Details
  • Job Title: Climate Change Advisor
  • Organization Name: GIZ
  • Location: Karachi
  • Number of Vacancies: 1
  • Gender: Any
  • Closing on: 2025-07-16
How to Apply
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Background
  • Key Responsibilities

    Advisory Services

    • Provide technical assistance on climate change adaptation, livelihood resilience, etc. as required
    • Advocate for adaptive social protection strengthening and the link with climate change adaptation at provincial level, especially by facilitating learning, knowledge sharing and elaborating strategies for joint learning on climate change adaptation and long-term resilience building
    • Support the design and implementation of pilot measures at province level focusing on using social protection mechanisms to support livelihood resilience as well as climate change adaptation
    • Facilitate the integration of subject matter expertise from external consultants, partners, and other GIZ projects

    Project Management and Implementation

    • Develop and implement project activities in close consultation with other technical colleagues, the direct supervisor and relevant colleagues within GIZ as well as with government counterparts
    • Develop ToR for technical consultancy services and support with financing agreements including the preparation, contracting and financial monitoring process
    • Support the team with general project planning and implementation, including the preparation, organization, and moderation of planning exercises and their implementation, management, quality management, monitoring, reporting, communication, and documentation
    • Prepare and coordinate project activities such as workshops, seminars, policy dialogues, capacity building measures
    • Supervise external service providers to ensure quality of results
    • Contribute to the achievement of indicators for all components of the project
    • Provide appropriate input for various project reports, including annual reports, and contribute to other reports required by the management and GIZ Head Office

    Outreach and Knowledge Management

    • Participate in relevant GIZ internal working groups and exchange formats
    • Develop and disseminate technical documents, best practices and knowledge products on the link between social protection, climate change adaptation internally and externally with partners
    • Ensure knowledge transfer within and outside the project in GIZ Pakistan and with different divisions in GIZ Headquarters
    • Ensure cooperation, regular contact, and dialogue with partners, relevant organizations, consultants, and individuals in the project environment and with other projects/programmes to maintain good working relationships

    Gender and Inclusion

    • Actively engage in on-going self-reflection and continue to advance their knowledge and skills related to diversity, equity and inclusion
    • Integrate and operationalize gender and diversity aspects in project planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting
    • Develop and implement inclusive suitable methodological approaches in the assigned area of responsibility to avoid systematic biases or discrimination
Requirements
    • Master’s degree in geography, climate change adaptation, disaster risk management or related field
    • At least 8 years of professional experience in this sector

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