Project: Access to Climate Security and Environmental Justice in Gwadar, Balochistan
Reporting To: Director Program and Partnership
Project Duration: 7 Months

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead overall planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring, reporting, and quality assurance of the project.
• Supervise the project team and ensure timely delivery of all project outputs and activities.
• Coordinate with donor, government departments, community representatives, EHRDs, academia, civil society, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee implementation of Climate-Resilient Social Action Projects (SAPs) and ensure proper documentation of progress, results, challenges, and lessons.
• Coordinate and support the Gwadar Environmental Protection Forum and Gwadar Informal Working Group.
• Facilitate government–community engagement and follow-up on climate and environmental grievances and grievance redressal mechanisms.
• Ensure effective community mobilization and participation of women, youth, fisherfolk, and vulnerable groups.
• Ensure project implementation is gender-responsive, conflict-sensitive, rights-based, and inclusive.
• Monitor workplan, indicators, timelines, risks, budget utilization, and deliverables and ensure timely corrective action.
• Review and quality-assure technical reports, documentation, success stories, and other project deliverables.
• Lead preparation of progress reports, learning documentation, close-out event, and final completion report.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience:

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, Humanities, Development Studies, Governance, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in community mobilization, local-level development, and engagement with government institutions on governance and citizen–state linkages.
• Prior professional experience in Balochistan, preferably Gwadar and/or Quetta.
• Experience in community stabilization, climate resilience, environmental justice, grievance redressal, or human rights will be an advantage.
• Experience in managing donor/UN/INGO-funded projects and multidisciplinary teams is desirable.
• Excellent English writing, reporting, communication, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Willingness and ability to undertake regular field travel within Gwadar and to Quetta.

Note:

We maintain a zero-tolerance policy towards Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. All selected candidates will undergo comprehensive background checks and stringent controls. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage female candidates to apply. This role needs to be filled as soon as possible, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.