PLAN INTERNATIONAL INDONESIA JOB VACANCIES 2025
Project Officer – GreenSkill (Manggarai, NTT Based)
Project Background
The Green Skills project aims to tackle the environmental degradation issues of conventional farming, gender inequality, youth unemployment, and outward migration due to limited economic opportunities for rural youth by promoting environmentally friendly farming techniques called Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) and gender-sensitive and advanced Green Skills training amongst young farmers, enabling them to access income generating opportunities in the green economy and to establish sustainable livelihoods in Manggarai.
The project also aims to promote village-based vocational training focusing on CSA, especially for young women. By equipping young women with CSA green farming skills, not only can they cultivate vegetables for personal consumption, and sustain their families with surplus, but also tap into potential agricultural resources for promoting gender equality and inclusion in the CSA and sustainable agribusiness sector in NTT. Thus, the project will provide young women with opportunities to be a leader in their community.
The Opportunity
The Project Officer for the Green Skill Project will support technical aspects related to agriculture development, including increasing young people’s capacity to choose, manage, and harvest plants/crops. She/he will report to the Project Manager.
Accountabilities for The Role
Provide Technical Inputs on Prospectus Sustainable Agriculture Commodities to be developed
- Conduct rapid assessment on sustainable agriculture to be developed, including considering the availability of local resource, ease of adoption and market opportunities.
- Formulate recommendation on prospectus sustainable agriculture to be developed
Support the Process of Monitoring Evaluation, Learning and Reporting
- Support Project Manager in coordinating MERKM related activities, including baseline & end-line survey, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
- Provide data to Project Manager related project achievement, beneficiaries and other related data regularly
Coordinate Youth Capacity Building Activities on Livestock Skills
- Under supervision of Project Manager, develop networking and collaboration with key stakeholders for youth capacity building on sustainable agriculture including Livestock and Agriculture Local Government Office and Agriculture Input Suppliers.
- Modifying training modules on sustainable agriculture from various resources.
- Conduct youth capacity building activities on sustainable agriculture development and management, including training, mentoring and monitoring.
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GESI)
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in project design, during implementation and as principles applied in day-to-day work;
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GESI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
Requirements for The Role:
Essential
- Undergraduate degree in agriculture science
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in sustainable agriculture and community development
- Skill in training modules development and training implementation.
- Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and support staff
- Ability to function efficiently and effectively with little day-to-day supervision
Desirable
- Demonstrated experience in working with children and youth
- Experience in managing programmes in child protection
- Experience in working in a multi-cultural organisation
- Demonstrated knowledge in international development tools: program logic, Monitoring, and community empowerment
- Demonstrated knowledge of gender transformative approach, gender-based violence, child rights, and inclusion
Please follow the link to the full role profile: JD – Project Officer for Green skills
Location: The post holder will be based in Manggarai, Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Type of Role: 1-year Fixed-term contract (PKWT)
Reports to: straight line to Project Manager Green Skill
Competitive salary and package available
Closing Date: January 24th, 2025
HOW TO APPLY:
All information will be treated in the strictest confidence, as we pride ourselves on our professional service. We will contact you as soon as we have reviewed your application.
Only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for interviews. Please submit your letter of application and detailed curriculum vitae in English by applying now not later than January 24th, 2025 to this link CLICK HERE