PROGRAM MANAGER, FOOD & WATER SYSTEMS at CARE

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.

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 Farmers’ Field and Business School (FFBS) approach helps 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 Vision 2030 and is aligned with CARE’s Right to Food, Water and Nutrition Impact Area Strategy and the She Feeds the World (SFtW) strategic framework, which highlights FFBS as a critical lever for our work in food systems.

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

Responsibilities:

• 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: lead, 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