Global Climate Advisor

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb Governate, both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, and provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through support to Water units, as well as emergency support to recently displaced households.

GOAL has been working in North Aleppo Governate since 2019, through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, as well as emergency support for recently displaced household.

Description of the Role /Job Purpose :

The Global Climate Advisor will drive and shape GOAL’s programming on climate outcomes, both as a standalone outcome and through climate-proofing of GOAL’s health, WASH, food and nutrition security, and livelihoods programming, including in emergencies. The Advisor will integrate climate risk management, including vulnerability and adaptation impact analysis, climate risk assessment, and medium/long term responses to these, into GOAL’s programme design, implementation and learning processes. The Advisor will also provide technical support for climate research, will represent GOAL in a range of external technical networks, and will contribute to GOAL’s advocacy on climate change.

The position will be based within a GOAL Middles Eastern Country of Operation – Turkey or Jordan in which the applicant has the right to work, with up to 20% travel to support Country Offices (COs) and to represent GOAL with key stakeholders.

The Global Climate Advisor sits within the global Programme Technical Team (PTT) and will also work closely with the Innovation Lab. GOAL’s PTT supports the technical quality of programme design and implementation through developing strategy and guidelines, collaboration on new programming, support visits to country programmes, internal evaluations, documenting and sharing learning, and providing external technical representation. The PTT has four key objectives, detailed below and as they apply to this position.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy and Design for Climate Outcomes

• Contribute to GOAL’s global strategy by driving the incorporation of analysis of climate risk and climate outcomes into existing planning at Head Office and COs.
• Work with GOAL’s country teams to conduct climate policy analysis at regional, national, and sub-national levels.
• Support GOAL’s Environment Policy implementation.
• Develop guidelines on designing programming for climate outcomes
• Guide global and country strategies relating to climate, ensuring access to global best practice and evidence.
• Support the use of learning and evidence to develop GOAL’s climate programming
• Work with GOAL’s Emergency Response Unit (ERU) to guide the use of climate risk in emergency preparedness & response.
• Engage technically with relevant external actors (including civil society, public and for-profit) in relation to GOAL’s climate risk analysis and climate adaptation programming.
• Support the development of GOAL’s strategic partnerships globally in climate e.g. with development consultants, conservation agencies, other civil society, INGOs, national risk management agencies, private sector stakeholders etc.
• Support the development and rollout of GOAL’s analytical framework for Crisis to Resilience (including GOAL tools)

Donor Positioning and Proposal Development

The Global Climate Advisor works to position GOAL to identify, analyse and respond to funding opportunities and be able to develop strong technical proposals/bids which are coherent with both donors’ and GOAL’s organisational global goals.

• Identify funding opportunities through technical networks and support analysis for go/no go decision making.
• Advise on the integration of climate in the development of new project proposals in coordination with the PTT and Innovation Lab and other departments e.g. Funding and Business Development.
• Lead/support the development of technical content for new proposals.
• Liaise with donor technical advisors and respond to technical queries from donors
• Engage with internal stakeholders on technical elements of funding opportunities

Quality Programme Delivery for Crisis to Resilience

The Global Climate Advisor supports country offices to deliver high quality, innovative and adaptive programming, including in emergencies.

• Technical programme backstopping in climate programming
• Support COs in applying climate risk analysis tools, including incorporating climate risk into GOAL’s tools ARC-D and R4S.
• Technical reviews and support on evaluations of climate programming
• Support country and global teams to use learning and best practice in adaptive management for climate programming
• In-country and remote technical support for emergency preparedness, anticipatory action and emergency response.
• Provision of training, mentoring and other support for country teams in specific areas relating to climate.
• Support teams in understanding the linkages between climate, gender equality and social inclusion, and integrating these considerations in programming.
• Build capacity and support to COs in identifying appropriate modalities including cash and vouchers to integrate into programming in order to enhance climate outcomes.

Evidence & Learning

The Global Climate Advisor will capture learning from programming and research and share internally and externally to contribute to the global evidence base and communicate GOAL’s programmatic innovation and successes, in collaboration with the Programme Innovation Lab (PIL) and MEAL team.

• Supporting country offices to capture, document and share learning and programme outcomes.
• Identifying research questions and developing a global research portfolio.
• Technical representation & engagement with global climate networks
• Support to GOAL’s Advocacy on climate
• Interpreting and reflecting on data for re-design & progress towards programmatic goals

Behaviours

• Respectful of local sources of knowledge and with the recognition that Technical Advisors do not bring all the solutions to a problem.
• Skilled communicator and ability to work effectively across multiple cultures, including remotely.
• Act as a representative of GOAL and demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children and vulnerable adults both in your private and professional lives.

Requirements :

Essential

• Degree in climate change, environmental management or a related environmental field.
• Ability to advise on the integration of climate risk management, including vulnerability and adaptation impact analysis, climate risk assessment, and medium/long term responses to these, into GOAL’s programmatic strategy, design, implementation and learning processes.
• Knowledge and experience of climate financing mechanisms, programmes, and sources.
• Fluent in English at a standard to allow drafting of technical documents.
• At least seven years of experience in INGOs or equivalent, at least five years of which is in climate, environment or a closely related field. Previous experience at Global Advisor level is highly desirable but not essential.
• Experience incorporating gender equality and social inclusion in climate adaptation programming, through integrated and targeted approaches.

• Ability to represent GOAL with donors, other INGOs, commercial entities and other external institutions.
• Experience in providing technical input to proposals
• Experience developing training materials and providing training.
• Ability and willingness to travel (up to 20%) including to places with difficult living conditions and insecure environments.

Desirable

• Master’s degree
• Language skills in Spanish, French, Arabic, Turkish or another language spoken in GOAL’s operational areas.
• Demonstratable knowledge of the potential of cash and vouchers to support climate adaptation.
• Experience in field research and qualitative and quantitative techniques for collecting information (e.g. focus group discussions, interviews, etc).
• Experience in writing articles and texts for professional publications
• Detailed knowledge of at least one of GOAL’s major donor’s climate programming strategies e.g. ECHO, EU, BHA, USAID, Irish Aid.

Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the "apply now" button and fill out the application form. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

GOAL has the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with GOAL at the same grade level and with similar job descriptions, experience, and educational requirements.

Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

The application deadline is 08 May 2023 , however, you are encouraged to apply immediately as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, therefore we may withdraw the position before the advertisement’s closing date if a suitable candidate/s is identified .

Please note that GOAL does not charge a fee of any kind or any other financial obligation at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training, induction) or other fees, or request information on applicants’ bank accounts. GOAL does not work with intermediary institutions and individuals or employment agencies during the recruitment process. If any fee or payment requested from you at the application or any stage of the recruitment process, please do not respond .

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General terms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behavior protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behavior of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

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