UK: Food Security and Livelihoods Adviser

Oct 10, 2016 | British Red Cross
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Working closely with National Society partners across Africa and Asia, the International Federation and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the British Red Cross supports a wide portfolio of food security and livelihoods activities that contribute to resilience and risk reduction and help restart livelihoods following a disaster.

As FSL Advisor you will lead in the development and delivery of food security and livelihood programmes that incorporate appropriate and innovative cash based interventions. You will work closely with colleagues across sectors to achieve more integrated and relevant assistance that recognises the diversity of those assisted and promotes more effective resilience.

In this role you will apply your existing and newly acquired skills and experience to deliver the following responsibilities:

• Providing technical guidance and best practice at all stages of programme and project development, from conceptualisation to final evaluations, collaborating closely with country teams, other advisors in health, WASH and disaster risk reduction and the wider development and humanitarian community;
• Building the knowledge and capacity of National Societies in livelihoods and food security, contributing to both improved programme quality and their overall organisational development as leading national humanitarian organisations;
• Supporting the wider use of cash and market based interventions by our partner National Societies to increase the relevance and impact of FSL interventions delivered;
• Collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to increase knowledge and integrate livelihoods and food security best practice throughout all programming;
• Develop and expand the capacity of the British Red Cross to support cash and market based interventions;
• Building organisational partnerships and both organisational and individual capacity;

The ideal candidate will have a postgraduate degree or equivalent professional qualification in FSL or related subject such as agriculture, natural resource management, rural development, business development. Relevant work experience will include; developing and managing FSL programmes overseas in a development and humanitarian context; experience designing and managing cash based interventions; building organisational capacity and collaborative partnerships and experience providing distance support and promoting ways of working to field based colleagues.

We are a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation that helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help people recover and move on with their lives.

Closing date forapplications is 28.10.16

Interviews will takeplace week commencing 07.11.16

Refusing to ignore people in crisis

The British Red Cross is proud to have a diverse and neutral workforce. We are bound by seven fundamental principles including impartiality,neutrality and independence and we are committed to welcoming people from the widest possible diversity of background, culture and experience