Deadline: 2 February 2016
Save the Children is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Food Security and Livelihoods Technical Advisor in Beirut, Lebanon. The duration for the post is of 12 months.
The Food Security and Livelihoods Technical Advisor will be responsible for sector strategy development.
Save the Children works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Food Security and Livelihoods Technical Advisor will perform the following functions-
- Ensure that sector programming is of excellent technical quality, attracts significant donor funding and contributes significantly to Save the Children’s strategic objectives, national/global learning and advocacy.
- Lead on developing proposals and is expected to work collaboratively to develop high quality FSL proposals that meet the needs of targeted beneficiary populations, provide technical advice and support to project staff to ensure programming objectives are successfully achieved.
- Contribute to achieving high programme quality through evidence-based work, and/or leading new research around FSL programming.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- Development professional with a relevant Masters’ Degree or equivalent professional experience. Recommended 5 years’ experience in FSL, with experience in humanitarian and developmental contexts.
- Excellent understanding of household level economics.
- Prior experience in assessment, design and implementation of cash transfer, voucher, and food distribution programmes.
- Ability to link micro-level impacts on children with macro trends at national and regional level.
- Strong analytic and planning skills.
- Excellent coordination and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and negotiate clearly and effectively at all levels.
- Excellent writing/editing, budget development and presentation/communication skills.
- Ability to present complex information in a succinct and compelling manner.
- Proven representation skills.
- Strong results orientation, with the ability to challenge existing mindsets.
- Ability and willingness to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming emergency surge teams.
- Proven ability in working in insecure or hardship environments and to work under tight deadlines.
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively to field sites and work independently.
- Fluency in Arabic and English, both verbal and written, required.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their CV and covering letter including their salary expectations for this role in English, as a single document, through online process.
For more information, please visit Save the Children.
