Senior Technical Advisor – Food Assistance and UN Grants Operations

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on 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.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Senior Technical Advisor – Food Assistance and UN Grants Operations, you will take a leadership role in food assistance and UN grants portfolio management and oversight by providing strategic guidance on how food can be used as a resource for responding to multi-sectoral needs facing the vulnerable communities that have resulted from a rise in food insecurity, malnutrition and livelihoods deficits across the region. With growing conflicts across the globe, the need for food assistance to save lives, serve as safety net, address nutrition deficiencies and protect livelihoods continues to rise. This role provides strong advisory and technical guidance to World Vision Field Offices prepositioning, designing or implementing food assistance programs.

Additionally, you will be tasked with advising, guiding and providing direction around the implementation of food assistance (in-kind and cash) and other UN funded multi-sector grants responding to emergency and recovery needs of vulnerable communities. You will conduct critical risks analyses of countries operational environments and guides field offices to ensure accountability to communities, donors, and other key stakeholders. Moreover, you will assist field offices in pre-positioning funding opportunities from various donors through the technical oversight of quality program designs, implementation and close-out of projects promoting food assistance and other UN grants across the globe.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree required in the field of Project Management, Business, Operations Management, Food Sec & Livelihood, Economics or equivalent; Master’s Degree in the same disciplines above is an advantage.
• 10 years’ experience in humanitarian work (5 of which must be in food and cash assistance management) as a manager or adviser in a country office food programming unit.
• Must have at least 5 years or more management role in food assistance/cash assistance/UN partnerships
• Extensive experience in engaging with donors, governments, and stakeholders.
• Formal training and specialist knowledge in Food Assistance, Cash Based Transfers, and other UN agencies partnerships related systems and procedures strongly preferred – strong knowledge of major food assistance/cash assistance donors and regulations ( WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNOCHA, UNDP, FAO, USAID. USDA, EC, ECHO etc).
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
• The role requires at least 60% travel, including travel to fragile contexts and countries.