Senior environmental consultant and project lead

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead and coordinate the environmental pilot project, including planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
2. Review NPA's Green Office and Green Field environmental management tools.
3. Assess water efficiency, waste management, solar energy, and climate resilience practices.
4. Coordinate approved environmental improvements and field testing.
5. Provide practical environmental guidance and coaching to NPA staff.
6. Facilitate a stakeholder workshop to support a roadmap for national environmental mine action standards.
7. Prepare a final report documenting achievements, recommendations, and lessons learned.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant environmental qualifications or equivalent professional experience, with senior environmental expertise in Yemen.
• Demonstrated project management capacity under tight deadlines.
• Practical knowledge of water, waste, resource efficiency and climate resilience.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, analytical and reporting skills.
• Fluent Arabic and working English.

Desirable:

Experience with humanitarian mine action, INGOs, national authorities, donor-funded programmes or relevant environmental standards.

Application Requirements

• Updated CV and professional references.
• Brief technical proposal including methodology and workplan.
• Fixed-price financial proposal detailing days/hours, rates and fee allocation.
• Confirmation of availability to begin on 1 November 2026.

Applications from one senior consultant or a two-expert team are welcome, provided one accountable lead is identified and the combined fee remains within the stated ceiling.

About the Recruitment Process

We work continuously for more diversity and inclusion throughout Norwegian People's Aid. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Please note, that only applications submitted through our career site will be considered. Applications and resumes sent via e-mail will not be reviewed. We kindly ask you to carefully read NPA’s Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Policy and Anti-Corruption Policy, before you submit your application. If you are the selected candidate for this position, you will be asked to complete and sign a Safeguarding self-declaration as well as our Code of Conduct. All policies related to ethics can be found on our website. We look forward to hearing from you!