You will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in Urban Development in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your advice, knowledge, and support will contribute to determining how effective, adaptive and innovative CRS’ Urban Resilience programming is across the globe.
Responsibilities:
Support the development and contribute to the implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools and best practices in Urban Development and Resilience that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
Provide technical solutions to CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
Contribute to, and in some cases lead, the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full-fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach.
Support capacity strengthening initiatives in Urban Development and Resilience programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conduct trainings and workshops, and coaching.
Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the Urban Resilience learning agenda.
Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in Urban Development and Resilience to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.
Develop Climate Finance proposals as needed by the project.
Requirements:
Master’s degree in urban development, or Environmental Management, Nature-based Solutions, or similar fields related to Climate Resilience. required.
Minimum of three years’ relevant work experience with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years’ relevant field-based experience in Climate Resilience and urban development
Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in Urban Development and Resilience.
General knowledge of other related disciplines such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
Experience in project design and proposal development.
Experience in writing content for proposals.
Knowledge of capacity strengthens best practices.
Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
Required Languages - English proficiency in speaking and writing.
Working knowledge in Filipino. Other dialects such as Bisaya or Hiligaynon is advantageous.
