
We are hiring a Senior Quality Officer based in Indonesia!
Job Description: Senior Quality Officer
Reports to: Quality Manager
About the HCV Network Secretariat
The HCV Network is a member-based organisation that promotes the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach, a methodology to identify and protect ecosystems, biodiversity, and the needs of local communities and indigenous groups where development takes place.
The Secretariat runs the Network’s day-to-day operations. It provides tools and guidance, technical advice, quality assurance and learning opportunities to ensure robust implementation of the methodology in all ecosystems (land-based, aquatic), scales (from farms and management units to landscapes and jurisdictions), and development contexts (forestry, agribusiness, other). The Secretariat is hosted by HCV Network Ltd. a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales (company no. 9710578).
About the role
The Senior Quality Officer position offers an opportunity to work with users of the HCV Approach in high-risk scenarios including practitioners, producers (companies, smallholders), social and environmental experts providing assurance, NGOs, global voluntary sustainability standards, and external partners and stakeholders involved in the identification of High Conservation Values (HCVs).
Main responsibilities
- Lead/participate in Quality Panels evaluating quality and consistency of HCV and HCV-HCS Aassessment reports.
- As Primary Quality Panel (QP) member, oversee the evaluation work conducted by Secondary QP members (internal and external) ensuring if follows HCVN guidance and procedures.
- Where assigned as Primary QP Member, manage evaluations including:
- engaging the Technical Manager and the Quality Manager in high-risk cases,
- monitoring timely QP member service delivery and payment to external QP members,
- meeting evaluation time-budgets,
- agreements on Level of Effort (LOE) with QP members,
- communications with assessors and clients,
- updates in Salesforce System and verification of Website display,
- completing database on HCVs.
- Conduct and manage (engagement with assessor) HCV and HCV-HCSA Initial Checks.
- Process appeals to report evaluations.
- Participate in the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of current quality assurance services (system, procedures) ALS data management, monitoring and evaluation to better document HCVN QA impact.
- Support the QA Training Lead in:
- Developing and delivering training in Lead Assessor Training courses.
- Strengthening Quality Panel members’ capacity (quality and consistency) by:
- providing timely case-based feedback,
- documenting QP members’ performance, and
- supporting processes to improve it (QP checklists and “scripts”, training materials, learning events, etc.).
- Contribute to:
- HCVN’s Strategic goals Expand, Evolve and Impact by sharing learning and expertise emerging from quality assurance work to inform: updates in interpretations and existing guidance and the modular development of an HCV Toolbox and a system to report on the impact of the use of the HCV approach.
- HCVN Strategic goal Collaborate, by facilitating member engagement in the role of Technical Focal Point.
- HCVN Strategic goal Secure, by supporting developing, testing and implementation of new assurance and peer review services.
- Strategic and operational planning for the Quality Assurance workstream: Annual Team Goals and Quarterly Individual Objectives and Key Results.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.
- Experience with Social Assessment, participatory methods, consultation, land use planning and implementation, social and environmental impact assessment.
- Tertiary level (master’s or equivalent) qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g., social sciences, natural resources management, conservation, agriculture, or forestry).
- A minimum of 5 years’ relevant work experience/knowledge related to:
- sustainability standards, auditing, and certification in the context of natural resource management (mainly in forestry, agriculture, fisheries, REDD+).
- the HCV and HCS approaches, and Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
- Ability to work independently and as part of a global team that is connected remotely/working in different time-zones.
- Excellent project management skills including time-management, problem-solving and organizational abilities.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills, including presentation skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal and team working skills, as well as proven ability to operate in a multi-cultural environment.
- Experience in handling confidential information.
- Excellent understanding of environmental and social sustainability issues affecting the forestry and agricultural commodities sectors.
- Experience in using Microsoft Office (Teams, Outlook, other), cloud-based systems and other latest IT.
Desirable Qualifications
- 5+ years’ experience in consultation and working with various stakeholders including large companies, small and medium enterprises, NGOs, financing institutions, government agencies, smallholders, and local communities.
- Experience with Salesforce and/or other latest CRM systems and technologies.
- Experience in designing and delivering training programs tailored to adult learning styles.
Location
Home-office working in Indonesia, with good access to national and international travel routes. The successful candidate must have the right to reside and work in Indonesia.
Hours of work
Full-time (8 hours per day, 5 days per week).
Employer
HCV Network Ltd. United Kingdom.
Contract Type
One-year fixed term contract, with possibility for extension based on performance.
Salary range
£30,290 per annum. Non-UK employees must declare their own country tax and social security costs and provide proof of declaration.
Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 UK public holidays, 3 of which can be localised according to the candidate’s base location.
- Professional development support.
- Home office supplies.
- UK Government’s working from home allowance.
- Flexible working opportunities.
- An additional £100 taxable payment will be made in lieu of benefits
How to apply?
Please send a 1-page cover letter explaining your suitability for the position and your CV in English to secretariat@hcvnetwork.org by Wednesday April 30th, 2025. Please note incomplete applications will not be processed.
Related Posts
We are looking for a consultant in Guatemala!
We are looking for a local consultant in Guatemala who can lead the data collection for the calibration of the Forest Integrity Assessment Tool in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve.
Read MoreOur Partnerships
Alongside many global initiatives, our work with partners promotespractices that help meet the global Sustainable Development Goalsand build a greener, fairer, better world by 2030.


Femexpalma
In April 2022, FEMEXPALMA and the HCV Network signed a 5-year cooperation agreement to promote sustainable production of palm oil in Mexico. FEMEXPALMA is a Mexican independent entity that represents palm production at the national level and promotes the increase of productivity in a sustainable way.
With global markets becoming stricter, for Mexican producers to be able to export to key markets such as the European Union, they must meet strict requirements such as certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). To be certified by RSPO, the HCV Approach must be applied prior to the establishment of any new oil palm plantations. With this cooperation agreement, the HCV Network will support FEMEXPALMA’s members and allies to design better strategies to identify, manage and monitor High Conservation Values and support smallholders to achieve RSPO certification and implement good agricultural practices.


High Carbon Stock Approach
The High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA) is an integrated conservation land use planning tool to distinguish forest areas in the humid tropics for conservation, while ensuring local peoples’ rights and livelihoods are respected.
In September 2020, HCV Network and the HCSA Steering Group signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their collaboration to conserve forests and uphold community rights in tropical forests. The HCS and HCV Approaches are cornerstones of corporate no deforestation and conservation commitments, and increasingly for actors working at different scales. The collaboration aims to further support effective implementation of these commitments through increased uptake of the HCV and HCS tools.
Through this MoU, HCSA and HCVRN are pursuing two main strategic goals:
- Strive to promote the application of the two approaches in tropical moist forest landscapes and explore further opportunities for collaboration.
- Ensure that, where the two approaches are applied together, this happens in a coordinated, robust, credible, and efficient manner, so that HCS forests and HCVs are conserved, and local peoples’ rights are respected.


World Benchmarking Alliance
From May 2022, the HCV Network is an ally at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). WBA is building a diverse and inclusive movement of global actors committed to using benchmarks to incentivise, measure, and monitor corporate performance on the SDGs, and will assess and rank the performance of 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies against seven systems of transformation by 2023.
The scope of WBA’s circular transformation was expanded to cover nature and biodiversity as recognition of the need for greater understanding, transparency and accountability of business impact on our environment. The WBA Nature Benchmark was launched in April 2022, which will be used to rank keystone companies on their efforts to protect our environment and its biodiversity. As HCV Areas are recognised as key areas important for biodiversity, companies that publicly disclose their actions to identify and protect HCVs will contribute to the assessment of their performance against the benchmark.


Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures - TNFD
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is a global, market-led initiative, established with the mission to develop and deliver a risk management and disclosure framework for organizations to report and act on evolving nature-related risks, with the aim of supporting a shift in global financial flows away from nature-negative outcomes and toward nature-positive outcomes.
In April 2022, the HCV Network joined the TNFD Forum. The TNFD Forum, composed of over 400 members, is a world-wide and multi-disciplinary consultative network of institutional supporters who share the vision and mission of the task force.
By participating in the Forum, the HCV Network contributes to the work and mission of the taskforce and help co-create the TNFD Framework which aims to provide recommendations and advice on nature-related risks and opportunities relevant to a wide range of market participants, including investors, analysts, corporate executives and boards, regulators, stock exchanges and accounting firms.


Aquaculture Stewardship Council
The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) is the world’s leading certification scheme for farmed seafood – known as aquaculture – and the ASC label only appears on food from farms that have been independently assessed and certified as being environmentally and socially responsible. In 2021, the HCV Network and ASC formalised their collaboration through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU represents the first step in a fruitful relationship aimed at conserving HCVs in aquaculture. Although, existing guidance on the use of the HCV Approach currently focuses mainly on forestry and agriculture, the HCV Approach is however generic, and in principle also applicable to aquatic production systems. Through this MoU, this is recognised by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) in their ASC farm standard, in which the protection of HCV areas is mentioned in the context of expansion


Accountability Framework Initiative
The Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) is a collaborative effort to build and scale up ethical supply chains for agricultural and forestry products. Led by a diverse global coalition of environmental and human rights organizations, the AFi works to create a “new normal” where commodity production and trade are fully protective of natural ecosystems and human rights. To pursue this goal, the coalition supports companies and other stakeholders in setting strong supply chain goals, taking effective action, and tracking progress to create clear accountability and incentivize rapid improvement. In July 2022, the HCV Network joined AFi as a Supporting Partner. AFi Supporting Partners extend the reach and positive impact of the AFi by promoting use of the Accountability Framework by companies, industry groups, financial institutions, governments, and other sustainability initiatives, both globally and in commodity-producing countries.


Biodiversity Credit Alliance
The Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA) is a global multi-disciplinary advisory group formed in late 2022. Its mission is to bring clarity and guidance on the formulation of a credible and scalable biodiversity credit market under global biodiversity credit principles. Under these principles, the BCA seeks to mobilize financial flows towards biodiversity custodians while recognising local knowledge and contexts.
The HCVN joined the BCA Forum in August 2023 to learn more from the many organizations already coming together to find effective pathways to opening up credit-based approaches, and how to contribute our knowledge and experience of years of working in a practical way, often with global sustainability standards and their certified producers, to protect what matters most to nature and people.
.png)
.png)
Nature Positive Forum

Get Involved
Our Mission as a network is to provide practical tools to conserve nature and benefit people, linking local actions with global sustainability targets.
We welcome the participation of organisations that share our vision and mission to protect and enhance High ConservationValues and the vital services they provide for people and nature. By collaborating with the Network, your organisation can contribute to safeguarding HCVs while gaining valuable insights and connections that support your sustainability goals.
We are seeking collaborative partners to help expand and enhance our work, as well as talented professionals who can join the growing Secretariat team, and for professionals who can contribute to the credible identification of High Conservation Values globally.
Join us in securing the world’s HCVs and shaping a sustainable future.