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Energy and Environment Specialist UNICEF Senegal P4 E Actions Apply

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Job Info
Organization Posting Date
NORCAP Experts 26-01-2024

Job Family Apply Before

Energy 10-02-2024 12:00 AM

Locations Posting Visibility

Dakar, Senegal Internal
Work Locations Full or Part Time
Dakar - Deployment Full time

Job Details
Employer Description

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in
crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We
stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve
international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal
Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their
own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to
considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known
risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and
physical ability.

Job Description

The role of the Energy and Environment Specialist will be to lead UNICEF regional initiatives and WCARO supported country
efforts to scale up the use of renewable energy to and low-carbon resilience building and development focusing on UNICEF
supported social sectors. They will report to the Programme Specialist Climate and work closely with other RO section
counterparts and will be located at the WCARO in Dakar, Senegal. Support provided will be both remote and in situ in a
maximum of 5 focus countries, including Nigeria.

This role will support UNICEF in strengthening its support to WCAR countries as they intensify their work in the Energy and
Environment area and strive to meet the increased needs of government systems and communities.

Responsibilities

1. Support the scaling up renewable energy usage and low carbon resilience building, climate mitigation and adaptation
activities in the region.
2. Support resource mobilization and provide linkages to regional and global efforts
3. Contribute to evidence, analysis, policy advocacy and positioning of UNICEF
4. Support Communication, Collaboration, Networking and Partnership

Qualifications

1. An advanced degree or higher qualification in climatology, geology or earth sciences, climate change adaptation,
disaster risk reduction, engineering, social and economic development, international cooperation, or environmental
sciences as well as additional project/financial management designations or a related field.
2. A basic understanding of UNICEF’s core commitments to children in humanitarian action, humanitarian principles,
standards, coordination mechanisms (including the WASH cluster), gender and diversity aspects of humanitarian work
and / or a willingness to learn these areas via the Humanitarian Learning Pathways.
3. 7 years of professional work experience in the UN or other international development organizations, national
governments, or the private sector.
4. Knowledge and proven analytical skills and experience in experience in renewable Energy / energy efficiency, low
carbon development, impact investment, project development, drafting, implementation, monitoring, reporting and
verification.
 5. Practical working experiences with planning, modelling, analysing, and incorporating energy, requirements in at least
one of the UNICEF sectors including WASH, education public health or other relevant areas.
6. Background/familiarity to approaches for development, implementation and management of renewable Energy /
energy efficiency and low carbon development approaches to disaster risk management and reduction, resilience
building, education, health and WASH.
7. Extensive knowledge of financial, regulatory and/or policy frameworks, renewable energy financial management
(including community involvement and capacity issues)
8. Ability to apply knowledge from contemporary research in the field of energy and translate this into humanitarian
settings.

Contacts
Eve Mutevu
EM eve.mutevu@nrc.no
Recruiter

Jørn-Casper Øwre jorn.owre@nrc.no

Hiring Manager 90697743