Role:
This
role provides thought leadership on Climate Resilient Livelihoods across
Christian Aid. It does this through providing technical leadership and
thematic advisory to enhance capacity of programmes/ partners and other
relevant stakeholders in the organisation and through generating learning and
evidence from programme practice; linking this to improving programmes and
influencing public policy. The advisory work includes responsive support
to country programme and fundraising colleagues as they design and deliver
programme work on climate resilient livelihoods; and proactive programme
development and fundraising to grow and strengthen the climate adaptation
and resilience portfolio. The post-holder will promote research and learning,
through generating evidence from our programme experience, and sharing learning
internally, through communities of practice and other approaches. The post
holder will represent Christian Aid externally in relevant networks to raise
visibility of our work and bring learning from other organizations and
networks.
Qualifications:
You
will be a passionate advocate for climate resilient livelihoods. You will have
deep knowledge of climate resilience agriculture, inclusive market
systems, renewable energy, gender and climate, and movement building for
climate justice within international development and humanitarian contexts. You
will be familiar with debates and practice on early warning and early
action climate services, loss and damage, climate financing, green energy
transition participatory market systems and financial inclusion, among
others., and have practical experience of climate resilient livelihoods
programme design, management and implementation at country and local level,
having had exposure to a range of climate resilient livelihood programmes in
different national and international settings. You will bring a strong
understanding of evaluation, programme learning and adaptive programming, and
an active interest in programme research. You will have excellent facilitation
and communication skills, experience in providing training and technical
support and an ability to promote critical thinking and reflection. You
will be a creative, innovative and strategic thinker with an ability to build
effective working relationships across organisations, including at a distance.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to influence others,
negotiate and develop win-win solutions and excellent interpersonal skills,
Competency questions
As
part of your application please answer the following questions. We are
particularly interested in how you used these competencies to support
programming in the areas of climate resilient livelihoods:
1.
Describe how you worked
with others to develop a shared programme of work, where there were different
personal or organisational agendas
2.
Describe a situation where a
project you were delivering ran into difficulties? What happened? How did you
respond? What did you do to get back on track, and did you need to adjust your
overall objectives?
3.
Tell us a time when you
communicated a complex technical issue or idea to different audiences, adapting
style, media, timing and pace to communicate effectively.
How To Apply