Senior Natural Resource Management Officer

Senior Natural Resource Management Officer

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Posted: Aug 3, 2026

Deadline: Not specified

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Senior Natural Resource Management Officer Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA Experience 5 - 7 years Location Katsina Job Field Engineering / Technical

Department Summary

The Senior Natural Resource Management (NRM) Officer will be part of Mercy Corps Nigeria's Resilience and Climate Adaptation portfolio and will provide technical leadership for natural resource management and ecosystem restoration activities under the Protecting Food Security Against Flood & Drought Cycles project in Katsina State. The project aims to strengthen community resilience to climate-induced flooding and prolonged drought through integrated watershed restoration, sustainable land management, climate-smart agriculture, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems, and community-based natural resource governance. Major interventions include soil and water conservation, vegetative restoration, dune stabilization, sustainable rangeland management, and community capacity strengthening to improve food security and climate resilience. The Senior Natural Resource Management Officer will lead the design, implementation, quality assurance, and monitoring of all natural resource management interventions while ensuring alignment with Mercy Corps' resilience programming standards, national environmental policies, and donor requirements.

The Position

The Senior Natural Resource Management Officer is responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership for the planning, implementation, supervision, and quality assurance of natural resource management and ecosystem restoration activities across the project. Working under the supervision of the Technical Project Manager, the incumbent will oversee field implementation of sustainable land management, watershed restoration, climate adaptation, and community natural resource governance interventions while providing technical guidance to project staff, government counterparts, contractors, and community institutions. The position plays a critical role in ensuring that nature-based solutions effectively reduce flood and drought risks, restore degraded landscapes, improve agricultural productivity, and strengthen community resilience.

Essential Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Program Management

• Lead the technical design and implementation of all Natural Resource Management (NRM) activities.
• Develop annual and quarterly implementation plans for NRM
• Ensure implementation of technically sound, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable approaches.
• Integrate ecosystem restoration and landscape management principles across all project
• Ensure compliance with Mercy Corps technical standards, donor requirements, and national environmental regulations.
• Provide technical support to project management in planning, implementation, adaptive management, and reporting.
• Lead implementation of NRM and ecosystem restoration interventions
• Ensure interventions improve ecosystem services while protecting productive agricultural and grazing lands from climate-related hazards.
• Provide technical leadership for sustainable agriculture and rangeland management
• Support integration of natural resource management into agricultural productivity and food security interventions.

Community-Based