Climate and Environmental Peacemaking Programme Officer (Yemen)

Responsibilities

Coordination

• Coordinate an international team, acting as main liaison officer.
• Provide administrative support to management and operations, including contracting, logistics, finances, and other areas.
• Monitor of budgets and expenditures, ensuring transactions are correctly recorded and submitting advice and planning as requested.
• Draft narrative reports on time and to the grant specification, including analysis of results at output and outcome levels.
• Document progress and context monitoring, project evaluation and learning, ensuring compliance with workplans and agreements.
• Support additional ad-hoc tasks as necessary.

Implementation

• Lead on logistical organisation of international dialogues.
• Provide backstopping support to the team in Yemen.
• Lead the development of practice reports on climate security at the local and national levels, including an integrated climate and conflict analysis and community dialogue reports.
• Develop communications content on climate and environmental peacemaking, including fact sheets, training material, presentations, social media, blog posts, and other derivative products.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant peace, stabilisation, environment or climate programming in fragile and conflict-affected countries.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the environmental and climate dimensions of peace and security.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in project coordination.
• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in political science, peace and conflict studies, environmental or climate science, or relevant discipline.
• Experience engaging with Governments.
• Experience with Results-Based Management.
• Experience in Yemen is a significant advantage.
• Excellent coordination, organisation and communication skills.
• Analytical thinking, planning, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work under tight time constraints.
• Strong diplomatic communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is a requirement, and Arabic is a significant advantage.
• Legally entitled to work in Belgium (EU citizen or currently in possession of a Belgian work permit).

What We Offer

• An exciting job in an international and diverse environment (18 nationalities represented at the Brussels Office)
• 12-months fixed-term Belgian contract
• Competitive Benefits package which includes health care insurance and pension plan, meal vouchers, transportation and telework allowance, and SIM card
• 40h/week and 32 leave days/year
• The possibility to telework 3 days a week

Start date:  the selected candidate is expected to start the assignment in the course of January 2026.

• The selected candidate will need to reside in or relocate to Belgium when the employment contract starts.

Additional Information

Closing date: 23/11/2025, midnight (CET).

Please submit your application using the webform below.

Our hiring team will review all applications after the closing date of the vacancy. We will keep you informed on the status of your application.

EIP firmly believes that diverse perspectives are key to our work. Therefore we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusiveness. Your qualities and commitment are what matter to us, regardless of race, nationality, gender, age, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.