Senior Technical Adviser – Food Assistance, UN Grants Operations

🔥 12 hours ago

🌐 Costa Rica, Chile, +4 more countries – Remote

🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Remote 🇨🇱 Chile – Remote 🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇧🇴 Bolivia – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Remote

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🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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World Vision

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1950

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Consulting

World Vision is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, families, and communities. It focuses on sustainable development, disaster relief, and advocacy, working with local partners to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. Through various programs, World Vision aims to uplift vulnerable populations and promote social change in collaboration with communities around the world.

📋 Description

• Guide World Vision’s regional food assistance and UN grants portfolio • Integrate food assistance into multi-sectoral humanitarian responses • Provide technical guidance to field offices on program pre-positioning, design, implementation, and close-out • Conduct operational risk analyses and advise on accountability mechanisms and donor/community compliance • Lead resource mobilization strategies for UN agencies and institutional donors • Support offices in identifying opportunities, developing proposals, and diversifying portfolios • Lead donor intelligence, forecasting, pre-positioning, and pipeline development • Conduct quality assurance of proposals, budgets, and logical frameworks • Oversee programs from start-up through close-out and strengthen coordination across program, finance, supply chain, and MEAL teams • Standardize tools, systems, and SOPs for food, cash, and UN grants • Support financial oversight, budget management, cost-efficiency, audits, and resolution of findings • Provide surge support during emergencies • Lead risk identification, monitoring, mitigation, accountability, AAP, and safeguarding strategies • Lead market assessments, modality selection, transfer-value calculations, and delivery mechanisms • Support commodity planning and partnerships with FSPs, MNOs, private-sector, and local actors • Promote digital solutions, innovation, and cash and voucher programming • Design and deliver capacity building, tools, guidance, training, mentoring, and technical coaching • Document and share best practices and serve as technical lead and custodian of standards • Engage with UN agencies, donors, governments, partners, clusters, and technical forums • Provide strategic briefings and influence sector policies and funding priorities • Travel frequently, including to fragile and high-insecurity environments

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Project Management, Business, Operations Management, Food Security & Livelihoods, Economics, or equivalent • 10 years’ experience in humanitarian work • Minimum 5 years in food and cash assistance management • Minimum 5 years in project management, technical advisory services, grant management, program design, donor relations, and related fields • Minimum 5 years in management roles for food assistance, cash assistance, or UN partnerships • Familiarity with relief and development settings • Strong knowledge of major food/cash donors and regulations • Proven track record coordinating medium to large-scale country operations • Extensive experience engaging donors, governments, and stakeholders • In-depth knowledge of food assistance and UN grants programming • Experience in Health & Nutrition, Food Security & Livelihoods, Child Protection, or Education • Understanding of regulatory environments, compliance requirements, humanitarian standards, procedures, funding mechanisms, and budget management • Excellent presentation skills and ability to communicate sensitively in humanitarian contexts • Bilingual excellent spoken and written Spanish and English communication skills • Must be willing and able to travel frequently; at least 60% travel required • Must be able to pass Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) • Ability to work in remote and fragile contexts with limited amenities • Local applicants only • Must affirm World Vision’s core documents and observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, where legally permissible • Master’s degree, formal specialist training, Train-of-Trainers/facilitator training, and French or Portuguese are preferred or advantageous

🏖️ Benefits

• Christian humanitarian organization mission and service environment • Travel to diverse regional and field-office contexts