Program Overview
Launched in early 2014, WRI Indonesia builds on WRI's global 20-year history in the country and the official establishment of WRI Indonesia office has strengthened our impacts on the ground in recent years. Our current work primarily focuses on forest and land-use. Over time WRI Indonesia aims to expand its portfolio to include climate, energy, and city and transportation. In the last four years, WRI Indonesia is working with the demand side of the renewable energy sector and establish an initiative called the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA).
CEIA is an innovative public-private partnership initiative that aims to address barriers and scale up renewable energy (RE) deployment for commercial and industrial consumers in emerging markets. CEIA is jointly led by the World Resources Institute (WRI), Allotrope Partners, and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is supported by bilateral and philanthropic donors. Under the Climate Solution Project (CSP), on October 7th, 2022, CEIA Indonesia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the West Java Provincial Government to decarbonize West Java's industrial area including the Rebana Metropolitan.
Rebana Metropolitan is a national strategic industrial area planning mandated by the President under the President Regulation No. 87/2021. Rebana is located in the North/Northeast part of West Java that includes seven strategic regions, namely Sumedang, Majalengka, Cirebon, Subang, Indramayu, Kuningan, and Cirebon City. It is projected to be the driving force for West Java's economic growth in the future through the development of industrial areas that are integrated, innovative, collaborative, highly competitive, and sustainable.
In the MoU, one of our assistances covers a low-carbon development strategic analysis through industrial energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) technology, including electricity, heat, cooling, and steam, in one of the Rebana's industrial area namely Cipali Subang Barat. The knowledge products expected from our scope of assistance are a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for at least one of the most prominent sub-sectors of industry, technology mapping for the planned industrial sub-sector, investment analysis, and potential of financing scheme options and business models. Additionally, we're going to cover low-carbon technology mapping to building and transportation sector in the area.
Under the CSP as well, the CEIA has an on-going technical assistance to an apparel multinational brand on helping its supply chain partners to convert their coal boiler into sustainable biomass-sourced feedstock. The on-going project then escalated to a collaboration with Directorate of Bioenergy from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR) under the Directorate of Bioenergy Letter B-1156/KS.02/DEB.K/2023. To ensure the sustainability of the impact, we aim to create a biomass conversion guideline for industry, taking our project of the apparel brand as a study case, and a policy recommendation related to sustainable biomass indicator.
Job Highlight
As Energy Research Assistant, you will report to the Energy Manager and play a supporting role in the successful implementation of a project under the CEIA called: Low-Carbon Development of Rebana Metropolitan Area. You will perform as CEIA’s secondment in Dinas Penanaman Modal dan Pelayanan Terpadu Satu Pintu (DPMPTSP) Jawa Barat office and will intensely communicate with and provide assistant for Badan Pengurus (BP) Rebana. This position will be based in Bandung.
What You Will Do
Research (50%)
Management support (50%)
What You Will Need
Deliverables
Duration
1 June 2023 – 31 August 2023 (3 months)
Terms of Payment
Daily-rate based consultant maximum of 18 (eighteen) working days per month.
Contract Arrangement
Individual consultancy contract (Part-time, limited term)
What we offer
Must have authorization to work in Indonesia to be eligible for this position.
Final candidates might be required to take a writing test and to produce two writing samples when needed.
How to apply: In order to be formally considered, please submit an updated resume and cover letter through WRI career portal.
Application close: 17.00 (DKI Jakarta local time), 31 May 2023. We will close the advert earlier when the best candidates are identified at earlier dates.