INDONESIA FOREST CARBON TRUST FUND Deputy Trust Fund Manager (Co-term/ETC) Terms of Reference
INDONESIA FOREST CARBON TRUST FUND
Deputy Trust Fund Manager (Co-term/ETC)
Terms of Reference
Background
The Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The Governments of Indonesia and Australia are co-operating through the Indonesia-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership to test and demonstrate approaches to REDD. The Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) is a major activity under this program with a total budget of Am over four years. A fully elaborated project design document is available for review. The KFCP aims to demonstrate approaches to the effective management and conservation of tropical peat swamp forests; and to demonstrate how REDD can be incorporated in a post-2012 outcome on climate change, by testing innovative, market-oriented approaches to REDD financing and REDD implementation measures. The KFCP is intended to be scalable up to a total cost of $A100 million in the event that additional resourcing becomes available from other donors.
The KFCP, with the Australian Government funding indicated above, will be implemented within a single peat dome of approximately 130,000 ha in the northern part of the Ex Mega Rice Project (EMRP) area in Central Kalimantan. The northern half of the dome is covered by relatively intact peat swamp forest. The southern part of the area is heavily degraded. Canals constructed to support the Mega Rice Project, and secondary canals constructed by the local population for other purposes, are steadily draining the area, resulting in the ongoing oxidation of peat and increasing fire risk and incidence in the area.
World Bank Trust Fund. A trust fund, under impartial management, is considered necessary to provide credibility to incentive payment schemes tested through the KFCP, and also to provide certainty as to the long-term nature of the income stream. Consequently, direct management of the funds earmarked for this part of the project by a project management company or government ministry has been ruled out as an option.
A range of trust fund options have been assessed. Robust, impartial and credible governance to international standards is a pre-requisite. Independence from agencies likely to receive incentive payments is also critical. Involving the World Bank as trustee is seen to be the best way of achieving these objectives. The Bank’s long-standing presence in Indonesia and well-established and long-term engagement on environmental issues is also important, as is the Bank’s track record in undertaking catalytic actions to pioneer and establishing markets for environmental services.
Goals and Outcomes. The trust fund’s goal is to finance incentive payments for sustainable practices at different stages of the design and implementation of the KFCP, through payments distribution mechanisms to be designed as an activity under the KFCP. Outcomeswill include reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the KFCP site, lessons and a working model for the effective management and conservation of tropical peat forests, with potential application throughout Indonesia’s extensive peat lands, and co-benefits in the form of livelihood options, biodiversity conservation, reduced health impacts and economic losses from smoke, and clarified land tenure and property rights for local communities.
Investments for readiness and incentives to encourage sustainable practices would be financed primarily through grants to Indonesia-based partners and institutions. Incentives will take three forms:
- Input-based: immediate remuneration or other direct benefits linked to adopting and implementing interventions, such as building dams, planting trees, supplying dam-building and tree-planting operations, or eliminating fire use on peat soils.
- Performance-based: annual payments for sustaining interventions so as to achieve the desired results, such as maintaining dams to keep water levels high, protecting forest from encroachment, or reducing the incidence and extent of fire.
- Outcome-based: payments commensurate with greenhouse gas emissions reductions, initially as a proxy for a future forest carbon market but later based on tradable credits in a real market.
During the earliest stages of the project, incentive payments will be exclusively input-based, and relate to the activities required to support the stabilization and rehabilitation of the KFCP site. This includes the construction of small dams to block drainage canals that were constructed by the EMRP and which are draining the area, heightening the risk of fire; reforestation activities; livelihood interventions; and fire management activities. Some investment and readiness costs associated with these interventions will also be financed through the trust fund.
General Description
The Deputy Trust Fund Manager assists the Task Team Leader (TTL) with all responsibilities related to managing the trust fund and provides technical advice on issues related to reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). The person will report to Joe Leitmann (TTL based in Washington, DC), and will work under the close supervision and guidance of Tim Brown, the EASIS environment coordinator (based in Jakarta). S/he will coordinate with service units and liaise frequently with team members of the Rural and Environment Unit as well as external partners. The position will be either two-year coterminous (with probation and possibility of extension) or an Extended Term Consultancy (ETC) for a local (Indonesian) professional.
Summary of Job Responsibilities
ü Providing technical inputs on aspects of REDD, e.g. for supervision missions, design of payment mechanisms and establishment of the monitoring system
ü Liaising on a regular basis with the trust fund donor (AusAID) and other partners (central and local government agencies, NGOs, communities, grant recipients, etc.)
ü Coordinating with internal partners (Financial management, Procurement and Safeguards teams; Rural and Environment Unit staff; WBOJ focal point for Central Kalimantan; etc.)
ü Providing support to ensure the smooth operation of the trust fund’s Management Committee (assembling the agenda, managing meeting logistics, ensuring that minutes are taken, posting information on the web)
ü Drafting reports on the trust fund (annual report, quarterly financial reports, others as required)
ü Ensuring that the Bank-executed activities of the trust fund are properly scheduled, processed and accounted for
ü Participating in and occasionally leading supervision missions for the recipient-executed activities of the trust fund
ü Monitoring and following up to ensure that transactions are processed in a timely and efficient manner, e.g. grant agreements, consultant hiring, contracting
ü Assisting the Rural and Environment Unit generally with issues related to REDD, forestry and climate change
Essential Qualifications
ü A Master’s degree or above in Forestry, Environmental Management, Natural Resource Management, Climate Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline
ü At least five years of relevant work experience in forestry, environmental management, climate change, financial management, natural resource management, and/or trust funds
ü Applied knowledge of the World Bank's organization, relevant business practice and procedures, especially as related to trust funds
ü Effective time management and organizational skills
ü Demonstrated initiative and resourcefulness
ü Committed team player with demonstrated inter-personal skills and ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment
ü Excellent spoken and written Indonesian and English
ü Ability to act in the absence of the TTL to resolve issues
ü Ability to produce high-quality work under pressure
Organization's Name: World Bank
Organization's Website: www.worldbank.org/id
Post Title/Position: Deputy Trust Fund Manager (REDD payments mechanism)
Link to Vacancy Announcement: (See attached file: IFC TF Deputy Manager TOR.docx)
Duty Station: Jakarta, Indonesia
Deadline for Applications: March 18, 2010
Contact Person: Dr. Joe Leitmann, jleitmann@worldbank.org
Special Requirements: locally hired position; preference is for an Indonesian national
