TITLE: Climate Change Adaptation Advisor – Senegal and Sierra Leone

TEAM/PROGRAMME: PDQ

LOCATION: Dakar or Freetown

GRADE: International II

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Climate Change Adaptation Advisor for Senegal and Sierra Leone will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical expertise, and relationship building skills to provide a critical link between the Save the Children’s global and country level technical work on climate change, strengthening our technical offer on climate change in Senegal and Sierra Leone. The Climate Change Adaptation Advisor role will contribute to building capacity and fostering networks with climate change actors across the two countries. The role supports national advocacy and influencing on climate change, and contributes to strategic partnerships and technical writing for new business development for climate change adaptation programming. It provides input into the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact, while sharing learning and ensuring quality of our climate change programmes. This role includes a strong focus on internal coordination and external representation. As the role covers both Sierra Leone and Senegal, the candidate must speak and write in both French and English.

Technical areas of particular focus for this role include:

• Community-based, locally led climate change adaptation programming (across health, education and livelihoods sectors)
• A strong focus on resilience building and impacts for children, including graduation approaches;
• Use of analytical tools and climate data to inform climate adaptation programming;
• Shock responsive child sensitive social protection to mitigate climate and other shocks.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Programme Quality & Development Director in either Senegal or Sierra Leone, with a dotted line into regional PDQ team.

Staff reporting to this post: None

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: The role is expected to foster relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Save the Children staff across functions within the two Country Offices, Save the Children members, Regional PDQ Team, technical counterparts in other organisation, donors etc.

Context: Humanitarian and development

Scope: Country Office

Primary Technical area: Child Poverty

Primary Sub technical area: Food Security and Livelihood/Health and Nutrition/Shock-responsive social protection

Secondary Technical area: Market-based programming for child outcomes / Climate Change

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

A. Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical support to thematic sector and cross sectors by integrating climate change adaptation in new programme design.
• Provide technical support on climate change to the project implementation teams to maintain quality standards.
• Capacity build, mentor and build networks across the Senegal and Sierra Leone Country Offices on how climate change can be integrated into programmes, and also provide thought leadership on contextualised, child-centred climate change programming approaches

1. Programme Quality in Design & Implementation:

• Support the two Country Offices with the design, proposal development and donor engagement for key strategic climate change focussed programmes and opportunities; and to develop programmes integrating climate change and climate change adaptation that can be ‘pitched’ to donors.
• Promote a Systems Strengthening approach as the overarching framework, that supports working in collaboration and partnership with governments, civil society, the private sector and national bodies, working towards mitigating, adapting, and building resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change in the two countries.
• Support the two Country Offices in their implementation and monitoring of key strategic programmes, to ensure high quality delivery, monitoring and evaluation.
• Oversee the design, implementation & monitoring of climate change adaptation programmes, including climate-sensitive Health and FSL interventions; ensure that sectoral and internal technical best practice (including Save the Children’s Common Approaches) is applied in collaboration with relevant Country Office technical colleagues.
• Ensure that gender, inclusion, climate sensitivity and resilience considerations are reflected in our programme design and implementation. Promote facilitation of and design around gender and inclusion analysis for girls’ and women’s economic empowerment.
• Explore innovative opportunities and trends which could be applied and build synergies across climate change programming in the region and support country offices to pilot, and document new or updated tools and guidance, especially with a focus on gender equality, inclusion and resilience building.
• Ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation (in line with our ), with a strong focus on child participation and in supporting those children most impacted by inequality, discrimination and climate change.
• Support Emergency preparedness, recovery, and where/when possible response, including country office capability building for humanitarian response, emergency preparedness planning.

1. External Engagement:

• In collaboration with Business Development colleagues, contribute to developing strategic partnerships in each of the two countries; identify partners and donors working on and/or funding climate change projects to strengthen our portfolio in the two countries and maintain an overview of the sector in Senegal and Sierra Leone.
• In collaboration with Child Rights and Advocacy and Campaigns colleagues, influence key national and local stakeholders and policy-makers and climate changes actors to ensure they reflect the needs of children in Senegal and Sierra Leone.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master degree in Climate change, economics, health and nutrition, agriculture and food security, environmental science or equivalent experience.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• At least 5 years’ experience of working internationally in climate change adaptation and resilience building at community level.
• Experience in designing and implementing climate change adaptation programmes within livelihoods and health programs. Experience in anticipatory action is a plus.
• Experience in sourcing and using climate data to inform programme design.
• Demonstrable understanding and application of gender-equality, disability inclusion and child participation in programming.
• Track record in successful business development/fundraising and donor engagement especially with Green Climate Fund, FCDO, USAID, WFP, INTPA and so on.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale.
• Able to analyse and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children.
• Ability to work across teams with flexibility to undertake challenging tasks and adapt to different contexts.
• Languages: Fluent in spoken and written French and English

Desirable

• Significant experience in training, capacity building, and mentoring.
• Experience of context, capacity and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at national/regional level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
• Experience of strategy development and planning.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Technical competencies:

• Uses relevant data and analyses to understand the root causes of poverty, food insecurity, livelihood vulnerability and economic exclusion and to develop scenarios and plans based on forecasted stressors and shocks, including the climate crisis.
• Skilled at networking, representation and partnership development in order promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources in Climate Change sector.
• Embeds best practice in the design of sectoral and multi-sectoral programmes and policies to ensure enhanced child-sensitivity and improved and equitable child outcomes in Climate Change programming.

Generic Competencies

• Being the Voice of Children: Utilises being part of a global movement to promote change in the policy and public sphere on child related issues
• Advancing Equality & Inclusion: Drives an enabling environment for gender equality and inclusion, and prioritising the most deprived and marginalised children
• Builds & Strengthens Partnerships: Inspires others to embrace the values and principles that underpin partnerships and the localisation agenda
• Child Rights: Promotes the rights of children in own work and in work with colleagues and peers

How to apply

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