Deputy Director, Climate Change & Sustainability
SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Nouméa, New Caledonia
The role – the Deputy Director, Climate Change & Sustainability will provide support to the Director of Climate Change and Sustainability in the effective management of the Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Division and associated leadership role in the SPC Climate Change Flagship.
The key responsibilities of the role include the following:
Leadership and management
- Ensure the Director is accurately informed of critical management and leadership issues and propose solutions;
- Provide guidance and support that informs and address SPC’s agenda on climate change;
- Promote a corporate SER culture of environmental and social responsibility and sustainability;
- Contribute positively to collective decisions at the management and executive level as needed, ensuring that issues of climate change and environmental sustainability are taken on board and mainstreamed in the organisation;
- Provide climate change and/or sustainability leadership positions and pieces of advice in high level, donor coordination or multi-agency meetings as required.
Planning and Operational Excellence
- Oversee the human resource workforce development, succession, and planning of the CCES team;
- Provide people leadership, engagement, and operational guidance to contribute to the effective delivery of all activities within the CCES team;
- Oversee coordination, and operations of the SPC Climate Change Flagship, and foster cross divisional business systems to support through oversight and guidance to the relevant staff in CCES and SPC;
- Ensure adequate reporting as well as monitoring & evaluation of the Flagship’s results and achievements;
- Support and monitor the preparation, elaboration, implementation and closure of initiatives and projects within the Flagship and division, minimizing risks for the organisation, communicating on results, ensuring stakeholders; participation and adequacy to the needs of SPC members.
Resource mobilisation and effective Financial management
- In close collaboration with the Director and relevant stakeholders develop and pursue climate change programme and multi-agency funding opportunities as needed;
- Facilitate sound budgetary planning for CCES, and work with Team Leader Finance, to monitor spending and disbursement, identify financial risks and opportunities, and ensure proper financial accountability and literacy;
- Maintain close and strong engagement with the GCF and other climate finance partners;
- Oversee the development of project and programme proposals in line with donor requirements and members’ needs.
Planning, Reporting, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
- Oversee Flagship and CCES reporting and MEL;
- Maintain strong links with Climate Change ministries, NDAs and officials in member governments and territories;
- Maintain strong linkages with other CROP agencies and accredited entities and partners that deliver results to members;
- Participate in useful coordinating arrangements and multi-donor/partners programmes for effective delivery of services to the countries and territories;
- Ensure alignment of the CCES work programme with the SPC Strategic Plan ad relevant SPC activities including the Flagship programmes.
Support Integrated Programming and joint initiatives
- Support Director in leading change in the organisation, developing corporate policies and plans, enhancing overall performance and promoting a culture of sharing and learning;
- Representing SPC at regional and international fora, as appropriate, and communicate effectively to media and partners;
- Support new approaches or partnerships to enhance results by improving organisational culture, systems, and/or division programmes and services;
- Constructively support better understanding of the connections between climate change and other regional and international issues that SPC works across;
- Support and promote communities of practice, participatory workshops, learning events on programming policies to absorb the programming design approach into all potential opportunities across the technical programme.
Key selection criteria:
Qualifications
- Master’s degree from a recognised institution (and/or equivalent work experience) in a discipline relevant to project/programme management, science, resource management, climate change, sustainable development or related or equivalent body of knowledge and experience.
Technical expertise
- At least 15 years in a public sector or development leadership and/or management position ideally in the Pacific Islands region;
- Demonstrated experience in relationship building and working with a wide variety of donors and development partners with awareness of their policies and procedures;
- Proven history of successfully building and leading multi-disciplinary teams, including people of different national and cultural backgrounds, and demonstrated ability to manage professional, technical, and programme support staff in a team environment, ensuring everyone’s role contributes to successful team outputs;
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategically with a solid understanding of Programme Management, preferably in the development sector;
- Demonstrated experience of leading and coordinating high level strategic consultation processes for regional positioning across a relevant sectoral agenda;
- Proven ability to influence work collegially and in partnership with stakeholders and internal partners towards an agreed outcome;
- Demonstrated skills and experience in continuous improvement and facilitating innovation across teams;
- Proven ability in project design, management, and reporting;
- Ability to work constructively to resolve issues, concerns, or differences of opinion. Demonstrated skills and experience in continuous improvement and facilitating innovation across teams.
Language skills
- High –level verbal and written communication skills and the capacity to represent SPC at regional and international forums.
Interpersonal skills and cultural awareness
- Knowledge of Pacific Island countries and territories is an advantage.
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