Junior Economist Consultancy

Project period

Project period
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July 2026 – September 2027 (15 months)

Location
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Jakarta, with domestic field missions across three priority seascapes

Yayasan Strategi Konservasi Indonesia (YSKI) is the Indonesian representation of Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF) Global, an international non‑profit organisation with over 25 years of experience applying economic analysis to support environmental conservation and sustainable development. In Indonesia, YSKI leads capacity‑building, impact assessment, and conservation finance work across fisheries, coastal, and terrestrial ecosystems, in close collaboration with government agencies, NGOs, universities, and local communities.

YSKI leads the socio‑economic, governance, and data components of the National Impact Monitoring Programme, a 15‑month baseline study covering 58 grantee organisations spread across 12 provinces and three priority seascapes. The programme will produce a comprehensive T0 baseline that serves as the reference point for measuring the long‑term social, economic, and governance changes generated by the TFCCA programme.

The two Junior Economist positions are the core technical staff supporting this work, sharing responsibility for socio‑economic analysis, outcome mapping and qualitative assessment, governance scoring, data management, and internal project monitoring and evaluation.

• Design, pilot, and implement household and community surveys to collect baseline socio‑economic data, including livelihood, income, and community well‑being indicators.
• Process and analyse quantitative datasets: data cleaning, descriptive statistics, cross‑tabulations, and projections; maintain well‑documented, audit‑ready data files.
• Participate in field missions to grantee sites and sentinel locations to facilitate surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews.
• Prepare analytical summaries and data tables as inputs to quarterly reports and the final T0 baseline report.

• Translate grantee activities and documented outputs into structured outcome statements using the programme's Outcome Mapping Matrix (OMM), scoring changes across five domains (livelihood, capacity, governance, ecology, and knowledge) on an agreed rubric.
• Facilitate and document Most Significant Change story collection at field sites; link each story back to specific OMM entries to triangulate and calibrate scores.
• Maintain scoring consistency and evidence documentation across grantees; synthesise findings to identify patterns across seascapes and grantee types.

• Apply a structured governance assessment instrument to assigned grantees, scoring institutional dimensions using evidence drawn from programme documentation, field observations, and stakeholder interviews.
• Compile composite scores, flag outliers, and prepare cross‑grantee comparative summaries linking governance findings to outcome and socio‑economic data.

• Map programme inputs and outcomes to monetary proxies as part of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Readiness Framework; process adjustments for dead weight, attribution, and drop‑off.
• Run sensitivity scenarios and prepare SROI summaries for inclusion in programme reports and presentations.

• Manage digital data collection forms, ensure consistent metadata standards, and maintain version control across all datasets.
• Coordinate socio‑economic data integration with the programme's central monitoring platform and support quality control across all instruments.
• Provide first‑line technical support to grantee focal points on data submission, form usage, and reporting requirements.

• Maintain the programme's internal M&E tracking system, monitoring progress against milestone targets, output delivery timelines, and reporting schedules.
• Prepare quarterly internal progress summaries for review by the Team Leader and Advisor, flagging delays, data gaps, or implementation risks.
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