Duties and Responsibilities

The main duties and responsibilities will be:

In coordination with the project officer, ensure technical quality control of all project outputs, including but not limited to publications, policy briefs, reports and other general communications output.
Provide technical support on integrating climate information services in the Africa SLCP project.
In collaboration with the project officer, provide detailed planning and coordination of all field research activities.

Provide technical support and training to program managers and project team members in ensuring high-quality, impactful implementation in environment and climate change, documentation of technical strategies and learning, and ensuring success of the SLCP Clean Air Africa Project.
Design and deliver technical support and mentoring to program managers and team members throughout the project cycle and especially at critical project milestones to embed a strong environment and climate change approach in programming, including: conducting risk and resilience assessments and analysis; refining project’s logic to incorporate SLCP understanding and research; designing interventions and activities that build towards successful overall project delivery.

Review project’s technical approaches and implementation strategies and develop customized recommendations to integrate SLCP mitigation measures.
Keep abreast of new thinking, research and innovations in environment and climate change and synthesize and regularly communicate findings for Project team and partners.

Facilitate cross-region environment and climate change learning groups to expand and deepen capacity and exchange across Africa and promote Project team’s work and delivery of project objectives.

Contribute to regional environment and climate change knowledge management and communications particularly on SLCP and to raising our external profile regionally, regularly sharing out findings and updates through appropriate internal and external channels.
Represent SLCP Clean Air Africa Project in appropriate learning and policy forums. Support Project teams to identify and participate in opportunities for external representation and thought leadership.

Support the Project with environmental-related research initiatives, and create and disseminate learning and advocacy documents that demonstrate our projects’ impact, innovation and influence on environment and climate change particularly on SLCP.

Source and document new ideas and innovations from within country programs, private sector partners, researchers and academics and link them with appropriate implementing partners and funding sources to begin to scale up ideas that are proven in tackling SLCP and thus climate change.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role applicants are expected to possess the following experience and technical competencies:

Client Orientation: Analyzes complex technical materials (including data) and makes concise, relevant recommendations
Accountability: Proactively identifies new opportunities and challenges
Teamwork: Takes ownership of responsibilities
Communication: Understands, explains and shares information on assigned tasks with accuracy and clarity

Building Strategic Partnerships : Perform defined tasks. Maintaining information and databases, analyze general Information and select material in support of partnership building initiatives
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Performs defined tasks efficiently and deepens knowledge of area of work. Researches best practices and poses new, more effective ways of doing things
Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise: Performs defined tasks efficiently and deepens knowledge of area of work. Fundamental knowledge of processes, methods and procedures. Understands the main processes and methods of work regarding to the position. Identifies new and better approaches to work processes and incorporates same in own work. Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning. Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments
Design and Implementation of Management Systems: Performs defined tasks efficiently and deepens knowledge of area of work. Data gathering and implementation of management systems

Education:

Advanced degree in meteorological science, geography, or earth sciences with a specification in climate information services.

Experience:

Required:

At least five years of technical cross-sector (public / private sector and NGOs) working experience in the context of climate change, resilience and environment Experience with research and reporting experience
Understanding of current climate issues and policy in international development

Desirable:

Strong understanding of environmental and climate change policy and practice
Well elaborated know-how and experience in environmental programming
Experience designing and implementing climate-resilience activities to support targeted households to better manage climate risks, such as flooding and droughts and other natural hazards
Strategic thinking ability, capacity to develop innovative policies, systems and new eco-systems
Excellent communication and networking skills with existing relevant contacts among experts
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Strong interpersonal skills, flexibility and willingness to travel
Strong organizational and work prioritization skills
Demonstrated leadership, versatility, and integrity
Fluency in English is required
Advanced training in spatial planning and development studies are considered a plus as well as work experience and knowledge of relevant fields such as nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, soil protection and agro ecology

Send your CV and supporting documents to hr@multilink.africa by 26^th October 2022