The Senior Technical Advisor, Food Justice will join a dynamic team that leads CARE’s expansion of access to financial services across the continent. The team is composed of specialists who provide holistic support services to CARE initiatives working with CARE’s trademark Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) model including supporting country office and regional scale up strategy development; co-creating programs and project designs; contributing to and/or leading proposal and fundraising efforts; providing technical support to project start up and implementation; and supporting CARE’s efforts to continually learn from and improve our initiatives; supporting connections between CARE’s work in communities and regional, national and international advocacy efforts.
As a leader in savings-led financial services, this position presents candidates with unparalleled opportunities to influence CARE’s work and the work of the broader financial inclusion sector. The role will have a particular emphasis on supporting the integration and expansion of CARE’s financial inclusion work with food and nutrition security and climate change resilience programming across CARE’s Food and Water Systems portfolio. The candidate would also work with country offices in the region to further both their advocacy and partnership work, so that CARE remains at the forefront of the donor and policy landscape in each country.
For the Senior Technical Advisor, Food Justice, we are seeking experienced, high-energy and creative candidates who can support our efforts to build on the power of VSLA to improve the agriculture-based livelihoods of most VSLA members and their households. The candidate will work with technical specialists across disciplines to advance evidence-based interventions that deliver meaningful change for low income, food insecure households.
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CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.
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