Programme Policy Officer (Climate Solutions and Resilience)

The Programme Policy Officer (Climate Solutions and Resilience) will lead climate environment related activities including project design, drafting funding proposals, and supporting early warning systems and anticipatory actions. The role involves technical support, coordination with partners, and capacity building to strengthen climate adaptation efforts in Djibouti.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments, design projects, draft related concept notes (CN), funding proposals (FP) and relevant annexes to be submitted to the donors; support the coordination of the implementation of climate related activities.
• Participate in stakeholder consultations at national/sub-national/local level to gather the information needed for the design of the project and the drafting of the proposal.
• Participate in community consultations (at concept note stage) to assess communities’ vulnerabilities, capacities and needs in terms of climate change adaptation, discuss activities’ ideas, collect information on gender roles and specific vulnerabilities/needs, collect information on environmental and social risks in collaboration with gender and Environmental and Social Safeguards (ESS) experts.
• Oversee the community consultations (at funding proposal stage) to confirm/finalize project activities, receive feedback/concerns/approval from communities on the proposed activities, collect more information (if needed) with the relevant experts.
• Oversee the drafting of the proposal annexes, including the feasibility study and technical annexes as needed, with input from CO/RB/HQ staff.
• Provide responses to AF and other relevant Secretariats’ comments and amend the proposal and annexes accordingly, in coordination with CO/RB/HQ staff.
• Support the coordination of project inception or implementation in the field.
• With support from a technical service provider, build the capacity of the National Meteorological Services to issue drought early warnings and seasonal forecasts.
• Liaise with technical and government partners (meteorological, agricultural, environment, interior.) to Scale up the development of drought thresholds and seasonal forecast triggers for drought anticipatory actions in the north regions.
• Support the update of the Forecast Map Room to strengthen early warnings system, the dissemination of seasonal forecasts information and support the development of ‘last mile climate services to project focus communities.
• Coordinate with other drought risk management and FbF projects, including, but not limited to FAO, UNDP, IFAD, Ministry of Agriculture, ANM, SEGRC, UN agencies FbF projects in the region/country.
• Provide a road map for integration of FbF for drought into national institutional frameworks.
• Conduct multi-stakeholder workshops and training to identify and validate early warning triggers and anticipatory actions for the north region.
• Support the update or the development of SOPs for Forecast-based Financing, which would include activity timeline, costs, stakeholders, targeting and the associated early warnings and anticipatory actions.
• Ensure regular monitoring of early‑warning trigger thresholds for the JAS season in close collaboration with ANMD and SEGRC and support the preparation and implementation of all required pre‑shock actions during the preparedness phase, in line with the validated anticipatory action plan.
• Report writing for mid-term and end of project timelines, support to communications and advocacy, presentations, knowledge sharing amongst other WFP FbF projects.
• Coordinate with RAM teams in the WFP CO to support effective collaboration, implementation, compliance and monitoring of ongoing project activities.
• Ensure that the ability to connect Anticipatory Action (AA) and existing Programme activities to enhance its visibility and operationalization.

Requirements

• Advanced University degree, or University degree with experience and training/courses in one or more of the following disciplines: climate change adaptation, environmental studies, agriculture and food security, development studies, economics, engineering, or related area.
• At least three years of related experience in food security, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction or related areas.
• Experience in humanitarian aid and/or development project design or implementation.
• Proven experience and ability to draft or implement projects for the Green Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund, and/or the Global Environment Facility.
• Experience focusing on disaster risk reduction activities, early warning systems, seasonal and crop forecasting models.
• Experience in WFP climate-related programmes is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with AF/GCF rules and processes.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
• Extensive, proven experience with community and stakeholders’ consultations.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Field experience will be regarded as an asset.
• Familiarity with WFP and the UN system will be regarded as an asset.
• Proficiency in Windows, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Excellent written and spoken in French and English.

Skills

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Environmental Studies
• Food Security
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Humanitarian Project Design
• Project Implementation
• Green Climate Fund Project Management
• Adaptation Fund Project Management
• Global Environment Facility Project Management
• Early Warning Systems
• Seasonal Forecasting Models
• Crop Forecasting Models
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Community Consultations
• Project Proposal Preparation
• Capacity Building
• Windows
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Language Proficiency in French
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

French, English