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 climate change mitigation, 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 with USD 1 billion over the next few years. The USD 1 billion 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 a back-office management component
and a service, procurement, grants management and a delivery component.
UNOPS THOH is hiring
for the position of Human Resources (HR) Assistant. Reporting to HR Analyst, the
Human Resources Assistant is responsible for providing support to HR services
under the BRG-REG and UNOPS Indonesia office while ensuring high quality of
work, accurate, timely and properly recorded/documented service delivery. The
incumbent shall promote client-orientation and consistency with rules and
regulations approach in the Unit.
The HR Assistant
works in close collaboration with the BRG-REF personnel, Indonesia Programme
personnel, THOH Support Services team and with UNOPS HQ staff to exchange
information and ensure consistent service delivery.