Job Description:
Job Title: Regional Technical Advisor (TA II) – Agriculture, Livelihoods and Landscapes
Job Location: West Africa or telecommuting
Job Type: Regular, Full Time
Reports To: Deputy Regional Director- Program Quality, West Af rica
About CRS
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, natural resources management, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.
Job Summary: The RTA will provide technical advice, guidance, and support to a wide range of strategic and programmatic design and implementation issues in the area of agriculture, livelihoods and landscapes in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to regional and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. The RTA’s technic al knowledge, advice and guidance will contribute to effective, adaptive and innovative agriculture, livelihoods and landscapes programming in the West Africa region, with particular focus on climate smart agriculture and nature-based solutions, market systems, and resilience.
The RTA II Agriculture, Livelihoods and Landscapes (ALL) position is part of the West Africa Regional (WARO) team supporting program quality in the region and is also linked to the global agriculture and livelihoods team and the Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategic Change Platform (SCP3). The advisor will support the WARO ALL community of practice and provide leadership to country-level strategic, programming and project development, program quality and evaluation for 11 countries (8 country programs) in the WARO region: Burkina Faso (including outreach to Cote d’Ivoire), Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal (including outreach to Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia), and Sierra Leone. The RTA II will supervise and closely collaborate with the RTA II for Financial Inclusion and Business Services as well as collaborate closely with RTA II, Water Environment & Sanitation (WES) to ensure coherent technical support for agriculture, livelihoods, nature-based solutions, youth, SILC and microfinance programming in the region. Recognizing that youth are an increasing important demographic in West Africa, there is a preference for a candidate that has previous experience with youth livelihoods.
Roles and Key Responsibilities:
Required Languages – Advanced or native fluency in written and oral English required, professional proficiency in French required.
Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 30%.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises the Regional Technical Advisor for Financial Inclusion and Business Services
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Catholic Relief Services carries out the commitment of the Bishop s of the United States to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas. Our Catholic identity is at the heart of our mission and operations. We welcome as a part of our staff and as partners people of all faiths and secular traditions who share our values and our commitment to serving those in need.
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