In 2010, Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara (YKAN), previously TNC Indonesia Program, began testing SIGAP (Aksi Inspiratif Warga untuk Perubahan (SIGAP) or Inspiring Community Actions for Change) in two villages in Berau, East Kalimantan. Since 2010 onward, intensive SIGAP facilitation has been carried out in 2 villages (Merabu and Long Duhung). The SIGAP approach will be replicated in other landscape in East Kalimantan and throughout Indonesia.

District Community Engagement Officer supports the implementation of SIGAP approach in Mahakam Ulu District under USAID Indonesia Sustainable Environmental Governance Across Regions (SEGAR) program. The program is anticipated to run from 2021 –2026.

District Community Engagement Officer is responsible for implementing and achieving SIGAP replication and scale up by overseeing and representing YKAN in engagements with relevant stakeholders, especially in YKAN’s priority villages in Mahakam Ulu district.

This might include one or more of the following functions:

• Implement plans and strategies for community engagements in community-based natural resource management.
• Technical assistance of the local facilitators in YKAN’s priority SIGAP replication villages.
• Coordinate  cross-site learning events among the conservation communities and the capacity building program with local facilitators/partners and/or YKAN’s team.
• Supply an environmentally friendly district planning team with information for location portfolios.
• Develop and implement innovative scientific methods, analysis, tools, and frameworks to meaningfully engage communities and other stakeholders in the development of an environmentally friendly community economy.
• Use various tools to obtain various levels of legal interest in land and implement various strategies to get public and private support for YKAN conservation priorities.
• Implement YKAN strategic goals for jurisdictional as well as landscape conservation and protection.
• Coordinate support in community initiatives to take part in land use conservation, climate change mitigation, livelihood development, etc.
• Connect community institutions with government, village, sub-district and district levels, private companies, NGOs, etc.
• Carry out support for implementation of community-based high conservation area (HCV) management plans.
• Organise and facilitate meetings, trainings, and workshops at the community level.
• Collect, document and analyze various types of data and information related to the development of environmentally friendly livelihoods especially in the YKAN’s priority villages at district level..
• Coordinate technical and logistical supports during fieldworks and fieldtrips, etc.