Graduation Approach and Social Protection (GASP) Advisor, USAID/Madagascar Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) At Save the Children – US

Summary

Save the Children is seeking a Graduation Approach and Social Protection (GASP) Advisor for an anticipated five-year USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in Madagascar. The goal of the Activity is to improve food and nutrition security and resilience among poor and chronically food insecure households and communities in a sustainable manner. The GASP Advisor will work with the RFSA staff and leadership to ensure that the Activity design and implementation adheres to the graduation approach. This position must be based in either Farafangana or Vangaindrano district for the five-year period of performance.

Hiring is contingent upon successful award of the program and USAID approval of the candidate.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of the Activity’s graduation approach and social protection strategy.
• Ensure that the social dimensions of food security and community resilience are effectively addressed across all activity components and at all levels throughout the entire award period.
• Ensure that all components of the graduation approach work together to create multiplier effects across and between components.
• Oversee sequencing, layering, and integrating (SLI) with external actors such as those implementing social protection programming.
• Ensure technical interventions are integrated, layered, and sequenced appropriately at all levels of implementation within the Activity, USAID investments, the private sector, other donors, and the government of Madagascar (GOM).
• Ensure high quality of overall technical implementation among all sub-awardees and implementation locations.
• Support the development of program implementation plans as well as recruitment of new staff, provide necessary trainings, develop and adapt tools with MEAL colleagues, and identify opportunities for internal and external collaboration.
• Proactively identify challenges to successful implementation and raise these issues with relevant management staff.
• Build collaborative relationships within Save the Children and externally that facilitate and improve the quality of program implementation.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree/Bac+3 in international development, social sciences, or another related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Five years of graduation approach experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing the five components of the graduation approach.
• An in-depth understanding of how gender, age, and other locally relevant socio-cultural factors may play a role in targeting participants.
• A strong understanding of local social protection systems and adaptive safety and productive safety nets.
• Attention to social inclusion, especially marginalized populations, gender, and youth integration.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in collaboration with the M&E Advisor and the Strategic Learning Advisor (SLA).
• Implementation experience in similar low-resource environments. Experience working in Madagascar is preferred.
• Strong management and interpersonal skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English and French. Malagasy language skills preferred.
• Mentoring and facilitation skills.

About Save the Children

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