Advisor, Cash, Livelihoods, and Child Poverty

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Advisor, Cash, Livelihoods, and Child Poverty to join our global team.

Team and Job Purpose

The Breakthrough team drives strategic, technical, and operational leadership for Save the Children’s global goals in order to achieve programmatic breakthroughs while ensuring high-quality, evidence-based, and integrated programming across our portfolio. The team delivers context-responsive, demand-driven technical support to Country Offices to enhance programme effectiveness in line with local needs and global priorities. The team also advances sector innovation and learning through external engagement in clusters, in inter-agency groups, with donors, peer agencies and foundations. The team is responsible for new business development and resource mobilization efforts as well as developing partnerships to strengthen our collaborative impact globally. 

Role purpose

The Advisor, Cash, Livelihood & Child Poverty provides technical and operational support to country offices to strengthen the quality, relevance, and impact of cash, livelihoods and child poverty programming across all contexts. The role focuses on delivering timely, context-specific advice, facilitating access to tools and resources, and promoting learning across the movement. Working closely with technical colleagues and country teams, the Advisor supports the application of evidence-based approaches, the set-up of humanitarian responses and helps ensure that interventions are aligned with Save the Children’s global strategy and the priorities of country offices.

Job Title: Advisor, Cash, Livelihoods, and Child Poverty

Reports To: Lead, Cash, Livelihoods and Child Poverty

Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available 

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: P3

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment. 

Language Requirements: English & French (additional languages, e.g. Spanish or Arabic preferred)

International Travel Requirements: up to 40% 

Principal Accountabilities

• Act as first line of support to COs on the planning, implementation, and monitoring of sector programmes, ensuring alignment with donor requirements and organisational standards for programmatic excellence.
• Provide proactive technical support to country teams, empowering them to deliver high-quality, inclusive sector interventions that meet the diverse needs of affected populations.
• Collaborate with country teams on the development of proposals and strategies, supporting the integration of global sector priorities in relevant programme designs and implementations.
• Lead Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods Situational assessments and Response analysis processes to design appropriate Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods programming.
• Promote and monitor integrated programming in a way that increases overall impact of Cash Child Poverty and Livelihoods programming at the community level, including leading and/or supporting the development of Cash plus approaches for Nutrition, Child Protection and Educational outcomes. 
• Participate in the development of emergency preparedness plans, in CVA and market-specific assessments (including gender analysis and disability situation analysis, using SC assessment processes and tools), as well as in the design and delivery of emergency response and recovery strategies. Ensure synergies across thematic and functional teams, data and programme design.
• Travel and deploy as needed (up to 40%) to support priority countries, offering hands-on guidance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in sector interventions.
• Act as a liaison between country offices and the global team, facilitating the sharing of best practices, lessons learned, and resources to enhance the overall impact and sustainability of programmes.
• Ensure compliance with Save the Children’s policies on anti-harassment, diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering a work environment that values respect, inclusiveness, and dignity for all staff and program participants.

Experience and Skills

Essential

Technical Proficiency: 

1. Significant years of experience of working internationally in Cash & Voucher Assistance in emergency and development settings, for a broad range of institutional donors and sectors
2. Previous experience on management  of operational aspects of cash and voucher interventions
3. Extensive experience providing proactive and technical support to country response teams, empowering them to deliver high-quality programs and inclusive services.
4. Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and staying updated with the latest trends and best practices in relevant sectors.
5. Experience in the application of methodologies to calculate cash/voucher amounts for sectoral outcomes (e.g. cost of the diet, HEA) as well as for multi-purpose cash transfers; experience in conducting feasibility and risk analysis for CVA
6. Familiar with Sphere Standards (Handbook released in 2018)

Capacity Building and Mentoring:

1. Considerable experience in capacity building and mentoring on technical approaches.

Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills

1.   Strong ability to analyse complex data, review programme performance metrics and translate findings into actionable improvements.

Technical and Interpersonal Skills:

1. Extensive experience in program design and proposal writing, including proven experience in writing successful donor proposals.
2. Strong interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation, and coaching.

Support in High-Pressure Environments:

1. Experience in humanitarian programmes, including direct experience working in response settings.
2. Proficient experience in understanding and working within the humanitarian architecture.
3. Ability to travel and work independently, occasionally in challenging environments and with short notice (up to 40%).

Diversity and Inclusion:

1. Commitment and experience in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, adhering to policies on anti-harassment, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Team Collaboration:

1. Ability to act as a liaison between country offices and the global team, facilitating best practices, lessons learned, and resources sharing.

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• A post-graduate degree in International Development, Economics, Social Policy, or a related field. A university degree combined with professional experience could be considered as a substitute for a post-graduate degree.

Working at Save the Children International

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.

We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.

Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.

Application Information

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

Our recruitment process:

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.