Climate and Environment Manager Somalia

Females are highly encouraged to apply.

What we are looking for:This position is a collaboration between NRC and IOM. The Climate and Environment Manager will be hired by NRC and seconded full-time to IOM to support the technical development and implementation of Resilience Design (RD) under the Jowhar Off stream Storage Programme (JOSP), with potential for broader application across Hirshabelle and other geographic areas.

The Manager will spend 10% Level of Effort supporting the BRCiS-wide Ecosystems Workstream and the Danwadaag-wide Livelihoods and their six downstream partners, Resilience workstream and strategy, providing cross-consortium technical guidance, learning capture, and adaptive management.

The remaining 90% LoE will be dedicated to supporting IOM’s implementation of Resilience Design within the JOSP programme—applying ecosystem-based, community-led design principles to support durable solutions, flood mitigation, land restoration, and climate adaptation in Jowhar and other high-risk areas.

The Manager will work closely with IOM’s Resilience Design Consulting and Program team, while remaining administratively embedded in NRC’s Somalia team and contributing to consortium learning and coordination.

What you will do:Generic responsibilities:

1. Lead Ecosystem regenerative, Resilience Design-informed implementation for IOM;
2. Develop RD implementation technical SOPs in line with IOM Programme Strategy, Policy, and national and international standards, and in coordination with other Core Competences;
3. Compliance with and adherence to IOM and NRC policies, guidance, and procedures;
4. Contribute to fundraising, develop, and review funding proposal, budgets, and donor reports
5. Identify trends technical standards and donor priorities;
6. Follow up on compliance with contractual commitments across the CCs, ensure high technical quality, synergies and mainstreaming of environment and climate in all project implementation;
7. Ensure that key learnings are extracted from climate action implementation and incorporate them in new project design and staff development processes;
8. Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff;
9. Represent IOM in relevant forum, including with national authorities and donors;
10. Promote the rights of IDPs/refugees in line with the advocacy strategy.

Specific responsibilities:

Quality Standards

• Lead IOM JOSP teams and partners through the development of minimum standards for activities under the assigned Output including discussion facilitation, technical leadership/advice, preparation of formal guidance documentation (including for publication), and revision of guidance over time.
• Ensure that programme quality standards are sufficiently harmonized to allow effective project management and measurement, while remaining flexible enough for contextualization based on geography, access/operational factors, communities’ positionality on the Resilience Spectrum, etc.
• Collaborate with the IOM and BRCiS teams for downstream implementing partner capacity strengthening, identifying, and addressing opportunities for cross-agency capacity strengthening related to the assigned Output.
• Carry out regular field-based monitoring of activities, including travel to insecure environments.
• Proactively identify and document best practices, lessons learnt and relevant human-interest stories for publication and dissemination.

Adaptive Programme Management and Learning

• Oversee the development and implementation of the IOM JOSP (and occasionally other relevant programs) workplan and overall IOM Learning Strategy including management of learning consultancies, outcome harvesting exercises, activity pilots, and/or other activities resourced by the Workstream, in consultation with IOM teams, BRCiS CMU Programme Manager and MEAL Manager, and the Danwadaag CLT.
• Lead regular meetings (including and especially in accessible field locations) to oversee the adaptive learning implementation at field level and lead knowledge and experience sharing across the Consortium members.
• Participate in national, regional, and global technical fora to remain up to date on technical developments and best practices and proactively identify external innovations for consideration by the Workstream.
• Represent the IOM JOSP project in presentations of adaptive management findings (research, reports, best practice guidelines, etc.) to external stakeholders including JOSP donor representatives, peer implementers, and national, regional, and global communities of practice.
• In any other ways requested by the IOM JOSP support the overall design, adaptation, and delivery of the JOSP IOM components, Learning Strategy, Influencing Strategy for all aspects related to the assigned Outputs and Workstreams.

Support IOM climate actions

• Contribute to fundraising, development, and review of funding proposal, budgets, and donor reports, especially related to Resilience Design-informed proposals.
• Guide the teams in developing systematic tools for day-to-day implementation of Resilience Design-informed climate change adaptation and environmental restoration interventions, ensuring compliance with established guidelines and standards.
• Lead on developing monitoring tools to be used across consortia to ensure that relevant information is being collected to inform strategy and implementation, and to ensure accountability and learning.
• Ensure learning from climate adaptation programme is captured, consolidated, and disseminated, contributing to knowledge building, and sharing within Somalia and globally to influence policies and programme planning.
• Ensure sharing of best practices and capacity building among the team and with partners.
• Explore and develop strategic partnerships contributing to quality and scaling up of programmes.
• Represents IOM at coordination meetings, relevant forums meetings and other emerging climate working groups.

What you will bring

Professional competencies:

• 5+ years’ experience in humanitarian/development aid in complex and/or insecure environments, preferably in East/Horn of Africa and including significant field-based experience with relevant techincal approaches to project workstream.
• Multiple Resilience Design (T3 level) trainings completed and/or co-taught.
• Demonstrable experience with Resilience Design programming and implementation
• Excellent report and proposal writing skills in English language, including synthesis and elaboration of qualitative and quantitative inputs/data
• Excellent English language communication skills – negotiation, networking, influencing, public speaking and facilitating workshops at different levels.
• Ability to work closely with field based national staff and experience in various staff training and development approaches.
• Strong planning, monitoring and organizational skills with good knowledge of the use of logical and result-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

Context/Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts, multi-country disaster preparedness, response, and recovery programming.
• Experience with coordination in a humanitarian context (i.e., consortium coordination, cluster coordination)

Behavioural competencies 

• A positive, solution-oriented attitude to working within a diverse team is essential.
• Hands-on approach to key tasks; delegation skills are important, but not the default. This position will directly handle many key tasks that cannot be delegated.
• Commitment to continuous learning and willingness to keep abreast of new developments in the disaster management field.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

What we offer

• Duty station: Mogadishu, Somalia
• Salary/benefits: grade 8 on NRC’s international salary scale.
• Duration of Contract: 8 months (Renewable)
• Travel: Up to 40% (to NRC operating locations)
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

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Important information about the application process

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• Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.
• Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We receive many applicants for each vacant position.
• This position is open to international applicants.
• If you have any questions about this role, please email ESA Recruitment  esa.recruitment@nrc.no  with the job title as the subject line.

Why NRC?The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with over 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the sectors of shelter, education, protection, emergency response, food security, information, counselling, and legal assistance (ICLA), and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).

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