Climate Training Officer (32-40 hours)
CARE Vision for Climate Justice
CARE International is a global confederation working together in over 100 countries to overcome poverty and deliver social justice. Climate Justice is one of the 6 impact areas of CARE’s 2030 vision. For CARE, climate justice means a future where the poorest and most marginalized have improved their wellbeing significantly. Where women and men can enjoy their human rights due to increased resilience to climate change, increased equality and a global temperature rise that is limited to 1.5°C.
The Climate Justice Center
The CARE Climate Justice Center (CJC), hosted by CARE Nederland, is CARE International’s Global Team working on climate justice. The CJC’s main goal is to coordinate and enable the integration of climate justice and resilience across CARE’s development and humanitarian work. We achieve this by sharing tools and fostering knowledge exchange between our 100+ global offices and local partners, validating and analysing internal impact data on climate justice, facilitating learning through the CARE Climate & Resilience Academy, and undertaking and supporting advocacy efforts at global, regional and national level.
The CARE Climate & Resilience Academy offers learning resources for CARE staff and external partners on resilience, community-based adaptation, climate advocacy, and our own efforts to become a climate-smart organization. The Academy aims to give humanitarian and development practitioners the necessary knowledge to understand climate change and provide them with skills and tools so that they are better able to address climate change in their programs and tackle its causes and consequences.
The CJC is looking for a Climate Training Officer for a fixed duration to support delivery of our online and in-person trainings, and to take responsibility for activities related to technical climate and resilience sub-themes the CJC coordinates on behalf of the CARE confederation.
What will you be doing?
- Training and capacity development support
The Climate Training Officer ensures smooth and efficient running of courses and trainings, with a focus on continuous improvement of the quality and overall participant experience.
- Operational implementation of the Academy Learning Journey on CARE’s Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA)
- Support the training design and delivery with facilitators and lead experts, including developing and updating learning content on Moodle, responding to participants’ comments, checking of assignments and facilitation of live webinars
- Manage participants’ enrolments (payments, attendance tracking, certificates etc.) and coordinate communications and relationship building with participants during and after the learning journey implementation
- Implement accountability systems, monitoring, assessment of participant’s experiences and evaluation of the LJs and develop learning report
- Development, updating and maintenance of self-paced courses on the Academy’s online learning platform (Moodle)
- Contribute to the development of new self-paced courses, upload new content on Moodle, and update and improve existing courses
- Ensure that Academy’s self-paced materials are inclusive and accessible to diverse audiences
- Monitor and evaluate the use of the self-paced courses
- Development of new trainings (based on areas of expertise of the selected candidate)
Take responsibility for activities to design and develop new trainings together with CJC technical experts, either:
- Training on gender-responsive humanitarian crisis preparedness and response and environmental peacebuilding AND/OR
- Training for youth on adaptation and leadership
- Technical support (based on areas of expertise of the selected candidate)
The CJC supports across CARE International to integrate climate justice and resilience in projects. The Climate Training Officer is expected to take responsibility for initiatives and activities under one or more of the following sub-themes around climate justice and resilience: Anticipatory Action, Climate–Conflict nexus, Green Economy, Clean Energy, and Nature-based Solutions/Ecosystem-based Adaptation, based on their expertise and area of interest.
Examples of work for the Climate Training Officer to contribute to:
- Support the design of proposals for new funding for Climate Justice related programming or the integration of Climate Justice in sectoral initiatives
- Advise on-going initiatives and programs that need support to implement their Climate Justice activities
- Develop and update core technical content, tools and guidance under the sub-themes mentioned above.
In your cover letter, please clearly highlight and demonstrate your experience in any of the technical areas/sub-themes listed above that you would be interested in and able to contribute to.
What do you bring to the table?
- Education: Advanced degree in International Development, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Risk Management, or closely related disciplines. Or in Educational Sciences with demonstrated affinity and experience with climate justice.
- Training Skills & Experience: Proven experience in training design and (online) facilitation skills. Experience with Moodle and other e-learning platforms will be considered a strong plus.
- Technical capacities: Good understanding of and experience with key climate change, adaptation, resilience concepts, and how climate justice can be integrated into different sectors. Familiar with Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis or similar tools. Good knowledge and experience in one or more of the following sub-themes in climate and resilience would be an advantage: Anticipatory Action, Climate – Conflict nexus, Green Economy, Clean Energy, and Nature-based Solutions/ Ecosystem-based Adaptation.
- Skills: Strong project management, communication, and training skills. Ability to work collaboratively across diverse teams and stakeholders globally. Fluency in English is required. French, Spanish, or other languages are an asset.
- Attributes: Commitment to CARE’s mission and values, particularly in working with marginalized and vulnerable communities.
CARE maintains a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse and takes all concerns and complaints about sexual exploitation and abuse and child abuse involving CARE staff and related personnel seriously.
Duration
- Assignment for 5 months starting on Feb 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2026, with an option to extend in case of additional funding and mutual agreement
- The nature of the contract depends on the selected candidate for the position. Based on residency, labor law and experience the nature of contract will be determined (consultant or staff contract).
Ready to apply?
Are you interested in this position and do you meet the profile sought? Please send your financial proposal with your application, cover letter and resume with application using the button below. The deadline to respond to this vacancy is Sunday 11 January 2026. We will review applications and interview selected candidates on a rolling basis.
In your cover letter, please clearly highlight and demonstrate your experience in any of the technical areas/sub-themes listed above that you would be interested in and able to contribute to.
For more information, please contact Diana Kaekebeke, Climate Justice Training & Capacity Lead kaekebeke@carenderland.org
- EU work permit is a requirement for this position, when wanting applying for a staff position.
- We request two references as standard.
- We require a Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and, for some positions,
a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG).
- As long as the vacancy is still visible, responding remains possible.
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