Senior Advisor, Food Security, Nonprofit Partnerships (P4)

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Summary

Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities.

Save the Children is seeking a Senior Advisor, Food Security. As a member of USP’s Nonprofit Partnerships team, which builds relationships with partners to expand services and resources available to rural communities, you will advise and support the building of partnerships with regional and national food security organizations to expand food access and resources available to children in rural communities. These partnerships will complement and enhance our existing programs and build strategies that will increase food security.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Food Security Partnership Strategy (20%)

• Establish and formalize Partnerships food security function: take inventory of existing collaborations, advise, and develop formal partnership guidelines and policies.
• Partner with US programs in rural communities to support the improvement of food security initiatives and connect them with research-based resources, through collaboration with Monitor Evaluation Research and Learning (MERL) and Program Implementation (PI).
• Cultivate partnerships and/or relationships with external organizations, donors, and other key stakeholders.
• Acts as a resource for other team members; may lead projects with limited risks and resource requirements.
• Co-creates key performance indicators with partners to communicate impact and ensure successful collaborations.
• Sustains and stewards relationships across U.S. Program’s Nonprofit partnerships portfolio.

Partnership Development (20%)

• In partnership with the Senior Managing Director, establishes annual food security program partnership goals and meets those goals by researching, outreaching, and negotiating with new partners.
• Advises and supports the development of a compelling joint value proposition for each prospective partner.
• Cultivates and maintains relationships with existing and potential partners in food security and adjacent sectors (e.g., agriculture, logistics)
• In collaboration with program and advocacy colleagues, builds, and maintains U.S. Programs membership in relevant networks and coalitions.
• Collaborates with partners to build thoughtful and systemic approaches to food security. 

Partnership Management (20%)

• In partnership with the Senior Managing Director, advises on the development and executes systems for relationship management, including tracking and reporting.
• Ensures program alignment to community needs and insights; maintains continuous feedback loop between national, state, and local partners to match program offerings to identified needs. 
•  Serves as technical content expert, specializing in food security programming and practices, leads strategy development, informs monitoring and evaluation plans, and provides oversight of food security programming, projects, pilots, and initiatives, serving as key point of contact with partners regarding project agreements, budgets, etc.
• Works with Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (MERL) to ensure programs are culturally relevant, backed by research, evidence, and best practice, and effectively promotes efforts to combat rural child hunger. 
• Acts as a resource for other team members, may lead projects with limited risks and resource requirements.
•  Leads development and supports delivery of training and resources to build programmatic competencies of state-level staff, regional and national partners.
• Supports evaluation planning, tool development, data collection, analysis, and reporting for food security programming.
• Explains complex, difficult and/or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
• Cultivate and manage external partnerships, consultants and vendors supporting food secur