Local weather Safety Advisor – Ethiopia

Since 2013 NORCAP has labored in partnership with the African Union Fee Peace and Safety Division (PSD) to fulfill their rising demand for certified and specialised civilian consultants. NORCAP have supported Peace and Safety initiatives particularly within the space of Peace Assist Operations, Battle Prevention, and Put up-Battle Reconstruction and Improvement.

Description for Inside Candidates

In November 2021, the African Union Peace and Safety Council (PSC) acknowledged the wide-ranging dangers of local weather change, as a menace multiplier, to the peace and safety panorama within the continent. Together with on meals and water insecurity, lack of livelihoods, failure of administration of pure assets, the shortage of water assets, climate-induced displacements, and probably aggravating current vulnerabilities, tensions and conflicts. The PSC additionally underlined the significance of adopting a climate-sensitive planning dimension in peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction and improvement efforts to stop any relapse to armed conflicts in fragile communities, whereas making certain its incorporation in nationwide and continental early-warning actions.

Subsequently, we’re in search of a Local weather Safety Advisor, to help and advise the Political Affairs, Peace and Safety Division and drive the local weather safety agenda throughout the African Union Fee.

The profitable candidate should even have a minimal of seven years {of professional} expertise in Regulation, Political Science, Worldwide Relations or a related Social Science.

That is an English-speaking function and to be eligible to use, you have to be fluent in English (written and verbal).

The place is positioned in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has a period of not less than 1 12 months.

To have the ability to apply, it’s necessary to have citizenship from member states of African Union.

Obligations for Inside Candidates

• To observe and report on wider world and regional tendencies and developments related to the efficient positioning and environment friendly functioning of the UNDP (United Nations Improvement Programme) supply on Local weather, Setting, Peace and Safety, in help of the implementation of the UNDP Strategic Plan;
• To supply strategic coverage recommendation evaluation and steerage on Local weather safety to the PAPS.
• To design coverage initiatives for various contexts on key rising coverage agendas, in collaboration with different AUC Stakeholders together with AUC Division of Rural Financial system and Agriculture;
• To information the standard assurance of coverage providers and foster coverage innovation within the particular thematic space to reinforce programme supply;
• To develop steerage and supply oversight on mainstreaming local weather safety and environmental approaches into AU Peace Operations technique and planning processes;
• To guide strategic evaluation, suppose items, briefs and reporting on issues pertaining to AU’s coverage and strategic priorities, work plans and dealing strategies in collaboration with different AUC stackeholders;
• To coordinate the PAPS Local weather and Safety efforts via making certain routine engagement of Member States on local weather safety points;
• To develops PAPS work-plan on local weather safety together with actions, engagements and merchandise;
• To facilitate the event of coverage paperwork on improvement options to addressing local weather safety dangers in Africa;
• To ascertain consensus on AUC frequent place on Local weather change, Peace and Safety via the completion of a research on the subject (as requested by the AU PSC in Could 2018), together with reworking the research right into a whole-Fee coverage doc to make sure a basis for the AUC’s response to local weather safety threats;
• To help the event of a Local weather Safety dangers methodology assessments as a foundation for implementing Local weather Safety early warning and early response and financing;
• To help engagement of AU Member States, RECs/RMs, UN companies, and AUC companions to successfully collaborate on problems with local weather safety, together with joint evaluation, response, and capability constructing;
• To help useful resource mobilization for the AU’s engagement on local weather safety;
• To develop local weather security-related merchandise to tell AUC management on local weather safety dangers going through the continent.
• To boost reporting capability for early warning programs and RECs early warning capabilities on local weather safety dangers.

{Qualifications} for Inside Candidates

• A Grasp’s diploma in Regulation, Political Science, Worldwide Relations, Political Financial system or Social Science;
• Minimal 7 years’ expertise in legislation, political science, worldwide relations, local weather change, pure useful resource administration, environmental assessments, disarmament, peace and safety, improvement administration, battle decision or associated areas is required.
• Expertise of Battle Prevention Programmes on the regional, nationwide and/or world ranges required;
• Expertise in Battle and Political Evaluation, and Technique Improvement required;
• Data and/or expertise of working with AU programmes could be an added worth
• Should have wonderful presentation and drafting expertise;
• Should be acquainted to reportings and briefings and assembly tight deadlines

Expertise and Competencies Required

• Capability to work inside a small subject workplace in tough circumstances, take initiative and be a staff participant; Pc literacy together with in phrase processing, spreadsheet and presentation software program;
• Capability to make new and helpful concepts work and persuade others to observe;
• Capability to hear, adapt, persuade and remodel.
• Capability to make use of strategies and instruments to observe battle triggers and decide impression of assorted dynamics in conflict-prone conditions.
• Capability to interact with different events and forge productive working relationships.
• Capability to effectively deal with and share info and data.
• Capability to handle complicated relationships via pathways of data trade, capability improvement, funding relationships and strategic engagement.

What we provide :

• Rewarding work for a famend world organisation
• Entry to a community of humanitarian, peace, and improvement professionals
• Be a part of NORCAP’s staff of consultants
• A devoted Employees Care Unit

The right way to apply

• When submitting your utility, kindly register in English your full employment historical past and schooling. Please embrace your full title as written in your passport. Uploaded CVs alone is not going to be reviewed.
• NORCAP values range, fairness and inclusion. We welcome purposes from all certified candidates.
• NORCAP reserves the best to conduct a full background test on shortlisted candidates
• Authorised Well being Certificates will probably be required previous to contract graduation and project
• Suggestions will probably be given to all candidates inside 4 weeks after the closing of this commercial.
• Apply earlier than 31 december 2022, 11:45 PM (Oslo time, Norway)