World Vision Tanzania is seeking a Technical Specialist to provide strategic and technical leadership for environmental stewardship and climate action programmes across development, grant, and humanitarian initiatives in Arusha. The role focuses on climate adaptation and mitigation, community resilience, environmental restoration, sustainable natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, partnerships, capacity building, and resource mobilization.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership in the design, implementation, quality assurance, adaptation, and scale-up of environmental stewardship and climate action programmes.
- Lead the contextualization and implementation of environmental and climate action strategies, frameworks, technical models, and project approaches.
- Promote climate-smart agriculture, ecosystem restoration, watershed management, ecosystem-based adaptation, environmental restoration, and nature-based solutions.
- Integrate climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience-building interventions into development and humanitarian programmes.
- Provide technical guidance on climate risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, resilience programming, disaster preparedness, early warning systems, and risk reduction.
- Lead monitoring, accountability, learning, and knowledge management systems for environmental and climate action programmes.
- Ensure high-quality data collection, analysis, reporting, data quality assessments, indicator tracking, and evidence generation.
- Document and disseminate lessons learned, innovations, best practices, case studies, success stories, and technical learning products.
- Develop and implement capacity-strengthening strategies and facilitate training, mentoring, coaching, and technical support.
- Strengthen community institutions, producer groups, environmental committees, and local disaster management structures.
- Establish and manage partnerships with government institutions, academic and research organizations, civil society, development partners, climate finance institutions, and private-sector actors.
- Represent World Vision Tanzania in environmental and climate forums, conferences, technical working groups, networks, and relevant events.
- Provide technical input into policy dialogue, position papers, advocacy initiatives, and environmental governance processes.
- Lead resource mobilization and strategic growth of the environmental stewardship and climate action portfolio.
- Identify funding opportunities and lead or contribute to concept notes, proposals, grant applications, technical narratives, logical frameworks, theories of change, and results frameworks.
- Support donor engagement, technical presentations, partnership discussions, investment cases, and strategic positioning documents.
Requirements
- Strategic and technical leadership in climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience, and environmental management.
- Knowledge of environmental stewardship, sustainable natural resource management, ecosystem restoration, and disaster risk reduction.
- Expertise in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration, Regreening Communities, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Community-Based Disaster Risk Management, and Nature-Based Solutions.
- GIS, remote sensing, drone, satellite imagery, and digital environmental monitoring skills.
- Climate risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, resilience programming, and disaster preparedness skills.
- Monitoring, evaluation, learning, accountability, data analysis, reporting, and knowledge management skills.
- Climate finance, resource mobilization, donor engagement, proposal development, and grant-writing skills.
- Environmental governance, climate policy, SDG implementation, and partnership development knowledge.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, reporting, analytical, facilitation, and training skills.
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly, manage multiple priorities, work independently, and coordinate with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal, collaboration, mentoring, capacity-building, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle sensitive situations professionally and tactfully.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant environmental, natural resource, forestry, planning, geography, or related discipline.
Application Instructions
- Apply online through the official World Vision Careers portal (Requisition ID: JR53514) and follow the online.
