National Project Assistant Folur

Job Posting: 17/Jul/2025

Closure Date: 31/Jul/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: FAINS - FAO Representation in Indonesia

Job Type: Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Grade Level: N/A

Primary Location: Indonesia-Jakarta

Duration: Up to 12 months

Post Number: N/A

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- FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture
- Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply
- Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values
- FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination
- FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations._

**Organizational Setting**

The unsustainable management of globally traded commodity crops (cacao, coffee and oil palm), and their expansion into forest areas, are leading to major impacts on globally important biodiversity, the degradation of soil and water resources, the loss of carbon stocks, and the degradation of watersheds that are vital for maintaining water flows to rice production areas. Rice production is itself a source of globally significant environmental impacts, in the form of the contamination of soil and globally
- important aquatic ecosystems due to excessive and inappropriate use of agricultural chemicals, and the generation of methane (a potent greenhouse gas) from flooded paddy systems.
A narrow focus on the production of globally-traded cash crops by farmers is environmentally and socially unsustainable - even in the case of perennial crops such as coffee and cacao that have the potential to yield environmental benefits if appropriately managed - because of the volatility of global markets for these crops and their vulnerability to the effects of global climate change. A large number of major global value chain actors have committed to sustainable sourcing of the products that they trade, in order to comply with corporate social and environmental responsibility goals and to satisfy consumer requirements for sustainable production. This presents farmers with a major potential source of market-based incentives for sustainable production, but at present their ability to take advantage of this opportunity is constrained by their disconnection from these “green” value chains and their limited technical capacities to satisfy their requirements in terms of environmental standards, product quality and reliability of supply.
Despite significant policy commitments to sustainability by the Government of Indonesia, capacities, knowledge, tools, regulatory instruments and incentives for putting these into practice are still inadequately developed, and the agricultural and environmental sectors continue to be highly compartmentalized, lacking the integrated vision that is required if social and economic development and landscape management are to be sustainable.

**Reporting Lines**

The Project Assistant will work under the overall administrative suvervision of the FAO Representative in Indonesia, and the direct supervision of the Assistant FAO Representative (Programme).

**Technical Focus**

Agriculture, Forestry, Rural Livelihoods, Development Management, Integrated Landscape Management, Project Management. The Project Assistant (PA) will support National Project Manager (NPM) in particular and Project Management Unit (PMU) in general to consistently implement UNDP, FAO, and/or project’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) as well as the Government of Indonesia’s rules and regulations.

**Tasks and responsibilities**
- The planning aspects:

- Compiles, summarizes, and presents basic information/data on specific project and related topics or issues.
- Support the formulation of the annual work plan and quarterly work plan based on the multiyear workplan as stated on the Project Document.
- Build communication and coordination with potential Service Providers to support the project implementation under Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Ministry of Forestry (MoFor) as required to support the AWP formulation.
- Reviews project supporting documents for completeness and compliance with relevant rules and procedures prior to submission for final approval and signature; identifies inconsistencies; distributes project documents to relevant parties upon approval.
- Coordinate and communicate closely with related sub-directorate within MoA and MoFor and strategic partners at any other related ministries to ensure the integra