Food Security and Livelihoods Advisor

Overview

Drive food security and livelihoods program across interventions.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics/business management/development studies/agriculture/Entrepreneurship or its equivalent/Social Science and related courses
• Master's degree in agriculture, economics, business management and administration is a plus
• Minimum of 5-year professional experience in food security, livelihood and entrepreneurship development activities
• Knowledge on the integration of livelihood, food security, climate change adaptation, community savings and credit management
• Ability to respond to shifting priorities and engage in diverse work load
• Ability to provide advisory works in multiple projects
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with different teams
• Knowledge on policies of various government agencies as it affects implementation and development efforts
• Understanding of program design, monitoring and evaluation
• Competence in the use of Microsoft office computer programmes
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills
• Social Enterprise Marketing Strategy Development

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

The Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) Advisor serves as the primary technical focal and strategic advisor responsible for driving World Vision’s programming across food security, community savings mobilization, livelihoods, and entrepreneurship development in achieving economic household resilience. Operating as technical lead and subject matter expert, the Advisor ensures that these sector are seamlessly embedded into the country strategy through the Integrated Program Framework (IPF).

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Programmatic (IPF) Alignment, Sectoral Integration and Technical Advisory

• Provide technical counsel and strategic recommendations on program design, adaptation, and impact measurement for Food Security and Livelihood interventions (including savings mobilization through CoMSCA). This includes defining the technical parameters for: 1. The Integrated Programming Framework (IPF); 2. Technical-operational business processes; 3. impact measurement indicators, methodologies, and toolkits; and 4). capacity building plan for staff
• Provide technical review and validate core program models, frameworks, and curriculum tools to guarantee evidence-based rigor and strategic alignment. This entails providing oversight for: (1) core model implementation, (2) parent's awareness and training involvement, advocacy and mobilization of communities through CPM Interventions
• Recommend and provide expert guidance on sector-specific project indicators and targets, ensuring they are technically sound, context-appropriate, measurable, and aligned with program objectives and SDGs.
• Support in the review and refinement of indicators and project models to reflect realistic outcomes and contribute to evidence-based planning and performance tracking
• Advise field implementation leadership on the systemic integration of food security, livelihood, savings mobilization in ADP plans. Provide strategic oversight and monitoring guidance on the adoption of these interventions, helping field teams proactively identify and navigate gaps in program execution.
• Collaborate and agree with other sector advisors and Operations Managers to ensure that Food Security and Livelihoods and its CPM or interventions are integrated with other sectors and guidance are readily made available for field implementation
• Provide strategic capacity-building oversight to field implementation teams, establishing a structured mechanism for regular technical coaching, mentoring, and advanced technical consultation for matrix reporting education and skills development specialists.

Resource Acquisition, Sectoral Advocacy and Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the technical resource for the Grants and Acquisition Management (GAM) and Resource Development (RD) during project ideation. Provide guidance and technical inputs for the formulation of high-quality concept papers and project designs for grants and non-sponsorship initiatives at both national and sub-national levels.
• Partner with the RD and GAM teams to appraise Private Non-Sponsorship (PNS) and grant opportunities. Lead the technical review of proposals to ensure technical soundness, strategic alignment, and the integration of mandatory standards
• Actively represent WVDF in strategic national health, nutrition and WASH networks and coalitions. Drive technical advocacy and policy dialogue with key institutions like Department of Agriculture (DA), TESDA, PCAF and other institutions and Food Security and Livelihoods clusters, identify technical sector advocacy opportunities and influence
• Liaison and collaborate with the World Vision Regional Office (RO) and Global Center (GC) to provide guidance on international partnership standards. Ensure national foods security and livelihood frameworks, policies, and quality benchmarks are harmonized with partnership mandates.

Knowledge management, training and information sharing

• Serve as a key technical resource during regular national and field office operational planning, mid-term reviews, and reflection processes. Provide evidence-based technical insights, and strategic recommendations to enhance the quality of planning, implementation, technical monitoring, and impact measurement.
• Define and design the overarching technical capacity-building framework for field implementation teams. Identify the essential knowledge, skills, technical competencies, and attitudes required
• Oversee the technical standards, curation, and alignment of official guidance documents, project models, and intervention toolkits to ensure they are accessible and technically sound. Provide technical guidance on systematically capturing, documenting, and replicating field-validated best practices and innovations.
• Advise Operations Managers (OMs) and the SMEAL/SMIL team on the adoption and rigorous adherence to standard indicators across Area Development Programs (ADPs). Ensure core project models or evidence-based curriculum are accurately measured to track and demonstrate the program's contribution. Provides technical review of sector-specific data /reports and supports analysis to inform programmatic decisions/adjustments.

Technical Advisory and Support to Humanitarian Programming and Response

• Serve as the technical advisor for food security, livelihood early recovery interventions across the humanitarian programming, providing strategic guidance during the relief, early recovery, and long-term rehabilitation phases in close coordination with Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA).
• Collaborate with other sectoral advisors and field implementation team to establish technical standards and quality benchmarks for food security and livelihoods and provide technical guidance on the curation of age-appropriate, context-specific interventions
• Represent WVDF as the primary technical lead in Cluster meetings, actively contributing to national coordination, joint rapid assessments, and sector-wide policy formulations during major disaster responses.
• Deploy to emergency response as a technical specialist to assist HEA and field management in rapid situational assessments, project design verification, and the quality assurance of ongoing sector response intervention.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Professional Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in economics/business management/development studies/ agriculture/Entrepreneurship or its equivalent /Social Science and related courses

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Master's degree in agriculture, economics, business management and administration is a plus

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-year professional experience in food security, livelihood and entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship development activities in the country with a background in rural, urban and agriculture and non-agriculture based either on management or advisory role

• Have knowledge on the interlink or integration of livelihood, food security, climate change adaptation, community savings and credit management, business management and marketing and social enterprise

• Eligibility/certification on economic development program or any equivalent combination of education and experience with related business/ economics experience.

• Ability to respond to shifting priorities and landscape and engage in diverse work load

• Ability to provide advisory works in multiple projects

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with different teams

• Knowledge on policies of various government agencies as it affects the business implementation and economic development efforts

• Understanding of programme design, monitoring and evaluation

• Competence in the use of Microsoft office computer programmes

• Excellent English written and oral communication skills

• Social Enterprise Marketing Strategy Development

World Vision is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adults living where World Vision operates. We have zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them. Each potential team member needs to understand the importance of these issues and be open to further training and guidance on our safeguarding policies and responsibilities.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only

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