TITLE: Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor
TEAM/PROGRAM: Program Development, Quality and Advocacy
LOCATION: Port au Prince, Haiti with 30% in the field
CONTRACT LENGTH: 2 YEARS
CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)
Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE: Lead the development planning, monitoring and evaluation of a high quality, innovative emergency and long term Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) program with a special focus on reducing child poverty and supporting child centred social protection. Through growing and developing high quality FSL programs and building the capacity of the livelihoods staff and teams, the FSL Technical Advisor will make an outstanding contribution to realizing the rights of children in Haiti, in line with Save the Children’s Global theory of change and the requirements/strategies of SC Members.

SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: Director Program Development, Quality and Advocacy
Staff reporting to this post: None
Budget Responsibilities: None
Role Dimensions: capacity building and succession planning, strategy and positioning, program development, proposal development and reporting, technical oversight, representation, advocacy.
Over the next few years, the Save the Children Hait Country Program will engage in the emerging national dialogue on social protection. The initial priority of the post holder, together with senior national FSL staff and teams, will be to develop and implement an advocacy strategy, using evidence from research (particularly HEA, Cost of Diet, and CEP study) as well as operational experience, to promote social protection as a mechanism that can contribute to preventing malnutrition and build resilient livelihoods. Working with strategic partners, the post holder will successfully influence key social protection debates and inform national policy development for social protection in Haiti. The post holder will also ensure FSL program growth for humanitarian, recovery and development programming and provide quality assurance to existing interventions. Additionally, the post holder will represent the Country Program to relevant national government entities, INGOs, local NGOs, UN Agencies and donors and lead FSL proposal development process.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY :
Leadership and Representation
• Provide inspiring leadership to FSL program by communicating Save the Children’s vision and strategic purpose to partners and by guiding the team in developing compelling vision and strategy for the programme in Haiti
• Provide leadership and support in developing a high quality FSL program through integration, expansion and growth of existing programs and strengthening links with other sectors as appropriate
• Represent the Country Program on national, regional and international networks and fora, and participate in conferences/meetings, building the Country program reputation as a leading FSL agency in Haiti
• Build strong networks with other NGOs, CSOs, UN agencies and academic institutions working on FSL to collaborate on joint learning, analysis and advocacy initiatives
• Actively participate in technical coordination meetings to ensure synergies with other agencies in our emergency responses and development work.

Program Development and Quality
• Oversee the design and implementation of a high quality Child Poverty strategy, ensuring
complimentarity with the other sectors (child protection, CRG, education and health).
• Work with SC members to develop funding strategies and proposals to expand the FSL portfolio in line with strategic priorities and technical best practice from a range of sources including institutional donors and private funds.
• Identify internal and external capacity building opportunities and resources for technical staff to build knowledge and technical competence to provide high quality technical assistance to FSL projects, focusing specifically on: social protection; building resilience, cash plus and nutrition sensitive
livelihoods
• Participate in the development of key internal documents including: Child Rights Situation Analysis (CRSA), Thematic strategies, Country Annual Plan (CAP) and Country Annual Reports (CAR).
• Support the development and implementation of an effective monitoring and evaluation framework for the FSL program, support program implementation teams in developing and implementing project specific M&E frameworks and ensure monitoring information is analysed and shared.
Advocacy, research and organizational learning:
• Ensure evidence of impact of interventions is rigorously maintained, documented and disseminated
internally and externally as appropriate, to contribute to improvements in program quality and advocacy efforts.
• Identify priority FSL policy and advocacy objectives relating to social protection and ongoing advocacy work and develop and lead advocacy strategies and plans.
• Develop policy briefs and position papers ensuring the inclusion of technical input from the relevant project managers. Lead in networking and articulating Save the Children’s position, policy and strategy in national forums and meetings.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)
Accountability:
• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
• Post-graduate university degree in, agriculture, FSL or related field and/or 5-8 years of international work experience in FSL program development, including representation and policy level work in a developing country.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of: FSL program development implementation and growth and experience in working with a wide range of donors
• Knowledge and experience of a range of FSL programming including: social protection, nutrition and food security
• An in depth understanding of international development issues related to FSL and knowledge of the current situation in Haiti.
• Ability to analyze information, evaluate options and to think and plan strategically.
• Proven skills as a trainer/facilitator and mentor.
• Experience of working at both policy and implementation level ideally with some emergency program experience.
• Experience in all aspects of programme development, proposal writing and budget development.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in politicised and multi cultural settings with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and representation skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and French.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and
Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks,
reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies
and procedures.

Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required
to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

letter of application, resume, copies of diplomas and certificates
relevant to required skills and competencies.

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2019-03-08