🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Action Against Hunger – Environment & Climate Change Specialist

Specific Objectives:

Mission 1: Technical Leadership and Strategic Direction

• Lead the development and implementation of the environmental and conservation components of the NUCAMPS program.
• Ensure that environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and resilience strategies are scientifically and technically sound, context-specific, and gender-responsive.
• Oversee technical guidance to implementing partners on mangrove restoration, community woodlots, and energy-efficient cookstove initiatives.
• Promote ecosystem-based adaptation approaches and integration with WASH, FSL, and Nutrition activities.
• Contribute to national policy dialogue and advocacy efforts around climate and environmental governance.

Mission 2: Program Design and Planning

• Lead and support field assessments to identify intervention sites and ecological restoration needs.
• Collaborate with local authorities, communities, and CSOs to design inclusive conservation plans.
• Support the development of technical proposals, environmental baselines, and feasibility studies for project areas.
• Identify areas of synergies with other countries and regional climate and environment programs

Mission 3: Program Implementation and Quality Assurance

• Provide continuous field-level supervision and remote technical support to implementing partners.
• Ensure activities align with national environmental standards and are community-led.
• Monitor the implementation of restoration activities and energy initiatives, ensuring measurable climate mitigation impact.
• Promote use of nature-based solutions and environmental safeguards.

Mission 4: Monitoring, Learning and Innovation

• Work with MEAL and technical teams to define key environmental indicators and ensure quality data collection.
• Lead documentation of best practices, lessons learned, and community innovations in ecosystem restoration and climate action.
• Drive technical reviews, reflection workshops, and field exchange visits across districts.

Mission 5: Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination

• Represent Action Against Hunger/Consortium in environmental working groups, climate change platforms, and forestry networks at district and national levels.
• Liaise with ministries (e.g., EPA-SL, Ministry of Environment, Forestry Department) and other stakeholders to align project goals.
• Support cross-sectoral collaboration within the consortium and with national institutions.

Other Key task(s)

• Comply with all Action Against Hunger policies including Safeguarding

WORK CONDITIONS

STARTING DATE:  September 2025

REPORTING TO:   Consortium Coordinator

DURATION OF CONTRACT: Twelve(12) Months (Renewable)

LOCATION: Falaba with regular travel to  other field areas

HOW TO APPLY:

Send Motivation Letter, CV saved in your name – for example (Joe Blue CV) for your CV, and (Joe Blue Motivation Letter) for your motivation letter, with names of three (3) referees by EMAIL, under the Subject “” to  Environment & Climate Change Specialist

recruitment@sl-actionagainsthunger.org

Deadline for the receipt of applications is Wednesday 20th August 2025.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications may be sorted on a rolling basis.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a written test and oral interview.

Please state the position applied for on the subject line of your email.

Action Against Hunger is committed to Safeguarding Policy and safer recruitment.

                                             Women are strongly encouraged to apply