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Title | Climate Change Consultant |
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Itad is a consultancy company providing technical expertise to international development programmes, projects and institutions. The work covers a range of sectors, including Climate Change, Private Sector Development, working within Fragile and Conflict affected states, Health, Governance and Social Protection and Livelihoods. Within the broad development sector, Itad is best known for its work in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). Our projects range from designing M&E systems for multi-million pound initiatives, to conducting long-term impact evaluations in multiple countries as well as providing strategic support to programmes. For more information see our website www.itad.com. The successful candidate will be educated to postgraduate level with at least ten years' relevant experience. They should be willing to live and work in the Brighton and Hove area (UK). Itad is a values based company, committed to ensuring that we carry our values through our everyday work. We attach great importance to maintaining a positive, friendly and supportive atmosphere within our office. You can read more about our values here. Salary to be negotiated depending on experience, plus bonus and other benefits. The role: The purpose of this role is to lead and support the strategic, technical and managerial delivery of Itad’s Climate Change Theme. Part of the role will involve the further growth, management and delivery of a portfolio of climate change M&E-related assignments including Itad’s role in two headline projects – theDFID BRACED Knowledge Manager and the ICF Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). Further information on these projects can be found below. This is a technical role and proven experience of applying different development evaluation designs and methods, in the context of climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security, livelihoods, natural resource management, social protection or similar fields, as well as working in low income countries, are pre-requisites. The post holder should have significant experience of using a variety of evaluation approaches including quantitative and qualitative methods in development evaluations. You will be able to develop strong working relationships with clients, partners and stakeholders and will have the ability to lead, manage and motivate others. Candidates should demonstrate confident communication and negotiation skills, commercial acumen and a proven ability to deal with staff, collaborators and partners from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. The post holder will work under the line management of Itad’s Associate Director and Climate Change Theme Leader. To apply: Application is by CV and covering letter by midday 29th February 2016. We would like the selected candidate to start as soon as possible. Only successful candidates will be contacted. Job Description - Principal Consultant – Climate Change Core Responsibilities: The purpose of this role is to lead and support the strategic, technical and managerial delivery of Itad’s Climate Change Theme. This is a technical role and proven experience of applying different development evaluation designs and methods, in the context of climate change adaptation, mitigation, food security, livelihoods, natural resource management, social protection or similar fields, as well as working in low income countries, are pre-requisites. Line Manager: Itad’s Associate Director and Climate Change Theme Leader Key responsibilities of this role: 1) Manage and lead the technical delivery of specific climate change M&E assignments being delivered by Itad (Approx. 60% of time): Project Implementation – Technical:
Project Implementation – Management:
Project Acquisition:
2) Provide technical / methodological M&E advice to the Climate Change Theme team to support the delivery of Itad’s climate change assignments (Approx. 15-20% of time):
3) Support and promote ‘thought leadership’ in climate change M&E through the generation and sharing of new knowledge (Approx. 15-20% of time):
4) Cross company working and professional development (Approx. 5-10% of time)
Skills and experience required:
Benchmarks Itad consultants are required to prepare annual work plans that include financial benchmarks for fee-earning and project management as well as objectives for professional development and collaborative working. You will be expected to work efficiently and effectively to achieve performance benchmarks that relate to your job. Rewards We offer a competitive remuneration package. Salary will be negotiable depending on experience and qualifications. We also provide matched stakeholder pension contributions, a performance related bonus, and attractive conditions of service. Itad’s Climate Change portfolio The threats posed by climate change are global and have the potential to reverse hard-fought development gains.We believe the transformative change needed to address these threats must be based on a robust understandingof what works and why.Our services range from evaluating the programmes and organisations responsible for delivering climateresilience, to designing innovative monitoring and indicator frameworks to assess transformative capacity. We work to:
The selected candidate for this position will be required to support the delivery of two headline projects within the Climate Change portfolio – the DFID BRACED Knowledge Manager and the ICF Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL). You will work with staff members across the company to deliver these projectS but specifically with Robbie Gregorowksi who leads with the Climate Change Theme, Dave Wilsonwho works on the BRACED project, Sarah Standley who works on the ICF MEL project and Clare Shaw who supports both projects. DFID’s Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme DFID’s £140m Building Resilience and Adapting to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) Programme was launched in 2014 to respond to the changing magnitude and frequency of droughts, floods and cyclones and other climate extremes. The BRACED Programme aims to benefit an estimated 5 million people through grants to NGOs and their partners, to scale up proven technologies and practices in the Sahel and DFID focal countries at most risk. Working with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Itad is leading the delivery of the M&E components for the BRACED Knowledge Manager (KM) and, with a consortium of global partners, helps BRACED deliver a sustained and transformational impact on people’s resilience beyond the communities directly supported by funded projects. Itad is responsible for leading all KM monitoring and evaluation activities. Our role is divided into two components. First, we generate knowledge through supporting BRACED Programme grantees with project monitoring and routine results reporting. Second, we are implementing research and evaluation activities at the programme, project and thematic level. The global focus of our work means that DFID, their focal countries and international partners will have access to shared knowledge about what works to strengthen resilience to climate extremes. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning from the International Climate Fund (ICF MEL) Itad is a core partner in a consortium led by IMC Worldwide delivering multi-year, multi-country support to the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) processes for the International Climate Fund. This complex evaluation is based around three components: (i) Indicators: Complete development and testing of a set of robust key performance indicators (KPIs) |