Climate Resilience Senior Adviser

Climate Resilience Senior Adviser

Key Responsibilities

• CONTRACT TYPE: FULL TIME - FIXED TERM

• LOCATION: OPEN TO ALL COUNTRIES WITHIN ASIA OR NEARBY COUNTRIES THAT HAVE WV REGISTRATION

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

• Provide strategic and technical support to World Vision’s National Offices (NOs) in the South Asia Pacific (SAP) region in strengthening Climate Adaptation and Environmental Stewardship with particular emphasis on Environmental degradation and livelihoods and lead in identifying opportunities to influence policy, seek funding and form new partnerships.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY:

• Provide technical support and build capacity of Field Offices
• Develop a Regional Environment and Climate Change action plan that is aligned with global commitments.
• Actively work with FO to ensure that they have internal capacity to activate action plans through the building of internal technical understanding and capacity
• Drive the evolution and development of impact focused program models to enhance the lives of the most vulnerable children and ensure they and their households are more resilient to economic, conflict and climate shocks through strengthened absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity.
• Utilise and/or refresh mapping of existing FO Environment and CCA programs, support/guide/mentor FO’s to develop strategic directions and implement programs that are in align with the Global commitment
• Build strong strategic alliances with key internal stakeholders within WV’s partnership both regionally and globally on Environment and CCA (e.g. SAP Learning Group)
• Develop capacity statements and case studies to contribute to organizational learning and positioning.
• Support FOs enhance Environmental safeguarding in fragile and stable context strategies and in Integrated Programme Frameworks using tools such as CEDRIG, NEAT+ and models such as RC and iM4C, including monitoring and evaluation through adoption of OIOS indicators.
• Support Field Offices in carbon emissions accounting through capacity building on greenhouse gas (GHG) data collection, analysis, and reporting, and assist in the development and implementation of carbon emissions reduction plans.