Your responsibilities
- Technical leadership: Provide strategic and technical leadership in designing and integrating climate-smart and market-based approaches into food systems and resilience programming.
- Climate finance: Identify and pursue climate finance opportunities (e.g., bilateral and multilateral funds, foundations, blended-finance instruments); lead or advise on concept notes and proposals; support finance readiness, budgeting, and results frameworks; and strengthen partner capacities to access and manage climate finance.
- Partnerships and representation: Build and maintain effective relationships with government institutions, private sector actors, donors, and coordination platforms. Represent WHH in areas related to climate resilience, market systems, and climate finance.
- Policy and analysis: Lead analyses of national and regional climate resilience frameworks, strategies, and policies, including NAPs, NDCs, CAADP commitments, and DRR frameworks.
- Advocacy and influence: Support evidence-based advocacy and contribute to influencing agendas that promote climate-smart approaches and inclusive resilience-building. Represent the organization in high-level platforms, technical working groups, coordination forums and donor dialogues.
- Systems approaches: Promote inclusive value chains, climate-smart agriculture, and natural resource management using a market systems lens.
- Knowledge and learning: Lead research, evidence generation, and knowledge sharing; translate insights into practical guidance and program improvements; and support the development of learning briefs, policy notes, and knowledge-sharing across platforms.
- Resource mobilization: Provide strong technical inputs for competitive proposals and high-quality donor reports that integrate resilience, climate adaptation, market approaches, and climate finance.
- Capacity strengthening: Develop or adapt tools and guidelines and deliver trainings to build staff and partner capacities in climate resilience, systems thinking, and climate finance (including climate risk screening and cost–benefit/value-for-money analysis).
- Innovation and anticipatory action: Contribute to the development and scaling of innovative risk management and anticipatory action strategies. Engage actively in national and international fora to share learning and advocate for innovation.
- Social inclusion: Ensure the integration of gender equality, youth engagement, and social inclusion across all climate resilience programming.
Your profile
- Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Agriculture, Economics, Development Studies, or a related field.
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in climate resilience.
- Experience in market systems development and food systems programming is an advantage.
- Proven external representation with government, donors, and private sector stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing climate-smart, market-driven resilience interventions.
- Track record in identifying climate finance opportunities and contributing to/or leading concept notes and proposals; familiarity with donor requirements.
- Strong facilitation, communication, and networking skills; ability to influence and build partnerships.
- Solid analytical and writing skills, with the ability to turn evidence into strategies and advocacy messages.
- Fluency in English and Amharic is required; other local languages are an asset.
Our offer
We offer you the opportunity to work in a responsible and interesting field as part of an extremely dedicated team. Welthungerhilfe attaches great importance to the personal and professional development of its employees. Remuneration is based on our gender-independent salary scale.