Project Officer - Climate Resilience at Elela Care Humanitarian and Development Organization

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