Countries: Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America

Organization: Compassion International

Closing date: 12 Feb 2022

This senior specialist works together with the Sustainability Practice Lead to ensure Compassion integrates effective and measurable environmental sustainability practice into Global Program, ensuring every child lives in a safe and clean environment, securing their wellbeing, both present and future.

Grounded in a biblical mandate to care for God’s creation, and a strong understanding of global environmental challenges in the international child development sector, this position provides evidence-based guidance and technical support in the design and integration of climate change adaptation (CCA) strategies to enable and empower National Offices (NOs) and Frontline Church Partners (FCPs) to appropriately respond to climate-related threats that may undermine the achievement of child and youth development outcomes.

The senior specialist will provide technical assistance in the design, implementation, and evaluation of child centered CCA related programming in the Africa (AFR), Asia (ASR) and Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions. They will bring their knowledge of climate change and their professional experience and networks to build bridges between conceptual designs and practical implementation of effective strategies and actions.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
• In coordination with Disaster Risk Reduction & Response; Monitoring Evaluation Research (MERL); and the Office of Risk Management, assist with the analysis, assessment, and active monitoring of climate risks across the AFR, ASR and LAC regions, highlighting and providing early warning on weather anomalies, food/water insecurity at national and sub-national levels.
• Works in partnership with Global Program (especially Program Design) managers in creating and shaping interventions that effectively lead to the cross-functional integration of a child-focused approach to climate change adaptation (CCA), with a specific focus on developing FCP capacity to foster child and youth resilience to the effects of climate change.
• Reviews Complementary Interventions (CIV) proposals submitted by NOs and gives relevant recommendations on proposals that include CCA components.
• Ensure alignment of CCA intervention designs with international goals and standards for sustainability, as well as encouraging alignment of NO strategies and complementary intervention proposals (CIVs) with national government climate change adaptation plans and legislation.
• Identify opportunities to influence the design and implementation of investments, as well as the broader strategic planning and management across program design.
• Assist Program Design Managers understand climate change and disaster risks in a practical way, and the implications for their program designs, by translating and tailoring complex and technical information.
• Assist managers to integrate gender and social inclusion in climate change intervention and actions
• Engage with Communities of Practice (CoP) managers to develop and maintain a deep and active knowledge and network across climate change work within and between the region to bring extensive knowledge of the work of other development partners and technical agencies relevant to the priorities of the client’s posts and programs.
• Actively participate in generating a culture of learning and improvement within the program and assisting with the monitoring and evaluation of program performance. This includes, inter alia, assistance with compiling the climate change expenditure tracking information, and with the annual assessment of the quality of climate change integration within NO strategies, budgets, and M&E systems.
• Acts as Global Program’s internal and external reference point for matters directly or indirectly contributing to enabling children, youth, caregivers and FCPs to adapt and become resilient to the effects of climate change in their local contexts.

What do you bring (qualifications)?

Faith

• Has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Culture

• Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion's core "Cultural Behaviors" in all internal and external communication and relationships.

Education

• Master's degree or higher qualification in climate change, disaster risk reduction, water resource management, engineering, development studies, economics, business, environmental sciences or a related field.

Experience

• 10+ years of practical experience in climate change and/or international development.
• Proven capacity to translate complex climate change information for non-technical professional users.
• Knowledge in planning, financing, and managing climate change adaptation interventions.
• Knowledge of broader disaster risk management, including non-climate risks and hazards, desirable.
• Fluent in English (spoken/written).
• Spanish or French as a second language, desirable.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, within diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.
• Knowledge of gender and social inclusion in climate change adaptation, desirable.

*Equivalent education, training and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

Working Environment - Remote Office

Travel Requirements - May be required to travel up to 25% of normal schedule

How to apply

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