Expert Sustainable Land Use Planning, Jakarta

SNV is a not-for-profit international development organisation. Founded in the Netherlands nearly 50 years ago, we have built a long-term, local presence in 38 of the poorest countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Our global team of local and international advisors work with local partners to equip communities, businesses and organizations with the tools, knowledge and connections they need to increase their incomes and gain access to basic services – empowering them to break the cycle of poverty and guide their own development

By sharing our specialist expertise in our four focal sectors: Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene and Commodities and Climate Change we contribute to solving some of the leading problems facing the world today – helping to find local solutions to global challenges and sowing the seeds of lasting change. To specifically address the issues related to sustainability, SNV Indonesia has established a Commodities and Climate Change program.

The program is designed to advance understanding of the interface between agriculture and energy use across different forest landscapes in order to support low emission, pro-poor development pathways. By developing knowledge across the landscape the Program is developing knowledge products and implementing activities in conjunction with governments, businesses and local communities across the landscape to support sustainable development.

In order to develop an integrated vision for sustainable development for a region, SNV has developed a Siting Tool, based on the work of the Responsible Cultivation Areas programme (Ecofys, 2010) and Smit et al. (2013)). The tool helps visualizing options for sustainable agricultural expansion through a 'Risk Indicator Map', which is useful in zoning a landscape and informing decision makers on areas where development should be promoted as well as areas that should be maintained. The tool works by using sustainability standards to prioritize areas suitable for sustainable expansion. The tool has been tested in West Kalimantan, Lampung, Jambi and North Sumatra for coffee, rubber, cocoa and oil palm and is used for identifying promising project sites for the program,. Currently SNV is working on a revision of the tool, integrating the impact of climate change on biophysical suitability (using MaxEnt), distance to infrastructure as well as calculating the impacts on the (local) economy (potentially using models like INVEST or MARXAN).

Key Responsibilities:

• Guide GIS officers in the analysis and preparation of the data needed
• Support further development of the siting tool for coffee, cocoa, rubber, palm oil, shrimp aquaculture ® Integrate climate modelling in biophysical suitability mapping methods
• Coordinate implementation of the siting tool in Central/West Africa and Southeast Asia
• Provide strategic guidance on the implementation of the tool in other landscapes
• Coordinate development of web interface for making the results of the tool accessible online
• Coordinate the development of protocols/handbooks for the application of the siting tool
• Identify follow-up funding and partnership possibilities with country management and business development.
• Profiling and positioning of the project through documentation and dissemination of good practices

Requirements

• 10 years experience working on spatial planning
• Master Degree in GIS/Remote Sensing or equivalent
• A good understanding of/and experience working with MARXAN/INVEST
• A good understanding of/and experience working with MaxEnt
• Experience handling Climate Modeling Data
• Experience mapping HCV
• Understanding of the Siting Tool
• Good written and verbal communication skills in Bahasa and English

Duty station: Jakarta

Contract type and duration: National/ 1 year with the possibility of extension.

Salary Scale: Advisor II

Desired start date: July 2014

How to apply? I f you believe that your credentials meet the outlined profile, we invite you to apply by sending your CV and letter of motivation directly addressing the requirements to jobsindonesia@snvworld.org by 24 June 2014 .

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Closing date:

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Type of contract:

Local