[Hiring] Climate Change Technical Advisor @Save The Children Australia

Role Description

In this full-time, max term (2 years) role, you’ll work remotely from home as a part of our Climate Change Division, to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Climate Change Technical Adviser plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s evidencing climate-related problems and building solutions, or problem solving with teams to support the impact of our Climate Change portfolio, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Providing high-quality technical input on child-centred climate change content for our portfolio of current and future climate change projects.
• Working closely with a team of experts in the Climate Change Division including technical, operations, communications, financial and legal; across different sectors including health and education with focus on locally-led adaptation (LLA).
• Advising and reviewing projects and project proposals to ensure accuracy and leading practice on climate change adaptation and partner/donor requirements.
• Guiding Save the Children’s climate change portfolio teams (including country offices, members and partners) to align thinking on context-specific approaches to climate hazards, impacts, risks, and solutions through capacity building including development of templates, tools and visuals.
• Supporting the deepening of LLA programming within the existing Green Climate Fund (GCF) portfolio and influencing the wider Save the Children programming.
• Supporting progress of the pipeline through strong relationship management, analysis of adaptation gaps, drafting and quality assuring content to improve initial project ideas, concepts and/or funding proposals.
• Working closely with a range of stakeholders both internal and external such as the GCF and Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, to demonstrate and advocate for robust, evidenced based and scalable climate change solutions.
• Researching and analysing the climate change and climate finance landscape to integrate best practice and fit-for-purpose emerging thinking into our approach.
• Representing Save the Children related to the climate change portfolio on technical working groups or at relevant events/forums.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant subject, e.g., Climate Change, Environmental Science, International Development, etc.
• Experience of developing and reviewing concept notes and funding proposals for GCF.
• Experience in researching, analysing and drafting climate change and locally-led adaptation evidence and building appropriate solutions, with an understanding of how to interpret scientific literature and climate models, in addition to sourcing most relevant climate and finance information.
• Experience in climate change adaptation approaches in development contexts at the national and/or sub-national levels.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesise and process information on development and climate change issues.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including engaging presentation skills and the ability to synthesise complex information.
• Strong ability to analyse and present lessons learned to internal and external audiences as a means of influencing access to child-centred climate finance.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on diverse, large scale portfolio to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way.
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
• Internal employment and development opportunities.
• The opportunity to work from home (WFH) as part of a global team.
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program.
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We have a highly inclusive culture and diverse workforce reflecting the communities we serve, allowing you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!).

Company Description

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.