Environment and Climate Change Specialist
About the role
About the Role The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is seeking a specialist to provide technical and analytical support for the formulation, implementation, monitoring, coordination, and resource mobilization of climate change, environmental, biodiversity, natural resource management, and resilience projects in Tanzania. Responsibilities Lead the formulation and development of climate and environmental projects by providing technical inputs to concept notes, project documents, funding proposals, and investment plans. Coordinate stakeholder engagement and consultations with government ministries, local authorities, development partners, research institutions, civil society organizations, community groups, and private sector actors. Conduct climate, environmental, and resilience analyses, including climate risk and vulnerability assessments, ecosystem assessments, and climate rationale development. Provide technical advisory support on climate change adaptation and mitigation, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable livestock and fisheries management, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, nature-based solutions, and sustainable natural resource management. Facilitate coordination and collaboration between FAO technical units, government institutions, development partners, and other stakeholders. Support the integration of environmental, climate change, gender, youth, and social inclusion considerations into FAO programmes and projects. Contribute to technical reports, policy briefs, knowledge products, presentations, and programme documentation. Support environmental and social safeguards compliance through screening, risk assessment, mitigation planning, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring. Contribute to programme monitoring, evaluation, and reporting by preparing progress reports and documenting achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations. Identify and support resource mobilization opportunities, including project pipelines, investment concepts, funding proposals, and partnership engagement materials. Represent FAO in technical meetings, working groups, coordination forums, and policy dialogues, including relevant national platforms. Engage and communicate with stakeholders at national, regional, and district levels to inform project design and delivery. Participate in UN Outcome groups and prepare reports in UN Info as required. Perform other duties specified by the supervisor in support of FAO’s mission and strategic framework. Requirements Advanced university degree in a relevant climate change, environmental, agricultural, natural resource management, or sustainable development discipline. At least seven years of relevant professional experience. Technical expertise in climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental management, natural resource management, climate finance, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, or sustainable agriculture. Experience conducting climate risk, vulnerability, ecosystem, environmental, and resilience assessments. Knowledge of project formulation, donor requirements, environmental and social safeguards, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. Ability to coordinate government institutions, development partners, research institutions, civil society organizations, communities, and private sector stakeholders. Strong technical writing, analytical, communication, coordination, relationship-building, and knowledge-sharing skills. Working knowledge of English. Tanzanian nationality. How to apply Complete your online profile on the FAO recruitment portal, attach a letter of motivation and submit your application. Only applications received through the FAO recruitment portal will be considered. Apply here https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2602183 Apply for this job