CARE USA Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor Jobs in South Sudan
CARE USA Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor Jobs in South Sudan
CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries.
We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.
Program Strategy and Development
Develop and lead the implementation of the CARE Food Security and Livelihoods sector strategy and portfolio.
Proactively seek new business development in FSL, including cultivating relationships with donors, proposal writing, etc. in line with CO strategy and the CARE mandate to serve the needs of women and girls.
Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to the team in the development of proposals and program planning.
In collaboration with the Gender and Protection advisor, ensure mainstreaming of gender & protection in all proposal development, theory of change and budget development.
Coordinate with program support and finance to ensure adequate budgeting for new initiatives.
Promote adherence to standards and best practices taking into account the need for local adaptation.
Ensure that humanitarian FSL needs are identified by planning and coordinating joint, inter-cluster, initial rapid assessments which are adapted to the local context.
Contribute to the identification of critical issues that require multi-sector responses and coordinate with other CARE South Sudan sectors, with sector working groups and clusters (where applicable) to develop appropriate responses.
Provide support in negotiation and review of funding contracts.
Coordinate external technical assistance and draw on the resources of program support in new program development exercises
Serve as the focal point for donor liaison, in technical areas of FSL, in close collaboration with senior management.
Technical Leadership and Capacity Building
Provide technical oversight to ensure the quality of CARE South Sudan’s FSL and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) programing and promote adherence to global FSL standards.
Supervise and support the timely and effective implementation of FSL projects and activities across operational areas, in line with budgets and work-plans.
Provide technical support to the recruitment of FSL-related staff (i.e. JD review based on existing standard JDs, technical short-listing, technical interviews).
Coordinate with other CARE South Sudan sectors to integrate livelihoods related activities/ indicators, especially through awareness raising and mainstreaming protection and cash aimed at enhanced well-being and access to food amongst beneficiaries
Oversee the production of FSL-related research papers including advising on research design and methodology in collaboration with the MEAL team, recruiting required expertise where necessary.
Regularly assess and strengthen the capacity of CARE South Sudan’s FSL team, ensuring that team members are able to access training and professional development resources appropriate to their capacity gaps/needs.
Coordinate the dissemination of key technical material and organize trainings with a special focus on standards and best practice.
Build the technical capacity CARE staff, partners, NGOs and government counterparts as required.
External Representation and Communication
Establish and maintain communications with key FSL stakeholders (including national, state and county FSL authorities, FAO, WFP, national and international organizations and civil society actors) and engage actively with existing coordination mechanisms.
Represent the organization in relevant working groups, sector fora, conferences, and high-level meetings and FSL humanitarian cluster meetings.
Engage proactively with donors and other stakeholders for the purposes if advocacy and fund raising. Ensure strong donor relations with current and potential donors.
Lead and support the implementation of positioning strategies for CARE, including the cultivation of partners, events, publications / materials, etc.
Coordinate with CARE’s Global and Regional FSL Technical Advisor(s)/teams and other technical and operational staff. Supply necessary information to ensure timely reporting and communications with CI members, donors, government and other key actors.
Seek support and technical assistance
from relevant technical units at CARE USA or other CARE international partners, as needed
Support and work effectively in coalitions, networks and social movements, forming and nurturing strategic partnerships for advocacy, research and resource mobilization with peer INGOs, NNGOs, Academic institutions
Monitoring and Reporting
Work closely with the MEAL team in the monitoring of FSL interventions; ensuring the collation, analysis and sharing of data related to project activities and broader South Sudan food security context for the purposes of designing new interventions, donor advocacy and fund raising.
Support the development of needs assessments, market assessments and IPC surveys and conduct in-depth analysis of the data collected through the use of these tools.
Support the MEAL team and field teams in ensuring that robust monitoring systems are in place and that reviews are undertaken periodically.
Lead on the review of FSL and CVA components of project reports – contributing both in terms of narrative reporting and data analysis.
Ensure timely submission of quality donor reports within the FSL portfolio in collaboration with the MEAL team
Regularly review and improve FSL programming (emergency response, recovery and resilience programming) performance and assess coherence with prevention and mitigation components in other programs/sectors
Conduct monitoring visits to project locations, develop field reports and follow up on critical issues in a timely manner.
Participate in grant start-up and close out workshops to ensure collegial understanding of donor expectations and integration of learning from projects in subsequent designs.
Research Innovation and Learning
Lead on the development of FSL related position, policy and research papers relevant to the CARE South Sudan context.
Lead in identifying and documenting, lessons and promising practices from CARE’s portfolio for
Lead in identifying themes for operational research within CARE programming focus and opportunities for collaborative research with other partners.
Participate in “communities of practice” to remain abreast of latest development and professional norms, upcoming project models, standards, tools and methodologies within FSL sector for inclusion in program development and sharing with FSL teams.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree in International Development, Agriculture, Economics or any FSL related field
FSL program design and development, most notably for UN Agencies such as FAO and WFP, USAID, DFID, ECHO and other bi-lateral donors
Technical writing for FSL proposals and reports.
Design and implementation of FSL programs in fragile states and for refugee and IDP populations.
FSL programming in emergency, protracted crisis, and development settings in the following sub-sectors: General Food and NFI distribution (livestock, seeds and tools), Village Savings and Loans associations (associations (VSLAs), Income generating activities and broader resilience and livelihoods programming
Eight years’ experience working on FSL programming in humanitarian contexts, including experience of field-level management of complex humanitarian response and resilience programs with proven experience donor-funded projects
Five years’ experience in a coordination role requiring provision of support to multiple offices/locations/teams
Two years’ experience working in a fragile state like South Sudan or similar context
Proven experience of successful capacity-building of humanitarian field staff and partners, with experience in remote training
Proven experience supporting project teams on full project cycle technical needs (design, implementation, M&E, lessons learned), experience in emergency. or protracted crises setting.
Excellent communication and writing skills in English
Strong networking capability
Ability to organize and facilitate training sessions
Ability to develop capacity building frameworks and work plans
Ability to work in multi-cultural teams
Culturally aware and respectful
Commitment to CARE core value and principle
FSL programming experience in refugee contexts
Experience in gender and protection mainstreaming in FSL programming
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; CARE USA Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor Jobs in South Sudan
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