Climate and Livelihoods Senior Program Specialist

Senior Specialist in Livelihoods and Climate Programming

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This senior role focuses on developing and implementing innovative livelihoods and climate resilience initiatives. The position requires extensive experience in designing programs that integrate climate adaptation strategies with economic empowerment, particularly for vulnerable populations. Key responsibilities include leading technical teams, securing funding, and ensuring projects align with sustainability and equity principles. The ideal candidate will possess advanced expertise in climate-smart agriculture, community-based adaptation, and cross-sectoral collaboration. Fluency in relevant technical methodologies, grant management, and stakeholder engagement is essential. Save the Children is seeking a dedicated professional to join our mission of improving the lives of children worldwide. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in child development, education, or a related field, along with proven experience in program management or advocacy. Fluency in English is required, and proficiency in additional languages is highly desirable. Responsibilities include designing and implementing child-centered programs, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with organizational policies and donor requirements. The role demands excellent communication skills, cultural sensitivity, and a commitment to upholding the rights of children. The organization is a nonprofit and non-governmental organization dedicated to advancing social, environmental, or humanitarian causes. Candidates must possess a strong commitment to the mission, along with relevant experience in program management, advocacy, or community development. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing impactful initiatives, securing funding through grant writing and donor relations, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to drive sustainable change. Proficiency in data analysis, strategic planning, and cross-cultural communication is essential, as is the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment. A bachelor’s degree in a related field and prior experience in the nonprofit sector are required, with advanced degrees or specialized certifications viewed favorably. Skilled professionals in social services, nonprofit management, business operations, and agricultural or outdoor industries are encouraged to apply. This multifaceted role demands expertise in leadership, strategic development, and operational efficiency within community-focused organizations. Candidates should possess a strong background in managing teams, optimizing processes, and driving sustainable impact in either nonprofit settings or agricultural ventures. Key responsibilities include overseeing daily operations, fostering stakeholder relationships, and ensuring alignment with organizational missions. Proficiency in fiscal management, program implementation, and cross-functional collaboration is essential for success in this dynamic environment. OVERVIEW Do you possess a strong commitment to championing the rights and well-being of children? Seeking to leverage your specialized skills to drive meaningful, long-term improvements in their lives, while engaging with a forward-thinking, influential international network? The position involves overseeing daily operations, ensuring efficiency, and driving productivity within the team. Key responsibilities include managing workflows, coordinating tasks, and maintaining high standards of quality and performance. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, a proactive approach, and the ability to solve complex problems. A minimum of five years of relevant experience and a degree in a related field are required. Familiarity with industry-specific tools and technologies is essential, along with exceptional communication and organizational abilities. This role demands adaptability, a results-driven mindset, and a commitment to fostering a collaborative work environment. The Livelihoods and Climate Adaptive Programming Specialist will leverage their deep contextual knowledge, technical proficiency, and relationship-building abilities to advance our strategic goals for addressing child poverty in Uganda. This position will spearhead the development of strategies and the technical design and execution of high-impact programs aimed at improving outcomes for children in both emergency and development contexts. Additionally, the role will advance national advocacy efforts, influence key stakeholders, and cultivate strategic partnerships to secure new business opportunities. It will oversee the establishment and implementation of robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks to measure impact and facilitate knowledge-sharing across programs, teams, and partners. Collaboration with operations colleagues and local partners in Uganda will be central to this role, focusing on capacity strengthening, fostering local ownership, and empowering organizations to drive their own initiatives. External representation on priority issues, as outlined in the Uganda Country Strategic Plan, will also be a key responsibility of this position. In response to significant humanitarian crises, this position may involve deviating from standard responsibilities and necessitates flexibility to adjust working hours as required. Ensure accountability in the following critical areas: Develop and implement strategic initiatives to drive organizational growth and efficiency. Oversee key projects to completion, ensuring they align with company objectives and deliver measurable results. Manage cross-functional teams to foster collaboration and achieve departmental goals. Monitor performance metrics and provide data-driven insights to senior leadership for informed decision-making. Uphold compliance with industry regulations and internal policies while maintaining high ethical standards. Identify and mitigate risks to safeguard company assets and reputation. Champion innovation and continuous improvement to enhance operational effectiveness and competitive advantage. We seek a seasoned professional to provide strategic technical direction, fostering innovation and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. The ideal candidate will oversee architectural decisions, mentor engineering teams, and champion best practices in system design and development. Proficiency in scalable solutions, cloud technologies, and security frameworks is essential, along with a proven track record of delivering high-impact solutions. Responsibilities include guiding cross-functional teams, resolving complex technical challenges, and driving continuous improvement in performance and reliability. Collaboration with stakeholders across departments will be required to align technology initiatives with business goals. Lead the development of high-caliber technical livelihoods and climate adaptation programming, collaborating with cross-functional colleagues across the organization and external partners to create evidence-based designs that align with program quality principles, international standards, donor specifications, and national strategies and policies. Collaborate closely with colleagues in Child Rights Governance to integrate a rights-based methodology throughout program development and execution, ensuring strict alignment with our established child rights programming framework and prioritizing meaningful child engagement. To champion a systems strengthening approach as the guiding framework, the role emphasizes collaboration and partnership with governments, regional bodies, and local partners, driving toward measurable impact, scalability, and long-term sustainability. Provide strategic direction and mentorship to program implementation teams, ensuring that thematic program components are technically robust, aligned with national and global strategies, and incorporate recognized best practices—such as Save the Children Common Approaches. In addition, oversee the selection of implementation methods to maximize scalability while fostering equitable and sustainable outcomes. To enhance the overall effectiveness of livelihoods and climate-adaptive initiatives at the community level, the role involves actively promoting and meticulously overseeing integrated programming efforts. Conduct on-site inspections at project locations in collaboration with implementation teams to evaluate impacts, address operational obstacles, and systematically uncover avenues for enhanced learning and improvement. You will play a pivotal role in advancing and embedding equality-focused program principles and best practices across various themes and sectors. Provide assistance, as required, in crafting emergency preparedness strategies and performing sector-specific evaluations, ensuring gender and disability considerations are integrated, while also designing and implementing emergency response and recovery initiatives.

• Assess the implications of policy changes, amendments, and new developments to evaluate their impact on Save the Children’s programming initiatives. Monitor global refugee and emergency trends to anticipate needs and enable timely interventions; spearhead the design, execution, and technical coordination of humanitarian responses with precision and strategic foresight.

Responsabilités

• Discover opportunities to pilot, test, and scale innovative solutions addressing identified needs and challenges, while capturing and documenting key insights from these initiatives. We are responsible for overseeing monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning initiatives to ensure effective program implementation and continuous improvement. This role involves designing data collection frameworks, analyzing performance indicators, and generating actionable insights to inform strategic decisions. Accountability measures are implemented to maintain transparency and adherence to standards, while learning mechanisms facilitate knowledge sharing and adaptive management. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential to integrate feedback loops and enhance program impact. Assist in creating MEAL frameworks and strategic plans to oversee the effective implementation of programming, assess impact, and uphold accountability to children and communities. Collaborate with Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) teams to perform gender and power analyses while ensuring rigorous quality monitoring aligned with international standards. Utilize participatory approaches that advance gender equality and social justice, incorporating child-friendly practices alongside gender-sensitive and transformative methodologies. Drive the development of an organizational learning culture that prioritizes the strategic use of disaggregated data, evidence-based insights, and in-depth analysis—encompassing gender and power dynamics—to strengthen program quality and accountability. Develop, record, and distribute—while also enabling others to do the same—evidence and insights on effective approaches for children, with the goal of shaping program design, execution, and advocacy, as well as driving broader impact. Contribute to organizational learning by facilitating the dissemination of insights gained from our programs, ensuring knowledge is shared both within the Country Office and among our partners, as well as with colleagues across the broader regional and global child poverty community at Save the Children, including relevant technical working groups. Provide technical direction and supervision for projects undertaken by external consultants to ensure alignment with organizational standards and objectives. Ensure safeguarding measures are comprehensively integrated into the planning and execution of all programs. Collaborate with program implementation teams, alongside the Safeguarding Manager, to proactively prevent safeguarding risks and effectively respond when necessary. Resource Acquisition and Strategic Growth initiatives are central to this role, which focuses on identifying, cultivating, and securing funding opportunities, partnerships, and collaborations to drive organizational expansion and sustainability. The position demands a results-driven professional with a proven track record in fundraising, grant writing, and alliance-building across diverse sectors. Key responsibilities include developing and executing tailored resource mobilization strategies, building and maintaining relationships with donors, foundations, and corporate partners, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Candidates must possess strong negotiation, communication, and project management skills, along with an ability to analyze trends and leverage data to inform decision-making. A minimum of five years of experience in business development or resource mobilization is required. Provide technical guidance and expertise to colleagues in New Business Development to enhance funding strategies, strengthen donor engagement, refine capture planning, facilitate strategic partnering and consortium formation, and prepare competitive opportunities. Analyze donor priorities and positions on matters concerning child poverty, leveraging evidence, data, and insights to inform strategic decisions. Spearhead the creation of technical components for proposals, ensuring each annex is logically structured and tailored to meet specific requirements. Represent Save the Children in donor interactions, fostering and sustaining partnerships with technical representatives from funding organizations while advancing strategic positioning to solidify Save the Children’s status as a preferred partner. We are seeking a dynamic professional to spearhead networking initiatives and foster external engagement efforts. The ideal candidate will cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders, industry leaders, and partners to enhance organizational visibility and drive collaborative opportunities. Responsibilities include identifying and engaging with potential collaborators, representing the organization at industry events, and developing initiatives to strengthen external partnerships. Strong interpersonal skills, a proactive approach, and the ability to build rapport with diverse audiences are essential. Experience in stakeholder management, event coordination, or related fields is preferred, along with excellent communication and negotiation abilities to maximize engagement outcomes. Ensure Save the Children actively participates in and contributes to national technical coordination and networking bodies—such as relevant working groups—to foster mutual influence and shared learning. In partnership with colleagues in advocacy, you will develop and implement the livelihoods and climate adaptive programming advocacy strategy, pinpointing crucial avenues for engagement with key stakeholders. Additionally, you will contribute to high-level policy discussions and dialogues by offering specialized technical expertise. We will foster robust civil society involvement in national dialogues and policy development by collaborating closely with advocacy teams and child rights governance experts. Our aim is to guarantee that the perspectives of children—both girls and boys—are inclusively represented and meaningfully included in all initiatives. As the liaison for Save the Children, you will engage with national and local government officials, communicating the organization’s livelihoods and climate-adaptive programming strategies, priorities, and progress. By delivering timely updates, you will ensure stakeholders remain well-informed about Save the Children’s initiatives, reinforcing the organization’s reputation as a preferred partner in development efforts. Ensure the technical components of internal and external reports—including program reports, situation updates (sit-reps), and internal communications—are accurate, coherent, and standardized by collaborating closely with awards, program implementation, and communications teams as required. Leverage collaborative relationships with technical colleagues across Save the Children, spanning technical working groups and centers of excellence, to ensure that insights and knowledge derived from the Country Office are disseminated to relevant stakeholders while simultaneously integrating global best practices and lessons learned into local operations. Seeking a candidate with a proven track record in the specified domain, complemented by relevant educational credentials and hands-on expertise. The ideal applicant will possess demonstrated proficiency in core competencies aligned with the role’s demands, along with a minimum of [X years] of professional experience in a comparable position. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to collaborate effectively within a dynamic team environment. Familiarity with industry-standard tools, methodologies, and best practices is required, and prior experience in [specific industry/field] is highly desirable. A commitment to continuous learning and adaptability to evolving challenges is equally important. As an enthusiastic champion and dedicated advocate for children, this position requires you to possess; We are seeking a candidate with a proven track record in the relevant field, demonstrating at least [X] years of hands-on experience in [specific areas]. Proficiency in [specific tools, software, or methodologies] is essential, alongside strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities. The ideal applicant will exhibit meticulous attention to detail, the capacity to work both independently and collaboratively within a team, and a commitment to delivering high-quality results in a timely manner. Responsibilities include [list key duties], with an emphasis on [specific goal or outcome]. Familiarity with [industry standards, regulations, or additional requirements] is highly desirable, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and best practices.

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