Technical Advisor II – MEAL

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Catholic Relief Services

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1943

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Catholic Relief Services is a global humanitarian organization that eases the suffering of and provides development assistance to people in need in over 100 countries. As the official international relief organization of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, CRS focuses on emergency response, health, agriculture, education, and justice and peacebuilding. Their work is guided by Catholic values and the organization aims to serve the poor and vulnerable, regardless of race, religion, or nationality.

📋 Description

• Provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of program design and implementation issues • Contribute to the development and implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in emergency MEAL that effectively engage partners, donors and governments. • Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction. • Provide technical solutions to regional and CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, ensuring high-quality implementation. • Contribute to regional and CP efforts to pre-position CRS for growth opportunities in emergency responses. • Lead or contribute to the development of the technical design for large and/or complex proposals, including defining appropriate monitoring systems and indicators. • Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS’ approach. • Contribute to capacity strengthening initiatives in MEAL staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and mentoring and coaching to CP staff. • Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data, evaluating strategic projects, assisting with measuring program impact, capturing and sharing lessons learned and best practices, and research and internal reports. • Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. • Participate in forums in MEAL to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work. • Contribute to the customization and design of digital forms for data collection and the design of approaches for data visualization that facilitate use of data and quality reporting for development and humanitarian programming.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in statistics, economics, international development or other related field required. • Minimum of eight years’ relevant international working experience in an advisory or management role with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with minimum of three years working for programming interventions in emergency MEAL. • Previous experience providing technical assistance and developing successful proposals for external donor funding is required. • Demonstrated application of technical principles and concepts in MEAL. • Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks. • Experience in business development, project design and proposal development in MEAL, including technical writing. • Experience in mentoring, coaching, facilitation and training applying adult learning principles and practices. • Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including applying data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation. • Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles. • Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings. • Strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment. • Strong written and oral communication skills. • Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills. • Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented. • Fluent in English and French, Portuguese or Arabic would be an added value.

🏖️ Benefits

• CRS offers U.S. based staff a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, and a generous retirement savings plan.