Food Security & Livelihoods Specialist needed at Plan international

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

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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Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter.

Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted.

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

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.