Practitioner - Climate Action
- Company
Transform Rural India
- Location
Chhattisgarh or Maharashtra
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Programme Management & Implementation
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Experience
7 - 10 years
- Date Posted
24-Jun-2025
- Application Deadline
14-Jul-2025
About Transform Rural India
Were on a mission to transform 100000 stranded villages into flourishing communities with our multidimensional design solutions. Our approach is unique because we understand poverty is a multiheaded monster that needs a multidimensional design solution. That can only happen by engaging sarkar-samaj-bazar
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Overview of the Role
The Practitioner – Climate Action will play a pivotal role in advancing landscape restoration and climate resilience in the states of Chhattisgarh (Raipur) and Maharashtra (Chandrapur) as part of the “Restoring Land and Prosperity for People Nature and Climate” initiative. This role involves close collaboration with state governments local institutions and grassroots organizations to integrate climate-adaptive solutions into public systems and enhance the implementation of restoration programs such as MGNREGA and watershed development.
Job Description
- Analysis of financial outlay detailing the requirements of credit grants and investment as well as an analysis of existing schemes that can be leveraged.
- Development of innovative financing mechanisms and scoping of financing opportunities to fill the gaps identified through the preceding analysis
- Support with identification and prioritization of key barriers in restoration through robust methodological approach that includes policy review consultations key person interviews and co-organize Restoration Dialogues with key stakeholders.
- Work closely with stakeholders for monitoring reporting and verification for all the above activities. Support in grant reporting and other project management activities as required by the donor.
- To facilitate convergence of public funds for landscape restoration implementation like MGNREGS watershed programs livelihoods mission and ensure correspondence from the state government designating the district collector / CEO-ZP as the nodal officer
- Co-organize restoration dialogues in identified states with participation of key experts and government stakeholders resulting in discussion and recognition of agroforestry as a critical intervention for landscape restoration and more synergistic convergence of public funds like MGNREGS for landscape restoration
- Support TRI’s nudge units embedded within state departments with engagement protocols (e.g. protocols of engagement based on grassroots planning involving the Panchayati Raj Institutions and the women self-help groups) with the departments and key functionaries to discuss and take forward restoration dialogues for overcoming policy barriers.
- Work closely with Rural Development Department ensure timely issue of relevant guidelines office orders design special schemes to support the climate restoration work through nature-based solutions in their districts
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
- Proven ability to engage and collaborate with government stakeholders and partner organizations.
- Strong understanding of government structures and processes with the ability to facilitate timely approvals and communications.
- Experience in managing and delivering mitigation and restoration projects.
- Capability to build and maintain networks across institutions and organizations particularly in Central India.
- Multi-lingual with experience working in diverse cultural contexts.
- Sound knowledge of carbon sequestration science and carbon markets.
Education
Post-graduate degree in a field related to forestry natural resource management ecology or another related field of study with 7 or more years of experience relevant to this position
Experience
- 7 or more years of experience relevant to this position - Experience with the management of large projects in the conservation/forestry/natural resource management sector - Experience understanding of topics related to forests conservation and people in Central India - Experience understanding of the principles and practice of integrated landscape approaches to restoration (i.e. both within and outside forests)
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