Programme Officer - Climate Change, Biodiversity and Programme Development
Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)
Islamabad , Pakistan
Posted Aug 10, 2023 1161 views
Job Responsibilities:
- Support RSPN in programme development in consultation with member RSPs.
- Liaise with donors to identify programme priorities and promote the RSP community development approach; respond to donor calls for proposals.
- In close collaboration with RSPs, identify potential areas of future work, keeping in view community level interventions related to climate change, renewable energy, biodiversity and other areas impacting the lives of poor communities.
- Work closely with CEO/COO to ensure that RSPN policies and programmes address environmental concerns in current and future projects and projects and interventions are designed to achieve gender-sensitive, positive or neutral impacts on the environment.
- Support the development of a framework and standards to guide RSPN and partner RSP work in climate change, bio-diversity and renewable energy.
- Support the COO in documenting, highlighting and sharing RSPN and RSP work in areas of climate change, bio-diversity conservation and renewable energy for informed policy making.
- Represent RSPN at workshops/seminars, in relevant working groups and manage RSPN communications related to climate change and other work, as instructed by the COO.
- Support COO in registering RSPN at various environment/CC platforms and forums.
- Carry out any other relevant task as assigned by, and agreed with, the COO.
Required Skills & Abilities:
- Strong programming skills, with experience of working with communities (rural and urban) on interventions directly related to climate change and biodiversity
- Strong skills in designing and implementing environmental and climate-friendly projects
- Strong English report writing and analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal, consensus building and negotiating skills
- Fluency in both written and spoken English
- Ability to travel extensively in Pakistan
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Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN)
The Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN) consists of ten member Rural Support Programmes (RSPs) that espouse a common approach to rural development: social mobilization. Social mobilization centers on the belief that poor people have an innate potential to help themselves, that they can better manage their limited resources if they organize and are provided technical and financial support. The RSPs provide social guidance, technical and financial assistance to the rural poor. RSPN provides capacity building support to RSPs, and assists them in policy advocacy and donor linkages. Set up by the RSPs in 2000, RSPN works closely with government, donors and communities to promote the RSP approach to community driven development that has significant pro-poor impacts. The RSPs have a long standing relationship with the Government of Pakistan, this is highlighted by the fact that five of RSPN’s partner RSPs have received substantial support and seed grants from the government, however they are all registered as not-for-profit organizations and are independent. RSPN’s edge is its vast outreach to rural communities through the RSPs, its strong and influential relationship with government for impacting pro-poor public policy, and its central position that brings together over thirty years of knowledge in participatory development work with Pakistan’s rural communities. RSPs are local, flexible and responsive organizations, RSPs find localized community-based solutions to help take Pakistan’s development agenda forward. The scale of RSP work now covers 4,401 union councils in 149 districts including the newly merge districts of the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Frontier Regions (FR). Community Organisations now number 496,352 with a membership of over 8.4 million organised households, covering a population of 54 million.
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