CONSULTANCY OPPORTUNITY

Senior Environmental Consultant and Project Lead

• Assignment: Environmental Management and Climate Resilience Pilot in Humanitarian Mine Action
• Location:  Aden, with relevant field activities in Abyan and Lahj
• Contract: Short-term consultancy
• Expected start: 8 November 2026
• Expected completion: 20 December 2026
• Application deadline: 29 October 2026

Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Yemen invites qualified environmental professionals to apply for a short-term consultancy supporting its Norad-funded environmental pilot. The assignment will strengthen practical environmental management and climate resilience in NPA office and humanitarian mine action operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project planning, implementation, monitoring, budget tracking and weekly reporting.
• Review NPA Green Office and Green Field tools and conduct office and field environmental assessments.
• Identify and oversee approved practical measures for water, waste, solar efficiency and field environmental risk mitigation.
• Coordinate consultations, provide staff coaching and facilitate a stakeholder workshop on an environmental NMAS roadmap.
• Submit assessments, an action plan, implementation evidence, workshop documentation and a final learning report.

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.