Climate and Green Skills Coordinator at Oxfam

CONTEXT

• The job holder will ensure that Oxfam’s influence around the world including campaigns, advocacy, policy, research is high impact, and achieves systemic change with a focus on inequality, localization and gender and climate justice.

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION

• The Job holder will lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of climate-smart livelihood interventions, green skills training for youth, and environmental sustainability activities in Kebbi State, Nigeria. The role builds capacities of communities, promotes adoption of climate-resilient practices, fosters green enterprises, and ensures integration of environmental conservation into project outcomes, targeting vulnerable households and youth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)

Project Coordination and Management -

• Lead and coordinate the EU-SUSI Project’s Climate and Green Skills component, ensuring implementation aligns with the approved project design, guidelines, consortium agreements, and governance structures.
• Work closely with Oxfam colleagues at country, regional, and global levels, as well as consortium partners and government stakeholders, to develop comprehensive project plans, periodic workplans, and ensure their effective rollout.
• Collaboratively design and implement MEAL and research plans for the EU-SUSI Project, ensuring project quality, adherence to the log frame, and alignment with the overall MEAL framework.
• Collect gender-disaggregated data and document success stories, case studies for reporting and communications.
• Support adaptive management: suggest adjustments based on feedback, contextual changes (e.g., weather shocks), or uptake challenges.
• Regularly review the EU-SUSI Project budget against actuals (BVAs), ensuring compliance with donor requirements and working closely with the Business Support/Finance team.
• Ensure that all internal and external reporting for the EU-SUSI Project is timely, accurate, and of high quality, and develop project-related communication materials for visibility, learning, and donor engagement.
• Facilitate power analysis and support the development of theories of change for the EU-SUSI Project, applying strong team-building and collaborative approaches with consortium partners.
• Coordinate closely with the Country Team and Line Manager to support timely decision-making and ensure the project remains on track.
• Climate Campaigns – EU-SUSI Project Green Skills & Resilience Component
• Build and maintain partnerships with climate action groups, youth networks, green skills organizations, and civil society actors relevant to the EU-SUSI Project focus on climate resilience and green job opportunities for smallholder farmers, women, and youth.
• Engage communications, digital content experts, and media partners to enhance public awareness, visibility, and community engagement around EU-SUSI climate and green skills initiatives.
• Design and deliver impactful influencing activities under the EU-SUSI Project, including:
• public awareness campaigns on climate-smart agriculture and green skills
• community-based behaviour-change campaigns
• Private Sector and policy influencing campaigns
• mobilization of youth, women, and farmers on climate resilience practices
• Ensure that campaign strategies are shaped by community experiences, partner insights, and lived realities of farmers and vulnerable groups in Kebbi State, applying non-extractive, decolonized, anti-racist feminist principles in all project activities.
• Collaborate across the Oxfam confederation—country office, regional teams, affiliates, and advocacy offices—to align climate and influencing actions where relevant.
• Provide creative direction to ensure the EU-SUSI Project delivers strong narratives, impactful public engagement, and communication that resonates with diverse audience.

Other Responsibilities

• Uphold Oxfam values and principles, promoting gender justice, women's rights, climate justice, and inclusive development throughout EU-SUSI Project activities.
• Demonstrate strong commitment to equity, diversity, safeguarding, child safety, staff wellbeing, and do-no-harm principles in all programme delivery.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Education/Knowledge & Experience:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, Environmental or Population Studies, Climate Change Administration, and other related fields.

Experience:

• Experience of working within either development sector, DRR, resilience, climate change or with youth or women’s empowerment in Nigeria.
• Experience of managing consortium-led or partnership projects with complex structure.
• Comfortable with complexity and the need for agility.
• Experience designing or implementing MEAL systems in consortium settings.
• Excellent project management skills and experience, including budget management, coordination with partners and reporting.
• Experience of developing accurate power analysis, advocacy strategies, and models and theories of change.
• Excellent communications and writing skills with previous experience of developing policy briefs, advocacy papers and communications material.
• Ability to manage large amounts of work, outstanding prioritisation and time management skills

Skills & Abilities:

• Demonstrable skills in gender analysis in humanitarian response or preparedness programming, and a clear understanding of the practical significance of gender issues in humanitarian environment.
• Demonstrated facilitation and coaching skills.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, a high level of analytical skills.
• Demonstrated financial management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage workflows and balance competing priorities.
• Ability to represent Oxfam in a professional and competent manner with external individuals and organizations.
• Well-developed conceptual, critical, and analytical thinking with the ability to convey complex information in a straightforward way and influencing this to a wider audience.
• Proven experience as a team player and demonstrably cooperative with members of other teams, responding quickly and accurately to queries and issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal English) and the ability to write clear, concise reports.
• Knowledge or appreciation of Nigeria in terms of its political, economic and social trends plus a good understanding of the key development and humanitarian issues in the region.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting women’s rights and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
• Willingness to travel frequently to remote areas.

Desirable

• A proven track record in leading successful campaigns or advocacy initiatives that contributed to policy / practice / behavioral changes preferable related to climate change/ resilience and/or women and youth empowerment.
• Good understanding of climate crisis, climate justice, climate change adaptation, climate diplomacy and global dynamics of the climate change discourse.
• Expansive network with climate change activists, media organizations, CSOs, other INGOs, government, and rural communities.

Competency

• Influencing: To engage with diverse stakeholders in a way that leads to increased impact for the organization. To spot opportunities to influence effectively and where there are no opportunities, to have the ability to create them in a respectful and impactful manner.
• Self-Awareness: To develop a high degree of self-awareness around your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others. Our self-awareness enables us to moderate and self-regulate our behaviors to control and channel our impulses for good purposes.
• Humility: To put ‘we’ before ‘me’ and place an emphasis on the power of the collective, nurture the team and play to the strengths of everyone. we are not concerned with hierarchical power, and we engage with, trust and value the knowledge and expertise of others across all levels of the organization.