The Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor will play an important role in leading and contributing to the growth and technical quality of Save the Children’s climate change adaptation and resilience-building portfolio, particularly by USG and other funders (e.g. Geen Climate Fund, Corporates, and Philanthropy) facilitated through SCUS. You will play a role in developing, implementing, and representing technical strategy, identifying opportunities, and developing/contributing writing funding proposals to ensure climate change adaptation, resilient building, and improved economic and environmental outcomes for vulnerable households and communities. You will improve the quality and impact of programs by providing technical assistance and building capacity within Country Offices (COs), creating or updating tools, and providing training as required. The position will also play a role in documenting capacities and achievements of climate adaptation and resilient food systems, contributing to thought leadership, and representing SCUS in internal and external fora.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)  

Technical Support (30%)

Stay abreast of technical developments in climate-smart agriculture and food systems field and disseminate information to team members as needed. Provide technical support to ongoing climate change adaptation/mitigation, resilient food security, and livelihoods programs as assigned. Design and deliver training to program team members. Produce technical guidelines and tools as required to facilitate technically sound implementation. Provide direction and support to the design, testing, and evaluation of innovations to advance climate adaptation, resilient food security, and livelihoods programming.

Resource Mobilization (40%)

Serve as the technical lead/co-lead and/or technical contributor (depending on the proposal’s demand) on climate adaptation, resilient food security, and livelihoods proposals, including but not limited to capture planning, positioning, information gathering, partnership brokering, program design facilitation and decision-making, and technical writing. For interdisciplinary programs, coordinate with other thematic departments – as well as external partners – to fashion a coherent, high-impact integrated approach. Support CO team members in analyzing information and formulating effective technical strategies, integrating best practices and, where appropriate, innovations. Conduct training and orientation for program design team members to ensure that all relevant information is on hand to inform a sound design process. Travel to the field to participate in design workshops, assessments, team writing assignments, and other proposal processes. Participate in proposal after-action reviews, ensuring that lessons learned are incorporated into subsequent efforts. Develop and sustain climate adaptation, resilient food security and livelihood-related relationships with donors (with a particular emphasis on USDA, GCF, and private donors/foundations), partners, and academic institutions.

Knowledge Management and Learning (20%)

Lead or participate in the design of learning studies and the documentation and presentation of the same. Contribute to an evidence base for effective climate adaptation, resilient food security and livelihoods implementation modalities. Lead or participate in maintaining updated capacity statements, program descriptions, or other documentation useful in articulating climate adaptation, resilient food security and livelihood approaches and achievements. Ensure that technical tools and materials are filed in a shareable manner according to DHL knowledge management protocols.

Advocacy and External Representation (10%)

Participate in the development of climate adaptation and livelihoods-related policy and advocacy positions and support their dissemination. Represent DHL on technical and coordination working groups in an area of expertise.

Required Qualifications

Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience  Experience in climate adaptation, food security, and livelihoods Demonstrated technical depth and understanding of climate change vulnerability and impacts, resilience food system concepts, and analysis Understanding of market-led and systemic approaches to achieving impact at scale In-depth technical expertise in at least one of the following areas of work Climate Smart Food production (agriculture- crops/livestock), fisheries/aquaculture, and natural resource management Inclusive market systems development and private sector engagement in relation to climate adaptation and building resilient food systems Climate change adaptation/mitigation prioritization and designing interventions Proven familiarity and success with one or more donors for climate change funding including the USDA Food For Progress, Green Climate Funds, and climate finance by corporate and other donors Proposal development experience, including experience leading the technical aspects of complex, large proposal efforts Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 25% time Professional proficiency in MS Office suite  Professional proficiency in spoken and written English 

Preferred Qualifications

Degree in a relevant social science or natural science (i.e. agriculture, natural resource management, livestock development) Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing climate adaptation, resilient food security and livelihood programs in developing countries, including livestock and fisheries Understanding of one or more of the following cross-cutting issues Migration and rural-urban linkages Women’s economic empowerment Youth livelihoods particularly in the context of rural economies Experience with integrated multi-sectoral programming and or nexus programs straddling humanitarian and development needs Overseas experience in Africa and Asia regions Fluency in at least one relevant regional language

Compensation 

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location: 

Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary  Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary  Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary 

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record.  

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, paid vacation leave, safety & wellness leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, caregiver leave, and much more. 

About Save the Children 

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share. 

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.  As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging. 

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. 

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.