Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children working in 120 countries to save lives and help them fulfil their potential.
Save the Children UK is mid-way through delivering an ambitious four year strategy to achieve key breakthroughs for children leading up to 2015, called ‘Ambition 2015’. Saving children’s lives and reducing hunger and malnutrition are major priorities for the organisation together with priorities to secure good education outcomes for children and ensure children are protected from harm.
To support our ambitious plans Save the Children deploys specialist technical advisors to support Save the Children country offices and Members to design programmes that will deliver a step-change impact in line with our theory of change.
Job Purpose
To develop new, high value, technically sound and high quality programmes that improve food security and strengthen livelihoods to improve the lives of children and their families.
Programme design will be primarily for the UK Department for International Development (DFID), but also for other donors (EC, corporates and trusts). The focus will be on working with country programmes seeking ambitious improvement in the scale of their work.
About you
We are looking to recruit someone who has expertise or understanding of technical issues and best practice in social transfers, food security, livelihoods and market related programming and their contribution to organisational goals of reducing child poverty, mortality, hunger and malnutrition.
You will have experience of developing and participating in consortium-based proposals or tenders and have a track record of success in developing and securing funding for proposals for institutional donors such as, DFID, EC, ECHO and the World Bank.
You will have demonstrated ability to make conceptual and programme links between livelihoods, social protection, markets, disaster risk reduction, nutrition and health interventions.
Willingness/ability to travel to field locations for up to 40% of time.
In return we offer a salary of £40,000 - £43,000 + pension, training and structure career development.
How to apply:
Please apply via our website: http://bit.ly/IIzCqz
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