Your tasks

• Project Management: take responsibility for planning and implementing projects and manage team members, stakeholder networks and dialogues.
• Conceptual Design and Acquisition: develop ideas, analyses and projects on how foreign, development and climate policy can and should evolve in the view of climate-fragility risks, and thereby support the team in acquiring new projects.
• Capacity-Building: design trainings to effectively convey the available knowledge to policy-makers and practitioners from relevant sectors (foreign, development, humanitarian, security, climate policy), and implement these.
• Teamwork: build on your expertise and experience in climate, foreign, security and/or development policy and act as a mentor and sparring partner for your colleagues.
• Research, Analysis, Policy Advice: bring or develop a thorough understanding of climate security issues and become a trusted contact person for project partners from different sectoral communities.
• Communication: write reports, opinion pieces and develop communication strategies for effectively disseminating the results and insights from projects.
• As a colleague in our Climate, Diplomacy and Security team you contribute to the strategic orientation and further development of our services; you manage and write successful proposals and participate in other business development activities. You guide and advise junior team members, and you exchange with your colleagues on a regular basis to continuously advance our team’s expertise, quality of services and team spirit.

Your qualifications

• Experience and interest in managing complex projects, stakeholder networks and dialogues
• A Master’s degree that relates to the topic
• At least 5-8 years of relevant working experience, eg. in international politics, climate or development policy or practise
• Knowledge of and strong interest in the fields of climate security, conflict analysis and sensitivity, and/or peace-building
• Field research and ability/interest in short-term travel beyond OECD countries, including fragile countries/situations
• Excellent analytical or writing skills, ability to work in teams, and inter-cultural competence
• Competent and confident presenter in international settings, solutions and client-oriented project management
• Flexibility and the ability to work independently

Desired:

• Project implementation experience in peacebuilding/social cohesion/resilience
  
• Excellent writing and communication in French
  
• Knowledge/work experience on: integrating environment/climate aspects into peace negotiations and mediation, migration/displacement and climate change, gender and social cohesion in climate and security policy, rural and urban resilience.
  
• Familiarity with climate change and security arena (actors, processes, events), contacts, networks in the global south
  
• Publication record targeted at policy audiences