VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: August 25, 2026
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Assignment: Consultant – Environment, Sustainability and Resilience
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Location: Delhi/ Bhubaneshwar/ Mumbai with travel as required
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ChildFund office: Delhi/Bhubaneshwar/Mumbai office
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Reporting to: Deputy Director, Program Design and Impact
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Assignment type: Consultancy up to 11 months
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Work environment: Office-based in Delhi/ Bhubaneshwar/ Mumbai with field travel as required
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About ChildFund
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ChildFund India works towards ensuring that children from the most marginalized sections of the society become able, confident, and responsible adults.
ChildFund’s Values
ChildFund values a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible environment where everyone is welcomed and celebrated equally. In our culture of connection, you will have ample opportunity to grow, learn, and lead while contributing your talents and innovations to our inspiring mission.
ChildFund’s Commitment
ChildFund India’s Safeguarding Policy and Procedures will be strictly adhered to throughout the engagement period to ensure the safety, dignity, and well-being of children and vulnerable adults. ChildFund India maintains a zero-tolerance approach towards sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment (SEAH), and all forms of harm by staff, partners, consultants, vendors, and representatives in the delivery of its programmes and services. The organisation is committed to maintaining a safe and respectful environment within the workplace and in the communities where it operates. Accordingly, the selected candidate will be required to sign ChildFund India’s Safeguarding Commitment and Behavioural Protocol as part of the contractual agreement and comply with all safeguarding standards, policies, and do-no-harm principles throughout the engagement period.
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About this Assignment
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ChildFund India is committed to advancing the well-being, protection and resilience of children, adolescents, youth and communities through integrated and evidence-based development interventions. Building Sustainability and Resilience (BS&R) is a strategic priority, focusing on child-centered climate action, climate adaptation, environmental sustainability, agroforestry, carbon projects, water security, heat resilience and disaster risk reduction. To strengthen field-level implementation and technical support across priority geographies, ChildFund India seeks to recruit a consultant for the Environment, Sustainability and Resilience portfolio based in Mumbai/Delhi/Bhubaneswar. They are expected to travel to villages, districts and state-level meetings as required.
Remain alert and responsive to any safeguarding risks; acquire and maintain the relevant knowledge and skills necessary to promote strong safeguarding practices; understand and adhere to ChildFund India’s Safeguarding Policy and Procedures; and conduct yourself at all times in a manner consistent with ChildFund India’s safeguarding principles and standards.
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Required Experience and Education
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- Education: Bachelor's in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Sustainability Studies, Disaster Management, Rural Development or a related discipline.
- Fresh college graduates may be considered where they demonstrate strong academic grounding, field orientation, learning agility and motivation to work on climate and sustainability issues.
- Experience: 4 years of experience in climate action, agroforestry, carbon projects, environmental sustainability, community development, natural resource management or related projects is preferred.
- Job Knowledge: Foundational understanding of child-centered climate action, climate adaptation, agroforestry systems, carbon project concepts, water security, climate-resilient WASH and community resilience approaches.
- Skills & Ability: Good communication, facilitation, analytical and writing skills in English and relevant local language. Ability to support proposal writing, project design, implementation planning, field coordination, data collection, documentation and reporting.
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Scope of Work
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1. Project Design and Proposal Development
- Support development of concept notes, proposals, project designs, implementation plans, activity budgets, results frameworks and monitoring indicators.
- Contribute technical inputs on child-centered climate action, agroforestry, carbon projects, climate adaptation, water security, climate-resilient WASH, watershed management, heat resilience and environmental sustainability initiatives.
2. Portfolio Implementation, Strategy and Technical Support
- Support implementation of Environment, Sustainability and Resilience projects in assigned geographies, including village, district and state-level planning and coordination.
- Assist in developing local strategies, technical guidance notes, implementation tools and field protocols for climate and resilience interventions.
- Integrate nature-based solutions, agroforestry models, carbon project concepts, climate-smart technologies and community-led resilience practices into programme activities.
- Ensure alignment with relevant national and state policies, government schemes, climate action priorities, disaster risk reduction frameworks and sustainability goals.
- Support field reviews, vulnerability assessments, climate-risk assessments, community consultations, baseline activities and programme evaluations.
- Compile programme data and support preparation of technical reports, dashboards, policy briefs, case studies and knowledge products.
3. Stakeholder Engagement, Partnerships and Convergence
- Build partnerships with government departments, disaster management agencies, water authorities, academic institutions, technical agencies, CSR and development partners.
- Support convergence with relevant government programmes and represent ChildFund India in technical forums.
4. Capacity Strengthening
- Develop training modules, IEC/BCC materials, toolkits and operational manuals.
- Conduct trainings and mentoring for staff, partners and community institutions.
5. Resource Mobilisation
- Support donor mapping, proposal development, technical narratives and partnership development for sustainability and resilience initiatives.
Additional responsibilities given by the manager, including technical support and other duties required to meet programme priorities.
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Required Competencies
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ChildFund’s Core Competencies
- Teamwork: the ability to work effectively and collaborate with others; values and respects individual differences.
- Communication: demonstrates empathy and tact when communicating with others and uses a storytelling approach when appropriate.
- Results orientation: gets things done; takes proactive steps to achieve organizational goals and quality standards.
- Decision making: uses good judgement, critical thinking, and non-traditional ways to evaluate problems and opportunities; reflects and innovates to improve decisions and outcomes.
- Resilience: thrives and grows in rapidly changing, demanding, and complex environments.
- Digital literacy: adopts and champions new technology to relevant contexts, stays aware of technological trends and embraces technological solutions to business challenges.
Other Competencies
- Interest in child rights, climate justice, community-led development and inclusive resilience programming.
- Familiarity with SDGs, climate change, disaster risk reduction, agroforestry and carbon market frameworks.
- Ability to work with community institutions, youth groups, local government bodies and technical partners.
- Strong willingness to learn, take initiative, travel to field locations and work in multidisciplinary teams.
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Disclaimer: This TOR is not an exhaustive list of the skills, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the assignment.
How to Apply:
i) Please send your updated CV to recruitment@childfundindia.org (renaming your CV with your name is appreciated). Attaching a cover letter to demonstrate your suitability for the position is highly recommended.
ii) Please include answer to the following question in your email for application –
Do any of your relatives or members of your family/household work for ChildFund or if any child related to you is being currently sponsored/enrolled by ChildFund?? If yes, please provide the following details:
- Name, Relationship, Current Position, and Location
iii) Please mention in the subject line of your email “Application for ”
Kindly pay attention to all of the above three points under “How to Apply” section as missing information may result in disqualification of the application.
Application Deadline: September 08, 2026.
Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.