Senior Advisor, Food Security and Livelihoods

Staff whose work requires or may require face-to-face interaction with Save the Children colleagues, partners or beneficiaries must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless otherwise required by law. Save the Children complies with federal, state and local laws regarding accommodations related to this policy.

Summary

This position plays an important role in leading and contributing to the growth and technical quality of Save the Children US (SCUS) Global Livelihoods and Food Security portfolio. The Advisor plays a role in the development, implementation and representation of DHL’s strategy, identifying opportunities and developing proposals to increase resilience and strengthen economic security for vulnerable households in some of the most complex environments and those most at risk of food insecurity. You will actively engage in New Business Development (NBD) and lead efforts to improve the quality and impact of livelihoods programming by providing technical assistance and building the capacity of technical counterparts within the country offices. countries (CO), creating or updating tools and providing training. You will also play an important role in driving learning and knowledge management across the organization, contributing thought leadership and representing SCUS in internal and external forums.

What you will do (essential tasks)

Technical support (40%)

• Keep abreast of technical developments in relevant communities of practice, disseminating information to team members as needed.
• Provide technical support to ongoing programs as assigned.
• Design and deliver training to program team members.
• Produce technical guidelines and tools as needed to facilitate technically sound implementation.
• Provide leadership and support in the design, testing and evaluation of innovations to advance programming

Resource mobilization (30%)

• Serve as technical lead on resilience, food security and economic growth proposals, including but not limited to planning, positioning, gathering information, negotiating partnerships, facilitating the design of programs and decision-making; and technical writing.
• For interdisciplinary programs, coordinate with other subject departments – as well as external partners – to shape a cohesive, high-impact, integrated approach.
• Support CO team members in analyzing information and formulating effective technical strategies, incorporating best practices and, where appropriate, innovations.
• Organize training and orientation for program design team members to ensure all relevant information is at hand to inform a strong design process.
• Participate in design workshops, assessments, team writing assignments and other proposal processes. This participation will require international travel.
• Participate in after-action proposal reviews, ensuring that lessons learned are incorporated into subsequent efforts.
• Develop and maintain technical relationships with donors (with a particular focus on United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), USAID/Bureau for Resilience and Food Safety (BRFS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), corporate partners and academic institutions.

Knowledge management and learning (20%)

• Lead or participate in the design of learning studies as well as the documentation and presentation thereof.
• Contribute to an evidence base for effective FSL implementation modalities.
• Lead or participate in updating capability statements, program descriptions, or other useful documents to articulate FSL approaches and accomplishments.
• Ensure that technical tools and materials are recorded so that they are accessible to colleagues by maintaining them in accordance with DHL knowledge management protocols.

Advocacy and external representation (10%)

• Participate in the development of policy and advocacy positions related to resilience and economic development and support their dissemination.
• Represent DHL in technical and coordination working groups in an area of ​​expertise.

Qualifications required

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated technical depth and understanding of resilience and food security concepts and analysis.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following areas of work
  • Food production (agriculture-crops/livestock) and fisheries/aquaculture, natural resource management and climate change
  • Development of inclusive market systems and private sector engagement
  • Financial inclusion
  • Economic strengthening of households, especially in alternative off-farm/off-farm livelihoods.
• Proven success with USAID/BRFS, USDA Food For Progress and/or USAID/BHA (Resilience Integrated Food Security Activities) programs.
• Experience in proposal development, including experience in leading the technical aspects of large and complex proposal efforts;
• Professional proficiency in the MS Office suite
• Professional fluency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and sustaining an environment of diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.

Preferred qualifications

• Professional fluency in French, Spanish or Portuguese

Compensation

Save the Children offers the following salary ranges for this position, depending on the candidate’s location:

• Geo 1- NY Metro, DC and other locations with labor costs significantly above the national average: up to $128,000/year
• Geo 2-Locations around the United States National average labor cost: up to $116,000/year
• Geo 3-Locations significantly lower than the national average for US labor costs: up to $104,000/year

Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, industry and geographic location.

Why should you join the Save the Children team…

Save the Children US offers exceptional benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurance, pet insurance, short and long term disability coverage, employee assistance program, 403 (b ), generous vacations, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter allowances, dress for the day and much more.

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