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Position/Jabatan : Conservation Management Officer
Program : Sumatra
Based in/Lokasi : Bogor
Line Manager/Manajer Lini : Conservation Program Coordinato

Background:

A partnership of prominent conservation NGOs, led by WCS, has developed the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), to provides a platform to standardize the collection, management, evaluation, and communication of patrol-based monitoring data, such as from protected areas. It is aimed at improving ranger and eco-guard based crime prevention patrolling-and thus the quality and accountability of on-the-ground law enforcement efforts, facilitating adaptive management by government authorities. SMART is currently being rolled out across 31 sites across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

In Indonesia, WCS’s strategic approach is to use SMART as a tool to encourage Indonesia national parks to improve management practices and systems, with the aim of curbing forest and wildlife crimes in key landscapes. This is currently being rolled out in Gunung Leuser, Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary, Way Kambas National park and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in Sumatra and the national-level with DG KSDAE (Ministry of Environment and Forestry).

WCS is now scaling up its implementation of SMART in Sumatra. In Sumatra WCS will scale up its existing work on SMART in four conservation areas – Way Kambas NP, Bukit Barisan Selatan NP, Gunung Leuser NP, and Rawa Singkil Wildlife Sanctuary. For further spread implementation of SMART in national level, WCS will facilitate capacity improvement in priority site such as in Sulawesi and other sites. In order to mainstream Management Information System, SMART should be adopted officially by government (DG KSDAE). Best practices from SMART application in several conservation areas should be mainstreamed over Indonesia. Conservation Management Officer will work with Conservation Program Coordinator to urge stakeholders and KSDAE to adapt, adopt, and regulate SMART as one of the CA management information system.

Conservation Management Officer will be required to support the implementation of SMART in key landscapes in Indonesia, under the supervision of Conservation Program Coordinator in collaboration with respective landscape program managers. This will involve supporting National Parks and private sector partners in the adoption of SMART, delivering training, accompanying patrols, establishing a SMART database and by advising on the planning, management and monitoring of implementation.

Rules and Responsibilities:

  1. Work closely with Conservation Program Coordinator as line manager and respective landscape managers (in Sumatra) with immediate focus to finalize best practices of SMART system application in WCS focal National Parks in Sumatra and its next development. 
  2. Work with National SMART Working Group and key stakeholders to integrate SMART into KSDAE’s resort-based management approach and management information system.  
  3. Compile and analyze SMART data, and ensure that data is collected in a way which meets the standard required for the database to support donor and official report development as well as thematic analysis as needed.  
  4. Monitor and evaluate implementation of the SMART and SMART CONNECT in priority landscapes within WCS’s sites through direct and indirect ways.  
  5. Support or facilitate training activities related to SMART, including training government officers and partners, within the national parks in the WCS-IP working area and beyond.  
  6. Prepare activity reports and assist in preparing financial reports as required y donors and/or stakeholders, in Indonesian or English, written or verbal, as well as submitting regular technical reports to Program Manager and Conservation Program Coordinator and the respective landscape managers as well as thematic analysis  
  7. Provide technical and facilitating support to meetings, seminars, workshops and public outreach activities as required and formally represent WCS as necessary in such meetings, workshops and conferences in Jakarta and Bogor  
  8. Support SMART data base officer to collect and manage all of the spatial data that come from SMART WRU.

Please note that the above TOR constitutes only the main responsibilities and duties of this position. As WCS-IP is a flexible organization, staff members are expected to undertake any other tasks that are allocated to them but which are not part of their regular TOR.

Within first six month periods , Conservation Management Officer will give priority deliverables such as:

Status of the development of SIDAk and Sitroom in DG KSDAE 2. Best practice of the SMART implementation in Sumatra 3. Report related to the adoption process of the SMART to the KSDAE policy, related to Resort-based management and management information system by monthly 4. Regular support to the report development (donor, official, and thematic analysis) monthly 5. Work remotely with landscape to monitor progress of SMART patrol and its monthly

Applications

Please send a covering letter and CV in English to idrecruitment@wcs.org no late than 31 August 2020, stating in the subject line “Conservation Management Officer_(name)”. Please also include a portfolio of your previous work or links to blogs or galleries online. No correspondence, only short-listed candidates will be notified.