GESI Associate (Open to Internal and external candidates)

Tiered Approach

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• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
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Background

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. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous references and background checks. UNDP is the leading United Nations organization in fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planets. Learn more at undp.org or follow @UNDP.

Indonesia has made significant progress in advancing its climate commitments, as reflected in its Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 2.0) and the national Forest and Other Land Use (FOLU) Net Sink 2030 target. These commitments include ambitious emission reduction goals, relying heavily on reduced deforestation, strengthened forest governance, and enhanced restoration efforts. The Government has also strengthened its policy framework through Presidential Regulation No. 110/2025 on Carbon Economic Value, which provides the foundation for carbon trading, results-based finance, and other climate-related economic instruments.

Despite this progress, translating national commitments into effective and inclusive action at the subnational level remains a key challenge. There is a need to ensure that climate policies and interventions are gender-responsive and socially inclusive, recognizing the differentiated roles, needs, and contributions of women, men, and marginalized groups in forest and land-use management. Limited integration of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) considerations in planning, implementation, and monitoring processes can reduce the effectiveness, equity, and sustainability of climate actions.

Indonesia therefore requires stronger institutional capacity, clearer governance structures, improved coordination among ministries and local governments, and enhanced monitoring and safeguards that are inclusive and gender-responsive to ensure high-integrity implementation. Strengthening policy alignment, technical capacity, and evidence-based decision-making while systematically integrating GESI perspectives will be essential to accelerate the achievement of the FOLU Net Sink 2030 and support Indonesia’s long-term low-carbon and climate-resilient development pathway.

In parallel, UNDP Indonesia is implementing a Plastics Circularity Project, which aims to advance inclusive and sustainable plastics circularity in Indonesia by strengthening systems for plastic waste reduction, collection, reuse, recycling, and circular economy solutions. The project contributes to Indonesia’s broader environmental and low-carbon development priorities by addressing plastic pollution, improving resource efficiency, and promoting sustainable livelihoods across the plastics value chain.

Plastic waste management and circularity are strongly linked to gender equality and social inclusion. Women, informal waste workers, community groups, micro and small enterprises, youth, and other vulnerable groups play important roles in waste collection, sorting, recycling, reuse, and community-based behaviour change. However, these groups often face barriers related to recognition, decent work, access to finance, skills, occupational safety, participation in decision-making, and equitable benefit-sharing. Integrating GESI principles into plastics circularity interventions is therefore essential to ensure that project benefits are inclusive, risks are mitigated, and circular economy models support just and equitable outcomes.

In this context, the Gender and Social Inclusion Associate will play a critical role in supporting the integration of GESI principles across both CREDDIN and the Plastics Circularity Project. For CREDDIN, this includes supporting gender-responsive NDC implementation, REDD+ strategies, safeguards, and carbon market development. For the Plastics Circularity Project, this includes ensuring that plastic circularity interventions are inclusive, gender-responsive, and sensitive to the needs and contributions of informal workers, women-led enterprises, communities, youth, and marginalized groups involved in the plastics value chain.

Duties and Responsibilities

The GESI Associate will report directly to both the National Project Coordinator of CREDDIN and the National Project Manager of the Plastics Circularity Project, by working in close coordination with relevant project team members. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting project implementation, monitoring, data collection, results tracking, safeguards, and preparation of progress reports across both projects, ensuring compliance with UNDP gender, social inclusion, and safeguards requirements. The GESI Associate will collaborate closely with the UNDP Indonesia Gender Focal Point, Country Office programme and operations teams, government counterparts, civil society, private sector actors, and community stakeholders to ensure timely reporting, quality assurance, and effective implementation of gender-responsive and socially inclusive project activities.

Support the GESI integration Lead technical inputs to the integration of GESI into implementation, monitoring and reporting systems for REDD+ and NDC implementation at national and subnational levels, contributing to high-integrity climate actions:

• Conduct and document GESI and safeguard reviews of project documents to ensure compliance with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards (SES), safeguards, and national regulations prior to approval;
• Provide technical advice on the development and implementation of gender-responsive monitoring and reporting frameworks, including integration of GESI indicators into project log frames and MRV systems;
• Contribute to the development of gender-sensitive measurement methodologies, including identification of sex-disaggregated and socially inclusive data sources for tracking project performance and impact;
• Support baseline assessments, surveys, and progress monitoring by ensuring inclusive sampling approaches, gender-disaggregated data collection, and participatory methodologies;
• Facilitate the integration of GESI considerations into REDD+ implementation, carbon market mechanisms (including blue carbon and social forestry), and subnational NDC tracking;
• Support regular monitoring of project implementation to assess inclusiveness, participation, and equitable benefit-sharing, and flag risks related to exclusion or inequality;
• Coordinate with project teams and stakeholders to ensure inclusive monitoring processes, including engagement of women, youth, and indigenous communities.
• Support the integration of GESI considerations into plastics circularity activities, including plastic waste reduction, collection, sorting, recycling, reuse, circular business models, community engagement, and value-chain strengthening;
• Ensure that the role and needs of informal waste workers, women, youth, community groups, MSMEs, and marginalized groups are reflected in project design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting; and,
• Provide GESI inputs to assessments, stakeholder consultations, value-chain analyses, and project activities under the Plastics Circularity Project.

Support Gender-Responsive Reporting and Compliance

Ensure that project reporting reflects inclusive, transparent, and gender-responsive implementation:

• Provide technical GESI analysis and inputs for of quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports with integrated GESI analysis, in line with UNDP, donor, and government requirements.
• Provide inputs for Project Board meetings, audits, and donor reporting, ensuring inclusion of gender equality and social inclusion dimensions;
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of gender-related results, including progress on gender mainstreaming and safeguards implementation;
• Maintain proper documentation of gender analysis, GESI action plans, and safeguards compliance, and corrective actions.
• Strengthen reporting systems to capture qualitative and quantitative evidence on inclusive participation and equitable outcomes.
• Provide GESI analysis and inputs for progress reports, donor reports, knowledge products, and project board materials related to the Plastics Circularity Project;
• Track and document gender-responsive and socially inclusive results in plastics circularity interventions, including participation, access to benefits, capacity development, and livelihood-related outcomes.

Support Knowledge Building and Capacity Development on GESI

Promote knowledge generation and capacity strengthening on gender-responsive climate action:

• Contribute technical expertise to the design and delivery of capacity-building activities for government and stakeholders on integrating GESI into NDC, REDD+, MRV, and carbon market implementation;
• Contribute to the development of knowledge products, including case studies, policy briefs, and lessons learned on gender-responsive climate governance;
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and learning across stakeholders, including participation in communities of practice and learning platforms;
• Support documentation and dissemination of best practices on inclusive climate action, particularly in social forestry and community-based approaches;
• Promote awareness and application of GESI principles among project staff and partners.
• Support capacity-building activities on inclusive plastics circularity, including gender-responsive approaches to waste management, circular economy, occupational safety, community engagement, and inclusive livelihood development; and,
• Contribute to documentation of lessons learned and good practices on GESI integration in plastics circularity and circular economy programming.

Support Inclusive Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement

Strengthen partnerships to promote inclusive and equitable climate governance:

• Support stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies to ensure representation of women, youth, indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups;
• Facilitate inclusive consultations and dialogue processes, including application of FPIC principles where relevant;
• Support collaboration with government, civil society, academia, and development partners to advance gender-responsive climate policies and programmes;
• Contribute GESI inputs to resource mobilization efforts, proposals, and donor engagement.
• Support inclusive stakeholder engagement with actors in the plastics circularity ecosystem, including government, private sector, recyclers, waste banks, informal waste workers, women’s groups, MSMEs, civil society, and community organizations; and,
• Facilitate inclusive consultation processes to ensure that women, informal workers, youth, and marginalized groups can meaningfully participate in project planning and implementation.

Ensure Compliance with Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Principles

The incumbent is expected to uphold and promote GESI principles across all activities:

• Ensure that gender equality, human rights, and social inclusion are prioritized as core principles in all interventions;
• Ensure alignment with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards (SES) and relevant safeguards frameworks;
• Promote respect for diversity across gender, age, ethnicity, disability, and socio-economic background in all project activities and data processes;
• Ensure gender parity and inclusive participation in meetings, trainings, and decision-making processes;
• Support the creation of accessible and enabling environments, addressing barriers related to language, disability, and social norms;
• Ensure that differentiated needs, roles, and contributions of women and men are systematically considered in programme design and implementation.
• Advise project teams on GESI related risks, mitigation measures, and corrective actions throughout the project cycle

The incumbent may perform other duties within the functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Organization.

Competencies

Core Competencies

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pay attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• • Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross functional and technical competencies

Digital

• Data analysis - Ability to extract, analyze and visualize data to form meaningful insights and aid effective business decision making
• Data Collection - Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data).
• Digital Data Engineering Ability

2030 Agenda: Engagement and Effectiveness

• Innovation - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Portfolios

2030 Agenda- people

• Gender:
• Gender and Intersectional Analysis
• Monitoring and Evaluation on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

External Relations and Advocacy Partnership management

• CSO engagement - Knowledge and understanding of CSOs and the ability to engage with CSOs

Business management

• Risk Management - Identify and organize action around reducing, mitigating and proactively managing risks

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Secondary Education is required. OR
• University degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in Gender Study; Sustainable Development, Social Science, or another related field will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years (with Secondary Education) or 4 years (with Bachelor Degree) of relevant experience in Gender & policy analysis

Required skills

• Proven Ability to work in a team
• Good inter-personal and communications skills/experience.
• Experience supporting project especially with technical expertise in Gender & policy analysis will be required

Desired skills

• Experience and good knowledge on Indonesia’s policies and national priorities on climate change
• Experience and knowledge on the current development on innovative policy making
• Strong knowledge and professional experience in environmental issues, particularly REDD+ implementation, NDC, Carbon Market, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience in project implementation, monitoring and evaluation including coordination with government institutions, cross-ministerial bodies e.g. Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Environment or key stakeholders and
• Experience working with UNDP or other UN agencies and/or international organizations and/or major donor agencies will be an advantage.
• Solid experience in data collection and analysis especially in gender and policy and in the area of environmental issues would be advantage

Required Languages

• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia (writing and speaking) is required

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination.

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles.

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