Overview
The Climate and Environment Technical Advisor will define and deliver strategic ambition for advancing child-centred climate resilience in Ukraine, leading strategy development and programme design and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for climate resilience.
- Support the Country Office to implement the Global Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Policy.
- Coordinate global initiatives on the Climate Crisis.
- Lead technical scoping, planning, design, and proposal writing for new programmes.
- Ensure climate resilience programmes reflect social justice and disability considerations.
- Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure a rights-based approach and child participation.
- Develop, disseminate, monitor, and evaluate programme quality tools and resources.
- Support other country technical experts in contextualising climate resilience guidance.
- Provide technical inputs on climate crisis focused advocacy initiatives.
- Undertake field visits to project sites.
- Distil learnings and evidence into programmatic guidance.
- Contribute to organisational learning on child-centred climate resilience.
- Support humanitarian colleagues with climate and weather informed emergency preparedness and response.
- Build capacity on climate resilience among humanitarian teams.
- Monitor seasonal weather and climate trends.
- Engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners, and government.
- Foster partnerships with climate justice organizations and civil society organizations.
- Build collaborative country and regional partnerships.
- Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years’ experience providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes focused on advancing climate resilience.
- Demonstrable experience in child-centred approaches to climate resilience.
- Strong understanding of climate resilience principles and best practices, the climate change sector, policy priorities and key climate risks to children most affected by inequality and discrimination in Ukraine.
- Significant experience in designing and delivering training, capacity building, and mentoring to colleagues and partners.
- Experience of context, capacity, and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at country/regional level.
- Skilled at networking, representation, and partnership development.
- Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills.
- Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share.
- Experience of strategy development and planning.
- Track record in successful business development/fundraising and donor engagement.
- Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response, and recovery.
- Demonstrable experience in applying Locally-Led Adaptation Principles (Desirable).
- Experience of working within a complex and matrix organisation structure (Desirable).
- Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality; adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement, advocacy, and campaigning (Desirable).
Qualifications
Masters Degree in climate related field or applicable subject matter
