Climate Change Technical Advisor

There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

Save the Children: A place where your purpose matters.

It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services - this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:

Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve climate problems.  In this full-time, max term (2 years) role, you’ll work remotely from home as a part of our Climate Change Division, to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Climate Change Technical Adviser plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s evidencing climate-related problems and building solutions, or problem solving with teams to support the impact of our Climate Change portfolio, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Providing high-quality technical input on child-centred climate change content for our portfolio of current and future climate change projects
• Working closely with a team of experts in the Climate Change Division including:  technical, operations, communications, financial and legal; across different sectors including health and education with focus on locally-led adaptation (LLA)
• Advising and reviewing projects and project proposals to ensure accuracy and leading practice on climate change adaptation and partner/donor requirements
• Guiding Save the Children’s climate change portfolio teams (including country offices, members and partners) to align thinking on context-specific approaches to climate hazards, impacts, risks, and solutions through capacity building including development of templates, tools and visuals
• Supporting the deepening of LLA programming within the existing Green Climate Fund (GCF) portfolio and influencing the wider Save the Children programming
• Supporting progress of the pipeline through strong relationship management, analysis of adaptation gaps, drafting and quality assuring content to improve initial project ideas, concepts and / or funding proposals
• Working closely with a range of stakeholders both internal and external such as the GCF and Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, to demonstrate and advocate for robust, evidenced based and scalable climate change solutions
• Researching and analysing the climate change and climate finance landscape to integrate best practice and fit-for-purpose emerging thinking into our approach
• Representing Save the Children related to the climate change portfolio on technical working groups or at relevant events/forums.

A place to feel valued:

Your expertise in designing and implementing contextualised climate responsive approaches with accountability and participation is invaluable.

This role requires:

• Degree in a relevant subject, e.g., Climate Change, Environmental Science, International Development, etc. 
• Experience of developing and reviewing concept notes and funding proposals for GCF
• Experience in researching, analysing and drafting climate change and locally-led adaptation evidence and building appropriate solutions, with an understanding of how to interpret scientific literature and climate models, in addition to sourcing most relevant climate and finance information
• Experience in climate change adaptation approaches in development contexts at the national and / or sub-national levels
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesise and process information on development and climate change issues 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including engaging presentation skills and the ability to synthesise complex information
• Strong ability to anlsyse and present lessons learned to internal and external audiences as a means of influencing access to child-centred climate finance

A place to belong:

We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Opportunity to work on diverse, large scale portfolio to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development
• Internal employment and development opportunities 
• The opportunity to work from home (WFH) as part of a global team 
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program 
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We have a highly inclusive culture and diverse workforce reflecting the communities we serve, allowing you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!)

Note: the specific benefit package is related to geographic location, for example, this link provides the full list of our employee benefits in Australia.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume to: climate@savethechildren.org.au with the email title CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNICAL ADVISER.

Please note that applications received via any other method will not be considered.

Applications close COB Tuesday 26^th May 2026.

Position Description – Climate Change Technical Adviser

For more information about this position, please contact climate@savethechildren.org.au. Or for more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as full-time, but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure its straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.