Country Lead - RESIslands Initiative (Tanzania/Zanzibar)

The Country Lead will serve as the in-country focal point for the RESIslands Project activities in Tanzania/Zanzibar, ensuring alignment with national priorities, facilitating stakeholder engagement, supporting institutional strengthening, and providing local data for knowledge products. This role involves coordination with UNECA, AISCC, and national institutions to implement climate resilience initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the in-country focal point and local facilitator for all RESIslands activities implemented in Tanzania/Zanzibar.
• Ensure alignment of project activities with national priorities and regional agendas.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and smooth execution of consultations, workshops, trainings, and meetings.
• Support institutional strengthening, capacity building, and continuity of project outcomes.
• Provide local data and input for the knowledge products and research activities of consultants and technical partners.
• Organize and convene national-level workshops, consultations, pipeline development write-shops, and training events.
• Liaise with the NDA, AISCC NFP, relevant ministries, local governments, UN RCO, civil society, academia, and other actors.
• Provide technical assistance for all country-level project deliverables, including tailored national training programs.
• Identify training needs and priorities.
• Prepare local field visits, vulnerabilities, losses and damages assessments, and national risk diagnostics.
• Facilitate local logistics for activities, permits, invitation letters, and procurement of services.
• Elaborate timely technical progress reports, activity briefs, and documentation for UNECA and the NDA.
• Monitor outputs and ensure alignment with work plans and budgets.
• Collect data for use cases, toolkits, e-infrastructure and knowledge management tools.
• Facilitate dissemination of best practices and lessons within the country.
• Engage national stakeholders for preparation, production, and validation of deliverables.
• Work with NDA and national institutions to ensure post-project uptake of platforms, pipelines, toolkits and use cases.

Requirements

• Advanced University Degree (Master’s level) in Climate Science, Environmental Policy, Project Management, Economics, Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics, or related fields.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in climate resilience, institutional development, or project coordination.
• Prior experience leading donor-funded climate or development projects and working with governments is desirable.
• Prior engagement at national or regional level in climate, environment or risk management is desirable.
• Prior work with qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, reporting will be an asset.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of French would be an advantage.

Skills

• Climate Resilience
• Institutional Development
• Project Coordination
• Donor-funded Project Management
• Government Relations
• Qualitative Data Collection
• Quantitative Analysis
• Reporting
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Institutional Strengthening
• Climate Science
• Environmental Policy
• Social Sciences
• Geoinformatics

Languages

English, French