The Community Development and Gayo Coffee Enterprise Facilitator's main areas of responsibility will include the following:
Technical Support and Field Facilitation (75%)
Build and maintain regular engagement with farmer groups, KUPS, cooperatives, village institutions, and relevant stakeholders in targeted areas.
Facilitate the strengthening of KUPS governance, business management practices, and readiness to access financing opportunities.
Provide technical assistance and coordinate field support on sustainable Gayo coffee agroforestry, productivity improvement, and post-harvest quality enhancement.
Support the development and operational strengthening or revitalization of KUPS and community enterprises serving as aggregators of supply and shared services for priority commodities (e.g., honey, aren, silvopasture, nurseries, fisheries, organic fertilizer, and other agroforestry products)
Support baseline assessment, tiering process, field data collection, and progress monitoring of targeted KUPS.
Coordinate the delivery of trainings for farmers and KUPS related to production practices, bookkeeping, entrepreneurship, business management, and market standards.
Facilitate the preparation of simple business and investment proposals and facilitate partnership linkages with buyers, off-takers, financing institutions, and other potential partners
Facilitate district-level coordination related to Integrated Area Development (IAD) multi-stakeholder forums implementation in Aceh Tengah and Bener Meriah, including off-takers and business stakeholde
Additional Information
Community Development and Gayo Coffee Enterprise Facilitator (Bener Meriah, Aceh) - Food, Land, and Water Program
You will be based in Bener Meriah or Aceh Tengah, Aceh. Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission as WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.
Program Overview
Human society and the global economy are inextricably linked to forests. People depend on forests for their critical role in stabilizing the climate while providing food, water, energy, and many other ecosystem services that vital for human well-being. In Indonesia, community-managed forest areas under Social Forestry (Perhutanan Sosial) schemes present opportunities to empower the adjacent and forest-dependent people to improve rural development, natural resource conservation, and contribute to climate change mitigation . Given the multiple objectives it represents, WRI Indonesia works with governments, businesses, multilateral institutions, financial institutions, civil society groups, and indigenous people and local communities to support Social Forestry acceleration and development.
Under the Blended Finance Model (BFM) Project, WRI Indonesia aims to strengthen Social Forestry Business Groups (Kelompok Usaha Perhutanan Sosial / KUPS) through institutional strengthening, capacity-buildings, land productivity and agroforestry management, sustainable ecotourism development, business incubation, and market partnerships facilitation. The project is designed to improve the readiness of KUPS and its associated cooperatives (Koperasi) to access blended finance mechanisms that combine BFM's grant funding with commercial and non-commercial financing sources.
In Aceh Province, one of the priority portfolios is the Gayo Arabica coffee highland areas and other agroforestry-based commodities in Bener Meriah and Aceh Tengah. Several coffee-based KUPS have demonstrated production potential, market linkages, and growing enterprise maturity, making them strategic candidates for pilot blended finance initiatives. However, constraints remain in governance systems, agroforestry management, bookkeeping, working capital, value addition, long-term investment readiness, transition to regenerative farming, and adapting to climate change.
Job Highlight
The Community Development and Gayo Coffee Enterprise Facilitator will plays a hands-on role in advancing sustainable community-based enterprise development in Aceh Tengan and Bener Meriah. This role focuses primarily on strengthening coffee-based KUPS while also supporting the development of non-coffee enterprises, including Trigona honey and other agroforestry commodities within the project landscape.
Working closely with local communities, farmer groups, KUPS, government partners, and other stakeholders, the Consultant will facilitate field-level engagement and provide technical and operational support to strengthen sustainable coffee agroforestry practices, enhance enterprise capacity and readiness for blended finance opportunity. The roles will also contribute to effective stakeholders coordination, and deliver activities contributing to project logframe targets .
Reports directly to the Sumatra Research and Program Development Lead, this position will be based in Aceh Tengah or Bener Meriah with regular travel to targeted villages and community forest areas across both districts.,
Wri · Bener Meriah, Indonesia