PROGRAM MANAGER, FOOD & WATER SYSTEMS

Other Possible Location : Any country where CARE USA operates Funding : APPROVED

Expected Travel : up to 50% Type of Contract :

Language Requirement : ENGLISH Application Deadline : 3/7/22

Employee Duration : Active Full-Time

CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice with a special emphasis on gender equality, and women and girls. CARE works in a variety of contexts from protracted crises to stable development settings, as well as contexts in the nexus between these two types, and recognizes that the underlying drivers of food and nutrition insecurity are poverty, gender inequity, non-inclusive governance, poor adaptation to climate change and the inability to manage other economic and political shocks and stressors.

Gender equality and empowerment of women and girls is at the center of CARE’s Food and Water Systems (FWS) programs. CARE commits to support 75 million people, majority of them women and girls, to fulfill their rights to food, water and nutrition security as part of CARE’s Vision 2030.

CARE’s proven, women-focused (FFBS) approach h elps small-scale farmers build the skills they need to increase production, improve resilience, adapt to climate change, diversify diets and boost nutrition. Since 2014, FFBS has directly improved the lives of more than 2.5 million farmers especially, women and their families. CARE has now lunched a new global 6 years long program that will up-scale the FFBS model to new countries and promoting adoption of FFBS by governments. Up-scaling FFBS directly ties into CARE’s strategic priorities contained in CARE’s and is aligned with CARE’s Impact Area Strategy and the (SFtW) strategic framework, which highlights FFBS as a critical lever for our work in food systems.

Responsibilities

The role of the FFBS Program Manager, reporting directly to the Gender Youth and Livelihoods (GYL) Director, will primarily be as follows:

• Provide oversight for high quality FFBS scaling program implementation: the FFBS Program Manager will provide management oversight, guidance, and leadership to effectively implement the FFBS scaling initiative with quality and speed.
• Team management: l ead, supervise, coach and regularly assess the performance of the staff reporting to her/him.
• Coordination and partnerships: s/he will chair the project steering committee; represent the project in relevant fora, inside and outside CARE; coordinate with relevant global and regional partners including FAO, IFAD, etc.; support country teams for effective collaboration with local, regional and national governments.
• Fundraising: s/he will engage with and support COs and fundraising teams to identify opportunities for levering the project funding with the potential funding sources.

Qualifications

• High education (Master’s degree) on relevant topics (e.g. gender, development, agriculture, social studies).
• 10 yrs. experience in the agriculture/food security sector, including field experience in a developing country context or within an international development organization.
• 5 years of experience as project manager in the agriculture/food security sector.
• Training and experience on gender/women empowerment programing.
• Social skills, inclusive leadership skills, creativity and innovative mindset.
• Experience on FFBS, FFS or other community-based extension programing design and/or implementation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred locations: Atlanta, DC, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Bangladesh, Niger, Turkey, Jordan, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras

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