Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Graduation Approach (GA) Advisor for the upcoming USAID/Niger Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA). The goal of the Activity is to improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically food insecure households and communities in a sustainable manner. The GA Advisor will work with the RFSA staff and leadership to ensure that the Activity design and implementation adheres to the graduation approach. This position will be based in Niger for the anticipated five-year period of performance (exact location TBD). Hiring is contingent upon USAID approval of the candidate and award of the project to Save the Children. This position is unaccompanied.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of the Activity’s graduation approach and social protection strategy, participating in thematic team planning processes and the implementation of program activities as required. in-depth understanding of how gender, age, and other locally relevant socio-cultural factors may play a role in targeting participants. Work across sectors and consortium partners to ensure a coherent and consistent approach to graduation is incorporated into all aspects of the RFSA Demonstrated ability to lead the collection, analysis, and use of information from a wide range of sources. Ensure that all components of the graduation approach work together to create multiplier effects across and between components. Ensure technical interventions are integrated, layered, and sequenced appropriately at all levels of implementation within the Activity, USAID investments, the private sector, other donors, and the government of Niger, including those implementing social protection programming. Ensure high quality of overall technical implementation among all sub-awardees and implementation locations. Strengthen capacity among sub-awardees in the graduation approach Support the development of program implementation plans as well as recruitment of new staff, provide necessary trainings, develop and adapt tools with MEAL colleagues, and identify opportunities for internal and external collaboration. Proactively identify challenges to successful implementation and raise these issues with relevant management staff. Build collaborative relationships within Save the Children and externally that facilitate and improve the quality of program implementation. Contribute to a period of formative research and data collection, and related program strategies to ensure an adapted graduation approach. Provide support on the implementation of the Social Behavior Change Strategy (SBC) and SBC communications. Identify and document best practices of the project in implementing the graduation approach components for learning with partners.

Required Qualifications

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in international development, social sciences, or another related field. Master’s degree preferred. Five years of graduation approach experience is required. Demonstrated experience designing and implementing the five components of the graduation approach. An in-depth understanding of how gender, age, and other locally relevant socio-cultural factors may play a role in targeting participants. Attention to social inclusion, especially marginalized populations, gender, and youth integration. Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in collaboration with the M&E Lead and the Strategic Learning Advisor (SLA). Implementation experience in similar low-resource environments. Experience working in Niger or other countries in the Sahel region is preferred. Strong management and interpersonal skills. Fluency in English and French required. Mentoring and facilitation skills.

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.