About this role
Tiered Approach
In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:
- 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.
- Tier 1 : Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
- Tier 2 : UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
- Tier 3 or no tier indicated : All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates
Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.
Background
UNDP is the United Nations’ lead agency on international development, working in 170 countries and territories to help people build better lives while protecting the planet. For 60 years, UNDP has supported countries to make progress on the issues that matter most, with human development at the core of its mandate. Our work is built on trust and long-term partnerships with governments, communities and organizations at every level.
UNDP Indonesia works with Indonesian partners to deliver an ambitious programme, fully aligned to the national priorities of Indonesia. The strategic priorities of UNDP Indonesia through its Country Programme 2026 -2030 are encapsulated under three outcome areas:
(1) Human Development
(2) Nature, Decarbonization and Resilience
(3) Economic and Digital Transformation
Operating in a Middle-Income Country brings its own set of complexities and opportunities. With 70% of the Indonesian economy directly or indirectly reliant on its natural resources, the link between nature, climate, jobs, and economic empowerment become critical. UNDP’s past experiences and support include innovative sustainable financing, digital health, energy transition and climate policies, improved service delivery that leaves no one behind. Enablers and multipliers such as digitalization and Artificial Intelligence are at the core of its efforts. Building on its vast and long experiences, and the knowledge of its entire team of professionals, UNDP Indonesia demonstrate its thought-leadership and translate knowledge into policy advice, investment opportunities and scalable solutions for Indonesia’s critical development priorities
The Food Systems, Land Use and Restoration (FOLUR) Indonesia Project is a Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded initiative implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the leadership of the Coordinating Ministry for Food Affairs. The project promotes sustainable commodity production, responsible land use, landscape restoration and biodiversity conservation through an integrated landscape approach. Focusing on key commodities, including palm oil, cocoa, coffee and rice, the project aims to strengthen sustainable value chains, reduce deforestation, enhance multi-stakeholder collaboration and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and local communities.
The Sustainable Landscape Programme Indonesia (SLPI) Phase II, supported by the Government of Switzerland through the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), is implemented in partnership with the Government of Indonesia and relevant landscape partners, with UNDP providing programme-level coordination and technical support. The programme aims to advance sustainable landscape management, responsible commodity production, forest conservation and inclusive rural development by strengthening landscape governance, promoting sustainable land-use practices and fostering collaboration among government institutions, private sector actors and local communities.
Both FOLUR and SLPI share complementary objectives in promoting sustainable commodity systems, strengthening landscape governance, facilitating multi-stakeholder partnerships and advancing environmentally sustainable and inclusive development. To support effective implementation, results monitoring and evidence-based decision-making across both initiatives, UNDP seeks to recruit a Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Management (MEKM) Analyst (NPSA-8). The Analyst will provide technical support to the development and implementation of project monitoring and evaluation frameworks, results-based reporting, data collection and analysis, knowledge management and learning activities. Working closely with the respective project teams and implementing partners, and relevant teams in the Country Office the Analyst will contribute to consistent monitoring of project performance, documentation and dissemination of results and lessons learned, and adaptive management, while ensuring alignment with each project's results framework, reporting requirements and applicable UNDP standards.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Management (MEKM) Analyst will work under the overall day to day supervision of the Project Manager (matrix supervision), and report to the Programme Manager of the relevant NLCD cluster head. S/he will work in close coordination with project teams, implementing partners, government counterparts, and UNDP corporate functions.
The incumbent will serve as the portfolio focal point for monitoring, evaluation, reporting, knowledge management, and learning across the FOLUR and SLPI portfolios, ensuring the quality, consistency, and timely delivery of results-based management processes and products.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Knowledge Management Analyst (MEKM) will lead the strategic direction and implementation of the portfolio's M&E, reporting, and learning workflows, focusing on the achievement of the following results:
1. Provision of support to the implementation and refinement of the Knowledge Management (KM) & Learning Strategy, focusing on the achievement of the following results:
- Drive the ongoing implementation and adaptation of the project's KM and Learning Strategy to meet evolving project needs;
- Design and implement a systematic protocol for capturing, documenting, and archiving innovations, field experiences, and lessons learned continuously across the five target landscapes to prevent the loss of institutional knowledge;
- Act as the centralized focal point for all KM functions, establishing efficient data collection and knowledge-sharing workflows that relieve technical and management personnel from KM administrative burdens and allow them to focus on technical oversight;
- Establish, organize, and maintain digital knowledge repositories and databases to ensure all project-related information and knowledge products are systematically archived and readily accessible, in close collaboration with the UNDP Communications Unit, as well as the Management and Performance Oversight Unit;
- Facilitate adaptive management processes by ensuring that lessons learned and evidence from project activities are continuously captured and integrated into project planning and decision-making;
- Act as the coordinator for knowledge flows and information exchange between project partners, government stakeholders, and other relevant UNDP initiatives.
2. Coordinate on the development and dissemination of strategic knowledge products, focusing on the achievement of the following results. All of the expected results require close consultation and guidance from the UNDP Communications Unit:
- Support the development and dissemination of knowledge products, including policy briefs, case studies, lessons learned, best practice publications, articles, and knowledge notes;
- Compile, analyze, and synthesize project data, monitoring information, evaluation findings, and field evidence to identify key trends, lessons learned, and good practices;
- Translate project results, technical information, and field experiences into clear, evidence-based knowledge products and impact stories for internal and external audiences;
- Contribute to the preparation and quality assurance of reports, communication materials, donor updates, and knowledge products, ensuring consistency and accuracy of information;
- Support the development of multimedia and digital content that showcases project achievements, results, and lessons learned;
- Assist in documenting, packaging, and organizing methodologies, tools, manuals, and other knowledge assets to facilitate knowledge sharing, replication, and sustainability;
- Support knowledge-sharing events, learning exchanges, and dissemination activities involving project stakeholders, partners, and beneficiaries;
- Provide analytical and knowledge management inputs to project reporting, donor reporting, communications products, and learning activities.
3. Strengthen learning, capacity development, and knowledge exchange, focusing on the achievement of the following results:
- Design, organize, and facilitate a variety of learning events, including technical workshops, peer-to-peer exchanges, and webinars for project staff and stakeholders;
- Identify opportunities and coordinate knowledge-sharing initiatives to leverage expertise and lessons from other regions and projects;
- Foster and support communities of practice around key thematic areas of the project to encourage continuous learning and collaboration.
4. Avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:
- Human rights and gender equality are prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
- Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;
- Any kind of diversity based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production;
- Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;
- Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;
- Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Competencies
Core Competencies
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays 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: LEVEL 1: 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
Business Management
- Results Based Management:
Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
- Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.
- Monitoring & Evaluation:
Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively;
- Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results.
- Ability to make independent judgment of the management and results of strategies, programmes and activities based on set criteria and benchmark, keeping in mind the needs and concerns of client, current and upcoming.
- Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, concepts, methodologies, systems, processes, and tools.
- Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks.
- Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.
Digital
- Portfolio Design & Manage
Ability to identify leverage points in systems and design interventions that address them.
- The value of the interventions is determined not in isolation, but as part of the overall portfolio and their coherence.
- Ability to design processes that extract learning on an ongoing basis from existing portfolios, so that learning accrues over time and new options for action are continuously generated.
- Build a learning ecosystem around a complex development challenge: being able to mobilise a variety of stakeholders and help them learn and work together.
- Understand key principles of systems and complexity theory.
- Data Storytelling and Communications
Skilled in building a narrative around a set of data and its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that data in a powerful and compelling fashion.
2030 Agenda : Peace
- Gender: Gender and Environment
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Knowledge Management, Communications, Journalism, International Development, Environmental/Social Sciences, Public Policy, or related fields is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor´s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of master´s degree.
Experience:
- Applicants with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in the field of knowledge management, communications, learning and capacity development, or monitoring and reporting, preferably within the sustainable agriculture, environment, natural resource management, or climate change sectors.
Desired Skills:
- Experience working with a multidisciplinary and multicultural team;
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages;
- Experience in managing/coordinating development projects or providing technical expertise at UNDP and/or other UN agencies;
- Experience working in sustainable agriculture / natural resource management / climate-related projects;
- Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, or adapting comprehensive Knowledge Management (KM) strategies e.g. establishing protocols for data capture or managing digital knowledge repositories;
- Proven track record of experience in the end-to-end production (writing, editing, quality assurance) of strategic knowledge products or multimedia content;
- Experience in translating complex field data/ project evidence into targeted policy advocacy products, coupled with experience executing effective dissemination strategies;
- Demonstrated experience in designing, organizing/ facilitating interactive capacity-building activities/ technical workshops, peer-to-peer exchanges/ communities of practice;
- Experience in project evaluations, analysis and preparation of evidence-based narrative impact stories/ donor reports;
- Experience in curating, packaging, or producing scalable knowledge assets designed to support project replication and long-term sustainability;
- Experience record of writing, editing, and producing high-quality analytical reports/ technical case studies/ evidence-based impact stories.
Required Language(s):
- Fluency in English and Indonesian 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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