Senior Specialist, Livelihood

Job Description

The Senior Specialist, Livelihood will be responsible for providing technical and strategic leadership in agriculture, food security & livelihoods, S/He will be responsible for promoting and engaging in systematic implementation, design, monitoring, and evaluation and translating all FSL related strategic priorities in the Country Strategic Plan into implementable actions and interventions including identification, synthesis of best practices and lessons learned.

The holder of the position will lead the designing and development of FSL projects, identifying new business opportunities including proposal development, and engaging with current and new donors regarding FSL activities. S/He will ensure that FSL interventions implemented either directly or through local partners are of the highest technical quality through provision of regular technical oversight and support, program monitoring and reporting. S/He will provide strategic leadership and direction and ensure high quality, coherent and well-coordinated design and scale-up of FSL programming. S/He should will also be responsible for the designing of programs relating to youth in the livelihood sector S/He will foster partnerships with government ministries, technical institutions, financial service providers, producer organizations and private sector actors to expand market access, financial inclusion and economic opportunities for programme participants. The role will support the integration of livelihoods programming across sectors.

How to Apply

Please submit your application through our website: https://careers.sl/job/specialist-sr-livelihood