Home to more than 160 million people, Nigeria has the largest population and the second largest economy in Africa, and has a major influence on the continent’s political agenda. However, Nigeria has a history of political instability, corruption and mismanagement of public resources, and has recently seen religious and ethnic conflict. As a result, more than half of Nigeria’s population still live in poverty. Despite four peaceful transitions of power since a return to civilian rule in 1999, Nigeria’s politics continue to be characterised by patronage, ineffective opposition, low voter turnout and voting along ethnic and religious lines. Most of Nigeria’s wealth is held by a tiny economic and political elite and many people feel powerless to challenge the current system, campaign for their rights
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Location: Abuja
- Job Field: Consultancy , NGO/Non-Profit
About the role
This role provides thought leadership on Climate Resilient Livelihoods across Christian Aid. It does this through providing technical leadership and thematic advisory to enhance capacity of programmes/ partners and other relevant stakeholders in the organisation and through generating learning and evidence from programme practice; linking this to improving programmes and influencing public policy. The advisory work includes responsive support to country programme and fundraising colleagues as they design and deliver programme work on climate resilient livelihoods; and proactive programme development and fundraising to grow and strengthen the climate adaptation and resilience portfolio. The post-holder will promote research and learning, through generating evidence from our programme experience, and sharing learning internally, through communities of practice and other approaches. The post holder will represent Christian Aid externally in relevant networks to raise visibility of our work and bring learning from other organizations and networks.
About you
You will be a passionate advocate for climate resilient livelihoods. You will have deep knowledge of climate resilience agriculture, inclusive market systems, renewable energy, gender and climate, and movement building for climate justice within international development and humanitarian contexts. You will be familiar with debates and practice on early warning and early action climate services, loss and damage, climate financing, green energy transition participatory market systems and financial inclusion, among others., and have practical experience of climate resilient livelihoods programme design, management and implementation at country and local level, having had exposure to a range of climate resilient livelihood programmes in different national and international settings. You will bring a strong understanding of evaluation, programme learning and adaptive programming, and an active interest in programme research. You will have excellent facilitation and communication skills, experience in providing training and technical support and an ability to promote critical thinking and reflection. You will be a creative, innovative and strategic thinker with an ability to build effective working relationships across organisations, including at a distance. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to influence others, negotiate and develop win-win solutions and excellent interpersonal skills,
Competency questions
As part of your application please answer the following questions. We are particularly interested in how you used these competencies to support programming in the areas of climate resilient livelihoods:
- Describe how you worked with others to develop a shared programme of work, where there were different personal or organisational agendas
- Describe a situation where a project you were delivering ran into difficulties? What happened? How did you respond? What did you do to get back on track, and did you need to adjust your overall objectives?
- Tell us a time when you communicated a complex technical issue or idea to different audiences, adapting style, media, timing and pace to communicate effectively.
