Community Development Specialist

JOB SUMMARY
Sustainability is at the heart of Barry Callebaut. Forever Chocolate is our commitment to have more than 500,000 cocoa farmers in our supply chain lifted out of poverty, eradicate child labor from our supply chain, become carbon and forest positive and have 100% sustainable ingredients in all of our products. Cocoa farmer poverty and a lack of income hinders the hiring of professional workers and the utilization of mechanization, which often leads to reliance on family members, including children, to undertake work which is classified as child labor.
This role will be a key player to support the goal of Human Right pillar, including child protection, Income Generating Activity & VSLA.
In addition, this role also will support the Sustainability Team as the story teller of field activities on the ground.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
● Developing annual work plan per cocoa sustainability program together with Area Program Manager[s] on the Community Development implementation, including budget management, & setting strategy to achieve the target
● Regular monitoring in the project location(s) to ensure all the Community Development activity well implemented & have an improvement
● Reviewing & updating the SOP of CCPC, human right [assess & address], IGA & VSLA implementation in Indonesia
● Providing creative regular report, news & content (monthly/ quarterly/half year/ yearly) based on Customer Projects related to Community Development activities & if needed to support the other Customer report/news/ media content
● Starting/ maintaining the relationship with local & national level of government which relate to all of the Community Development activities
● Developing the internal communication which relate to individual Customer Projects, promote & encourage to our internal Sustainability Team to have better understanding & ownership on the implementation
● Promote, assist, encourage and monitor the Human Right implementation in all Customer Projects
● Capacity building of SCP[s] in all Customer Projects to ensure proper Human Right commitment process is well adopted by supply chain partners & BC stakeholders
REQUIRED ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
● Possess Bachelor from any major, preferable from Agriculture or Social science
● Fluent in both Bahasa Indonesia & English, written & spoken
● 3-5 years of working experience in agriculture community development (cocoa/ coffee/ palm oil) from the credible company/ NGO
● Having proper knowledge on the human right DD, and experienced on the IGA & VSLA
● Have an experienced as the community storyteller and social media content creator
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
● Willing to travel to the cocoa sustainability program location[s] regularly
● Based in Bandung

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE
● Solid knowledge & understanding of community development (social issue) in agriculture with farmer
● Expert in communication
● Expert in child protection, human right, income generating & VSLA activity within smallholder farmers/ community
TECHNICAL / FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
● Human right DD [national & worldwide; child protection & wellbeing, forced labor, discriminations, gender equality]
● IGA [income generating activity] & VSLA [village saving & loans association]
● Advance social media knowledge, content creator
● Project management, including manage the budget vs expense
● Visual communication [photograph, animation, etc.]
INTERPERSONAL / LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES
● Good coordinator, negotiation & communication skill
● Creative, initiative & agile in communicating with stakeholders (internal & external)
● Ability to analyze data & draw insight
● Good leader & team work
● Able to work under minimum supervision
PERSONAL STYLE / ATTITUDE / MOTIVATION
● Empathy & compassion, non-judgmental & positive attitude
● Persistent
● Creative thinking & problem solving ability
● Accountable
● Resilient