Advisor, Food Security, IDEAL Activity (P3)

Summary

Led by Save the Children, the Implementer-Led Design, Evidence, Analysis and Learning (IDEAL) Activity is a multi-year project funded by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) that aims to strengthen the capacity of BHA implementing partners to design and implement effective emergency and non-emergency food security programs. IDEAL serves as a catalyst and facilitator of knowledge sharing and learning, evidence generation and application, and collaborative community building among food security implementers. The Peer-to-peer Evidence, Analysis, and Knowledge Sharing (PEAKS) activity is a multi-year Associate Award of the IDEAL Activity that is anticipated to start in October 2024.

The Advisor, Food Security will support the design and delivery of capacity strengthening efforts across IDEAL and PEAKS focus areas of: monitoring, evaluation and learning; adaptive management; humanitarian, development and peace assistance coherence; sequencing, layering and integration and the graduation approach.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Technical Support and Capacity Strengthening (50%)
  • Identify and document best practices through literature reviews as well as key informant discussions with implementing community.
  • Design and deliver technically sound sessions at IDEAL/PEAKS workshops and knowledge sharing meetings.
  • Support IDEAL/PEAKS’ approach to building partner technical capacity within IDEAL/PEAKS strategic objectives. 
  • Work with IDEAL/PEAKS Senior Management Team to design interventions relevant for the food security implementing community through the annual work planning process.
  • In conjunction with other technical colleagues, ensure complementarity of proposed interventions.
  • Liaise with different stakeholders to ensure up-to-date knowledge of the global food security policy environment, including USAID policies and strategies, global trends, and barriers and enablers for food security programming.

• Knowledge Management and Learning (35%)
  • Capture and apply implementation-level priorities and learning, as well as technical information on what is working and what is not for food security practitioners.
  • Leverage relationships with other food security knowledge management, coordination, and support mechanisms—for example, KDLT, FEWSNET, SCC, RLA, gFSC. 
  • Work with knowledge management/communications colleagues to gather ideas from the implementing community, identify presenters, and provide input to knowledge sharing meeting agenda items related to food security programming.
  • Curate learning through collections pages on the FSN Network website, tipsheets, and other concise resources.

• Thought Leadership and Representation (15%)
  • Support facilitation of internal and external IDEAL/PEAKS events.
  • Support IDEAL’s Strategic Learning and Adaptive Management community of practice (SLAM).
  • Engage with food security programming practitioners and represent IDEAL/PEAKS in key fora. 

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in food security programming
• Familiarity with USAID/BHA and other donor programming priorities and technical requirements
• Proven experience in capacity strengthening in food security programming
• Proven ability to manage a complex and varied workload, with limited oversight
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging

Preferred Qualifications

• Implementation experience in BHA or legacy Food for Peace food security programming
• Familiarity with humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach
• Familiarity with the graduation approach
• Professional proficiency in French
• Demonstrated understanding of USAID’s CLA approaches

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

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