Technical Specialist: Environmental Stewardship and Climate Action

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Employee Contract Type:Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership, Programme Design and ESCA Mainstreaming (30%)

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, quality assurance, adaptation, and scale-up of ESCA programming across Area Programmes, grants, and humanitarian responses.
• Lead the contextualization and implementation of ESCA strategies, frameworks, technical models, and core project approaches.
• Ensure effective implementation and scaling of evidence-based approaches, including FMNR, Regreening Communities (RGC), Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM), Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), ecosystem restoration, watershed management, Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA), Eco-Schools, and Nature-Based Solutions (NbS).
• Lead integration of climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience-building interventions across development and humanitarian programmes.
• Provide technical guidance on climate risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, resilience programming, and disaster preparedness systems.
• Strengthen CBDRM structures, early warning systems, contingency planning, and climate risk reduction mechanisms.
• Promote multisectoral integration of ESCA with Health, Nutrition, Education, WASH, Livelihoods, Child Protection, Safeguarding, GESI, CVA, Sponsorship, Peacebuilding, and External Engagement initiatives.
• Support collaboration with government and partners to advance environmental restoration, climate resilience, sustainable natural resource management, and SDG achievement.

End Results

• High-quality and impactful ESCA programmes implemented according to organizational standards.
• Increased adoption and sustainability of FMNR, RGC, CBDRM, CSA, and ecosystem restoration approaches.
• Improved climate resilience, environmental stewardship, ecosystem restoration, and livelihood outcomes.
• Stronger integration of ESCA across sectors and programmes.
• Enhanced contribution to national climate action and environmental restoration priorities.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, Accountability and Knowledge Management (15%)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead monitoring, accountability, learning, and knowledge management systems for ESCA programming.
• Ensure high-quality data collection, analysis, reporting, and utilization for adaptive management and decision-making.
• Conduct ESCA-related Data Quality Assessments (DQA/DIQA) and support indicator development and tracking.
• Document and disseminate lessons learned, innovations, best practices, case studies, success stories, and technical learning products.
• Provide technical oversight for donor, management, and partnership reporting.
• Support evidence generation demonstrating programme impact on children, households, communities, and ecosystems.
• Facilitate organizational learning and knowledge sharing internally and externally.

End Results

• High-quality and reliable ESCA data available for evidence-based decision-making.
• Timely and compliant donor, management, and technical reports.
• Increased use of evidence and learning to improve programme quality and accountability.
• Improved documentation and dissemination of impact, innovations, and best practices.

Technical Capacity Strengthening and Programme Support (15%)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement ESCA capacity-strengthening strategies and plans.
• Conduct training needs assessments and coordinate targeted capacity development initiatives.
• Design and facilitate training on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, FMNR, RGC, CBDRM, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Environmental Governance, Natural Resource Management, and Ecosystem Restoration.
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical accompaniment to staff, partners, government stakeholders, and communities.
• Strengthen community institutions, producer groups, environmental committees, and local disaster management structures.
• Support continuous technical improvement and adoption of best practices across programmes.

End Results

• Improved technical competency of staff, partners, communities, and government stakeholders.
• Functional and effective CBDRM and environmental management structures.
• Enhanced local capacity to implement sustainable ESCA interventions.
• Increased adoption and replication of proven ESCA approaches and models.

ESCA Integration, Partnerships, Policy Engagement, Visibility and Representation (15%)

Key Responsibilities