Climate Change and Environment Officer 

• All project team members and partners in district, other Project Officers including their senior officers, other project teams in District, and relevant counterparts in LANN-NSC and Yoti Yoti projects in Port Loko. 
• Area Coordinator; District & Freetown finance, systems and HR staff; Freetown PDQ Coordinator, MEAL Coordinator, Equality and Gender Advisor, Advocacy and Communications Manager, Accountability Supervisor and Partnership Manager; SLCRP Manager, Livelihoods Programme Coordinator. 

• Relevant Community, Chiefdom and District stakeholders from Ministries and District Council as well as Private sector actors.

Ensuring Local/District Development Plans incorporate Community Adaptation Plans and strengthened national and sub-national governments undertake climate 

The Climate Change and Environment officer will lead all field activities relating to: Strengthened community structures, coastal governance platforms and Community Adaptation Plans (CAPs) by training community structures on climate change, Develop, agree and consolidate CAPs with the targeted communities and conducting annual review meeting on CAPs to check progress/challenges, community outreach on EWS mechanisms (dissemination) through radio and meetings and radio messaging development and airing on EWS mechanisms 

Ensuring Local/District Development Plans incorporate Community Adaptation Plans and strengthened national and sub-national governments undertake climate adaptation projects through ensuring those Strengthen district coordination mechanisms and mentoring and joint supportive supervision at community level.  

Enhance climate resilience of schools and climate change education in schools by delivering agreed climate-resilient interventions for schools, training and equipping School Management Committees on using and maintaining climate-resilient equipment and monitoring and supporting school use of climate resilient equipment. 

Strengthened capacity of communities to protect, restore and sustainably use mangrove ecosystems for climate resilience by facilitating community-led mangrove assessments, conduct community level training on mangrove management and implement awareness raising on mangrove use at community and chiefdom levels. 

Ecosystems-based adaptation implemented in communities by developing conservation plans for each community, facilitating the development of by-laws, establishing and developing ecoguard protection, developing coastal protection measures for each community, supporting the procurement of community tools for coastline protection, implementing artificial coastline protection and implementing alternative nature-based solutions for coastline protection where appropriate 

S/he will support in project assessments.  

S/he will ensure that agreed targets are on track, collect monitoring and case stories, and provide quality reports. 

Responsibilities:

• Programme planning and implementation  
• Under supervision of the SLCRP Senior Officer- Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment:  
• Contribute to the development of monthly and weekly work plans with the team based on the overall project work plan and timeframe;  
• Actively participate in relevant project training of trainers; 
• Preparation of documentation (ToRs, SRs, training curriculum, budget, float request, transport request…) for a programmatic and logistical preparation to implement agreed field activities – trainings, workshops, coaching and monitoring visits; 
• Facilitate trainings and workshops in areas of responsibility ensuring all paperwork are properly filled and procedures followed (such as attendance lists, payment receipt etc.); 
• Support other project officers in activities related to climate change, livelihoods, WASH, Nutrition, MEAL, gender where needed/appropriate; 
• Coordinate with local partner where needed on activities. 
• Monitoring and Evaluation  
• Participate in community entry meetings and identification of project beneficiaries;  
• Participate in project assessments;  
• Ensure that all agreed Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning requirements are captured on time through standardized data collection tools; are accurately and submitted to the SLCRP Senior Officer and the M&E Officer;   
• Participate in project planning, review meetings with staff and stakeholders, and ensure that key recommendations and learning are incorporated into day-to-day project implementation; 
• Actively participate in relevant review meetings with programme participants
• Participate in project planning, review meetings with staff and stakeholders, and ensure that key recommendations and learning are incorporated into day-to-day project implementation; 
• Actively participate in relevant review meetings with programme participants
• Complete any reasonable task requested by the Line Manager.

Essential  

• Must have a diploma or University degree in Agriculture, Economics, Development, Sociology or other Social Sciences; 
• Minimum of 4 years’ relevant experience and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of livelihoods and climate smart agriculture (experience in NRM, gender and equality, markets and nutrition an advantage); 
• Good capacity in community mobilization and knowledge of participatory approaches. 
• Special Skills, Aptitude or Personality Requirements: 
• Essential: 
• Minimum 3 years working with INGOs;  
• Excellent, proven training skills and competence in group facilitation; 
• Ability to work on own initiative; 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; 
• Good observation skills; 
• Enthusiastic, energetic and motivated; 
• Ability to influence others; 
• Ability to work as part of a team for shared results and learning; 
• Strong spoken skills in Temne and Krio; 
• Valid motorbike license and ability to ride (desirable)

• Raising awareness and being updated on HIV & AIDS issues.
• Protecting him/herself and colleagues.

Sharing information with colleagues and avoiding stigma and discrimination.

Therefore, each staff member of Concern is expected to be sensitive to equality issues in their relationships with colleagues and in their work and to participate in implementation of gender mainstreaming plans, both at the workplace and in programmes.

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