About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the assumption that a greater world is feasible. To do that, we all know our groups do their finest work when they’re various and each workforce member feels that they belong. We welcome various backgrounds, views, and expertise in order that we may be stronger and have long run impression.
The Division
Mercy Corps’ Technical Assist Unit (TSU) is a key a part of the Program Division. TSU subject-matter specialists assist set company technique and supply session – from evaluation and design via mission implementation and outcomes measurement – to discipline places of work worldwide, in a few of the world’s hardest locations. TSU workforce members lead analysis, foster organizational studying, symbolize Mercy Corps to exterior audiences, and develop partnerships. The TSU can also be integral to international enterprise improvement and income.
The Surroundings Workforce is a central a part of the TSU. The workforce offers technical management because it pertains to local weather resilience, water safety, power entry and environmental safeguarding.
The Place
The Local weather Knowledge & Expertise Advisor will assist develop Mercy Corps’ potential to combine top quality geospatial knowledge and choice making instruments into their applications and operations. In 2022 Mercy Corps accomplished its new 2030 World Technique. The brand new technique established an formidable new international local weather dedication, which expenses the company with scaling up our local weather programming. Bettering the companies capability to make the most of local weather knowledge for key choice making, technique and program approaches is vital to the success of this dedication. The Sr. Advisor studies to the Sr. Director of Local weather & Water Safety, and can change into a part of a strategic workforce working to advance Mercy Corps international local weather dedication.
The Sr. Advisor is liable for supporting Mercy Corps groups (international, regional, nation and program) on two fronts. First, the Advisor will work throughout groups to enhance the utilization of local weather and surroundings knowledge and related applied sciences to tell strategic selections making, program design and different related operations. This may contain working throughout groups (TSU, Disaster Analytics, Expertise, Compliance) to foster a coherent technique and coordination across the use and scale-up of local weather data at Mercy corps. Present technical help, coaching, and capability constructing help to Mercy Corps’s Local weather IQ on using local weather, climate and different related surroundings data for decision-making and threat administration. The Sr. Advisor can even foster partnerships with international, regional and nationwide stakeholders to help and facilitate these efforts.
Second, the Sr. Advisor will work in partnership with nation and program groups on the design and implementation of on-the-ground program methods that stretch entry to local weather data providers for many weak populations. On this regard the Sr. Advisor will collaborate with nation groups to know and interpret local weather and climate providers knowledge that handle the wants of assorted stakeholders, together with authorities companies, non-profit organizations, and personal sector companions. The Sr. Advisor will work with nation groups to undertake assessments, and design program fashions obligatory to enhance entry to those providers. In help of this work, the Sr. Advisor can even develop evaluation pointers, technical instruments, program approaches, partnerships and analysis to assist Mercy Corps groups advance its local weather and climate providers programming. Lastly, the Sr. Advisor will work with Mercy Corps’ Analysis and Studying workforce to judge programmatic interventions and undertake assessments to know “what works”.
Important Job Obligations
STRATEGY
- Work throughout groups (TSU, Disaster Analytics, Expertise, Compliance) to foster a coherent technique and coordination across the use and scale-up of local weather and surroundings data at Mercy Corps.
- Articulate and develop regional and nation methods for establishing and/or scaling up approaches to handle inequitable entry to local weather and climate data providers for weak populations.
- Develop analytical merchandise to help the applying of local weather knowledge for technique processes comparable to nation methods and nationwide stage local weather motion plans.
- Preserve updated on related methods being developed or utilized by important governmental, tutorial, and non-profit teams. Work with Mercy Corps to find out how the company can finest work with and/or affect such supplies.
PROGRAM AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT
- Domesticate and nurture donor relationships and strategic partnerships that positively impression Mercy Corps potential to affect program methods and proposal design, in addition to strategic partnerships that end in stronger and impactful program improvement efforts.
- Analysis and articulate Mercy Corps’ portfolio and capability to make use of expertise, knowledge, and knowledge science to drive local weather adaptation, resilience, and water safety approaches, including that strategic imaginative and prescient to proposals and idea notes.
- Write/overview related proposals and idea notes for funding from donors together with foundations, firms and US, European, and UN companies.
- Work with applications, nation/regional groups, and technical help items on prepositioning and improvement of methods.
- Collect/analyze knowledge and full assessments to find out neighborhood wants and priorities and Mercy Corps’ aggressive benefit for funding.
- Work with different TSU members on the design and help of multi-sectoral applications that embody components of broader company targets comparable to water safety, financial improvement, peace and governance and meals safety.
PROGRAM QUALITY & TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
- Establish knowledge sources that hyperlink local weather and environmental knowledge to program design and adaptation; work with T4D and IT to judge alternatives for wider knowledge and expertise use and to pilot knowledge evaluation and technical instruments that help use of local weather and environmental knowledge in program choice cycles.
- In collaboration with different tech/knowledge actors at Mercy Corps, work with applications and nation groups to pilot knowledge analyses that promote using local weather and environmental knowledge in program design and adaptation.
- Take part as an lively, built-in member of the workforce offering technical help to a portfolio of discipline applications together with these in complicated disaster environments.
- Construct capability with Mercy Corps workers and companions to raised design and implement applications.
- Take management in figuring out and addressing program high quality wants. Collaborate with discipline leaders to downside clear up.
LEARNING AND IMPACT
- Work with the analysis and studying workforce to judge the impression of program interventions to tell replication and scaling up of efficient approaches.
- Contribute to agency-wide initiatives such because the analysis agenda round Thought Management precedence subjects.
- Present in-country and distant coaching and help for Mercy Corps workers, companions, and others.
- Assist new and ongoing applications with finest observe recommendation and help on evaluation, implementation, analysis, and analysis wants.
- Conduct assessments; write case research, studying paperwork, brief articles, and blogs; and develop inner and exterior disseminate plan for all merchandise.
- Nurture partnerships with universities, analysis establishments, and different organizations to provide case research, assessments, and different studying documentation, in addition to improve program high quality.
POLICY, ADVOCACY, REPRESENTATION
- Symbolize Mercy Corps at tutorial occasions, conferences, media boards, and different occasions; contribute to thought management in space of experience.
- Establish and nurture strategic partnerships with different organizations and establishments.
- Current ideas and concepts to donors, companions, and peer organizations that affect them to drive innovation and constructive change.
ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
· As a part of our dedication to organizational studying and in help of our understanding that studying organizations are more practical, environment friendly and related to the communities they serve, we anticipate all workforce members to commit 5% of their time to studying actions that profit Mercy Corps in addition to themselves.
ACCOUNTABILITY TO BENEFICIARIES
· Mercy Corps workforce members are anticipated to help all efforts towards accountability, particularly to our beneficiaries and to worldwide requirements guiding worldwide reduction and improvement work, whereas actively partaking beneficiary communities as equal companions within the design, monitoring and analysis of our discipline initiatives.
Supervisory Duty
Consultants on managed initiatives
Accountability
Stories Immediately To: Sr. Director, Local weather and Water Safety, Technical Assist Unit.
Works Immediately With: Different TSU Groups, Related field-based PMs, World Disaster Analytics and discipline groups, program and nation groups, HQ-based Program Operations, Finance, PAQ/MEL.
Minimal Qualification & Transferable Expertise
- Bachelor’s diploma in a related discipline most popular, together with however not restricted to worldwide improvement (and associated topic areas), local weather and environmental sciences, knowledge sciences, geographic data sciences. Demonstrated superior talent and expertise will probably be thought-about in lieu of academic necessities.
- Demonstrated expertise in using local weather and surroundings knowledge for improvement and humanitarian outcomes.
- Demonstrated understanding of the panorama of actors engaged in local weather and climate providers work, and customary approaches being utilized by improvement actors in strengthening entry to local weather and climate providers.
- Expertise engaged on (or with) programming which improves entry to, or utilization of, local weather data for marginalized and weak populations.
- Demonstrated talent and expertise with primary geospatial evaluation together with desktop GIS instruments is required; superior geospatial programming (together with with Google Earth Engine) and knowledge visualization expertise are fascinating, however not obligatory.
- Expertise within the software of geospatial knowledge science for worldwide improvement and/ or environmental functions (comparable to pure useful resource administration or conservation, environmental change or land-use knowledge) is strongly most popular.
- Demonstrated expertise in coaching/capacity-building (in individual or and/or distant) and in fostering collaborative relationships with practitioners and mission administration is most popular.
- Demonstrated familiarity with technical product design, together with person wants assessments, specs drafting, and so on is an asset.
- Capability to work successfully with ethnically various groups in a delicate surroundings, and work with geographically dispersed groups.
- Wonderful oral and written English expertise required; proficiency in French, Spanish, and/or Arabic fascinating.
Success Components
In the beginning the profitable candidate can have demonstrated expertise working on the intersection of local weather change and humanitarian assist and improvement in addition to knowledge and expertise. They’ll perceive the alternatives and challenges confronted by NGOs working at this intersection and display and understanding of sensible approaches to utilizing knowledge and expertise to assist them. They’ll display a dedication to user-centered design, that prioritizes finish customers and their choice making wants.
All members of our TSU workforce are anticipated to be robust communicators who can successfully work with colleagues from a wide range of technical and non-technical backgrounds. They’re help oriented. They take a user-centered strategy, working to satisfy potential end-users the place they’re to realize one of the best consequence. They don’t hesitate to hunt clarification and help when wanted and are capable of clarify technical ideas to a non-technical viewers. They see themselves as a part of a workforce. They’re interested by different individuals’s concepts and views and keen to share their very own. They welcome and proactively search suggestions and are concerned about exploring various paths to fixing an issue.
Dwelling Situations / Environmental Situations
This can be a place open to candidates licensed to work within the US, UK, Netherland and Switzerland.
Ongoing Studying
In help of our perception that studying organizations are more practical, environment friendly and related to the communities we serve, we empower all workforce members to dedicate 5% of their time to studying actions that additional their private and/or skilled development and improvement
Range, Fairness & Inclusion
Reaching our mission begins with how we construct our workforce and work collectively. By way of our dedication to enriching our group with individuals of various origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and methods of considering, we’re higher capable of leverage the collective energy of our groups and clear up the world’s most complicated challenges. We attempt for a tradition of belief and respect, the place everybody contributes their views and genuine selves, reaches their potential as people and groups, and collaborates to do one of the best work of their lives.
We acknowledge that range and inclusion is a journey, and we’re dedicated to studying, listening and evolving to change into extra various, equitable and inclusive than we’re right this moment.
Equal Employment Alternative
Mercy Corps is an equal alternative employer that doesn’t tolerate discrimination on any foundation. We actively search out various backgrounds, views, and expertise in order that we may be collectively stronger and have sustained international impression.
We’re dedicated to offering an surroundings of respect and psychological security the place equal employment alternatives can be found to all. We don’t have interaction in or tolerate discrimination on the premise of race, colour, gender id, gender expression, faith, age, sexual orientation, nationwide or ethnic origin, incapacity (together with HIV/AIDS standing), marital standing, navy veteran standing or another protected group within the places the place we work.
Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is dedicated to making sure that every one people we come into contact with via our work, whether or not workforce members, neighborhood members, program individuals or others, are handled with respect and dignity. We’re dedicated to the core rules concerning prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary Common and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We won’t tolerate baby abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our workforce members. As a part of our dedication to a secure and inclusive work surroundings, workforce members are anticipated to conduct themselves in an expert method, respect native legal guidelines and customs, and to stick to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values always. Workforce members are required to finish necessary Code of Conduct elearning programs upon rent and on an annual foundation.