URBAN Resilience and Climate Change Senior Technical Officer - Mercy Corps Timor-Leste

 

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URBAN RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICER

 

Location Dili, Timor-Leste

Position Status: Fixed Term

Grade Level: 6

Salary: US$773.00 plus benefits

 

Our growing NGO is seeking to hire an Urban Resilience and Climate Change Senior Technical Officer who will be responsible for the leadership of the resilience & climate change technical components of the European-Union funded Maloa Urban Resilience Initiative program. This program includes goals around improving the climate resilience of the Maloa watershed through landscape and ecosystem management to support environmental, economic, and social development in Dili. The program will work to ensure that the urban Maloa watershed community, local government, and private sector actors have knowledge, skills, capacities, access to resources to develop and implement climate resilience, economic development, and COVID recovery strategies and plans.

 

Based in Dili, Degree in Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction; or another related degree; to succeed in this role, you will need excellent communication and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders to get important work done. Specific experience working with livelihood business stakeholders and private sectors and local government in Timor a plus

 

Urban Resilience and Climate Change Senior Technical Officer Responsibilities:

 

• With support of the Program Manager, Deputy Program Manager, and program team, develop and actively guide the implementation of an urban resilience and climate change strategy.
• Work closely with the Program Manager to understand barriers and opportunities to advancing urban resilience across the Maloa Urban Resilience Initiative program, and help identify strategic areas for action.
• Provide substantial contribution to program strategy, leading on the program’s resilience and climate change planning and reflection ensuring adaptive management to test ideas, identify and resolve challenges and foster a culture of learning.
• Keep abreast of new thinking, research and innovations in areas of urban resilience and climate change adaptation by leading researchers, donors and practitioners, with particular focus on regional themes including making markets work for resilience, urbanization, financial inclusion and transformative capacities.
• Actively engage in Mercy Corps’ regional initiatives, including the regional resilience team, drawing on learning from resilience initiatives across the globe while ensuring Timor-Leste’s lessons in urban resilience help to influence Mercy Corps’ regional agenda in this arena.

 

Urban Resilience and Climate Change Senior Technical Officer Requirements:

 

• Degree in Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction; or another related degree.
• Minimum three years’ experience with community-based disaster risk reduction programs.
• Experience working with community groups, private sector actors, government officials.
• Experience building capacity of diverse team.
• Excellent time management and work planning skills, as well as the ability to prioritize tasks.
• Strong writing, reporting, organization, and communication skills.
• Fluency in Tetun, with proficiency in English preferred
• Willingness to travel

 

Who is Mercy Corps?

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.
In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.

 

Mercy Corps works in places of transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval, or economic collapse present opportunities to build more secure, productive, and just communities. Providing emergency relief in times of crisis, we move quickly to help communities recover and build resilience to future shocks and promote sustainable change by supporting community-led and market-driven initiatives.

 

Diversity is powerful. To achieve transformational change, we seek out team members with different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking. Diversity helps us unlock complexity. WOMEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

 

To view the full Position Description for this vacancy, click Here:  FULL PD  

 

Interested applicants should send their CV and cover letter to: timorleste-hr@mercycorps.org or by hand to HR Department in Palm Business & Trade Centre Surik Mas, Fatumeta, Bairro Pite, Dom Aleixo, Dili Timor Leste. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Mercy Corps is committed to the community members we work with and the beneficiaries we serve. As part of this commitment, Mercy Corps has zero tolerance for violations of our Code of Conduct (Sexual Abuse of Beneficiaries and Community Members (PSEA), Anti-Trafficking Policy, Child Safeguarding Policy, Mercy Corps Ethics Complaint and Whistleblower Policy, Sexual Misconduct in the Workplace Policy, Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying Policy, and Anti-Fraud and Corruption). 

 

Applicants are required to sign HIRRING COMPLIANCE FORM and submit together with CV and application letter to Mercy Corps.

 

CLOSING DATE: December 16, 2021