Junior Expert in Climate Action and Knowledge Management (Enabel)
Description
Reference: Final date for application: The Junior Programme, executed by Enabel, offers the opportunity for talented young people of various origin, gender and education backgrounds to contribute professionally to international solidarity projects. Through their experience they develop the competences to actively and sustainably engage in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Junior Programme aims to make them active and critical global citizens who are committed to the SDGs.
The Junior Experts work at least 1 and at most 2 years in a project of Enabel or of one of the Non-governmental Actors (NGA) that are affiliated with the Junior Programme.
The Programme Junior only accepts young people aged 30 at most.
General information
Reference code: ?UGA.2307 ?
Work location: Uganda, Kampala, Enabel, Enabel in Uganda - Infrastructure Unit (which provides transversal support to all projects: Education, Health, Social Protection, ..)
Contract type: CDI with terme clause
Contract duration: 1 year extendable
Maximum contract extension: 12 months
Expected contract start date: between 1/10/2023 and 20/11/2023.
Monthly gross salary package: 1 762,77 € + reimbursement of accommodation costs and various benefits. Please consult our website for more information.
Context
Enabel Uganda is currently implementing projects in the field of education and health. in the last quarter of 2022, Enabel started the implementation of a 16 million euros project dedicated to Decent Work and Social Protection. In all Enabel projects, an infrastructure component is foreseen, which may include rehabilitation or construction of buildings, installation of renewable energy facilities (solar panels, biogas...), provision of equipment, waste management, maintenance, awareness raising on climate issues etc.
Function
Together with the project team and the local partners, the Junior Expert will have a very active role in mainstreaming the climate action agenda, by documenting lessons learnt of the climate actions piloted in Uganda. The process of rehabilitations and new constructions has already led to a Manifesto for climate responsive design. There is now a need to further document these lessons learnt in qualitative and quantitative approach. The Junior Expert will be responsible for carrying out scientific studies, documenting and disseminating the lessons, which will help the implementation of the new portfolio, with the local authorities and other development partners.
Profile
Required training/degree (eliminatory on CV): Master or Professional Bachelor’s Degree
Agronomy/bio-engineer
Biology/environment
Civil Engineer/ArchitectIndustrial or electrical engineer
Sociology/Antrhopolgy/Social Work
Communication/Journalism/Public relations
Required specific knowledge (eliminatory on CV):
Professional experience (min. 3 months) in conducting studies: survey, action research, academic research...
For profiles other than Agronomy/bio-engineer/biology/environment: experience (min. 3 months) in the field of climate action (job in this domain or thorough voluntary actions)
Preferred assets (not eliminatory on CV):
Experience in climate responsive design for infrastructure
Experience in renewable energy interventions
Capacity to turn study findings into attractive summarized documents
Capacity to turn study findings into resources to conduct change: awareness raising, training, capacity building
Ability to produce communication materials: PowerPoing presentations,documents layouts for both web and print
Language skills:
English (working language)
Dutch: basic knowledge (level A2)
French: basic knowledge (level A2)
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Admission criteria
Only candidates who meet the following prerequisite admission criteria by 23 March 2023 can apply: 1. Hold Belgian nationality or be a citizen of a member state of the European Economic Union or the Swiss Confederation.
2. Born after 23rd March 1992.
3. Able to deliver an extract from their criminal record to prove their behaviour in accordance with the requirements of the job and enjoying full civil and political rights.
4. Specific criteria (see job profile).
You'll be asked to provide documents that prove you meet these criteria in case of an actual recruitment for a Junior Expert position.
Application instructions
Please follow the instructions underneath to complete your online CV and to submit your application correctly and timely. Only applicants who meet all prerequisite admission criteria and who have submitted a complete application will be invited to the rest of the selection procedure.
1- Please complete all blocks of information directly in your candidate profile (CV online) in one of these languages: EN, FR or Dutch.
2- Apply for one or more jobs in the language of the job offer :
The job offer is written in English, write your motivation letter in ENGLISH!
The job offer is written in French, write it in FRENCH !
3- Copy-paste your motivation letter in the requested field in this language (if needed).
4- Be as complete as possible in the information you share about your education, your current and previous work experience. We cannot accept incomplete applications.
5- We advise you to save your data regularly. Beware also of the fact that the application tool does not make it easy to edit long descriptions directly in your candidate profile, because the full text is not visible until you’ve finished editing. We advise you therefore to prepare any long items on a separate word document and to copy paste it later on.
Answer all the extra questions on the second page.
6- Attach at the end your motivation letter and CV in pdf in the LANGUAGE OF THE JOB OFFER. Applications that are not written in this language, will not be accepted!
If you are interested, please apply between 9th and 23rd March 2023 – Brussel Local Time. Past the cut-off the date it will be impossible to submit your application for this job.
