Project Officer - Gender and Climate Resilience

About the role

Trócaire, an international NGO working in Sierra Leone since 1995, is recruiting a Project Officer - Gender and Climate Resilience for its Programme Team. The role reports to the Lite Salone Programme Lead, with matrix management to the Programme Technical Lead on Climate Change Policy and Advocacy. It supports the management, capacity strengthening and accompaniment of partners and projects in Trócaire's climate change programme, which aims to build resilience and adaptation among women, youth and communities to climate change and environmental degradation. The focus is on gender, women's empowerment and social norms change within the programme, which covers seven partners funded through Irish Aid in four districts.

Key responsibilities

• Lite Salone: support the Programme Lead in managing and accompanying the local implementing partner in Kambia, including keeping project documents and Salesforce records up to date, preparing paperwork for grant transfers, handling logistics and float requisitions, and making regular field accompaniment visits with written feedback on progress.
• Ensure the pilot project proactively documents and prioritises the rights, voices and needs of women, working with the Technical Lead for Women's Empowerment.
• ICSP: support the Programme Technical Lead in managing ICSP CLIM partners, capacity building, coaching and mentoring of partners (especially Women-Centered Organizations), and field accompaniment visits.
• Coordinate with the Technical Lead for Women's Empowerment on gender inclusion, women's empowerment and social norms change in climate projects, and support partners on climate adaptation, mitigation and natural resource management.
• Participate in technical working group and steering committee meetings, document minutes, and review partner narrative and finance reports.
• Help draft partner sections of donor and service level agreement reports, contribute to case studies and lessons learned, host visitors and donors, and represent Trócaire at forums and events.
• Contribute to country-level strategic planning, program reviews and team learning, and carry out other duties assigned by the leads.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 2 years' experience in gender, women's empowerment and climate change programming.
• Experience working with local civil society partners or in partnership-based programming.
• Demonstrated experience in women's empowerment and gender inclusion within climate work.
• Experience facilitating meetings, workshops, capacity strengthening and community engagement.
• Fluent English (written and spoken); Creole is an added advantage.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong writing, interpersonal, communication, coordination and facilitation skills.
• Stakeholder engagement, diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Understanding of gender equality, women's economic empowerment, safeguarding and social inclusion principles.
• Planning, problem-solving, multitasking and prioritization; able to work independently and in a team.