Program Officer VCA Brazil

PROGRAMME OFFICER (PO)

Scope: Voices for Just Climate Action (VCA)

Reports to: Country Engagement Manager (CEM)

Level: Medior equal to project officer

Country: Brazil (16 months contract), Remote.

Hours: Full time position

Salary: R$12,421

Application deadline: 29 July 2024, 23:59 Brasilia time

About Hivos

Hivos is an international development organization guided by humanist values. Together with citizens and their organizations, we aim to contribute towards just, inclusive and life sustaining societies where people have equal access to opportunities, rights and resources. We work in partnership with others organizations, social movements in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America on three impact areas: Civic Rights in a Digital Age; Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Climate Justice. Our approach is solution driven, and we build wider movements for change by amplifying and connecting voices.

In Brazil, HIVOS implement its strategy of Climate Justice through three different programs, including Voices for Climate Action, but also Global Girls Creating Change and Ruta de Salud Indigena Amazonica y Cambio Climatico.

JOB CONTEXT

Hivos is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Project Officer – Climate Justice in Brazil to support the implementation of its programs. The primary focus will be on the VCA (Voice for Climate Action) program, with additional responsibilities for other relevant programs as needed.

The VCA program comprises a significant alliance of partners, including 13 coalitions working together to establish a national climate justice movement and network in Brazil. Our program addresses climate justice not only as an environmental issue but also as a societal challenge with ethical and human rights dimensions. This includes building a broad-based climate justice alliance, network, and movement at the national level, bridging divides such as urban-rural, gender, youth, north-south, and biomes. We aim to amplify voices in innovative ways and influence national and global policies and financial flows to support locally shaped solutions.

Since 2021, the program has been implemented by an alliance of six international organizations at the global level: WWF NL, Hivos, SouthSouthNorth, Akina Mama wa Afrika, Shack Dwellers International, and Fundación Avina. In Brazil, the program is implemented through an alliance and regional team composed of Hivos, WWF, Fundación Avina, and IEB. The PO will also will also support the implementation of the program G2C2 Global Girls Creating Change in Brazil, a program that is managed in cohesion with VCA and count with similar partners, goals and strategy for Brazil.

For more info: VCA program

MAIN GOAL OF THE JOB

The Programme Officer (PO) plays a crucial role in contributing to the performance of a Hivos program. This can involve business development, fund management, program implementation, or scaling-up efforts. Within the VCA, the PO supports Hivos' team in implementing its activities and the activities of seven coalitions, which focus on climate justice and intersect with Hivos' other two impact areas: Civic Rights in a Digital Age and Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. The role of the Project Officer is broad, encompassing research, consultancy, social action, and co-creation. The PO works closely with other staff members, such as the Finance Officer, Program Assistant, and VCA country peers, to facilitate south-south collaboration on climate justice.

Specific Responsibilities

The PO supports the VCA Country Engagement Manager in a variety of tasks, including:

• Selecting and procuring potential partners and necessary consultancies
• Facilitating regional team communication
• Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (DMEL) activities, including monitor indicators
• Liaising with partners and monitoring progress and deliverables
• Communicating program progress and results to the global program management team and Hivos colleagues in Hub Latam (San Jose, Costa Rica), other VCA countries (Indonesia, Kenya, Tunisia, Zambia, Paraguay, and Bolivia), and the global office (The Hague)
• Preparing stories and content for the website, new media, and other channels
• Organizing internal and external events

Additionally, the PO assists the Country Engagement Manager in particular in outcome harvesting, narrative assessment, and other reporting tasks required for DMEL (Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) activities and the program. This includes preparing partner and Hivos' own implementation reports. The PO also provides logistical and financial support to the Country Engagement Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Result Area: Project or subproject design

Description: Develops detailed work plans (results, budget, manpower and risks).

Indicator: Lead time in decision making

Result Area: Implementation work plan

Description: Realizes successful implementation in accordance with the specific goals, working methods and budgets of the projects.

Indicator Delivery of results in accordance with plan

Result Area: Monitoring & control

Description: Monitors and reports on results in relation to objectives and means, analyses actual and potential risks and problems, contributes to solutions regarding work in progress.

Indicator: Compliance and satisfaction

Result Area: Engagement of project teams

Description: Contributes to definition of SMART project proposals and evaluation of output and proactively consults Project Manager and other team members.

Indicator: Team appraisal

Result Area: Quality improvement

Description: Participates in reflection and learning on both the project and institutional level

Indicator: Meeting targets Personal Development Plan

REQUIREMENTS

This is a medior position for nationals or residents of Brazil:

• Degree in multidisciplinary areas such as development studies, governance, or another relevant field;
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience preferable in advocacy and influencing strategies
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in coalition building, activism, advocacy in climate change and / or social justice areas
• Expertise in climate justice, Amazon region and methodology (co-creation, social innovation). Minimum of three to five years working experience in Climate justice, adaptation. Knowledge of relation between climate change and daily needs of people such as food, energy and water in Brazil
• Language skills: Portuguese (native); English (Fluent) and Spanish (desirable)
• Experience working in the Amazon working with traditional communities and/or living in Brazilian Amazon
• Understanding of country political and social dynamics and climate justice social movements; analytical and conceptual skills, and ability to translate these into relevant and timely actions
• Knowledge of project management tools and systems
• Remote conference management
• Skills: cooperation, influence, leadership.
• Willing to travel (approx. 30% time of travel, national and international) and work in a multicultural environment
• Job skills: communication, project management, independence
• Experience in partner relationship building
• Good networking, relationship building and negotiation skills;
• Relevant academic level of working, thinking and revising documents.

Desirable:

• Multicultural experience
• Work experience in an international environment.
• Work experience in project implementation and working in diverse teams in terms of origin, place of work, time difference, culture, language, race, color, religion.
• Knowledge about civic rights in digital age and LGBTQIA+
• Previous experience implementing similar programs
• Experience using monitoring and evaluation plans and indicators
• Ability to solve conflicts
• Live in the Amazon
• Emotional intelligence
• Spanish fluency
• Indigenous Peoples and Afro descendants are strongly encouraged to apply
• Experience in institutional communication in social media and website

What we offer

We offer a stimulating work environment in a professional international organization with very dedicated staff.  We offer a national contract based on Hivos local labor conditions, with remuneration commensurate with the experience and expertise. Health and odontological care. Food assistance. Contract renewable depending on performance.

Want to apply?

You are welcome to submit your application on the apply button by July 29, 2024, 23:59 Brasilia time. You must submit both a letter of motivation/cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and resume/CV (maximum 3 pages) in English.

Candidates are highly encouraged to provide a clear track record of business development results in their CV and to use their cover letter to clearly and concisely address the requirements of the role elaborated above.

SELECTION PROCESS EXPECTED KEY DATES

• July 25nd, 23:59 Brasilia time: Deadline for application
• July 29-2nd Aug: Writing exercise for shortlisted candidates
• Aug 5th-9th: Interviews of shortlisted candidates
• Expected Starting date at Hivos: Immediate after conclusion of selection process

Background check for final candidates

If you are selected to go to the final stage of the selection process, please note that professional references and criminal record certification will be requested due to our Safeguarding Policy*. Exceptions will only be made if there is a prohibition due to local legislation or when the candidate cannot obtain the police records certificate due to activities in LGBT + and Human Rights. We may screen social media (unless applicants indicate that they do not want us to do so). The accuracy of the information in the resume will also be verified.