Project Manager – Climate Change & Natural Resource Management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project planning and delivery, including workplans, budgets, schedules, procurement plans, results frameworks and risk registers; monitor progress and take timely corrective action.
  
• Manage project teams, consultants and implementing partners, ensuring clear responsibilities, quality delivery and compliance with donor agreements and Solidaridad policies.
  
• Monitor expenditure, forecasts and budget utilisation with Finance; manage project risks and ensure complete, accurate and audit-ready documentation and reporting.
  
• Serve as the ECA regional focal point for Climate Change and Carbon, connecting country teams, sharing tools and learning, and coordinating with regional and global technical colleagues.
  
• Promote climate-risk assessment, adaptation, mitigation, climate resilience and nature-based solutions, including climate-smart agriculture, agroforestry, sustainable land use and ecosystem restoration.
  
• Identify and assess carbon-programming opportunities, including emissions reduction, carbon sequestration and regenerative land-use interventions; support GHG measurement, monitoring and reporting with qualified specialists.
  
• Contribute to preliminary assessments of carbon finance and market opportunities, ensuring attention to feasibility, integrity, safeguards, land and resource rights, consent and benefit sharing. Ensure carbon-related claims are evidence-based and appropriately validated.
  
• Provide technical guidance and capacity strengthening to project teams, producer organisations and partners; develop or contribute to practical tools, guidance, training and knowledge exchanges.
  
• Work with PMEL/MEL and Quality colleagues to integrate climate, natural resource and carbon indicators, maintain data quality, document results and lessons, and use evidence to improve delivery.
  
• Build effective relationships with communities, producer organisations, government, donors, research institutions, private-sector actors and climate/carbon stakeholders.
  
• Contribute technical inputs to concept notes, proposals, budgets and resource-mobilisation opportunities in collaboration with the Head of Programmes, Country Managers and Business Development colleagues.
  
• Coordinate across Finance, Operations, Communications, Business Development and technical teams to ensure effective project support and continuous improvement.
  

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Climate Change, Environmental Science, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Development Studies, Project Management or a related discipline. A relevant Master’s degree is an advantage.
  
• At least five years’ progressive experience managing donor-funded projects, including planning, budgeting, implementation, partner coordination, monitoring and reporting.
  
• Demonstrated experience in climate change, climate-smart agriculture, environmental sustainability, natural resource management or sustainable landscapes.
  
• Working knowledge of carbon programming, GHG measurement, carbon finance or carbon-market concepts; direct carbon-project experience is an advantage.
  
• Experience coordinating across teams, partners or countries and providing technical guidance or peer support.
  
• Strong experience in donor reporting, budget monitoring, risk management and contribution to proposals or concept notes.
  
• Experience engaging government, development partners, research institutions, communities and/or private-sector stakeholders.
  
• Ability to interpret technical information and translate it into practical actions, indicators and guidance for project teams.
  
• Professional training or certification in project management, climate change, GHG accounting, carbon markets, environmental management or monitoring and evaluation is an advantage.