in sustainable agriculture, commodity development (particularly palm oil or other relevant commodities), and landscape or jurisdictional approaches to sustainable land use;
• Demonstrated experience supporting sustainable commodity production, supply chain initiatives, and implementation of sustainability standards or certification schemes (e.g., ISPO, RSPO, or comparable frameworks);
• Demonstrated experience engaging and coordinating with national and sub-national government institutions, private sector actors, farmer organizations, NGOs, and development partners through multi-stakeholder platforms;
• Demonstrated experience working with international organizations, development agencies, or UN agencies in supporting project implementation, coordination, and stakeholder engagement;
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate activities, facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders, prepare technical reports, and support effective implementation of development projects.

Required Languages:

• Fluency in both Bahasa Indonesia and English is required. 

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination. 

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles. 

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