Ref.
2025/PO/12850
Job offer type
Field staff jobs
Type of contract
CDDU
Activity sectors
Climate and Energy ; Sustainable development
Deadline date
2025/04/30 15:06
Contract
Employee
Duration
12 mois (renouvelable jusqu'à fin 2027)
Programme Officer Water / Energy - Euroclima Caribbean (M/W/D)
Département Développement durable - DD > Pôle Energie
Published on : 2025/03/24
AMERICAS
FRANCE
FORT-DE-FRANCE (MARTINIQUE)
Mission description
The Programme Officer will support the definition, implementation, and monitoring of Euroclima activities in the Caribbean and the Guiana Shield, with a focus on water and energy sectors. The activities must demonstrate a transformative impact and leverage public and private investments in climate resilience and sustainability. The Programme Officer will work closely with the Delegations of the European Union, national stakeholders, technical experts, and implementing partners to ensure the successful execution of Euroclima-funded initiatives.
1. Identification, definition of activities and development of terms of reference
· Identify priority actions in collaboration with National Focal Points, EU Delegations, and key stakeholders.
· Develop high-quality Terms of Reference (ToR) for technical studies, capacity-building programs, and infrastructure investments, particularly in water and energy.
· Ensure alignment of proposed activities with national climate policies, Euroclima objectives, and investment strategies (incl. Global Gateway Investment Agenda).
· Identify potential implementing partners, including public institutions, private sector actors, and civil society organisations.
2. Implementation and coordination of activities
· Oversee the operational execution of approved activities, ensuring compliance with both EU and EF procedures and timelines.
· Participate in procurement processes and service providers contractualization for technical assistance, feasibility studies, and pilot projects.
· Support capacity-building efforts, including organizing workshops, training sessions, and study tours.
· Facilitate collaboration between national authorities, development partners, and private sector stakeholders to maximize project impact.
3. M&E and Reporting
· Develop and apply logical frameworks to track activities progress.
· Contribute to the progress reports, lessons learned, and recommendations.
4. Advocacy and knowledge management
· Represent Euroclima in national and regional forums.
· Conduct thematic monitoring on water and energy issues, identifying emerging trends, innovations, and best practices.
· Identity synergies with other regional and international initiatives to scale up results.
· Support visibility and communication efforts, ensuring best practices and success stories are shared.
This job description is not exhaustive. The programme officer may perform other task and duties related to operations of Euroclima as assigned by the Programme Coordinator.
Project or context description
Euroclima is the European Union's (EU) flagship cooperation programme on environmental sustainability and climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). It aims to contribute to the LAC region's green transition, through efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change and to protect and conserve biological diversity.
Two main outcomes are expected:
• The enabling environment for a green transition (integrated policies, legal frameworks, sector plans and financial instruments) will be strengthened, in line with climate, biodiversity and circular economy objectives;
• Transformative approaches in key areas for the green transition will be developed, demonstrated and scaled up through the mobilisation of public and private funding.
Euroclima will contribute to the implementation of the Global Gateway Investment Agenda in the region. Global Gateway is the EU’s offer to bridge the infrastructure investment gap by using public financing to leverage private capital and investment for projects that contribute to the green and digital twin transition.
In the Caribbean region, Euroclima is funded by the European Commission, for a 5-year period, and is implemented by EU Member States agencies (AECID, Expertise France, FIIAPP, GIZ) and the UN (ECLAC, UNDP, UN Environment). The programme forms part of the regional Team Europe Initiatives “Latin America and Caribbean Green Transition” and "A Partnership for a Caribbean Green Deal".
Most Euroclima actions are defined in a participatory manner through Country Dialogue processes based on partner country needs. The Country Dialogues will be organised, facilitated and coordinated by the Programme’s respective Country Dialogue Team, under the guidance and steer of the relevant EU Delegation and National Focal Point, and using existing processes and structures where relevant. This bottom-up approach for the identification/implementation Euroclima actions directly responds to the needs expressed by the countries and combining them with a response from the implementing agencies in a timely and effective manner.
Under the supervision of the European Union Delegation in Barbados, Expertise France contributes to Euroclima in the Caribbean by:
• Supporting the coordination and coherence of the programme through the established governance structure and the Programme Support Unit (PSU);
• Facilitating a number of country dialogues, under the direction of the European Union Delegation and the national focal point;
• Providing strategic advice during the processes of identification, selection and prioritization of national actions as part of the country dialogues;
• As an implementing agency, coordinating, planning and implementing national and multi-country actions that may include support to climate, circular economy and biodiversity policies.
More information about Euroclima can be found at: https://www.euroclima.org/
Required profile
Technical qualifications and skills:
- Master’s degree in environmental sciences, engineering, climate policy, development studies, or a related field.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the portfolio of international cooperation in the area of green transition in the Caribbean
- Practical knowledge of EU procedures.
- Excellent written and oral expression in English and French. Spanish would be an asset.
Professional experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in project management related to water, energy, or climate resilience
- Proven experience in developing, implementing and monitoring programs and projects including the components of proposals, work plans, budgets, logical frameworks, monitoring plans.
- Experience in institutional dialogue, particularly with development institutions and/or local authorities;
- Experience or knowledge of the geographical area (Caribbean) would be an asset
Skills:
- Knowledge of the Office 365 suite. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, etc
Excellent coordination, analytical, and stakeholder engagement skills. - Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, ability and interest in working as part of a team and willingness to acquire knowledge of new subjects.
- Strong networking skills, intercultural sensitivity and ability to identify and engage relevant local as well as international stakeholders, both public and private.
Additional information
• Location: Fort de France, Martinique. Occasional travels to Paris (France) and the countries where the programme is being implemented will be required.
• Expected start date: June 2025
• Remuneration: depending on profile and experience
• Documents to be provided in support of application: resume, cover letter in English and two references
NB: If you do not receive a reply from us within 6 weeks after the application deadline, please consider that your application has been unsuccessful. Candidates interested in this opportunity are invited to submit their application as soon as possible. Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates before this date.
Deadline for application : 2025/04/30 15:06
Expertise France is the public agency for designing and implementing international technical cooperation projects. The agency operates around four key priorities :
- democratic, economic, and financial governance ;
- peace, stability, and security ;
- climate, agriculture, and sustainable development ;
- health and human development ;
In these areas, Expertise France conducts capacity-building initiatives and manages project implementation, leveraging technical expertise and acting as a project coordinator. This involves combining public sector expertise with private sector skills to drive impactful results.