GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb Governate, both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, and provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through support to Water units, as well as emergency support to recently displaced households.
GOAL has been working in North Aleppo Governate since 2019, through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, as well as emergency support for recently displaced household.
Description of the Role /Job Purpose :
The Global Climate Advisor will drive and shape GOAL’s programming on climate outcomes, both as a standalone outcome and through climate-proofing of GOAL’s health, WASH, food and nutrition security, and livelihoods programming, including in emergencies. The Advisor will integrate climate risk management, including vulnerability and adaptation impact analysis, climate risk assessment, and medium/long term responses to these, into GOAL’s programme design, implementation and learning processes. The Advisor will also provide technical support for climate research, will represent GOAL in a range of external technical networks, and will contribute to GOAL’s advocacy on climate change.
The position will be based within a GOAL Middles Eastern Country of Operation – Turkey or Jordan in which the applicant has the right to work, with up to 20% travel to support Country Offices (COs) and to represent GOAL with key stakeholders.
The Global Climate Advisor sits within the global Programme Technical Team (PTT) and will also work closely with the Innovation Lab. GOAL’s PTT supports the technical quality of programme design and implementation through developing strategy and guidelines, collaboration on new programming, support visits to country programmes, internal evaluations, documenting and sharing learning, and providing external technical representation. The PTT has four key objectives, detailed below and as they apply to this position.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Design for Climate Outcomes
Donor Positioning and Proposal Development
The Global Climate Advisor works to position GOAL to identify, analyse and respond to funding opportunities and be able to develop strong technical proposals/bids which are coherent with both donors’ and GOAL’s organisational global goals.
Quality Programme Delivery for Crisis to Resilience
The Global Climate Advisor supports country offices to deliver high quality, innovative and adaptive programming, including in emergencies.
Evidence & Learning
The Global Climate Advisor will capture learning from programming and research and share internally and externally to contribute to the global evidence base and communicate GOAL’s programmatic innovation and successes, in collaboration with the Programme Innovation Lab (PIL) and MEAL team.
Behaviours
Requirements :
Essential
Desirable
Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the “apply now” button and fill out the application form. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
GOAL has the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with GOAL at the same grade level and with similar job descriptions, experience, and educational requirements.
Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is 08 May 2023 , however, you are encouraged to apply immediately as we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, therefore we may withdraw the position before the advertisement’s closing date if a suitable candidate/s is identified .
Please note that GOAL does not charge a fee of any kind or any other financial obligation at any stage of its recruitment process (application, interview, processing, training, induction) or other fees, or request information on applicants’ bank accounts. GOAL does not work with intermediary institutions and individuals or employment agencies during the recruitment process. If any fee or payment requested from you at the application or any stage of the recruitment process, please do not respond .
GOAL does not accept any responsibility for the accuracy, errors or omissions of any of the information contained in translated advertisements by an independent party on other sites or through other channels.
General terms and conditions
Safeguarding
Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.
Accountability within GOAL
Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:
This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.
Thank you.
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