Climate, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, and Shelter Technical Adviser

The Climate, WASH and Shelter Technical Adviser provides strategic and technical leadership across climate change, environmental sustainability, WASH, Shelter, Disaster Risk Reduction, Anticipatory Action, and infrastructure programming. The role ensures high-quality, evidence-based programming and integration of climate and environmental considerations across all programme sectors, while strengthening resilience, localization, and humanitarian preparedness systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of a climate change and environmental sustainability strategy for Save the Children Lebanon, ensuring integration across all sectors and programmes.
• Provide strategic technical leadership across WASH, Shelter, climate adaptation, DRR, and environmental sustainability, ensuring effective integration across humanitarian and development programming.
• Ensure integration of climate risk assessments, resilience approaches, and green construction principles and sustainable WASH and Shelter solutions into programme design, implementation, monitoring, and learning.
• Support the mainstreaming of climate and environmental considerations across Education, Protection, Child Rights Governance, and other thematic areas.
• Lead the identification, design, and development of climate programs opportunities, including Green Climate Fund (GCF) proposals.
• Develop high-quality concept notes, proposals, and lead on consortium-based submissions aligned with donor priorities and national climate strategies.
• Lead and support the design and development of integrated WASH, Shelter, climate resilience and environmental sustainability programmes and proposals.
• Ensure WASH and Shelter investments contribute to climate adaptation, resilience building and environmentally sustainable outcomes.
• Coordinate with internal technical teams and external partners to develop competitive, scalable climate resilience programmes.
• Engage with government counterparts, donors, and technical partners to position Save the Children within national and international climate architecture.
• Ensure alignment of climate proposals with Lebanon’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and national climate policy frameworks.
• Lead the design and institutionalization of Anticipatory Action systems, including early warning–early action frameworks, triggers, thresholds, and pre-agreed response protocols.
• Strengthen integration between Anticipatory Action, Emergency Preparedness Response Readiness Plans (EPRRP), and sectoral programming (WASH, Shelter, Food Security and Agriculture, Livelihoods, Education, Child Protection).
• Support the development of climate risk analytics and forecasting approaches to inform early action decision-making.
• Promote the use of anticipatory approaches in humanitarian response and resilience programming across Lebanon operations.
• Lead and ensure technical quality, relevance and compliance of WASH, Shelter, and construction-related interventions across humanitarian and development programming, in line with SCI standards, sector guidelines and donor requirements.
• Provide technical review and quality assurance of assessments, technical designs, specifications, BoQs, implementation methodologies, monitoring findings and programme documentation related to WASH and Shelter interventions.
• Support capacity strengthening of field teams and implementing partners in climate resilience, DRR, WASH, and Shelter programming.
• Develop and maintain technical tools, SOPs, and guidance materials, ensuring contextualization and accessibility (including Arabic where appropriate).
• Lead integration of climate risk analysis and resilience indicators into MEAL systems and learning frameworks.
• Promote innovation in climate-smart programming, including nature-based solutions and community-led adaptation approaches.
• Represent Save the Children in national and sub-national coordination forums, including WASH, Shelter, and climate/resilience-related working groups.
• Engage with government ministries, municipalities, donors, UN agencies and technical bodies to promote child-centered, climate-resilient WASH and Shelter approaches.
• Work closely with the Child Rights Governance (CRG) and Advocacy teams to support child- and youth-led climate action initiatives and community support projects.
• Contribute to policy dialogue and sectoral coordination processes related to climate adaptation, DRR, and humanitarian preparedness.
• Engage with donors and climate stakeholders to strengthen strategic positioning and partnership opportunities.
• Support the implementation of Save the Children Lebanon’s localization strategy, ensuring equitable partnerships and capacity sharing with local actors.
• Promote locally led climate adaptation, DRR and resilience, WASH and Shelter programming approaches.
• Conduct technical capacity assessment of local partners and structures and provide capacity building training and coaching accordingly.
• Strengthen collaboration with civil society organizations, municipalities, and community structures.
• Ensure compliance with Save the Children policies and procedures, including Child Safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, and equal opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Master’s degree (or any related degree) in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Engineering, Architecture, Climate Change, WASH, Construction Management or a related major.
• Fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience, including at least 3 years in a technical leadership role within climate, WASH, Shelter, DRR, resilience, or related humanitarian and development sectors.
• Strong experience in climate change adaptation, DRR, and resilience programming in humanitarian and development contexts.
• Strong experience in WASH and Shelter programming.
• Demonstrated experience in programme design, project cycle management, and proposal development.
• Proven experience in emergency preparedness and response programming.
• Experience engaging with government institutions, local authorities, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
• Strong capacity strengthening, coaching, facilitation, and partnership-building skills.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural and multidisciplinary environments.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.
• Desirable: Experience in Lebanon or similar fragile and crisis-affected contexts.
• Desirable: Experience in climate finance proposal development, including Green Climate Fund (GCF) or similar funding mechanisms.
• Desirable: Experience designing or implementing Anticipatory Action, Forecast-based Action, or Early Warning–Early Action approaches.
• Desirable: Experience representing organisations in national policy or technical coordination forums.
• Desirable: Knowledge of climate risk analysis, resilience measurement, or environmental sustainability frameworks.

Skills

• Climate Change Adaptation
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Resilience Programming
• WASH Programming
• Shelter Programming
• Programme Design
• Project Cycle Management
• Proposal Development
• Emergency Preparedness
• Emergency Response Programming
• Government Engagement
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Capacity Strengthening
• Coaching
• Facilitation
• Partnership Building
• Climate Finance Project Formulation
• Anticipatory Action
• Forecast-based Action
• Early Warning–Early Action

Languages

English