Overview
Serve as the in-country focal point and local facilitator for RESIslands activities, ensuring alignment with national priorities and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Organize and convene national-level workshops, consultations, pipeline development write-shops, and training events.
- Liaise with the NDA, AISCC NFP, and other relevant ministries and departments, local governments, UN RCO, civil society, academia, and other relevant actors, and facilitate meetings with them.
- Provide technical assistance for all country-level project deliverables, including tailored national training programs, and identify training needs and priorities.
- Prepare local field visits, vulnerabilities, losses and damages assessments, and national risk diagnostics.
- Facilitate local logistics for the activities, permits and invitation letters if needed, and procurement of services at national level.
- Elaborate timely technical progress reports, activity briefs, and documentation for UNECA and the NDA.
- Monitor outputs and ensure alignment with work plans and budgets.
- Collect data for the use cases, toolkits, e-infrastructure and KM tools.
- Facilitate dissemination of best practices and lessons within their countries.
- Engage national stakeholders for the preparation, production, and validation of deliverables.
- Work with NDA and national institutions to ensure post-project uptake of platforms, pipelines, toolkits and use cases.
Required Experience
Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in climate resilience, institutional development, or project coordination. Prior experience leading donor-funded climate or development projects and working with governments is desirable. Prior engagement at national or regional level in climate, environment or risk management is desirable. Prior work with qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, reporting will be an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s level) in Climate Science, Environmental Policy, Project Management, Economics, Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics, or related fields.
