Climate Justice Coordinator
Trócaire, Ireland
Job Description
Location: Maynooth, Ethopia or Kenya
Trócaire works in partnership with local and church organisations, supporting communities in over 20 developing countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East to bring about lasting change. Trócaire envisages a just and peaceful world where; people’s dignity is ensured and rights are respected; basic needs are met and resources are shared equitably; people have control over their own lives; those in power act for the common good.
Trócaire’s global Programmes Team provides technical advice and support to country programmes and partners and to the wider organisation towards implementing Trócaire’s current organisational strategy (2021-2025), ‘Local Power, Global Justice’ . It is Trócaire’s ambition to promote climate and environmental justice to support local partners as well as poor and marginalised rural communities to sustain their livelihoods and to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation.
Trócaire has secured funding from Irish Aid to scale up its climate work across 6 priority countries (Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Somalia). To support this work, we are looking for a Climate Justice Co-ordinator to ensure we have a comprehensive, co-ordinated and effective response to climate change and environmental degradation across programmes, policy and organisational responses. The Climate Justice Coordinator role will provide advice and support to the Climate Change response in line with Irish Aid requirements and Trócaire standards.
This is a multi-facetted role requiring a diverse skillset (e.g. Coordination with country team and HQ units; partnership and tailored capacity strengthening per country; Climate change; Resilience; DRR, budget and grant management; policy amp; advocacy and engaging on the organisational commitments to climate change). The role includes regular regional travel in Africa.
Reporting to Head of Programmes, this is a fixed contract of three-year duration and is based in Ireland, Ethiopia, or Kenya.[1] While located within the Programmes Team, the role will work closely with other managers within the unit.
Managing: 2-3 Programme Advisers, as designated by the Head of Programmes including a dotted line to the Disaster Preparedness Advisor in the Humanitarian team.
Safeguarding Programme Participants-Children amp; Adults
Trócaire is committed to safeguarding people within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and has specific policies on this commitment (including a Global Code of Conduct) which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, consultants and other organisational representatives.
Any candidate offered a job with Trócaire will be expected to sign Trócaire’s Safeguarding Policies and Global Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. All offers of employment will be subject to pre employment checks including satisfactory references and appropriate screening (e.g. police/garda vetting, counter terrorism and anti-trafficking). Trócaire also participates in the InterAgency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and all employees will be subject to this as part of contract of employment.
Key Duties amp; Responsibilities
This role combines the direct provision of high-quality technical support and guidance and supporting/coordinating the delivery of technical support through a team of at least 2 Advisors, to contribute to the growth and quality of Trócaire’s work on climate and environmental justice across all programme areas.
Providing strategic leadership amp; guidance
- Lead, coordinate and support the development and roll out of a climate justice strategy and appropriate frameworks to deliver a comprehensive and ambitious approach to climate justice work (liaising with programme advisors, country teams, partners, Head of Portfolio, Head of Policy)
- Together with the Head of Programmes develop the vision/rationale for strategies and operations, including ways or working within the team amp; new ways of supporting country portfolios to maximise the learning and opportunities for climate funding and support.
- Liaise with the Head of Programmes amp; programme advisors to ensure strategic consistent technical support to countries in the CCAG portfolio and liaise with humanitarian team to support streamlined and efficient support to countries in the FCAS portfolio.
- Provide strategic leadership, guidance and coordinate the application of learning methods and spaces on key priority areas identified to drive the climate justice agenda and wo