Somalia: Climate and Environment Adviser, Mogadishu

Aug 3, 2023 | Norwegian Refugee Council
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The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. It works in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. It stands up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, its global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and it has procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

The Role

This role will work 50% Level of Effort (LoE) of the time supporting consortium wide ecosystems workstream technical design and implementation, the advisor will act as technical lead and focal point for the seven consortium members and their six downstream partners. The other 50% LoE will be dedicated to supporting NRC’s climate change adaptation, environmental and Ecosystems restoration initiatives across all core competencies (CCs) in all four NRC area offices in Somalia. BRCiS Consortium secured funding for a new, multi-year project supported by FCDO entitled “Building Resilient Communities in Somalia III “(or “BRCiS III “) that will run from July 2023, until March 2028, as part of FCDO’s Humanitarian Assistance and Resilience Building in Somalia (HARBS) business case. The objective of BRCiS III is that marginalised communities in disaster-prone, rural Somalia have sufficient social, financial, and environmental assets to better cope with shocks and stresses and adapt to the effects of climate change. This objective will be achieved through a set of multi-sectoral outputs, aligned around three system-level workstreams:

Workstream 1: Inclusive, Shock Responsive Leadership System

  • Output 1: Inclusive Local Leadership Development
  • Output 5: Early Warning, Early and Anticipatory Action

Workstream 2: Ecosystem

  • Output 2: Natural Resource Management
  • Output 3: Agro-Ecological Production and Consumption

Workstream 3: Economic Diversification and Financial Inclusion (as a subset of the Market System)

  • Output 4: Economic Diversification and Financial Inclusion

BRCiS III Members will implement all outputs in their geographic areas of intervention either directly or through local, downstream (DS) implementing partners; however, each Workstream will be (co-)led by one of BRCiS III’s Member organisations responsible for providing technical guidance across the consortium and leading flexible, adaptive management exercises. The Ecosystems and Climate Advisor is responsible for leading Outputs 2 and 3 of Workstream Ecosystem on behalf of NRC. This position is managed in partnership between NRC as a consortium member and the BRCiS Consortium Management Unit.

Role and responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities:

  1. Lead Ecosystem work stream of the BRCiS Consortium
  2. Develop climate change strategy and technical SOPs in line with NRC Programme Strategy, Policy, and national and international standards, and in coordination with other Core Competences
  3. Compliance with and adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures
  4. Contribute to fundraising, develop, and review funding proposal, budgets, and donor reports
  5. Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities.

Specific responsibilities

Quality Standards

  • Lead BRCiS Members and DS partners through the development of minimum standards for activities under the assigned Output including discussion facilitation, technical leadership/advice, preparation of formal guidance documentation (including for publication), and revision of guidance over time.
  • Ensure that programme quality standards are sufficiently harmonized to allow effective project management and measurement, while remaining flexible enough for contextualization based on geography, access/operational factors, communities’ positionality on the Resilience Spectrum, etc.

Adaptive Programme Management and Learning

  • Oversee the development and implementation of the Workstream-level adaptive management workplan and overall BRCiS Learning Strategy including management of learning consultancies, outcome harvesting exercises, activity pilots, and/or other activities resourced by the Workstream, in consultation with BRCiS CMU Programme Manager and the BRCiS CMU MEAL Manager.
  • Lead regular meetings (including and especially in accessible field locations) to oversee the adaptive learning implementation at field level and lead knowledge and experience sharing across the Consortium members.

Support NRC climate actions

  • Contribute to fundraising, development, and review of funding proposal, budgets, and donor reports.
  • Guide the teams in developing systematic tools for day-to-day implementation of climate change adaptation and environmental restoration interventions, ensuring compliance with established guidelines and standards.

Critical interfaces

  • Programme development: BRCiS CMU, BRCiS Members, Regional climate change advisor, Core Competencies sections Country office and Regional Office
  • Proposal development, quality control, capacity development and support: Members HoP, BRCiS Programme Managers, Field Focal Points
  • Advocacy: Country Director. BRCiS programme manager, BRCiS Communication and Advocacy Manager

The above responsibilities are a snapshot, please see the full Job Description. 

Competencies:

Professional competencies:

  • 5+ years’ experience in humanitarian/development aid in complex and/or insecure environments, preferably in East/Horn of Africa and including significant field-based experience with relevant techincal approaches to project workstream.
  • Demonstrable experience with resilience programming and/or measurement, past experience with adaptive programming is essential
  • Excellent report and proposal writing skills in English language, including synthesis and elaboration of qualitative and quantitative inputs/data
  • Excellent English language communication skills – negotiation, networking, influencing, public speaking and facilitating workshops at different levels.
  • Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches.
  • Strong planning, monitoring and organizational skills with good knowledge of the use of logical and result-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Knowledge of the context of Somalia
  • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response, and recovery programming.
  • Experience with coordination in a humanitarian context (i.e., consortium coordination, cluster coordination)

Behavioural competencies

  • A positive, solution-oriented attitude to working within a diverse team is essential.
  • Hands-on approach to key tasks; delegation skills are important, but not the default. This position will directly handle many key tasks that cannot be delegated.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the disaster management field.
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Additional Information:

Position: Climate and Environment Adviser (BRCiS Consortium)

Reports to: Head of Programme

Supervision of: N/A

Travel: 40%

Grade: 9

Duration of contract: 12 months (renewable)

What NRC Offers

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to join NRC’s work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility:  NRC thinks outside the box. NRC encourages ideas and give responsibility to all employees at all levels, to help solve the complex issues that it faces. The chosen candidate will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

  • 12 months fixed term contract
  • An opportunity to match career to a compelling cause
  • A chance to meet and work with people who are the best in their fields

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply but NRC is also open to external applicants who can show a commitment to NRC and being part of a challenging, but important mission to make a difference.

To apply as an internal candidate, click on the suitcase icon “I am an employee” on the top right of the page to be redirected to NRC’s internal career site

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This position is open to all qualified national and international applicants.

How to apply

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