Project Officer, Southeast Asia

Project Officer Southeast Asia

The Position

Palladium ishiring a Project Officer to join the Southeast Asia team working on alarge-scale five-year global sustainable land-use programme funded by theForeign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

The Project Officer will be responsible for managing projects inthe Southeast Asia portfolio supporting the regionachieve its goals and targets. The Project Officer will support the RegionalManager coordinating closely with other Project Officers in the region.

The role is offered full time (40 hours) based in our Indonesia officein Jakarta. It is expected the person works from the office at least 3 days perweek (pro rata if part-time). We have flexible working conditions to enable ourstaff to balance their work and home commitments.

AboutPalladium

Palladium is a global company working to design develop anddeliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around theglobe; broaden access to health water power and infrastructure; buildenduring sustainable and transformative institutions and market systems toaddress global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over90 countries and have a workforce of 3200 talented motivated and diversestaff of all religions races languages and gender identities.

Programmecontext

The Investments in Forests and Sustainable Land Use Programme Phase 2 (IFSLU2) is one of theflagship programme in the Natural Capital and Climate Environment and NaturalResources practice areas at Palladium. IFSLU2 is split into threecomponents this position is primarily focused on Components 1 and 2 withcollaboration and coordination opportunities for working with Component 3. IFSLU2is a grants and technical assistance facility that supports businesses and investment models in which the private sectorpublic sector and communities can achieve improved returns from forests andsustainable land use whilst protecting existing forest restoring degraded landand improving agricultural land management and production practices. All thiswork is focused across the tropical forests belt.

IFSLU2 will run for 5 years from 1 February 2025. Depending onperformance and subject to funding the programme may be extended for a further5 years (up to 2035). The programme is funded by the UK government.

Primary responsibilities

Key responsibilities and tasks may include but are not limited to:

• Accelerating the development of projects for grants or Technical Assistance approval in the South East Asia region;
  
• Conduct initial assessment of the potential of new projects to fit into P4F2s mandate;
  
• Support project analysis and design to bring it to the right approval level at the programmes
  Committees;
  
• Ensure effective management of projects under implementation and ensure timely reporting and monitoring to achieve project outcomes and impacts;
  
• Ensure projects under implementation achieve P4F2 milestone targets as planned;
  
• Share lessons and impact stories around projects under implementation;
  
• Bring data together in a consistent way and perform analyses based on agreed questions for insights
  
• Facilitate and participate in team problem solving sessions and provide data insight and trends and analytics.
  
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to project sites for successful implementation of activities;
  
• Contribute to relevant stakeholder meetings to build knowledge and engage with key stakeholders in the region;
  
• Assist regional work streams in generating client reports internal reports and updated project reports/updates;
  
• Identify opportunities for continued professional development where this supports contribution to program delivery; and
  
• Any other duties as reasonable requested by the Regional Manager or Regional Director.
  
• The role may include national and international travel.
  

Reporting

The role reports to the Regional Manager Southeast Asiabased in Indonesia.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate has the following skills and attitudes:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in projects/programme development or management;
  
• Relevant experience in sustainability or markets/supply chains for agricultural or forest commodities associated with deforestation such as palm oil soya timber products etc
  
• Proven track record in working on projects or programmes involving local and regional stakeholder engagements and PPPs
  
• Experience in working with a broad range of stakeholders; facilitating and mainstreaming complex processes amongst civil society private sector and governments
  
• Demonstrated experience in outreach networking and partnership building across a range of stakeholders particularly in regard to the development of new innovative initiatives involving the private sector
  
• People skills with the ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary team members and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and cultures
  
• Ability to work flexibly and to tight deadlines maintaining consistently high standards and attention to detail
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Advanced Microsoft Office user (in particular PowerPoint and Excel)

Desirable

• Experience with FCDO-funded or other large international development programmes
  Fluency in Bahasa.

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race colour religion sex national origin age disability or genetics.

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority