Join the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) as a Project Coordinator – Adaptation & Resilience: Apply Now
Closing Date: 27 February 2026
Join the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) as a Project Coordinator – Adaptation & Resilience: Apply Now
GAYO is looking for a dedicated and visionary individual to lead the day-to-day coordination of the project, while intentionally building the implementation systems, evidence products, partnerships, and learning documentation needed to expand to other African cities.
About
Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) is a youth-led, gender-balanced non-governmental organization dedicated to environmental sustainability, climate justice, and community development across Africa. Founded in 2014, GAYO collaborates with communities, governments, and partners to implement initiatives addressing climate change, the circular economy, and disaster risk reduction, while centering young Africans as leaders of change.
As GAYO’s work expands into new countries and regions, the organization requires a dedicated senior role to guide program expansion and provide strategic support to country offices, ensuring that growth is coherent, well-governed, and sustainable.
Extreme heat is an escalating climate risk across Africa’s rapidly growing cities, affecting health, productivity, and livelihoods, especially for vulnerable groups such as informal workers, women, youth, and low-income urban residents. Despite its severity, heat risk remains under-addressed in policy, planning, and public investment across many African contexts. GAYO is responding by advancing a youth-led, equity-centered Urban Heat Resilience Strategy that delivers practical solutions to protect people, strengthen livelihoods, and improve urban systems.
This Adaptation & Resilience Coordinator role exists to ensure the Strategy is implemented with discipline, credibility, and scalability. The Heat Strategy Implementation Coordinator will lead day-to-day coordination of Ghana as the pilot phase, while intentionally building the implementation systems, evidence products, partnerships, and learning documentation needed to expand to other
African cities. The Project Coordinator – Adaptation & Resilience will translate strategy modules into phased workplans, oversee high-quality delivery, and package lessons into a replication-ready model for future country programs.
Project Coordinator – Adaptation & Resilience Position Description
In the first 12–18 months, the Adaptation & Resilience Coordinator will play a leading role in:
- Establish a disciplined Ghana pilot implementation system by finalizing and securing approval for a Year 1 workplan, delivery tracker, reporting calendar, risk register, and clear escalation protocol to ensure accountability and timely decision-making.
- Confirm the Ghana pilot focus and delivery foundation by validating priority sites, target groups, and key
- stakeholders through structured engagement with municipal authorities, informal worker associations, community leaders, and technical partners, ensuring shared expectations and clear coordination pathways.
- Deliver a credible heat vulnerability and impact baseline by coordinating assessment activities across selected sites and producing a clear baseline summary that identifies priority risks, most-affected groups, and practical recommendations that directly guide intervention targeting and sequencing.
- Implement early heat risk communication and awareness actions by rolling out structured community engagement and messaging that promotes heat-health safety and practical protection behaviors, while documenting reach, engagement quality, and community feedback for improvement.
- Strengthen community and informal worker resilience by coordinating a minimum set of priority
- workshops/trainings and at least one livelihood resilience support action, ensuring inclusion of vulnerable groups and capturing evaluation insights to refine delivery.
- Coordinate delivery of practical heat protection solutions by managing site readiness, stakeholder engagement, implementation schedules, verification documentation, and handover processes, while ensuring basic sustainability and upkeep arrangements are clarified with relevant local actors.
- Consolidate Year 1 learning for Africa-scale readiness by producing a strong pilot report and a replication package that clearly documents what was delivered, what worked, what must change, and the minimum readiness conditions required to replicate the model in other African cities and countries.
- Coordinate hotspot identification and a minimum viable heat early warning and response protocol for the Ghana pilot by working with relevant technical and public health stakeholders to define heat triggers, map priority hotspots, establish communication pathways to vulnerable groups, and test the alert-to-action process to generate practical learning for scale.
Profile
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in climate adaptation, resilience, urban resilience, DRR,
- environmental health, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating implementation of multi-stakeholder programs (government/municipal + community + technical partners).
- Proven ability to translate strategy into structured workplans, deliverables, trackers, and reporting systems.
- Strong field coordination experience, including logistics planning, partner coordination, and delivery documentation.
- Experience working with vulnerable urban groups and/or informal sector communities, with sensitivity and professionalism.
- Demonstrated experience producing high-quality reports and knowledge products for leadership, donors, and partners
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