Project Officer – Climate Resilience
Location: Michika LGA (Adamawa State).
Job Summary
The Project Officer will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of the RENEW Michika project activities. This role ensures effective delivery of women-led interventions in biomass briquette production, energy-efficient clay stoves, tree planting, climate education, and community engagement, while maintaining donor compliance and promoting sustainability.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead day-to-day implementation of project activities, including planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting.
- Manage community mobilization, participant selection, training logistics (e.g., briquette production, stove construction, tree planting).
- Interface with project participants, local leaders, women\’s cooperatives, schools, youth groups, and partners (e.g., Adamawa State Ministry of Environment for tree planting guidance and oversight).
- Conduct routine monitoring visits to track progress on key indicators (e.g., household adoption rates, tree survival, reduced firewood use), collect data, document outcomes, and prepare activity/narrative reports.
- Facilitate participatory, gender-responsive approaches using local languages and hands-on methods to build community ownership and long-term behaviour change.
- Support stakeholder engagement, risk management, visibility efforts (branded materials), and lessons learned documentation for project close-out and sustainability.
- Represent ECM in relevant local meetings and contribute to organizational learning on climate resilience and clean energy programming.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change/Development Studies, Natural Resource Management, Project Management, Social Sciences, or related field.
- Minimum 2–3 years relevant experience in NGO project implementation, preferably in climate resilience, clean energy, reforestation, community development, or environmental projects in Northeast Nigeria.
- Strong skills in activity coordination, monitoring/evaluation, data collection, report writing, and stakeholder liaison (government, communities, women\’s groups).
- Excellent oral and written communication in English and Hausa; good facilitation and people skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel for tracking and reporting).
- Ability to work independently in rural field settings, with high initiative, diplomacy, tact, and flexibility.
- Commitment to ECM’s mission, values, gender equity, women\’s empowerment, and climate justice principles.
Women are strongly encouraged to Apply
Salary Range: 100,000 – 200,000 Monthly GrossHow to Apply
Method of Application
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis
- Elela-Care is committed to diversity equity and inclusion, women and person living with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Elela-Care is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ethical recruitment, please note that we don’t collect money or participate in any fraudulent activities you can report such to: hr.elelacare@gmail.com
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