Climate Change Specialist (Anticipatory Action)

Overview

The Climate Change Specialist (Anticipatory Action) will be responsible for designing, operationalizing, and strengthening climate risk management, multi-hazards early warning systems, and pre-disaster humanitarian action plans in Sudan.

Key Responsibilities

• Define localized, scientifically sound climate and weather thresholds (triggers) tailored to Sudan’s erratic climatic zones.
• Adapt standard Anticipatory Action (AA) triggers to fit the complex reality of concurrent conflict and climate shocks.
• Partner closely with the Sudan Meteorological Authority (SMA) and National Council for Civil Defense (NCCD) actors to maintain, analyze, and translate hydrometeorological data into operational multi-hazards early warning bulletins.
• Support the integration of impact-based climate forecasting into the local humanitarian response mechanism.
• Design standard operating procedures (SOPs) for pre-disaster assistance, such as shock-responsive agriculture support, emergency livestock interventions, and water management protocols.
• Coordinate with logistics mechanisms to ensure pre-positioned stocks can be deployed immediately upon trigger activation.
• Convene and lead technical working groups connecting local authorities, national NGOs, community committees, and international actors.
• Ensure AA frameworks are inclusive, conflict-sensitive, and locally led to match the decentralized needs of host communities and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
• Design and deliver training workshops for state and national disaster management offices/ staff on climate resilience and early action.
• Track the impact of anticipatory pilots, document lessons learned and scale up effective approaches.

Required Experience

At least seven years’ experience in the Sudan agriculture, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction or humanitarian/agricultural development sectors.

Qualifications

Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in Climatology, Meteorology, Environmental Sciences, Disaster Risk Management, Agriculture, Natural Resources Management, Geography, or a related field

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