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, livestock pass-on, climate adaptation and anticipatory action. The post is a local fixed-term position.

Key responsibilities

• Resource mobilisation: track opportunities, develop fundable concepts, map donors and climate finance mechanisms (including the Green Climate Fund, GEF, Adaptation Fund and bilateral programmes), and prepare proposals and donor/government engagements
• Technical guidance: advise on livelihoods, climate adaptation, resilience, disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action programmes, and lead or facilitate technical consultations with government and partners
• Tools and learning: work with M&EAL to build assessment, monitoring and learning tools, and review programme and donor reports for technical accuracy
• Programme design: contribute to needs, climate and disaster risk and market analyses, co-design programmes with partners, and prepare designs with costed budgets
• Coordination: represent World Vision Malawi in national and district coordination mechanisms (Food Security Cluster, Agriculture Cluster, anticipatory action working groups, CISONECC) and maintain an engagement tracker
• Partnerships: assess and onboard local partners, clarify roles in proposals and budgets, and coordinate MoUs with ministries and institutions

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 design using contextual, market and risk analysis
• Knowledge of Malawi's context and policies, and of climate finance and humanitarian funding mechanisms
• Strong facilitation, analytical, writing and relationship-building skills

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Standard programme design and reporting tools