Mercy Corps is a world staff of humanitarians working collectively on the entrance strains of right this moment’s largest crises to create a way forward for chance, the place everybody can prosper. In additional than 40+ international locations world wide, over 5,400+ staff members work aspect by aspect with individuals dwelling by means of poverty, catastrophe, violent battle, and the acute impacts of local weather change. We’re dedicated to creating world change by means of native impression — 84% of our staff members are from the international locations the place they work.

We deliver a complete strategy to each problem, addressing issues from a number of angles. And we transcend emergency assist, partnering with native governments, forward-thinking companies, social entrepreneurs, and folks dwelling in fragile communities to develop daring options that make lasting change doable.

About Packages at Mercy Corps

The Packages perform at Mercy Corps helps its mission and works with program impression, innovation, and affect groups. The Program Operate consists of headquarters and regional departments that are guided by Mercy Corps world technique: Pathway to Chance and works in shut partnership with all different company departments to ship the best high quality programming and impactful outcomes. The Program Workforce aligns carefully with the Pathway to Chance, and works to ship on elevated accountability, alignment, and honest and clear useful resource allocation, whereas performing with its Core Behaviors of collaboration, curiosity, inclusion, and integrity on the forefront. The Packages perform is a key steward of Mercy Corps’ strategic commitments and the mixing of those commitments into programming, inclusive of: Local weather Sensible, Regionally Led, Proof Pushed, Progressive and Inventive, and Secure, Numerous and Inclusive.

Our complete TRaQ Workforce is an integral a part of the Program Division that helps country-led work to ship measurable impression, leads company considering in key technical and program administration areas, and ensures high quality programing whereas sustaining company visibility with key audiences. TRaQ’s purpose is to equip our world packages with the best technical options and high quality program administration instruments to sort out the world’s hardest challenges, whereas concurrently constructing our world status and assets.

The TRaQ staff has 9 technical and cross-cutting thematic groups, Local weather and Water Safety, Financial Alternative, Meals Safety, Peace and Governance, World Resilience, Social Inclusion, Money, Infrastructure, Coaching and Program Requirements. This place will probably be a part of the Local weather and Water staff. Every staff has established targets and techniques that may information the Senior Advisors work

 

The Place

Supporting company priorities, the Local weather and Water Safety staff is especially centered on technical assist within the areas of local weather change adaptation and low carbon growth, together with catastrophe threat discount; pure useful resource administration and environmental conservation; and entry to vitality. The Senior Power Advisor will play a pivotal function in Mercy Corps’ Technical Help Unit, specializing in the event of recent companies and steering for the implementation of vitality tasks with a robust emphasis on modern fashions for renewable vitality entry. This function would require in-depth data of renewable vitality markets and vitality financing fashions and devices. The Senior Power Advisor will lead the cost in creating connections between vitality entry and entry to finance whereas contributing to enterprise mannequin growth, threat evaluation, and stakeholder engagement.

The Senior Advisor will primarily deal with serving to nation groups strengthen their portfolio of low carbon growth programming, by means of the mixing of renewable vitality. This can embrace integration of vitality issues in nation methods, creating idea notes, assist donor engagement, and producing influencing analysis merchandise. The Senior Advisor may also present robust technical recommendation and coaching in areas associated to entry to vitality and low carbon growth, together with: program design and growth; program high quality; community and illustration at key sector boards; and lead strategic partnerships and contribute to strategic discussions (internally and externally).

The Senior Advisor offers technical assist to Mercy Corps program groups within the Senior Advisor’s space of experience. Help contains designing and creating packages, assessing and enhancing program high quality, writing proposals for donors, offering coaching, creating humanitarian networks, sustaining present data on business greatest practices, disseminating data to inside and exterior companions, and representing Mercy Corps at key occasions. The Senior Advisor may also construct the capability of their friends and the group.

 

Important Tasks

PROGRAM DESIGN AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT

• Help nation technique refinement to combine renewable vitality as a catalyst for the Company’s technique, frequently elevating funds and amassing proof in collaboration with nation and regional groups.
• Write and assessment grant proposals and idea notes for donors together with foundations, companies, and authorities companies.
• Analysis, analyze, and assess information to find out program wants, priorities, and Mercy Corps’ benefits for funding; Keep data of growth methods by governmental, educational, and non-profit teams.
• Collaborate with program, nation, regional, and TRaQ groups on prepositioning and technique growth, and designing multi-sectoral packages that meet the outcomes and commitments in Mercy Corps’ 10-year technique.
• Lead write advanced, aggressive proposals following Mercy Corps’ greatest practices in proposal growth, staff administration, and the suitable sectoral space.

 

PROGRAM QUALITY

• Present vitality entry applied sciences and enterprise fashions technical assist to Mercy Corps’ groups globally, together with these in advanced disaster environments; Help efficient interventions by means of built-in approaches and techniques considering.
• Strengthen partnerships at world, regional and nation ranges with expertise firms, monetary service suppliers, impression traders, institutional donors, foundations, analysis institutes, UN companies, peer organizations, and host nation governments.
• Keep requirements of program supply by means of utility of company approaches and compliance with related laws and necessities.
• Enhance program capability inside Mercy Corps by means of creating and circulating instruments equivalent to coaching and workshops, manuals, case research, webinars, and monitoring and analysis instruments; Collaborate withDirector to set and execute methods addressing agency-wide program high quality wants.

 

LEARNING AND IMPACT

• Present in-country and distant coaching for Mercy Corps workers, companions, and packages with help on evaluation, implementation, analysis, and analysis.
• Construct a robust neighborhood of observe throughout Mercy Corps in your technical space to strengthen program high quality and construct a neighborhood of technical consultants.

 

INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

• Construct Mercy Corps’ status as a vital influencer in entry to vitality and low carbon growth in fragile contexts and develop our exterior visibility on related technical areas and lead exterior illustration efforts.
• Signify Mercy Corps at educational occasions, conferences, media boards, and different occasions; Contribute to thought management in space of experience.
• Determine 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 optimistic change.

 

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

● Show distinctive management by constantly delivering expectations and sustaining composure, even in difficult conditions.

● Embrace a progress mindset, actively search numerous views, and welcome suggestions to drive steady enchancment.

● Keep the best moral requirements, treating all people with respect and dignity.

● Show professionalism in all facets of life, making certain that your conduct displays positively on Mercy Corps and doesn’t compromise its mission or work.

● Rent, orient and lead staff members as needed.

Supervisory Accountability

The place has supervisory duty over interns and/or volunteers. At occasions this place can have supervisory responsibilityover different staff members when there isn’t any Director on the staff.

 

Accountability

Experiences Instantly To: Director of Power Entry

Works Instantly With: all different TRaQ groups, HQ, Regional and Program groups

 

Accountability to Members and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps staff members are anticipated to assist all efforts towards accountability, particularly to our program individuals, neighborhood companions, different stakeholders, and to worldwide requirements guiding worldwide aid and growth work. We’re dedicated to actively partaking communities as equal companions within the design, monitoring and analysis of our area tasks.

 

Minimal Qualification & Transferable Abilities

• 5 to 7 years of expertise required offering more and more proficient technical assist within the related area of experience that features:
  • Grant writing, analysis, and proposal growth.
  • Main all facets of enormous and complicated proposals and managing built-in grant writing groups.
  • Producing and publishing influential articles and blogs.
  • Combining robust theoretical and utilized data of the sphere of experience utilizing built-in approaches and making use of techniques considering.
• Diploma in vitality engineering, local weather finance, environmental coverage or administration, or different local weather change-related specialties most popular.
• Sensible area expertise required, usually over the course of two years, that features:
  • A brief length area task, longer-term area assignments, or dwelling in a area location to work in a rustic or area workplace.
  • An emergency response task or different disaster response work demonstrating efficiently adapting assist and help methodologies to real-world complexities.
  • Managing and implementing profitable packages.
  • Delivering Capability Constructing curriculum or different processes for program groups.
• Familiarity with main donors equivalent to USAID, FCDO, the EC and related foundations and companies.
• Fluency in English is required; fluency in a international language most popular.

Success Elements

The Senior Advisor can have important expertise managing packages and adjusting technical theories to actual world complexities. The person ought to have the confirmed potential to affect donors, companions, and peer organizations towards modern packages and greatest practices. By their expertise managing giant or advanced proposals, the person will be capable to coach different Mercy Corps workers on adjusting their methodology. The Senior Advisor should take a lead function in constructing and sustaining exterior relationships in addition to demonstrating the drive and initiative to contribute to inside staff efforts.

At Mercy Corps, we worth staff members who embrace curiosity, act with integrity, and foster an surroundings of inclusion and collaboration. Our profitable staff members work successfully in evolving and dynamic environments, prioritize clear communication, and construct collaborative relationships throughout departments. They work together with all world staff members with an inclusive strategy and excel at multitasking, assembly deadlines, and processing data to assist our altering program actions.

Dwelling Situations / Environmental Situations

The place is predicated in UK or NL and it requires as much as 40% journey to assist nation packages, which can embrace journey to insecure places the place freedom of motion is proscribed and areas the place facilities are restricted.

Ongoing Studying

In assist of our perception that studying organizations are simpler, environment friendly and related to the communities we serve, we empower all staff members to dedicate 5% of their time to studying actions that additional their private and/or skilled progress and growth

 

Range, Fairness & Inclusion

Reaching our mission begins with how we construct our staff and work collectively. By 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 remedy the world’s most advanced challenges. We try 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 numerous, 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 numerous backgrounds, views, and expertise in order that we might be collectively stronger and have sustained world 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, shade, gender identification, gender expression, faith, age, sexual orientation, nationwide or ethnic origin, incapacity (together with HIV/AIDS standing), marital standing, navy veteran standing or every other protected group within the places the place we work.

 

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is dedicated to making sure that each one people we come into contact with by means of our work, whether or not staff members, neighborhood members, program individuals or others, are handled with respect and dignity. We’re dedicated to the core ideas relating to prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary Basic and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We is not going to tolerate baby abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our staff members. As a part of our dedication to a protected and inclusive work surroundings, staff 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 obligatory Code of Conduct elearning programs upon rent and on an annual foundation.