VACANCY
Chemonics International Inc.
Newly awarded USAID BIJAK Project (Bangun Indonesia Untuk Jaga Alam Demi Keberlanjutan)

Position:
Advocacy Campaign and
Social Marketing Technical Associate
Date of Hire: July 18^th,
2016 (adjustable)
Type: Fixed-term employment
Period: 2 years (with possible
extension)

Project
Overview

USAID’s BIJAK (Bangun
Indonesia Untuk Jaga Alam Demi Keberlanjutan) is a Jakarta-based, five-year
project implemented by Chemonics International. The overarching objective of
USAID’s BIJAK project is to address the constellation of market forces,
financial incentives, policy levers, social norms and values driving
deforestation and biodiversity loss in order to promote enduring changes in
individual and organizational behavior which reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and conserve valuable marine and terrestrial biodiversity. To realize
this object, BIJAK will work through national instruments and systems to impact
the following:

• Number
  of national level laws, policies, regulations, decrees, procedures, or fiscal
  and budgetary practices reformed, revised, adopted and/or applied with USG
  assistance in order to reduce GHG emissions, reduce wildlife trafficking, and
  conserve valuable terrestrial and marine biodiversity.
• Improved
  capacity and willingness of Indonesian institutions and organizations to
  address biodiversity conservation, especially wildlife trafficking, and climate
  change as a result of USG assistance
• Number
  of businesses engaged in extensive land-use practices, especially palm oil,
  developing green business practices and sharing them widely with others in
  their industry with USG assistance.
• Amount
  of investment leveraged in USD from private and public sources for biodiversity
  conservation and/or climate change as a result of USG assistance
• Public
  opinion and behaviors changed as a result of advocacy campaigns developed and
  implemented with USG support to support targeted terrestrial and marine
  biodiversity conservation and low carbon development issues.
• Model(s)
  for successful low emissions development and forest conservation developed and
  shared with USG assistance at all levels of government and with other key
  stakeholders.

Position
Responsibilities

• Supports
  the Resource Rights, Governance and Policy Reform Specialist in designing and
  implementing a strategy that strengthens and sustains the effort of civil
  society organizations to  reduce
  emissions and conserve biodiversity.
• Liaises
  and collaborates with a host of civil society organizations and government
  stakeholders to help build a coalition of support behind strategic
  environmental policy reforms
• Monitors
  the activities of subcontractors and grantees pertaining to environmental
  advocacy campaigns and social marketing.

Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced
  degree in communications, social marketing, public relations, environment
  policy, or a related field
• Minimum
  of five years of relevant professional experience in Indonesia doing strategic
  communications, implementing advocacy campaigns through mass media and social
  networks, and building coalitions across civil society groups, preferably for environmental
  causes.
• Demonstrated
  commitment to environmental values
• Fluent
  in Bahasa Indonesia; excellent written and oral communications in English
• Demonstrated leadership, versatility and integrity

Instructions

If you are interested
and qualified for the Advocacy Campaign and Social Marketing Technical Associate
position on BIJAK, please send your latest CV to bijakrecruit@chemonics.com by July 12, 2016. Early submissions
encouraged. Please note the title of
the position you are applying for in your submission email.