Regional Climate Advisor - Asia Pacific

The Regional Climate Advisor provides technical leadership on climate resilience, adaptation and environmental sustainability across Asia Pacific. The role supports country offices and regional teams to design, implement, evaluate and scale climate programming that advances children’s rights, gender equality and girls’ leadership in the face of climate change.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership on climate change adaptation, resilience and environmental sustainability across the Asia Pacific region
• Support Country Offices to integrate climate resilience into country strategies, programme frameworks, humanitarian responses and sector programmes
• Lead and support the design of high quality climate adaptation, resilience and environmental sustainability programmes, concepts and donor facing proposals
• Strengthen climate related resource mobilisation, including support for donor engagement, proposal development and access to climate finance opportunities
• Develop and promote technical standards, tools, guidance and learning products, while building regional and country level capacity
• Generate and share evidence, research, case studies and cross country learning to support innovation, programme quality, influencing and scale
• Represent Plan International in relevant climate and resilience forums, networks and partnerships

Requirements

• Significant experience providing technical leadership on climate resilience, adaptation and environmental sustainability programming
• Strong understanding of child centred, gender transformative and locally led approaches to climate action
• Experience supporting multi-country programmes, regional portfolios or cross-country technical advisory work
• Proven experience designing climate adaptation, resilience or environmental sustainability programmes, including theories of change, results frameworks and donor facing proposals
• Demonstrated success in resource mobilisation, proposal development and donor engagement for climate or resilience programming
• Strong facilitation, coaching, partnership development, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical climate evidence into practical programme guidance
• Experience working across cultures, functions and geographies in a matrixed international organisation

Skills

• Climate resilience programming
• Climate Adaptation Design
• Environmental Sustainability Programming
• Child Centred Climate Approaches
• Gender Transformative Climate Action
• Locally Led Climate Action
• Multi-country Program Support
• Regional Portfolio Management
• Technical Advisory
• Theories of Change
• Results Frameworks
• Donor Proposals
• Resource Mobilization
• Donor Engagement Strategies
• Facilitation Skills
• Coaching Skills
• Partnership Development
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Technical Climate Communication
• Intercultural Collaboration