Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Specialist
The Opportunity
Today, the global hunger crisis is one of the biggest challenges threatening humanity. Plan International’s Food Security and Livelihoods expert will provide practise and thought leadership to scale up food security and livelihoods initiatives. As the Global Lead on Food Security and Livelihoods, this is an important position in our newly created Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit.
Plan International has prioritised food security and livelihoods within its humanitarian scale initiative, and you will play a key role in the advancement of the initiative.
As the Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Specialist you will provide technical, practise and thought leadership on food security and livelihoods both within the Federation and for external engagement.
You will provide technical support to Plan International country teams in order to successfully design and integrate food security & livelihoods into programme interventions and support implementation through both surge and desk support. In this role, you will also support new emergency responses, provide capacity building / on the job training and support emergency preparedness.
You will be expected to travel for 50% of your time to provide technical assistance to country offices.
The Individual
With in-depth expertise and substantial direct experience supporting humanitarian response in a variety of response contexts (protracted, complex, conflict & rapid onset), with a focus on food security, livelihoods or nutrition. You will have up to date knowledge of FSL programming approaches, ideally from a girls’ rights perspective including acute and chronic food insecurity crises. As well as knowledge of and commitment to the international humanitarian principles, codes, guidelines and cluster system.
As a consistent decision maker with the ability to manage competing demands and deadlines. You will be a confident communicator and able to network effectively and build strong working relationships with colleagues from across the organisation.
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Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live.
Salary: We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here.
Reports to: Head, Global Hunger Response and Resilience Unit
Closing Date: 30 Sep 2023
Interviews: Second week of October.
*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe