ROLE PURPOSE 

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice. We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives.  We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries. 

Plan International Sudan is responding at scale to the humanitarian crisis caused by ongoing conflict, with a focus on addressing the immediate and longer-term needs of conflict-affected children, adolescents, and their families. The organization prioritizes lifesaving assistance while strengthening resilience through integrated, gender- and age-sensitive programming that links emergency response with early recovery and durable solutions.

Plan International Sudan aims to respond rapidly and at scale to the food security and livelihoods needs of conflict-affected children, adolescents, and their families. The response prioritises lifesaving assistance, protection and restoration of livelihoods, and inclusive income-generation opportunities for women, girls, and young people. Programming is conflict- and gender-sensitive and aligned with national coordination and inter-agency humanitarian mechanisms. 

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE 

The FSL Specialist will provide strategic direction on Food Security & Livelihood (FSL) interventions across the Plan Sudan Programs implemented in the country. The post holder supports PA FSL staff and ensures Food security and Livelihood interventions are of high quality, and positions Plan International as a leading agency working on Food Security and Livelihood in Emergency with a specific recognition of women and girls focus.

The position will develop strong relations with in-country relevant FSL cluster Sate level networks INGO, NNGO, UN and donor offices. There will be more attention on Plan International’s engagement which focuses on influencing and ensuring the specific needs of girls are met.

The FSL specialist will provide support to FSL team or focal persons in the PAs and country office and will ensure that Country Office and PAs have the right technical capability on FSL in Emergency by supporting the professional development of Plan’s staff across the PAs. 

Furthermore, the Specialist will focus of her/his time on the provision of technical assistance to 

1. ensure that FSL interventions are aligned with the FSL Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action and other existing global guidelines and tools for FSL and to create synergies between our FSL programming and 
2. to ensure that Plan’s FSL interventions are linked to longer term and nexus programming. 
3. to support the technical coordination and implementation of the Emergency Response Programs of Plan International across the PAs.
4. to support business development initiatives in liaison with Technical Leads

The post holder will not have direct staff supervision but will support the Humanitarian Response Manager (HRM) and the SOYEE Thematic Lead to have indirect oversight of a significant FSL budget managed by individual Project Managers in the PAs.

The post holder is expected to deploy (sometimes at short notice) to support PAs in the Country to respond to new and existing crises focusing on FSL. 

ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Provide Technical Assistance to Sudan CO and PAs Emergency teams in FSL

• Provides Country Office and PAs with strategic advice and guidance on their FSL portfolio, ensuring it is of high quality, aligned with standards and has a clear focus on gender, diversity and inclusion.
• Provide technical assistance to   project implementation teams on the ground across the country.
• Provide technical assistance to FSL team in PAs in the formulation of FSL in emergencies programme strategies and plans 
• Support development and roll-out of contextualised FSL guidance and tools 
• Develop and support FSL programming (development of guidelines and tools, 

project evaluation) in the country. 

• Ensure Country office response FSL staff have access to relevant knowledge, practices, resources and tools 
• Work closely with MERL specialist in the country to strengthen M&E and reporting mechanisms for FSL program 
• Ensure that FSL interventions are aligned with the FSL in Emergency Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action and other existing global guidelines and tools for FSL as well as to create synergies between FSL, EiE and CP programming
• Ensure that FSL interventions are linked to nexus and longer-term programming 
• Leads the timely FSL Analysis within the country and provides the required analysis results to the supervisors. 

2. Programme Implementation 

• Lead on (rapid) FSL needs assessments coordinating with Plan’s other programmatic areas and FSL Networks, ensuring assessment findings are documented and disseminated, including the rapid needs assessments
• Ensure that the different capacities, vulnerabilities and coping mechanisms of the vulnerable communities focusing on girls and boys are considered and analysed. 
• Ensure the effective planning, implementation and coordination of FSL programming. 
• Contribute to the development of staffing (FSL or focal persons) plans to implement FSL programme activities in the country,
• Supports Country Office develop and update Humanitarian Response Plan to ensure FSL targeting quality programming are considered 

3. Capacity Building 

• Develop capacity building plans and provide training, coaching and mentorship on FSL to PAs country programme staff, including partners’ FSL staff as well.
• Coordinate and/or implement trainings and briefings for Plan staff, partners and other key stakeholders on FSL 
• Promote the application of best programme practices in FSL 

4. Strengthen Evidence and Learning 

• Promote organisational learning on FSL programming through collecting and publishing case studies and reports on good practices, lessons learned collected from PAs.
• Provide technical support to researches that contribute to FSL evidence-based programming
• Work closely with PAs for scaling up Plan International FSL intervention impact while using evidence to improve programme quality

 5. Coordination and representation 

• Build and maintain relationships with relevant UN agencies including WFP and NGOs in the country. 
• Actively contribute to National & State level FSL Coordination Mechanisms/clusters.
• Contribute to relevant regional advocacy and policy objectives with documented learning and evidence
• Proactively engage with regional/national agencies and networks, such as the national FSL and sub clusters or working groups including Cash Working Group.
• Set up a country coordination mechanism across PAs in Sudan with all FSL staff or focal persons.
• Actively represent Plan in all related FSLE national coordination mechanism 

 6. Resource Mobilisation 

• Support Country Office resource mobilisation teams on securing funds for continuous programme scale up through providing lessons learnt and project related contextual information. 
• Identifying potential extension/follow-up interventions. 
• Providing programme presentations to potential donors to enhance resource mobilisation 

 GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies on FSL and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Ensure staff understand Plan International’s commitment to driving a feminist agenda within the organisation, and the ambition for gender equality and gender transformative leadership is embedded in our value- based leadership framework.

DEALING WITH PROBLEMS 

The post is a key linkage/coordination/interface across the country with 10 major Response Programme Areas (Kassala, Gadaref, White Nile, North Darfur, North Kordofan and South Kordofan, Red Sea, Northern State, Khartoum, Al Jazeera and the Geographical coverage area may increase based on needs and availability of resources). For this reason, the post holder must be able to master and manage relationships well and respectfully with regards to different needs with different stakeholders, including conflicting priorities and ad hoc requests. 

Given the wide scope of responsibility and at the same time limited direct authority over implementing PAs Project staff, it’s essential that the post holder is able to stay on top of a variety of work, make clear prioritisation and be creative in making use of internal (and external) resources (people/funding) to ensure Sudan as a CO achieve envisaged outcomes of the CO Strategic Objectives related to Education and the AoGDs 

Excellent and creative - but non-directive- leadership skills will be utilised to overcome delays and other bottlenecks which might negatively affect the impact and the quality of the intervention. 

Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures. 

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture or related field
• Minimum of 5-years’ experience in the field of Food Security in emergency including the use of cash/voucher assistance is required, preferably in conflict affected and fragile situations. Previous work experience in early childhood education is an asset. Ability to learn quickly and adapt the experience/lessons learnt   in other emergency settings to the Sudan emergency response context. Knowledge of Education in Emergencies Minimum Standards, 
• Demonstrated experience in Food security and livelihood project designing, management, monitoring and supervision.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships, both within and outside the organizations, under stressful situations.
• Excellent capacity in facilitating training and preparing user friendly manuals and toolkits.
• Has strong networking, team spirit, and partnership-building skills,
• Willing to adapt with new working environment, new challenges, colleagues and work

1. Skills

• Demonstrated ability to network and liaise with major FSL donors including Word Bank; WFP, BHA, ECHO, GIZ etc.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Arabic (Possibly bilingual esp. communicating with NOs and in-country stakeholders)
• Excellent project design, participatory monitoring and evaluation skills
• Ability to work independently and as a team player who demonstrates leadership and is able to support and train local and international staff and also able to work with disaster affected communities in a sensitive and participatory manner.
• Excellent negotiation, representation, skills and the ability to work comfortably with an ethnically diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and work cooperatively.
• Good facilitation skills and ability to deliver induction briefing/training.
• Ability to work with limited supervision from line manager.

Woman strongly encourage to apply

Interested candidates please apply to link: 

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