Technical Advisor, Livelihoods

World Vision International

* Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate in a jurisdiction (US state or country) where WVI is registered to operate.

*Please submit your CV in English.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our over 34,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united in helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Through our work, every 60 seconds … a family gets water … a hungry child is fed … a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Technical Advisor, Livelihoods, you willprovide high quality technical assistance to clients in assessments, programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models and sector approaches in alignment with World Vision’s (WV) strategy to improve child well-being (CWB) impact. This includes all aspects of grant acquisition and management for foundations, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors including facilitation, partnering with peer organizations and private sector engagement as per needs defined by Field Office, Regional, Support Office and Global Centre clients. You will continue to learn and grow in technical expertise to provide best in class service. You will travel up to 25% for client requests and where possible for the individual. The Technical Advisor reports to the Technical Director for Livelihoods.

Requirements include:

• 5 years (min) field level experience
• Master’s degree in relevant technical area of specialization
• Substantive grant experience preferred
• Practitioner DME experience preferred
• Fragile context or humanitarian experience ideal
• Language skills appropriate to geographic location
• Training / adult learning as a required capability
• Multi-regional experience, in multiple contexts.
• Experience with Climate Change and environmental adaptation, sustainability and mitigation approaches.
• Strong experience in grants acquisition and management with bilateral and multilateral donors as defined in attached GAM competency overview. Experience in programming, grant implementation and management. High proficiency in grant writing.