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. Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

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.
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