The Associate Director, Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods (EFSL) will support the growth of SC’s EFSL portfolio and provide managerial and technical oversight of SC’s food security and livelihoods emergency response and recovery programs, particularly in the areas of: short-term safety nets (cash and food resource provisioning), resilience building, livelihoods recovery, and emergency food security assessments/decision support.
Specifically, the Associate Director will oversee the proposal development process and ensure proper award management. In addition, the Associate Director will work with the Senior Director of EFSL to identify opportunities for innovation in programs, capture and document lessons learned, represent EFSL in internal and external fora, manage humanitarian response personnel, and provide technical advice and insight on an as-needed basis.
Resource Mobilization (40%)
With support from the Senior Director, EFSL:
- Lead the development, review and timely submission of high-quality proposals in response to identified opportunities.
- Support the development of private donor funding strategies and pursue opportunities.
- Maintain relationships with key donors (e.g., OFDA and FFP) and SCI at headquarters and regional/country level.
- Contribute to agency knowledge and decision-making concerning pursuit of funding opportunities.
Portfolio Management (35%)
- Lead the award management of EFSL awards, ensuring proper management, meeting deliverables, and remaining compliant.
- Lead on organizing technical and award management support needs for EFSL awards.
- Identify risks and problems with EFSL awards, escalating issues as appropriate and recommending solutions to identified issues.
Program Learning and Knowledge Management (15%)
- Assist with documenting best practices and innovations from SC programs, and collect and archive key agency reports and documents for reference and distribution. Prepare and edit reports for donors and other audiences as needed.
- Participate in planning and implementation of training and technical support workshops, lead and/or collaborate with SC Alliance colleagues or others, as appropriate, on development of training modules to build capacity of country office sector staff to design and implement quality programs.
Emergency Response and Internal Coordination (10%)
- Support outreach and coordination initiatives with other offices within the agency (Department of Humanitarian Response (DHR), SCI, Humanitarian Technical Working Group (HTWG), Child Poverty Global Theme, and represent SC externally on targeted technical topics with donors, Alliance and technical organizations.
- Coordinate and supervise consultants and SC Humanitarian Response Personnel (HRPs), as appropriate, for timely, quality program design and implementation.
- Lead and/or support in emergency response and recovery assessments and evaluations in country offices.
- Field-based experience in emergency response and recovery.
- 5-7 years of experience in emergency and/or development food security and livelihoods program management and technical support.
- Understanding of food security and livelihoods concepts and tools.
- Experience with designing and implementing cash and food-based safety net activities, asset protection, disaster risk reduction (preparedness and mitigation), food security assessment and program design.
- Experience managing and supervising staff.
- Familiarity with USAID (especially the Office of Food for Peace) and other donor programming priorities and technical requirements.
- Solid writing, editing, training and grant writing experience essential.
- Ability to travel up to 25% time and to work independently, even in harsh environments.
- Ability to be deployed for emergency response and assessment activities.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and cultural sensitivity required.
- French, Spanish or Arabic a plus.
Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
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