Livelihoods, Climate & Resilience Advisor

About the role

World Vision Malawi is looking for a Livelihoods, Climate and Resilience Advisor to provide technical leadership for its work strengthening resilient livelihoods and household and community resilience across 28 Area Development Programmes in 16 districts. Working with local partners and through sponsorship-funded, grant-funded and humanitarian programming, the Advisor supports THRIVE, fuel-efficient cookstove programming, market-based livestock pass-on, climate adaptation and anticipatory action. The post is a local fixed-term position.

Key responsibilities

• Resource mobilisation: track opportunities, build fundable concepts and technical content for proposals, map donors and climate finance mechanisms (including the Green Climate Fund, GEF, Adaptation Fund and bilateral programmes), and run targeted donor and government meetings
• Programme quality and technical support: guide livelihoods, climate adaptation, resilience and anticipatory action programmes, lead technical consultations, develop guidance and tools, and review reports and after-action reviews
• Programme design: contribute to needs, climate and disaster risk and market analyses, co-design programmes with partners, and help prepare designs with costed budgets
• Sector coordination: represent World Vision Malawi in national and district coordination mechanisms (Food Security Cluster, Agriculture Cluster, anticipatory action working groups, CISONECC) and keep coordination trackers updated
• Partnership development: assess and onboard local partners, clarify roles in proposals and budgets, and coordinate MoUs with ministries, district authorities and climate finance entities

Required profile

• Master's degree in Livelihoods, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environmental Studies, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, International Development or a related field; a relevant bachelor's degree with substantial additional experience may be considered
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in livelihoods, climate adaptation, resilience, disaster risk management, programme design, technical advisory or programme quality
• Demonstrated experience in market-based approaches, partnership development, donor and government engagement, and designing with contextual, market and risk analysis
• Experience with local partners, government structures and private sector actors, and knowledge of Malawi's context and policies

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and standard programme design and reporting tools
• Strong facilitation, analytical, writing and relationship-building skills