Senior Programme Officer at The African Climate Foundation (Remote, Nigeria)

The African Climate Foundation (ACF) is the primary and solely African-led local weather change re-granting organisation on the continent. Through a mix of grant making, fellowships, transformational analysis, technical help, coalition constructing and advocacy the ACF seeks to assist interventions at the nexus of local weather change, and growth which have the best potential to ship long-term socio-economic transformation and inclusive growth.

Purpose

The African Climate Foundation (ACF) has established a major presence in Nigeria, supporting key companions in advancing the nation’s power transition and local weather resilience methods. As Nigeria navigates its growth pathway in the direction of a sustainable, low-carbon future, ACF’s work continues to broaden throughout vital areas resembling simply power transition, local weather adaptation, sustainable land use, transport, and inexperienced industrialization. To assist these efforts, ACF is recruiting a Senior Programme Officer to work carefully with the Nigeria Country Manager and different programme groups in driving the strategic growth and implementation of ACF’s Nigeria Programme.

Reporting to the Nigeria Country Manager, the Senior Programme Officer will play a key function in supporting varied programme actions, together with technique growth, managing grant portfolios, fostering strategic partnerships, supporting fundraising initiatives, and offering thought management to boost the programme’s affect and effectiveness.

• Start date: Based on the profitable candidates’ availability.
• Location: Remote. Candidate to be based mostly in Nigeria.
• Contract length: 12 months (renewable based mostly on mutual settlement).
• Closing date: 19 March 2025.

Responsibilities:

Strategy growth and implementation: 

• Under the steerage of the Nigeria Country Manager, assist the revision and updating of ACF’s Nigeria Strategy and implementation plan.
• Identify and oversee sector-relevant analysis and evaluation to tell programmatic work and guarantee evidence-based decision-making.
• Collaborate carefully with different ACF programme workers to make sure synergies, integration, and cross-programme studying.
• Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Manager to make sure efficient monitoring, reporting, and analysis of programme supply and outcomes.
• Manage and lead flagship tasks or initiatives throughout the Nigeria Programme.

Partnerships: 

• Develop and preserve sturdy working relationships and networks with key stakeholders, together with nationwide and sub-national governments, monetary establishments, civil society organizations, suppose tanks, analysis establishments, and the philanthropic group.
• Act as a key level of contact and consultant of the Nigeria Programme, strengthening stakeholder collaboration to boost programme affect.

Grant-making: 

• Under the steerage of the Nigeria Country Manager, replace, preserve and implement the programme’s grant-making portfolio.
• Collaborate with ACF’s grant-making crew to handle the grant cycle, together with soliciting, reviewing, and recommending grants to the ACF Grants Committee and Board, and supporting grant contracting and monitoring.
• Monitor grantee progress, guaranteeing well timed supply in opposition to grant agreements and offering technical and administration assist the place wanted.
• Under the steerage of the Nigeria Country Manager, work carefully with the MEL Manager to make sure grants are being monitored, data captured, and learnings are getting used to tell programming.

Fund-raising and reporting: 

• Support the Nigeria Country Manager, the Head of Strategic Partnerships, and the Head of Programmes in creating and implementing fundraising methods to deal with programme funding gaps.
• Support within the preparation of funding proposals and donor engagements.
• Ensure well timed and high-quality reporting on programme progress to donors, the ACF Board, and different key stakeholders.

Thought management: 

• Stay knowledgeable of rising developments, alternatives, and challenges associated to sustainable growth and local weather motion in Nigeria.
• Contribute to ACF’s analysis outputs, knowledge-sharing initiatives, and on-line content material, guaranteeing excessive visibility of the Nigeria Programme.
• Collaborate with the Communications Team and Nigeria Country Manager to prepare occasions, resembling convenings, webinars, and workshops.
• Provide technical steerage and insights to the Senior Management Team, Board, and different inside and exterior stakeholders on strategic programme developments.

Requirements:  

• Master’s diploma or equal in economics, environmental sciences, growth research, public coverage, or a associated area.
• 6-8 years of progressive expertise in programme design, administration, or associated roles, with a give attention to local weather motion, sustainable growth, or related fields.
• Experience working with or supporting authorities establishments, donors, and monetary entities on large-scale tasks or coverage initiatives.
• Strong expertise in managing grants.
• Familiarity with coverage advocacy and stakeholder engagement throughout the Nigerian context.
• Strong strategic considering and problem-solving expertise, with the power to design and implement complicated programmes.
• Sophisticated writing, reporting, and communication expertise, with a capability to current technical data clearly.
• Fluency in English.
• Excellent organizational and time administration talents, with a capability to prioritize duties and meet deadlines.
• High ranges of professionalism, integrity, and a spotlight to element

Should you not hear again from us by 30 April 2025, please think about your application to be unsuccessful.

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Closing date: 19 March 2025

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