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Job Overview:

The Climate Resilience Specialist will lead efforts to adapt IRC programs to be more resilient and responsive to the impacts of climate change. The postholder will provide advice and support in three principal ways:

  1. Support learning and innovation across Crisis Response, Recovery, and Development (CRRD) to promote climate resilient / responsive programs;
  2. Demand driven support to Technical Units, Regional Units, and Country Teams to design services that are climate resilient and/or build community resilience; and
  3. Develop practical resources to help the organization adopt and scale climate resilient/responsive interventions.

The Climate Resilience Specialist will be part of the Program Quality Support Unit (PQSU). The postholder will report to the Snr Director, Program Quality Support and will work closely with other climate specialists and champions within PQSU and across CRRD.

Major Responsibilities:

The Climate Resilience Specialist will have responsibility for the following:

  • Support to strategic design and business development opportunities related to climate resilience and wider efforts to position IRC in this space.
  • Targeted support to Technical Units in adapting priority intervention approaches and providing intervention-specific guidance on how to promote climate resilience.
  • Work with regions and technical units to better understand and adapt to the projected impacts of climate induced disasters.
  • Build organizational resources to help to develop IRC’s portfolio of climate resilient / responsive programs.
  • In addition to the above, the Climate Resilience Specialist will support the following work led by the Climate Change Advisor: convening learning exchanges between climate specialists, building mitigation and adaptation efforts into business processes.

Job Requirements:

Work Experience:

  • Experience of leading programs that: 1) respond to the impacts of climate change, and 2) build resilience to future impacts, gained through 6-8 years of experience working in fragile contexts.
  • Expertise in delivering / supporting programs related to one or more of IRC’s outcome areas: Economic Well Being, Education, Health, Power, and/or Safety.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Strong knowledge of the intersection between conflict and climate and the role humanitarian assistance can play in building resilience.
  • Ability to provide practical technical advice and support strategic direction setting.
  • Strong data literacy and the ability to support evidence and learning informed decisions.
  • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills, including strong written and verbal communication skills in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Collaborative and pro-active colleague with a talent for working across interdisciplinary teams.
  • Project management skills and the ability to deliver products on time and to high quality.
  • Dedication to IRC values of Equality, Service, Integrity and Accountability, a strong passion for our mission and commitment to learning and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to manage virtual meetings and navigate collaborative technology applications.
  • Ability to travel to IRC country program locations.

Preferred experience & skills:

  • Personal lived experience of the impacts of climate change.
  • Experience in managing stakeholders’ engagement, facilitating decision making amongst leaders and supporting organizational change.
  • Ability to work in Spanish, French or Arabic.
  • Mastery of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Equality, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

Since October 2012, the IRC has been responding to humanitarian needs of Nigerians. The IRC initially intervened in response to floods that affected over 7 million people across the country, destroying harvest and damaging homes. The IRC is currently implementing programs in Health, Protection, WASH, Nutrition, Food Security, and Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) in Adamawa and Borno States in North-Eastern Nigeria.

The IRC is dedicated to making women and adolescent girls healthier from the earliest phase of acute crises (a target group most vulnerable during crisis) and implements evidence-based reproductive health interventions in line with the SPHERE-standard Minimum Initial Service Package for Reproductive Health in Crises (MISP). The goal is to ensure that the IRC’s health responses in emergencies include the core package of Reproductive Health (RH) services in its interventions.

The IRC’s Reproductive Health (RH) program is currently implementing (MISP) for RH in 4 health care centers in MMC and Jere LGAs and 1 IDP camp clinic. In addition the program is starting up an emergency mobile programming outside of these areas of Maiduguri in coordination with the WPE team. The focus of this program is to provide quality comprehensive RH and WPE services to conflict-affected women and girls in a timely manner. In addition to the mobile program, the WPE and RH joint mobile teams will be in charge of rapid assessments and rapid response. The mobile teams will be focused in the newly opened LGAs and emergency areas previously inaccessible due to conflict and insecurity. These teams will provide life-saving services to populations outside of Maiduguri, who have not had access to services in approximately 3 years.

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0 USD Kenya, Senegal CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week International Rescue Committee

Job Overview:

The Climate Resilience Specialist will lead efforts to adapt IRC programs to be more resilient and responsive to the impacts of climate change. The postholder will provide advice and support in three principal ways:

  1. Support learning and innovation across Crisis Response, Recovery, and Development (CRRD) to promote climate resilient / responsive programs;
  2. Demand driven support to Technical Units, Regional Units, and Country Teams to design services that are climate resilient and/or build community resilience; and
  3. Develop practical resources to help the organization adopt and scale climate resilient/responsive interventions.

The Climate Resilience Specialist will be part of the Program Quality Support Unit (PQSU). The postholder will report to the Snr Director, Program Quality Support and will work closely with other climate specialists and champions within PQSU and across CRRD.

Major Responsibilities:

The Climate Resilience Specialist will have responsibility for the following:

  • Support to strategic design and business development opportunities related to climate resilience and wider efforts to position IRC in this space.
  • Targeted support to Technical Units in adapting priority intervention approaches and providing intervention-specific guidance on how to promote climate resilience.
  • Work with regions and technical units to better understand and adapt to the projected impacts of climate induced disasters.
  • Build organizational resources to help to develop IRC’s portfolio of climate resilient / responsive programs.
  • In addition to the above, the Climate Resilience Specialist will support the following work led by the Climate Change Advisor: convening learning exchanges between climate specialists, building mitigation and adaptation efforts into business processes.

Job Requirements:

Work Experience:

  • Experience of leading programs that: 1) respond to the impacts of climate change, and 2) build resilience to future impacts, gained through 6-8 years of experience working in fragile contexts.
  • Expertise in delivering / supporting programs related to one or more of IRC’s outcome areas: Economic Well Being, Education, Health, Power, and/or Safety.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

  • Strong knowledge of the intersection between conflict and climate and the role humanitarian assistance can play in building resilience.
  • Ability to provide practical technical advice and support strategic direction setting.
  • Strong data literacy and the ability to support evidence and learning informed decisions.
  • Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills, including strong written and verbal communication skills in a multi-cultural environment.
  • Collaborative and pro-active colleague with a talent for working across interdisciplinary teams.
  • Project management skills and the ability to deliver products on time and to high quality.
  • Dedication to IRC values of Equality, Service, Integrity and Accountability, a strong passion for our mission and commitment to learning and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to manage virtual meetings and navigate collaborative technology applications.
  • Ability to travel to IRC country program locations.

Preferred experience & skills:

  • Personal lived experience of the impacts of climate change.
  • Experience in managing stakeholders’ engagement, facilitating decision making amongst leaders and supporting organizational change.
  • Ability to work in Spanish, French or Arabic.
  • Mastery of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Equality, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

2023-08-02

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