Multiple Countries: Food Security and Livelihood Advisor
Aug 15, 2025
(Deadline: 2025-08-25)
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ForAfrika
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Position Summary
The Food Security and Livelihood Advisor serves as technical leader for Forafrika's comprehensive food security and livelihood programming portfolio across multiple country operations in Africa. This role combines deep sectoral expertise with operational excellence to drive transformative change in some of the world's most challenging contexts, including conflict-affected areas, fragile states, and rapidly urbanizing communities.
The Advisor will champion innovative, evidence-based interventions that not only address immediate food insecurity and livelihood vulnerabilities but also tackle the underlying structural causes of poverty and inequality. This includes designing and overseeing integrated programs spanning emergency food assistance, cash-based interventions, market systems development, agricultural value chain strengthening, climate-smart agriculture, economic recovery initiatives, and sustainable livelihood diversification strategies.
Operating at the nexus of humanitarian response and development programming, the position demands a seasoned professional who can seamlessly transition between rapid emergency deployment scenarios and long-term strategic planning initiatives. The Advisor will be responsible for building organizational capacity, fostering innovation, and ensuring that all interventions are technically sound, culturally appropriate, conflict-sensitive, and aligned with international humanitarian standards.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively across sectors, lead multidisciplinary teams, engage with high-level stakeholders, and contribute to global knowledge generation in the food security and livelihoods sector.