Job Description

Project Officer, Southeast Asia

The Position

Palladium is
hiring a Project Officer to join the Southeast Asia team working on a
large-scale five-year global sustainable land-use programme funded by the
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

The Project Officer will be responsible for managing projects in
the Southeast Asia portfolio, supporting the region
achieve its goals and targets. The Project Officer will support the Regional
Manager, coordinating closely with other Project Officers in the region.

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

About
Palladium

Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and
deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the
globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build
enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to
address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over
90 countries and have a workforce of 3,200 talented, motivated, and diverse
staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.

Programme
context

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

IFSLU2 will run for 5 years from 1 February 2025. Depending on
performance and subject to funding, the programme may be extended for a further
5 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 P4F2’s mandate;
  
• Support project analysis and design to bring it to the right approval level at the programme’s
  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 Asia
based 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.