**Responsibilities**:
- Build capacity of Indonesian cities to conserve, manage, and restore ecosystems, including communities affected by shared watersheds and managed systems such as peri-urban agricultural lands
- Improve municipal mechanisms to address societal challenges and climate change effectively and adaptively
- Coordinate local government stakeholders from urban and peri-urban areas within the same watershed to improve water resource management and flood prevention
- Provide technical assistance to target municipalities to develop, implement, and sustainably finance nature-based solutions that are most appropriate to the local urban system
- Design interventions to simultaneously conserve or restore natural urban habitats, improve biodiversity, and improve the quality of life for urban residents, for example, through peri-urban mangrove restoration, establishment of urban riparian wetlands, and use of urban green spaces to mitigate the effects of extreme weather and heat island conditions
- Conduct climate screening, profiles, and vulnerability assessments of select cities
**Qualifications**:
- Advanced degree in integrated water resources management,, urban planning, ecosystem restoration, or a related field preferred
- Minimum seven years of professional experience in international development
- Strong capabilities in nature-based solutions, preferably in the urban environment
- Experience strengthening municipal capacity to conserve, manage, and/or restore ecosystems
- Expertise conducting climate screening, profiles, and vulnerability assessments and designing nature-based interventions
- Strong ability to engage constructively and diplomatically with a wide range of government and non-governmental institutions, private sector actors, local civil society organizations, and local stakeholders with divergent perspectives and interests
- Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
- English and Indonesian language fluency required
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