CARE USA
CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.
CARE is a leading humanitarian and development organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice, with an emphasis on rights-based programming and gender equality.
As part of CARE’s 2030 Vision, CARE’s Food and Water Systems (FWS) Global Team has developed the Right to Food, Water and Nutrition Strategy (FY22-FY25), which guides CARE’s programming in food and water security, nutrition, agricultural markets, WASH, and resilience, and aims to support 75 million people, the majority of them women and girls, to fulfill their right to nutritious food, safe water, and adequate sanitation and hygiene.
This strategy articulates change in eight inter-related pathways, with gender equality and empowerment of women and girls at the center: 1) Promoting integrated water resources management, ecosystem protection, and restoration; 2) Increasing women’s access to and control of sustainable productive resources and assets; 3) Preventing food loss and waste; 4) Improving nutrition; 5) Increasing access to water, sanitation and hygiene services; 6) Strengthening social protection and building efficient, inclusive local structures and systems; 7) Enabling women’s access to inclusive markets, and; 8) Promoting livelihoods diversification and rural development.
As part of CARE’s vision for food, water, and nutrition, the Food and Water Systems team plans to strengthen and scale the Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) approach to reach 15 million poor women small-scale farmers and their families. As part of this initiative, CARE seeks a Technical Advisor for Water Smart Agriculture (WaSA TA) to help refine and expand CARE’s Water-Smart Agriculture approach, which aims to ensure that small-scale farmers have access to water for agriculture and productive use in contexts that span physical and economic water scarcity. This will include emphases on soil and water management that increases soil moisture retention and availability, efficient and affordable small-scale irrigation methods, and water resources management and protection at landscape scales, in a framework of just market systems and climate-smart practice, policy, and finance.
Responsibilities:
- Thought leadership, strategy, and partnerships.
- Technical Backstopping to FFBS Programs.
- Program design and resource mobilization.
- Knowledge management and impact measurement.
Qualifications:
- University or advanced degree in civil, agricultural, or irrigation engineering, environmental science, environmental policy, water or natural resources management, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in policy or implementation of water resources management, water-smart agriculture, climate-smart agriculture, or related field, including practical field experience
- Previous experience in global dialogues related to water security, climate-smart agriculture, or related topics
- Demonstrated understanding of water security goals and metrics, and ways to bridge domestic and productive water service approaches
- Demonstrated experience in on-farm techniques and impact measurement
- Familiarity with community-based extension programming
- Demonstrated experience working with cross-cultural teams
- Inclusive leadership skills, creativity, collaborative and innovative mindset
- Ability to operate in spoken and written English
- Strong facilitative and collaborative learning skills to allow for engagement and co-learning among CARE’s country office technical leads on WASA and water security
How to apply
To apply for this position, please visit our website at:
https://phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg02/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CAREUSA&cws=52&rid=6087
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