Save the Children is seeking a Strategic Coordination and Learning Advisor for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Development Food Security Activity in Niger. The goal is to improve food and nutrition security and resilience among extremely poor and chronically vulnerable households and communities in a sustainable manner.
The proposed program will be a highly-integrated, multi-sectoral food security intervention. The Strategic Coordination and Learning Advisor will work closely with the Food Security Technical Coordinator and the Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Accountability Manager to ensure collaboration and linkages with external stakeholders across the program’s intervention areas, as well as to integrate active and intentional adaptive learning exercises. The Advisor is responsible for: creating linkages between program participants and outcomes with other programs, institutions and stakeholders in the implementation area; supporting program impact and sustainability; establishing and implementing a program learning agenda; and ensuring collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA) processes and activities within the program.
- Create a stakeholder map and stakeholder analysis to guide collaboration with other programs, initiatives and institutions to link beneficiaries to sustainable outcomes and enable the program’s theory of change.
- Create and manage a linkage plan to ensure collaboration between local actors, USAID-funded activity stakeholders, host country government stakeholders, donor agencies, the private sector, and other implementing agencies managing programs and creating policy in the target geographic areas.
- Contribute significantly to host country government relationship building and collaboration.
- Lead the formulation and implementation of a detailed program learning agenda.
- Manage learning events and processes. Work with MEAL team members to ensure adaptations to the program theory of change as new information comes to light.
- Lead the creation and management of a detailed program knowledge management platform, ensuring full integration with Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE/ RISE II) and other relevant knowledge management platforms.
- Create guidelines for CLA in the context of the program. Manage CLA ‘pause and reflect’ events and resulting adaptive management analysis, decision-making, program/ approach adjustments, training and follow-through.
- Contribute to the creation of a culture of openness, trust, and continuous improvement within the program team and with partners. Train team members on CLA in addition to ensuring peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing and application, activity-based capacity strengthening, evidence and data utilization within the team.
- Lead the production and dissemination of documentation pertaining to the above.
- At least five years of demonstrated experience in food security, knowledge management, organizational learning, and capacity strengthening.
- Ability and willingness to travel regularly.
- Excellent written communication and presentation skills in French and English. Knowledge of local languages is an asset.
- Strong tool/ curriculum development and training skills.
- Demonstrated, structured approach to coordination, sustainability planning, and linkage formulation.
- Demonstrated understanding and application of CLA.