Project Officer-Climate Change Governance at Christian Aid

About the role

The Climate Change Governance Project Officer role is responsible for contributing to the development of Christian Aid policy, strategy, thought leadership and communication in the Climate Change.  The role entails delivering the following key results:

• Effective project management in liaison with partners ensuring quality control, accountability and compliance within the framework of Christian Aid policies and procedures
• Effective documentation of the project and successful representation of Christian Aid and the projects’ best interests to relevant stakeholders

About you

With line management from the Program Officer-Climate Change, you will model and promote in your role, the three key desired behaviours–self-leadership, teamwork and decisiveness. You are proactive and able to work under pressure with minimal supervision to deliver quality and excellence in related results outlined above. You will work with the wider team in a spirit of cooperation, recognising that change is brought about through partnership with others. You will be accountable for your actions, recommendations and decisions in the context of Christian Aid’s vision of ending poverty.  You will also demonstrate adaptive programming with ability to translate thinking and decisions into results in a timely manner

Further information

This role requires applicants to have the right to work in the country where this position is based.

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Competency questions

As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:

Build partnerships

Tell us about a time when you were proactive in taking on new and additional work to achieve a team or organisational goal

• What was the situation? What was the new/additional work? What was your task? Why did you need to be pro-active? What did you do? Why? How? What was the outcome? What was the impact of what you did?

 Steward resources

 Tell us about a time when you had to estimate the resources you needed to achieve your own work objectives and then delivered them in an efficient and cost effective way

• What was the context? How had these circumstances arisen? What was your task or responsibility? What actions did you taking in first estimating what was needed and then delivering the work objectives? What was the outcome? Were you successful? If so, what was your evidence?

 Deliver results

Tell us about a time when you had to make recommendations or take decisions after analysing data, information and other evidence

• What was the background? What recommendations or decisions did you have to take? What was your particular task or responsibility? What actions did you take? How did analyse the information and data? What was the outcome? Were you successful?