Project Assistant (Climate Finance)

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The Government of Indonesia (GoI), has committed to address climate change including risks and vulnerabilities that could have implications to the national development agendas. Up to now, GoI has enacted several climate change policies and strategies, i.e. RAN-GRK, RAN-API, NDC, Enhanced NDC, and the Long-Term Strategy on Low Carbon and Climate Resilience (LTS-LCCR). Indonesia has also updated their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) in 2022, with new ambitious targets by 31,89% unconditionally and 43,20% conditionally, which are planned to be achieved by 2030—with the second NDC currently under development.
To achieve these targets, the Third Biennial Update Report (BUR) states that a total of IDR 4.002 T or USD 281 B needs to be allocated to reach the unconditional emission reduction target of 2030. On the other hand, climate change events also heavily impact the national economy. The 3rd BUR estimates that around USD 2,3 – 12,14 B is required to build resiliency and adaptive capacity to reduce the risk of loss to 2,87% of the GDP. The Climate Resilient Development (PBI) document estimates that the potential losses of the 4 priority sectors (marine & coastal, water, agriculture, and health) of climate change can potentially reach IDR 115,53 T in 2024. Other estimates also report that climate change may impact up to 3,5% of Indonesia’s National GDP by 2100 (ADB, 2021).
Implementing climate actions to achieve the country’s ambitious goals as well mitigate its potential impact to Indonesia’s economy requires a massive amount of funding and more effective use of current resources from the national budget or other potential financial resources. With only 6 years left to achieve these targets, Indonesia needs to accelerate and strengthen the advancement of its public finance management for climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as develop innovative fiscal policies and financing schemes to ensure adequate closing of the financing gap between the amount of funding needed and the state’s available fiscal capacity.

In the area of climate finance, UNDP Indonesia works closely with the Ministry of Finance through the Climate Finance Network (CFN) Indonesia project. The CFN is UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub’s primary programme on climate finance, funded by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (UK FCDO) “Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA)” programme, which brings a wide range of stakeholders including ministries of finance, regulators, accountability actors, the private sector, civil society and regional and international development partners to forge partnerships for mobilizing and managing climate finance effectively.
The CFN is present in 17 countries, including Indonesia, and seeks to address growing governmental demands for innovative pathways to tackle the climate crises via the promotion of climate finance solutions that promote gender equality and human rights, channeled through six core workstreams: 1) Climate change aligned budgeting and planning; 2) Access to international climate change finance; 3) Tax and innovative climate change finance; 4) Gender and social inclusion and climate change finance; 5) Transparency and accountability of climate change finance; 6) Modelling climate impacts on economic growth, key sectors and equity.
 
 

a)    Effective support for project management, project planning and implementation
•    Provide technical support in overall project implementation, including compilation, summarization and presentation of basic information/data related to climate finance
•    Support in reviewing and documenting all project documents, including presentations, reports, concept notes, pitch decks, terms of references, etc.
•    Assist in structured research, data collection and organization to support climate finance analysis, including identifying emerging climate finance trends and preparing initial summaries
•    Implement project standard operating procedures in line with the government and UNDP’s regulations

b)    Support to the effective reporting on progress of project implementation
•    Support in preparing annual workplan and project report to donors, in line with the monitoring and reporting guidelines and presents it to the project assurance team on a timely manner;
•    Support in providing information/inputs on progress of project activities to key stakeholders (if necessary), in form of decks, info brief, presentation materials, etc

c)    Provides administrative support to the unit
•    Support in organizing meetings/workshops/training, including preparation of meeting documents, such as ToRs, reports, policy briefs, summaries, presentations, as well as development of meeting notes, follow-up actions to facilitate knowledge production in solid manner
•    Provide support in maintaining relevant project database
•    Effective administrative support for data collection for gender analysis and gender mainstreaming at project level
•    Effective implementation of operations policies for gender sensitive approach at the project level

d)    Effective support for partnerships, innovation, and communication to the implementation of resource mobilization
•    Support in coordination and communication with project stakeholders at the technical level
•    Draft correspondence on periodic reports, briefing notes, talking points and press releases
•    In coordination with UNDP’s Communication unit and other relevant counterpart communications department, support in the documentation of project activities as well as the development of relevant/ necessary communication materials, as a tool to effectively communicate results, deepen stakeholder/ public knowledge and buy-in to the project, and resource mobilization for the project

e)    Support knowledge building and knowledge sharing
•    Support in facilitation of meetings/workshops/trainings and Focus Group Discussions, providing technical input and moderation
•    Participate in relevant trainings for operations/project staff

•    Contribute to knowledge networks and communities of practice
•    Ensure active participation for learning and knowledge sharing in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming
•    Support in developing as well as updating the Project’s knowledge products, particularly those relevant with the Country Office’s climate finance portfolio

f)    The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that
•    Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions
•    Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”
•    Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production
•    Differentiated needs of women and men are considered
•    Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created
•    Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced

Institutional Arrangement
In supporting the Project, the Project Assistant (Climate Finance) will work under the primary supervision of the National Project Coordinator for Climate Finance. The Project Assistant is responsible for assisting in the development, delivery, and coordination of project activities and interventions in coordination with the Project’s stakeholders and counterparts. He/she will work in close coordination with the Ministry of Finance and its relevant units as the main counterpart—as well as other stakeholders. Regular coordination will also be made with the CFN Bangkok Regional Hub.
 

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section   

 •    Experience in working with UN agencies, other development partners, government on programming in relation to sustainable development, SDGs, climate change and/or innovative finance would be highly desirable
•    Experience working for UNDP development projects in Indonesia is an advantage
•    Experience in using monitoring and evaluation tools and project management processes would be advantage
•    Knowledge of and experience in supporting projects in the area of climate finance will be highly desirable
•    Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS
Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc).
 

Required Language(s)    Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English is required.