Advisor, Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods (P3)

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
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