Senior Advisor, Youth Livelihoods and Employment (P4)

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Summary

The Senior Advisor Youth Livelihoods (SAYL) is a member of Save the Children US (SCUS)’s Food Security, Livelihoods (FSL) technical team. The FSL Technical team supports SCUS’ global portfolio of programs related to agricultural development, natural resource management, climate change adaptation, market systems development, enterprise development, financial services, women’s economic empowerment and youth economic opportunities.

The SAYL will manage technical quality of youth related programming as a cross-cutting theme across projects as well as for targeted youth economic empowerment projects; Integrating relevant economic strengthening strategies including promotion of entrepreneurship, employment, employability, transferable life skills, entrepreneurship, and financial capability. The SAYL will ensure effective integration of a Positive Youth Development approach in programming and lead the development of technical approaches and evidence models for SCUS’s global priorities related to youth engagement in agricultural value chains and addressing climate change in Food Systems.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Technical Leadership for Quality Programming (40%):

• Provide technical assistance to a portfolio of projects deploying economic strengthening strategies targeted at young people – focusing on cost-effectiveness, building a solid evidence base, and moving innovations to scale.
• Maintain a line of sight into technical quality of all youth economic strengthening technical assistance at the country level through productive relationships with Country Office (CO) staff, enabling the timely provision of appropriate technical inputs and oversight, as well as the distillation and documentation of lessons learned.
• Contribute to the development, dissemination, and monitoring of program quality tools (including assessments, frameworks and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems).
• Lead the best practice documentation and learning for both internal and external audiences to position Save the Children as a thought leader in youth economic strengthening work.
• Facilitate cross-program linkages, across Save’s global movement’s portfolio and multi sectoral.
• Provide direction and support to the design, testing, and evaluation of innovations to advance youth integration in FSL programming.

Resource Development (30%):

• Serve as the technical contributor or lead on relevant FSL proposals, including capture planning, positioning, information gathering, partnership brokering, program design facilitation, decision-making, and technical writing.
• For interdisciplinary programs, coordinate with other SCUS departments and external partners to develop a coherent, high-impact integrated approach.
• Support CO team members in analyzing information and formulating effective technical strategies, integrating best practices and innovations.
• Conduct training and orientation for program design team members to ensure all relevant information is on hand to inform a sound design process.
• Participate in-person in design workshops, assessments, team writing assignments, and other proposal processes.
• Engage in proposal after action reviews, guaranteeing that lessons learned are incorporated into subsequent efforts.
• Develop and sustain FSL-related relationships with donors (with a particular emphasis on United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA), USAID/ Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), United Nations (UN) and private donors/foundations), partners and academic institutions.

Knowledge Management & Learning (20%)

• Lead or participate in documentation and presentation of the design of learning studies.
• Contribute to an evidence base for effective youth integration in FSL implementation modalities.
• Lead or participate in maintaining updated capacity statements, program descriptions, or other documentation useful in articulating youth specific approaches to address FSL deficits.
• Confirm technical tools and materials are filed according to DHL knowledge management protocols, so team members may access them.