- Where
- Freetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
- Level
- Mid
About Trócaire
Trócaire is an International NGO. We work with local partners in the world’s most at-risk communities and with people in Ireland to tackle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice and respond to the crises they create. Together we bring about positive and lasting change for a just world. Trócaire works in up to 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. We work towards five goals:
Promote Access to Justice;
Achieve Climate & Environmental Justice;
Ensure Women & Girls’ Protection, Voice & Influence;
Save Lives and Protect Human Dignity and
Mobilise the Public on the island of Ireland to achieve Global Justice.
Our work is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching and in our values of Solidarity, Courage, Participation, Perseverance and Accountability.
In Sierra Leone since 1995, Trócaire works to achieve climate and environmental justice; ensure women and girls’ protection, voice & influence; and save lives and protect human dignity. Trócaire supports work on the prevention of sexual and gender-based violence, women’s political participation and leadership, sustainable livelihoods and economic empowerment, natural resource management and environmental conservation, and humanitarian preparedness and response.
Trócaire works exclusively with local partners and actively supports localized development and humanitarian aid. Supporting local civil society organisations to strengthen their organizational, institutional, financial, technical, and managerial capacities is core to Trócaire’s partnership approach in Sierra Leone.
Trócaire is currently seeking to recruit a Project Officer – Climate Resilience & Gender to join our dynamic and passionate Programme Team. The role will report to the Lite Salone Programme Lead, with matrix management to the Programme Technical Lead - Climate Change Policy & Advocacy.
Role Summary
The Project Officer – Gender and Climate Resilience will play a key role in supporting the management, capacity strengthening and accompaniment of Trócaire’s partners and projects under Trócaire’s climate change programme – that aims to enhance women, youth and communities resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation in Sierra Leone. The role will have a focus on gender, women’s empowerment and social norms change within the climate change programming. This programme includes seven partners currently funded through Irish Aid in 4 Districts (Kambia, Port Loko, Karene and Western Area Rural) under two projects: Lite Salone and Ireland’s Civil Society Partnership for A Better World (ICSP). Lite Salone is an innovative, ambitious renewable energy project aiming to bring affordable solar energy to all last mile households in Kambia District. It is currently at pilot phase of testing solar Energy as a Service (EaaS), gathering evidence for replication and scale. The Gender and Climate Resilience Officer will play a key role in supporting the Lite Salone Programme Lead and Programme Technical Lead – Climate Change Policy & Advocacy in ensuring the needs and priorities of women are kept at the fore front of the climate programme. The role will provide also learning opportunities for the right candidate.
The ideal candidate will be a dynamic, proactive and results-oriented with a track record and passion for gender, womens empowerment and social norms change within climate programming and working with local partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Partnership, Capacity Strengthening & Programme Quality
Lite Salone :
Support the Lite Salone Programme Lead in the day-to-day management and accompaniment of the local implementing partner based in Kambia including:
Supporting the preparation, administration and filing of partner project related documents in hard copy and in salesforce;
Supporting the team to keep the partner project on salesforce up to date;
Assist in timely preparation of paperwork needed for partner grant transfers;
Assist in logistics…