THOH
Thailand Operations Hub (THOH) is a UNOPS business unit under the UNOPS
Asia Regional Office and it was established to better support, develop and
oversee the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific.
The Hub comprises three main portfolios
–THOH Thailand, THOH Indonesia and THOH Pacific and provides a wide range of
services including Project Management, Transactional HR, Financial, and
Procurement to clients that include other UN entities, INGOs and
governments/government agencies donors.
BRG Results
Enabling Facility (BRG REF)
Seasonal peatland fires are now
compromising Indonesia’s economic and social development by creating
considerable threats to health, the environment, and the economy. In 2015 peat
fires and their related haze resulted in the hospitalization of more than half
a million people due to acute respiratory infections. These fires that raged
through 2.6 million hectares of forest and peatland areas in the islands of
Kalimantan and Sumatra released 1.6 Gts of CO2e, surpassing the annual CO2
emissions of advanced industrialized nations such as Germany, France, and
others. Direct and indirect damages cost the Indonesian national economy an
estimated USD 16 billion, about 2% of its annual GDP.
In recognition of the importance of
peatlands for biodiversity
conservation, water resource management, reducing forest and land fires,
livelihood support for local communities and carbon storage, the Government of Indonesia
through Presidential Regulation No 1/2016 constituted the Peatland Restoration
Agency (BRG). BRG has an important mandate: prevent forest fires, especially in
peatland areas, as well as restore 2 million hectares of peatlands devastated
by forest and land fires. The Agency identified 7 target provinces for peatland
restoration and fire prevention activities in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West
Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Papua.
Since its establishment in 2016, Norway
has been supporting BRG, as current support to the BRG by the Norwegian
Government falls within the wider partnership between Norway and Indonesia
established in 2010 through the Letter of Intent (LOI) to reduce emissions from
deforestation and land degradation of forests and peatlands. The support is
part of an international climate mitigation initiative (UNFCCC) supported
programme that uses international aid to counter forest degradation in various
parts of the world, and this is one of the largest ever contribution made to
reduce deforestation.
In the framework of this background,
Norway and BRG have asked UNOPS to develop a flexible multiyear administrative
support mechanism for managing Norway’s financial support to BRG through the
establishment of the BRG Results Enabling Facility (BRG REF). The mechanism has within its scope an
Implementation Support Mechanism that focuses internally within BRG, providing
a technical and advisory support mechanism aimed at strengthening BRG’s
capacities to deliver on its mandate.
UNOPS THOH is hiring for the position of
Peatland and Knowledge Management Specialist. Reporting to the Head of the Implementation Support Unit (ISU), the Peatland and Knowledge Management Specialist shall ensure that advice and support provided by the ISU will be
technically sound, aligned with BRG’s mandate and ensure that technical peatland
knowledge is well managed and accessible within the ISU and BRG.