Job Description

IC/UNDP/ATSEA/018/2022 - Marine Pollution Facilitator

Location : Kupang, INDONESIA
Application Deadline : 18-Mar-22 (Midnight New York, USA)
Time left : 1d 7h 53m
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : National Consultant
Languages Required :
English
Duration of Initial Contract : 180 Working days
Expected Duration of Assignment : 12 months


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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Background

Interest candidate has to access procurement notice Ref.: IC/UNDP/ATSEA/018/2022 - Marine Pollution Facilitator at the following link: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=88727

We encourage you to submit your application through this website and send the complete application to bids.id@undp.org (only application with complete supporting document received in bids.id@undp.org before or at the closing date will be proceed).

Background

The Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) is part of the North Australian Shelf large marine ecosystem (LME), which is a tropical sea lying between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and extending from the Timor Sea to the Torres Strait and including the Arafura Sea and Gulf of Carpentaria. The region is adjacent to the Coral Triangle[1], which hosts the world’s highest marine biodiversity and contains some of the most pristine and highly threatened coastal and marine ecosystems. At the regional scale, the ecosystems of the ATS play an important economic and ecological role in the littoral nations bordering the Arafura and Timor Sea: Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.

The marine environment in the ATS region is in serious decline, primarily as a result of overharvesting and other direct and indirect impacts of anthropogenic stresses and global climatic changes. Fisheries in the ATS region represent an extremely complex productive, socioeconomic sector, with multiple actors, target species sought, and technology used. The main characteristics of depletion of shared ATS transboundary stocks by fishery were assessed as part of the ATS transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) in 2012. In addition to climate change, unsustainable harvesting, illegal unreported unregulated (IUU) fishing, and bycatch are having significant impacts on the populations of key marine species in the ATS region, particularly globally threatened coastal marine megafauna including migratory, rare, and threatened species of turtles, dugongs, seabirds/shorebirds, sea snakes, cetaceans, sharks and rays. Lastly, potential sources of marine pollution in the ATS region include marine debris, marine based pollution from oil and gas activities, as well as waste from fishing and shipping vessels.

Timor Seas has a high risk on sources of marine pollution in the ATS region include marine debris, marine based pollution from oil and gas activities, as well as waste from shipping vessels. These activities affect water and sediment quality, habitats and marine biodiversity in the Arafura Sea, especially in the area between Aru Islands and Papua and around Rote Ndao.

Specific in Nusa Tenggara Timor (NTT), provincial marine task force has been developed since 2021. The forum consists of multiple institution from provincial and national government, and CSO that commit to implement the action plan within 3 years to minimize the impact of marine pollution and capacity building for local expert.

In this context, the services of a Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) Provincial Liaison are required to support action plan implementation from marine task force secretariat and Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) action plans. Under the guidance and supervision of the Project Manager/ National Project Coordinator, the Individual Consultant will support the ATSEA-2 Project implementation of the activities that fall under the ATSEA-2 output and which includes several activities in Rote Ndao and Kupang.

He/she will work in close collaboration with ATSEA-2 project staff and project partners and will maintain close communication over operational issues as well as strategic opportunities arising from project implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The government liaison in NTT will be responsible to assist in the establishment of close working relations with Local Government Officials and/or other external parties in Provincial level to implemented marine task force action plan and support daily basis of marine task force secretariat. The main key responsibilities for this position, include:

1. Support daily basis of the marine task force secretariat activities based on the action plan program

2. Arrange the marine task force action plan implementation in NTT province

• Facilitate the development and adoption of the guidelines for collecting data and information related to marine pollution
• Facilitate the adoption process for early warning system mechanism for marine pollution in Rote Ndao
• Facilitate coordination meeting with all marine pollution task force (every 4 months) to discuss and further update related action plan and 1 meeting with national task force
• Facilitate the capacity building activities for marine pollution task force
• Build collaboration with multistakeholder in disseminating information on marine pollution prevention activities

3. Support the liaison activities related to policy and advocacy in Province level

Competencies

Competencies and special skills requirement:

• Strong leadership and good communication skills;
• Ability to plan, organize, implement and report on work;
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines;
• Proficiency in the use of office IT applications and internet in conducting research;
• Good presentation and facilitation skills;
• Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards;
• Positive, constructive attitude to work.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, law, Marine and fisheries, Environmental Engineering, biology, Development Studies, or other related Social Science fields or equivalent relevant works.

Experience requirement:

• 10 years of work experience in liaison and engagement with various stakeholders (government or NGO), especially for NTT context is more preferably.
• 5 years of work experience in organizing meeting with the government and stakeholder (including capacity building)
• Experience with technical issues related to marine pollution.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English with excellent written communication skills, and strong experience writing reports is required, with computer skills;
• Excellent written and spoken skills in Indonesian.