Forest Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification; MRV) Expert

Job Description - Forest Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Expert (2602122)

Job Description

2602122

Forest Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Expert

13/Oct/2026

27/Oct/2026, 10:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit : FAINS - FAO Representation in Indonesia

Non-staff opportunities

Type of Requisition : PSA (Personal Services Agreement)

Home-Based

Duration : 11 Months (66 Working Days)

Post Number : N/A

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Indonesia continues to strengthen its forest and land monitoring systems to support sustainable forest management, climate change mitigation, environmental reporting, restoration planning, and evidence-based decision‑making. The Ministry of Forestry, through the Directorate of Forest Resources Inventory and Monitoring (IPSDH), is advancing the development and continuous improvement of national forest monitoring methodologies and systems, including the National Forest Monitoring System (SIMONTANA), the National Forest Inventory (NFI) 2.0, and related monitoring and reporting processes supporting national priorities such as FOLU Net Sink 2030, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), REDD+, forest governance, and access to climate finance.

FAO supports these efforts through complementary programmes, including Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4

Forests) and the MERANTI Project. AIM4

Forests supports Indonesia in introducing innovative monitoring methodologies and geospatial solutions, improving the availability and interoperability of forest datasets, strengthening MRV and climate‑finance readiness, and developing monitoring approaches that can support ecosystem restoration, and traceability systems for transparent commodities value chains. MERANTI complements these efforts through the strengthening of NFI 2.0, integration of field and remote‑sensing data, quality assurance and quality control, capacity development, and continued enhancement of SIMONTANA.

In this context, the assignment will support coherence and complementarity across these initiatives, particularly where they contribute to strengthening the NFMS, SIMONTANA and related monitoring methodologies and applications.

A key area of technical support is the improvement of land‑cover monitoring and estimation methodologies. This includes strengthening baseline and historical land‑cover information, improving accuracy assessment and uncertainty analysis, and applying statistically robust approaches to estimate areas of forest and land‑cover change. Such improvements are important for national forest monitoring, FOLU‑related reporting, REDD+ MRV, and emerging climate‑finance mechanisms.

At the subnational level, FAO is supporting the Government of…