Senior Natural Resource Management Officer at Mercy Corps
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Department Summary
The Senior Natural Resource Management (NRM) Officer will be part of Mercy Corps Nigeria's Resilience and Climate Adaptation portfolio and will provide technical leadership for natural resource management and ecosystem restoration activities under the Protecting Food Security Against Flood & Drought Cycles project in Katsina State.
The Position
The Senior Natural Resource Management Officer is responsible for providing strategic and technical leadership for the planning, implementation, supervision, and quality assurance of natural resource management and ecosystem restoration activities across the project.
- Working under the supervision of the Technical Project Manager, the incumbent will oversee field implementation of sustainable land management, watershed restoration, climate adaptation, and community natural resource governance interventions while providing technical guidance to project staff, government counterparts, contractors, and community institutions.
- The position plays a critical role in ensuring that nature-based solutions effectively reduce flood and drought risks, restore degraded landscapes, improve agricultural productivity, and strengthen community resilience.
Essential Responsibilities
Technical Leadership and Program Management
Lead the technical design and implementation of all Natural Resource Management (NRM) activities.
- Develop annual and quarterly implementation plans for NRM
- Ensure implementation of technically sound, climate-resilient, and environmentally sustainable approaches.
- Integrate ecosystem restoration and landscape management principles across all project
- Ensure compliance with Mercy Corps technical standards, donor requirements, and national environmental regulations.
- Provide technical support to project management in planning, implementation, adaptive management, and reporting.
- Lead implementation of NRM and ecosystem restoration interventions
- Ensure interventions improve ecosystem services while protecting productive agricultural and grazing lands from climate-related hazards.
- Provide technical leadership for sustainable agriculture and rangeland management
- Support integration of natural resource management into agricultural productivity and food security interventions.
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Work closely with the MEAL team to develop technical indicators for NRM interventions, monitor ecosystem restoration outcomes, assess vegetation recovery and land rehabilitation.
- Support the MEAL team in tracking adoption of sustainable land management
- Support the MEAL to conduct field monitoring and technical
- Support the documentation of innovations, lessons learned, and best
- Support the preparation of technical reports and case
Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills
Bachelor's degree in Natural Resource Management, Forestry, Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Agriculture, Range Management, Geography, Climate Change, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree in Natural Resource Management, Environmental Management, Climate Change, Watershed Management, or a related field is highly desirable.
- Minimum of 5–7 years of progressively responsible experience implementing donor-funded natural resource management, climate adaptation, watershed management, environmental restoration, or resilience programmes.
- Demonstrated experience implementing ecosystem restoration and sustainable land management projects.
- Strong technical knowledge of Watershed management, Climate adaptation, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), Ecosystem restoration, Soil and water conservation, Sustainable rangeland management, and Community-based natural resource
- Experience working with rural communities and local government
- Excellent facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and community mobilization
- Strong analytical, planning, and technical reporting
- Proficiency in GIS, remote sensing, or environmental monitoring tools is an added
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of Hausa and local languages spoken in Katsina State is highly desirable.
Location: Katsina
Deadline: 14 August 2026
How to Apply
Interested Applicant can apply via this link
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