Senior Livelihoods Specialist – Early Recovery

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Philippines seeks a qualified professional to provide technical advice on Early Recovery Livelihoods, supporting design, implementation, and donor-aligned outcomes. This role will collaborate with CP teams to strengthen programming and learning across diverse partners and sectors.

The position emphasizes capacity building, proposal development, and cross-sectoral integration, with travel up to 30% within the region.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a relevant field including international development, agriculture, business, marketing, labor market, and/or food security. An advanced degree can be substituted with an additional 3 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years (8 years preferred) demonstrated experience with US Department of State (USDoS) or other similar early recovery projects focused on livelihoods (preferably with experience related to agriculture, fisheries, and small and medium enterprises / agribusiness), resilience and vulnerable households,
• Demonstrated ability to work and coordinate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, including national and local government, donors, community‑based organizations, and the private sector
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English.
• Established relationship with and/or substantive knowledge of agribusiness firms in the livestock sector
• Strong Microsoft Word and Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and contribute to the implementation of agency-wide strategies, standards, tools and best practices in Early Recovery Livelihoods that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments.
• Provide technical solutions to CP teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards , best practices, partnership principles, tools and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Contribute to, and in some cases lead the development of the technical design for proposals. Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of project concepts and full‑fledged proposals. As needed, act as a technical writer on proposal development teams. Advise project teams on integrating donor strategies, priorities and technical requirements into CRS approach.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in Early Recovery Livelihoods programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.
• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision‑making and contribute to Early Recovery Livelihoods learning agenda .
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions, participate in forums in Eto collect and share best practices and promote CRS work.

Skills

MS Office

Communication skills

Stakeholder coordination

M&E knowledge

Proposal writing

Team coordination

Education

Advanced degree in international development

Tools

Budget management systems

Web conferencing

MS Excel

Job description

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Philippines seeks a qualified professional to provide technical advice on Early Recovery Livelihoods, supporting design, implementation, and donor-aligned outcomes. This role will collaborate with CP teams to strengthen programming and learning across diverse partners and sectors.

The position emphasizes capacity building, proposal development, and cross-sectoral integration, with travel up to 30% within the region.