Job description
Duties and responsibilities
· Leads the implementation of the ACT Alliance Africa consortium led Accelerating Adaptation Action Through Faith-Led Advocacy in Africa project, its monitoring and reporting, under the guidance of the Climate Justice Programme Manager
· Coordinates ACT National and regional forums on climate-related topics
· Supports coordination of regional Communities of Practice on Climate change
· Supports the advocacy and engagement of ACT Alliance in the context of UN processes, such as the UNFCCC, and others as appropriate.
· This role will entail 15-25% travel
Technical guidance, advice, and substantive leadership
· Support the undertaking of research, analysis, and evaluation of climate change intersections with social, economic, and humanitarian issues, and advise Climate Justice Programme Manager and team as appropriate.
· Coordinate regional ACT Alliance’s climate change policy and advocacy work, campaigning, including policy briefs, position papers, information sharing, capacity building of members and forums, engaging with relevant international processes under the UNFCCC, an others as appropriate.
Project management
· Overseeing and implementing the “Accelerating Adaptation Action Through Faith-Led Advocacy in Africa projectincluding its activities and related internal and external communications monitoring and reporting, as well as budget management of project finances.
· Coordinating the project partnership to ensure effective and timely delivery of the project.
· Coordinating ACT Alliance regional climate structures including Forums working on climate change in the context of the project
· Establish the work plan, standards for measuring progress and results, and determine the processes, tools, and methodologies to be used to ensure effective and efficient project implementation.
· Monitor, manage and provide oversight to the different steps and stages of project implementation and timely actions to ensure results are achieved.
· Plan and oversee the implementation of required project evaluation to address any design or implementation issues.
Knowledge and capacity building
· Support the various structures at regional and national levels, and work intensively with ACT Alliance members and partners at regional and national level to help build ACT member and group capacities for project delivery
· Develop and widely disseminate knowledge products to strengthen secretariat and forum capacity on issues of climate justice
Profile required
Competences and behaviours
· Is committed to the values of the ACT Alliance and takes pride in delivering on agreed priorities according to the highest standards individually and as part of a global team.
· Proactively finds innovative and creative solutions, is efficient and reliable, adapts to change and uncertainty, is decisive and acts with integrity.
· Builds effective internal and external relationships, involves others when solving problems and treats others with consideration and respect in an alliance where faith is a key ingredient of people’s lives.
· Passion for building and developing core skills for the role and contributes knowledge outside of immediate own role.
· Effectively motivates, influences and develops others, drives high performance, inspires people to follow and acts as a role model.
Working relationships
· The candidate will be required to nurture and maintain relevant existing regional and national relationships
· Internally, the Senior Programme Officer - Climate Justice will report to the Global Climate Justice Programme Manager, and collaborate closely with the advocacy, programmes and communications teams as well as the regional representatives.
Skills and experiences
· At least 5 years’ experience in a project coordination, advocacy and/or campaigns role, including international experience in a network setting.
· Good understanding of global civil society working environment and multilateral processes within the UN with a particular focus on UNFCCC and the UN sustainable development and disaster risk reduction agenda.
· Profound knowledge about climate , adaptation, loss and damage, resilience and finance.
· Experience in engaging with regional processes and governments including facilitating multi-stakeholder communications and dialogues.
· Experience working with the faith sector is desirable.
· Advanced degree in climate change and environment studies, development studies, international relations, or any other relevant discipline.
· Demonstrated ability to work in multi-cultural situations and/or multi-locational settings using a flexible, collaborative approach.
· Demonstrated competency to build and maintain trust among diverse groups towards consistent collaborative work.
· Highly organised, with strong project management skills.
· Demonstrated experience in developing and undertaking capacity-building initiatives including in climate finance.
· Ability to manage one’s own work and time within the context of multiple responsibilities and projects, and a demonstrated capacity to work under pressure to deadlines.
· Excellent English written and verbal communication skills. Good knowledge of French is an asset.
Company description
ACT Alliance is the world’s largest coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches, and church-related organisations engaged in humanitarian, development and advocacy work. It consists of 164 members working together in over 120 countries, with headquarters in 73 countries, whose aim is to create a positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality in keeping with the highest international codes and standards. 70% of our members are headquartered in the Global South, 25% in the Global North, and 5% are Global members. For more details about the general work of ACT, please refer to http://www.actalliance.org/.
ACT provides equitable compensation and pension packages and flexible working conditions. ACT also applies a non-discriminatory approach to recruitment and celebrates a diverse workforce.
ACT adheres to the SCHR misconduct scheme https://www.schr.info/the-misconduct-disclosure-scheme. As part of reference checking, ACT will contact the current and former employer(s) of the preferred candidate, asking them to complete a Statement of Conduct form.
On 9/9/2026