Climate Resilience Advisor

about 3 hours ago
Full time role
In-person · Nandom, Upper West Region, GH... more

Summary of the position:

Climate Resilience Advisor lead in providing technical leadership and advice to ensure that the WASH initiatives implemented contribute to building of climate resilience amongst communities of Nandom, Lambussie and Lawra districts of Upper West Region of Ghana. Lead and collaborate with partners to integrate climate resilience in WASH initiatives and contribute to reduction of climate change impacts on household access to water services, sustainable agriculture production and natural resource management in the implementing communities.

Duties & Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of the Climate Resilience Advisor will include the following:

Provide Climate Resilience technical guidance for the Programme:

  • Identify opportunities and entry points for building or strengthening the influence of climate information into WASH programming
  • Lead the development and integration of climate resilience strategies into WASH system strengthening programmes
  • Conduct/ coordinate climate risks and vulnerability assessments to support evidence-based WASH programming and implementation.
  • Support the development of guidelines and frameworks for climate-adaptive WASH infrastructure and services, ensuring sustainability and resilience in both rural and urban areas.
  • Support national and local governments in developing climate-resilient WASH action plans informed and linked to climate data and information
  • Advocate for climate-resilient investments and practices in WASH systems, ensuring alignment with national climate action plans.

Provide capacity building and training related to WASH Climate Resilience:

  • Design and deliver training and capacity-building workshops on climate resilience for WASH service providers, government officials, and other key stakeholders
  • Collaborate with partners to strengthen local capacity in adapting WASH services to the impacts of climate change
  • Promote the adoption of innovative, sustainable, and climate-resilient WASH technologies, behaviours and solutions
  • Provide guidance on effective implementation of all sustainability and inclusive business, smallholder resilience measures under the project including regenerative agriculture, etc.
  • Provide technical guidance on contextualization of WASH and Agriculture production nexus and build capacity for integration of WASH-Agriculture production linkage in programming and implementation of WASH initiatives.