United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor – London

Job Specification: Task and responsibilites:

1)Advise, Support and Develop FSL Strategy and Portfolio (60%)

· Lead on mapping of opportunities and strategy development to develop FSL portfolio by integrating FSL into the programmes of other sectors (child protection, psycho-social support and education-in-emergencies) to achieve comprehensive outcomes for children.

· Be the global technical lead for all FSL programming, ensuring high quality technical advice is provided to all programmes, including support to cash transfer programming, in-kind distribution, livelihoods support activities and market analysis.

· Provide technical input to and assist in all stages (identification, assessment, analysis, design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and impact) of FSL programme development.

· Undertake the development of FSL-related tools, methodologies and organisational strategy that complement other thematic-related work.

· Assist in the assessment of partner capacity in FSL programmes and make recommendations on the most appropriate implementation and capacity building methodologies when required.

· Support the recruitment of FSL staff and consultants.

· Lead on FSL promotion, training and learning events together with other officers and advisors.

· Travel at short notice and to insecure environments to assist in FSL programme start-up, monitoring and support (depending on security)

2)Building capacity of staff and Partners in FSL (15%)

• Embed international and organizational standards and good practice of FSL in programmes.
• Strengthen FSL programming in country offices by monitoring progress, setting minimum standards and improving approaches and methodologies and building capacity through workshops, accompaniment and demonstration.
• Provide quality oversight to and mentoring, advice and support, of in-country FSL staff and local partners.

· Support the development of annual country offices’ strategies and organizational strategies that reflect FSL needs in support of child protection and EiE programmes.

3)Knowledge Management, Accountability, Research and Learning (15%)

• Keep abreast and apply learning, innovations and developments within the sector and support the dissemination of such across the organization.
• Ensure proper dissemination of information and knowledge management among relevant stakeholders through intranet and e-learning opportunities.
• Lead and strengthen FSL Communities of Practice, discussion fora, learning events for cross team learning and sharing to improve the quality of programming.
• Ensure the learning from internal and external action reviews and evaluations is disseminated and incorporated into the development of future projects.
• Facilitate cross-organizational sharing of good practices across teams and organisations.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of both current, and newly emerging monitoring, evaluation and accountability methods.
• Support the development of accountability feedback mechanisms in FSL programmes.
• Enable WCUK to develop its capacity to deliver high quality research projects.
• Management and development of on-line and printed resources eg. publications, case studies, learning reviews, communications evaluations and academic research.

4)External/Internal Relationships, Collaborating and Partnerships (10%)

• Act as the focal point for FSL input into the Global FS Cluster, CaLP and other sectoral fora and networks
• Develop and maintain contacts in donors, humanitarian agencies and academic institutions
• Help identify and develop relevant partnerships and opportunities to build-up War Child’s FSL profile.
• Represent and co-ordinate relevant FSL meetings, learning events and application of learning.

· Liaise with all other War Child staff, partners and FSL focal persons as appropriate.

· Liaise with all other War Child staff as appropriate (policy and advocacy, communication, fundraising, finance) to provide technical input in policy and communication materials.

· Undertake any other reasonable duty and tasks that may from time to time be requested by line manager or programmes team colleagues consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility

Please go to our website for more info:

https://www.warchild.org.uk/who-we-are/jobs/%20Food-Security-and-Livelihoods-Advisor