Job Description

Save the Children International

Save the Children International is a leading global humanitarian organization that has been protecting children's rights worldwide for over 100 years. We operate in more than 100 countries, responding to emergencies, implementing innovative development programs, and advocating for children's rights on a global scale.

Our work in Ukraine began in 2014. Since then, we have significantly expanded our presence, providing support to children and families affected by war. Our key areas of focus include education, child protection, food security, social support, and advocacy to drive lasting change in children's lives.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Climate and Environment Technical Advisor will use their in-depth contextual understanding, technical and practical expertise, and relationship building skills to define and deliver our strategic ambition for advancing child-centred climate resilience in Ukraine. The role will lead strategy development and the technical design and implementation of high-quality programmes that advance child-centred climate resilience in both emergency and development programming. The role will support various thematic technical advisors in integrating climate risk and climate resilience interventions into our programs so that we contribute effectively to survival, development, and protection of children with their full participation in the climate crisis. The role will collaborate with programme/partnership, gender and CRG advisors to promote strategic collaboration among all partners to nurture partner-led capacity building, sharing of best practices, and collaboration on inclusive and gender responsive climate resilience and justice for children.

The role supports national advocacy and influencing for children’s right to a healthy environment, while driving strategic partnerships for new business development, helping to position Save the Children as a leading Child Rights organization on climate. It provides leadership to ensure our work is evidence-based and climate-risk informed and supports the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation systems to demonstrate impact for children, while sharing learning across our programmes, teams, and partners.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership for climate resilience for the Country Office, ensuring alignment to Save the Children’s global thematic priorities and breakthroughs, and technical steers and set the strategic approach in relation to the wider country strategy, with explicit linkages to other thematic and cross thematic steers, and with a focus on gender and disability inclusion.
• Support the Country Office to implement Save the Children’s Global Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Policy
• Provide coordination support at the Country Office for SC’s global initiatives on the Climate Crisis and contribute to the global SC work on climate change by sharing Country Office experiences, practices and results.

Ensuring Programme Quality (Design & Implementation):

• Work closely with new business development colleagues to identify and pursue funding opportunities; engage with technical partners, donors and colleagues across Save the Children
• Lead the technical scoping, planning, and design and proposal writing during new programme development, and ensure that we design and deliver high quality, holistic child-centred climate resilience programmes, building on global best practice. Ensure that broader intersecting social justice and disability considerations are reflected in our climate resilience programme design and implementation.
• Work with Child Rights Governance colleagues to ensure that a rights based approach is reflected in our programme design and implementation, with a strong focus on child participation
• Contribute to the development, dissemination, monitoring and evaluation of innovative program quality tools and resources focused on advancing child-centred climate resilience.
• Support other country technical experts to understand and contextualise child-centred climate resilience guidance for their thematic areas.
• Provide technical inputs on climate crisis focused advocacy initiatives in Ukraine.
• Undertake field visits to project sites; work with implementation teams to understand impacts, operational challenges, and continuously identify opportunities for learning and improvement.
• Distil learnings and evidence generated into succinct and compelling programmatic guidance and thought leadership for internal and external consumption. Contribute to organisational learning on child-centred climate resilience, ensuring that learning from our programmes is shared across the Country Office and with our partners, as well as with colleagues in the wider regional and global climate resilience community within Save the Children via Technical Working/Leadership Groups and Communities of Practice and externally.
• Support Humanitarian colleagues (as needed) to develop climate and weather informed emergency preparedness plans, and to design and deliver anticipatory emergency response and recovery programmes. Build capacity on climate resilience among humanitarian teams involved in different sectors.
• Monitor seasonal weather and longer-term climate trends to ensure early, anticipatory action and adaptation; and lead/input to technical design and implementation and technical coordination of preparedness, anticipation, adaptation, and humanitarian responses as appropriate.

Networking & External Engagement:

• In alignment with Country Office strategy and leadership, engage in strategic positioning with donors, partners and government in-country, and ensure that Save the Children is a partner of choice in child-centred climate resilience programming.
• Foster partnership with climate justice organizations, including children’s groups and child-led groups, and civil society organizations focused on children’s and human rights, and climate change and environment.
• Build collaborative country and regional partnerships, through representation on regional clusters, working groups and technical fora, and ensure effective documentation; to showcase SC’s leadership on climate resilience in Ukraine.

General

• Demonstrate leadership in relation to Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, bullying and harassment, code of conduct, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability: 

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values 

• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved. 

Ambition: 

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same 

• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others 

• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale  

Collaboration: 

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters 

• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength 

• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to. 

Creativity: 

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions 

• Willing to take disciplined risks. 

Integrity: 

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity 

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Education:

• Masters Degree in climate related field or applicable subject matter

Experience (Required):

• At least 5 years’ experience providing technical leadership for the design and implementation of humanitarian and development programmes focused on advancing climate resilience.
• Demonstrable experience in child-centred approaches to climate resilience
• Strong understanding of climate resilience principles and best practices, the climate change sector, policy priorities and key climate risks to children most affected by inequality and discrimination in Ukraine.
• Significant experience in designing and delivering training, capacity building, and mentoring to colleagues and partners.
• Experience of context, capacity, and policy analysis, and influencing and advocacy at country/regional level in order to hold duty bearers to account to realise children’s rights.
• Skilled at networking, representation, and partnership development to promote learning, strengthen civil society and mobilise resources.
• Demonstrated program design, monitoring and evaluation skills, including designing pathways to sustainable impact at scale for climate resilience.
• Able to generate and use data and evidence to innovate, deliver, learn and share what works and what doesn’t work for children in the climate crisis.
• Experience of strategy development and planning to advance climate resilience for children.
• Track record in successful business development/fundraising and donor engagement
• Experience of supporting humanitarian preparedness, response, and recovery

Experience (Desirable):

• Child-rights programming experience.
• Demonstrable experience in applying Locally-Led Adaptation Principles
• Experience of working within a complex and matrix organisation structure.
• Experience of promoting quality and impact through at least one cross-cutting area: gender equality; adaptive and safer programming; child rights; disability; migration and displacement, advocacy, and campaigning.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Child Safeguarding Policy:

We are committed to ensuring children's safety. Our recruitment process includes strict background checks and reflects our commitment to protecting children from harm.

Equal Opportunities 

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Health and Safety:

All employees are expected to perform their duties in accordance with our global policy on harassment prevention.

Preventing Fraud, Bribery and Corruption

The role holder shall perform the necessary duties in accordance to Counter-fraud, Bribery & Corruption Policy and keep any activity during performance of duties free from any instance of fraud, bribery, theft, and corruption.

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