Climate Change Advisers (Australia Pacific Climate Partnership Support Unit)
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Employer: Palladium |
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Job location: Australia Australia |
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Apply before: 27 Jan 2019 |
Summary
The Climate Partnership Support Unit is hiring two Climate Change Advisers to join the project team. Reporting to the Team Leader, these advisers will engage, support, and provide technical advice to DFAT program managers in Canberra and at Posts, their respective implementation partners and Pacific stakeholders, to integrate climate and disaster resilience and low carbon development through DFAT aid investment programs in the Pacific. One of these two positions will also serve as the Deputy Team Leader of the Support Unit and will be required to obtain a Security Clearance.
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Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people\'s lives.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
Project Overview and Role
Project Overview
Australia is supporting Pacific governments, businesses and communities to strengthen climate change and disaster resilience. At the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum, Australia pledged to spend $500 million over five years to strengthen resilience in the Pacific from 2020. This builds on the commitment to spend $300 million over four years from 2016. Our support includes dedicated aid investments aimed at strengthening resilience, as well as a comprehensive effort to integrate climate change and disaster resilience into all areas of the aid program in the Pacific.
The Australia Pacific Climate Partnership (the Climate Partnership) is a $75 million investment over four years (2018-2024), funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). It aims to increase the effectiveness of Australia\'s support for climate change action and disaster resilience in the Pacific and has three key objectives:
Australian aid investments in the Pacific are climate change and disaster risk informed;
Australian supported climate change information is relevant and influential;
Australia is valued as a partner in climate change action in the Pacific.
The Climate Partnership Support Unit plays a key role in meeting the Program\'s objectives. It has a staff of technical experts based in Canberra and the Pacific who work with DFAT aid investment program managers to integrate climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR), broker knowledge between Climate Partnership components, Pacific partners and other actors, and undertake Program-wide monitoring, evaluation and learning. The Support Unit also manages an Expert Panel to provide specialist skills in priority sectors.
Purpose of the Positions:
The Climate Partnership Support Unit is hiring two Climate Change Advisers to join the project team. Reporting to the Team Leader, these advisers will engage, support, and provide technical advice to DFAT program managers in Canberra and at Posts, their respective implementation partners and Pacific stakeholders, to integrate climate and disaster resilience and low carbon development through DFAT aid investment programs in the Pacific. One of these two positions will also serve as the Deputy Team Leader of the Support Unit and will be required to obtain a Security Clearance.
Applicants may apply for one or both roles but must specify this in their cover letter.
Responsibilities
Climate Change Adviser and Deputy Team Leader
The Climate Change Adviser and Deputy Team Leader will work with DFAT program managers and their implementation partners in the Pacific, providing advisory services to support integration of climate and disaster resilience in aid investment programming and implementation. They will also have a specific set of roles, working with DFAT staff in Canberra to provide technical support for briefings, and with AidWorks managers and other program areas of the Department to undertake stocktakes of climate change expenditure, manage data capture and reporting on the climate change elements of DFAT investments, identifying and tracking climate finance allocations.
The Climate Change Adviser and Deputy Team Leader will also oversee the Support Unit\'s support for DFAT\'s communications and public diplomacy in Canberra and at Posts, to demonstrate good practice and communicate Australia\'s Pacific climate action to broader audiences.
Climate Change Adviser
The Climate Change Adviser will work closely with the Support Unit Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) team to assess the quality of integration and outcomes for resilience acro
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