Project Officer – Climate Resilience At Elela-Care Humanitarian and Development Organization (ECM)

Elela-Care Humanitarian and Development Organization (ECM) is a youth-led, non-governmental organization dully registered with Nigerian government through Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC/IT NO: 182167). Existing since June 2022, ECM focuses on improving the quality of life of vulnerable population across communities in North East Nigeria. ECM operates both in emergency and developmental context and have its programme principally rooted in identifying gaps that affects population or increases vulnerability of population and bridging those gaps through resource base planning and implementation.

ECM is implementing the Resilient Energy and Nature Empowerment for Women (RENEW) Michika project in Michika LGA, Adamawa State. The project empowers women through clean energy training, ecosystem restoration, and community resilience building to address deforestation, indoor air pollution, and gendered energy poverty.

Title: Project Officer – Climate Resilience

Location:       Michika LGA (Adamawa State).
Employment Type:         Consultancy
Contract Duration:           4 months
Job Field:                              Programs
Expected Start Date:       As soon as possible

Job summary

The Project Officer will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of the RENEW Michika project activities. This role ensures effective delivery of women-led interventions in biomass briquette production, energy-efficient clay stoves, tree planting, climate education, and community engagement, while maintaining donor compliance and promoting sustainability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day implementation of project activities, including planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting.
• Manage community mobilization, participant selection, training logistics (e.g., briquette production, stove construction, tree planting).
• Interface with project participants, local leaders, women’s cooperatives, schools, youth groups, and partners (e.g., Adamawa State Ministry of Environment for tree planting guidance and oversight).
• Conduct routine monitoring visits to track progress on key indicators (e.g., household adoption rates, tree survival, reduced firewood use), collect data, document outcomes, and prepare activity/narrative reports.

• Facilitate participatory, gender-responsive approaches using local languages and hands- on methods to build community ownership and long-term behaviour change.
• Support stakeholder engagement, risk management, visibility efforts (branded materials), and lessons learned documentation for project close-out and sustainability.
• Represent ECM in relevant local meetings and contribute to organizational learning on climate resilience and clean energy programming.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Climate Change/Development Studies,

Natural Resource Management, Project Management, Social Sciences, or related field.

• Minimum 2–3 years relevant experience in NGO project implementation, preferably in climate resilience, clean energy, reforestation, community development, or environmental projects in Northeast Nigeria.
• Strong skills in activity coordination, monitoring/evaluation, data collection, report writing, and stakeholder liaison (government, communities, women’s groups).
• Excellent oral and written communication in English and Hausa; good facilitation and people skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel for tracking and reporting).
• Ability to work independently in rural field settings, with high initiative, diplomacy, tact, and flexibility.
• Commitment to ECM’s mission, values, gender equity, women’s empowerment, and

climate justice principles.

Women are strongly encouraged to Apply

Application Closing Date: 27^th February 2026.

Salary Range: 100,000 – 200,000 Monthly Gross

 Method of Application 

Interested and qualified candidates should use link below to Apply.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE

• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis
• Elela-Care is committed to diversity equity and inclusion, women and person living with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Elela-Care is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ethical recruitment, please note that we don’t collect money or participate in any fraudulent activities you can report such to: [email protected]

For more inquiries, contact the organization via the email above.

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