Policy Advisor, Environment, Conflict and

3 months ago

Ottawa, Canada IISD Full time

**About IISD**

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning independent think tank working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and fair economies. Our work inspires better decisions and sparks meaningful action to help people and the planet thrive. We shine a light on what can be achieved when governments, businesses, non-profits, and communities come together. IISD’s staff of more than 270 experts come from across the globe and from many disciplines. With offices in Winnipeg, Geneva, Ottawa, and Toronto, our work affects lives in more than 100 countries.

**About the Position**

ISD’s Resilience Program is a multidisciplinary team of policy researchers who work with governments, civil society, communities, and businesses to help them manage climate
- and conflict-related risks. The Program is built around research and action in three core pillars: People, Planning and Governance, and Nature. Work under these three pillars focuses on preparing for a different or uncertain future, making sure different genders and social groups influence and benefit from resilience investments, and harnessing the role of ecosystems to help communities manage climate and conflict risk. The Program hosts the Secretariat for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network, an initiative focused on accelerating adaptation planning and action in developing countries.

Within the work of the Resilience Program, the Environment, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (ECP) team explores and analyzes the complex connections between environmental issues and conflict. Environmental factors themselves are rarely, if ever, the sole cause of violence. However, natural resource management and other environmental factors are linked to conflicts in a variety of ways and are often obscured by more visible issues, such as ethnic tension and power politics. We focus on what can be done about these connections across the three pillars of People, Planning and Governance, and Nature so that policy-makers and practitioners working in conflict-affected and high-risk areas can support the transition from fragility to peace.

**Position Description**

The Policy Advisor will contribute to the development, implementation, and communication of original research and technical support related to the Resilience Program’s portfolio of work on ECP. They will contribute to the strategic direction of the ECP team, and the Resilience Program more broadly, through the identification of opportunities, challenges, and solutions for advancing and growing our work on the intersection of environmental and climate change, natural resource management conflict, and peacebuilding in the Global South. Within this, they will advance associated work on adaptation planning in conflict-affected and high-risk areas via the NAP Global Network, as well as conflict-sensitive ecosystem-based adaptation in and around protected areas.

**Responsibilities**:
**Main Responsibilities**

**Strategy** **(**2**0%)**
- Work with team members within the Resilience Program to support the operation and expansion of IISD’s work on ECP in a way that aligns with the strategic direction of the Resilience team and the priorities of partners and donors.
- Engage with team members to recognize challenges, opportunities, and solutions relating to the ECP work and to the Resilience Program more broadly; help define and execute appropriate response strategies.
- Contribute to the development and growth of new work related to ECP.
- Promote a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and shared learning.
- Manage own time and inputs into projects to deliver technical support outputs on time and on budget.

**Research** (**4**0%)**
- Lead and/or contribute to the delivery of high-quality primary and secondary research, knowledge products, communication materials, and other project outputs that accurately synthesize and assess research findings.
- Contribute to knowledge products—such as reports, briefs, and blogs—that synthesize, assess, and share IISD’s work on ECP.
- Follow and summarize news, trends, and events pertaining to conflict, peacebuilding, climate change, natural resource management, and biodiversity loss, in both the practice and policy realms.

**Technical Support and O**perations **(1**5**%)**
- Support the implementation and management of ECP projects from beginning to end. This includes identifying funding opportunities and partnerships, proposal writing, designing and managing project work plans, delivery of project outputs, and coordination of contracting, communications, and reporting, all while working closely with the project management and program finance teams.
- Participate in project site visits, arranging elements of these visits as appropriate.
- Support the organization of virtual and face-to-face workshops, meetings, and other events of various sizes.
- Support systems to meas

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