Project Specialist

11 Aug 2026 Project Specialist – Climate & Water Systems at Danish Refugee Council Recruit candidates with Ease. 100% recruitment control with Employer Dashboard.We have the largest Job seeker visits by alexa rankings. Post a Job Company: Danish Refugee Council Location: Kenya State: Nairobi Job type: Full-Time Job category: Administrative/Secretarial Jobs in Kenya Resubmit your Resume Today. Click Here to Start

• Provide technical expertise to country programme initiatives in the design, testing, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and validation of pilot initiatives with focus on Resilience Design, Climate Smart Agriculture and Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration generating evidence to inform programme improvement scaling and resource mobilization. • Lead technical design and quality assurance of water resource management components, including IWRM planning, water security and water conservation approaches, groundwater/aquifer management, and engagement with basin-level water governance structures (e.g. Water Resource Users Associations, Water Resources Authority) relevant to ASAL contexts. • Ensure programme approaches reflect climate-resilient WASH principles: climate risk and vulnerability screening of WASH infrastructure at design stage, drought, and floodproofing of water systems, water safety planning under climate stress, low-carbon/renewable-powered water systems (e.g. solar pumping), and linkages to Anticipatory Action and forecast-based financing for WASH pre-positioning. • Lead the application and scaling of Resilience design (RAD), Climate Smart Agriculture, Water systems methodologies. • Strengthen DRCs water access and climate-focused programme approaches that support communities in drought and flood conditions, including climate smart agriculture and resilience design, natural resource management and rangeland management, forestry initiatives and WASH. • Explore further effective climate programme models and solutions relevant to displacement settings that DRC and partners could implement. • Ensure technical guidance and programme design are grounded in relevant national and international policy and legal frameworks such as UNFCCC/Paris Agreement (NDCs, NAPs), SDG 6, Sendai Framework for DRR, and relevant WASH Cluster standards. • Align climate programme models with other DRC sectors ensuring there is clear integration, understanding challenges and opportunities for implementation. • Development of technical guidance, tools and standards for programming. • Provide field level support to ensure technical quality and compliance with global WASH, climate standards. • Work with country office and area programmes on developing high quality, competitive concept notes, proposals and budgets supporting ideation, design, delivery modalities, and writing. • Explore alternative financing sources and recommend financing modalities, including carbon credits, investment finance, and other climate funding sources. • Support engagement with donors and private sector partners to position DRC’s work in this area. • Explore and map WASH and climate finance opportunities for DRC including traditional donors and finance modalities, identifying relevant opportunities and partners and that DRC can work with to access the diverse sector funding • Develop partnerships with relevant WASH and climate agencies, networks and coalitions that compliment DRC’s work and can open opportunities to access additional integrated water management/water and sanitation and health and climate financing