Technical Specialist, Environmental & Climate Action

About this role

World Vision is recruiting a Technical Specialist for Environmental Stewardship and Climate Action to lead its ESCA portfolio in Tanzania. Based in Arusha, the post-holder provides strategic technical leadership for programme design, implementation, quality assurance, adaptation, and scale-up across Area Programmes, grants, and humanitarian responses. Duties include contextualizing ESCA strategies and scaling approaches such as Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration, Regreening Communities, Community-Based Disaster Risk Management, Climate-Smart Agriculture, ecosystem restoration, and Nature-Based Solutions. The specialist integrates climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience-building across development and humanitarian work, strengthens early warning and disaster preparedness systems, and promotes links with health, nutrition, education, WASH, livelihoods, child protection, and GESI.

The role also oversees monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning, and knowledge management, including data quality assessments, reporting, and lessons documentation. Further duties cover capacity strengthening for staff, partners, government, and communities; strategic partnerships; policy engagement; representation in national, regional, and global forums; and resource mobilization through proposals, grant applications, and donor engagement. Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree in environmental management, environmental science, natural resource management, forestry, geography, or a related field, plus at least five years of technical advisory experience in climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience, and environmental management within development settings, including carbon markets. Candidates should demonstrate expertise in FMNR, Regreening Communities, landscape restoration, nature-based solutions, environmental impact assessment, CBDRM, disaster risk reduction, community resilience, and capacity strengthening.

Proven GIS, remote sensing, and digital monitoring skills are required, along with experience in climate finance, proposal development, donor engagement, environmental governance, climate policy, and climate networks. A master's degree and specialized training or certification in climate change, environmental assessment, GIS, or carbon markets are advantageous. Preferred qualities include resource mobilization, knowledge of the development and humanitarian landscape, strong communication and analytical skills, and training ability. The position is a full-time local fixed-term contract.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization. Applications close on 2026-11-05.