Sr. Humanitarian Advisor (Food Assistance)

Compassion International; United States; On-site; USD 106,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Compassion International is seeking a career specialist to advise and provide implementation support for global program designs, standards, and tools. The fixed-term role, funded by grant, involves independent work on complex issues and potential coaching of other specialists across regions.

Key responsibilities include program design, measurement, and capacity building with National Offices, plus coaching regional staff on data usage and best practices.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in humanitarian relief and international development.
• Experience coaching and providing technical support to implementing partners.
• Technical expertise in food security and market-based programming.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Advocates for child protection and reports concerns through internal processes.
• Champions global program designs and supports National Offices and cross-functional teams.
• Provides consulting on program design, standards, and training tools.
• Develops metrics and reports to track program development and impact.
• Coaches Regional staff on measurement usage and interpretation.

Skills

Relief & Dev Experience

Partner Engagement

Food Security

Job description

The expected salary range for this position is $106,400.00 - $125,010.60. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

• this fixed term role is supported by grant funding that is approved for a one-year period.

This career specialist serves on a technical advising team to consult and provide implementation support for global program designs, initiatives and tools. The specialist provides competent knowledge in a given sub specialty in their field. At this career level, the incumbent works independently on moderate to highly complex issues. He or she may coach and/or oversee the work other specialists.

What will you do?

• Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
• Champions and implements global program designs, standards and training tools in alignment with the ministry's objectives. Serves as a key contributor among cross-functional teams to equip National Offices to provide holistic development to caregivers, children and youth. Partners with Regional staff and stakeholders in order to provide strategically designed program implementation support and learning strategies of moderate complexity.
• Focusing on Compassion’s overall theory of change and outcomes framework, provides consulting in individual area(s) of specialization to National Offices.
• Supports the design and development of Compassion's program models to be implemented globally, including theory, standards, activities, tools and resources and indicators. Collaborates and partners with National Office staff and stakeholders and provides subject matter expertise within area of specialty.
• Supports program data and provides ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes on a global scale. Aids Regional staff by providing coaching and knowledge for measurement usage and interpretation. Serves as a subject matter expert regarding metric creation, collection and usage.
• Independently conducts special training and initiatives and consults with others regarding industry standards, national policies and best practices.
• Identifies and analyzes moderately complex global program process problems and defines the scope of activities required to address the issues, including requirement definition, process review, impact assessment and operational streamlining where appropriate to increase productivity and efficiency. Prepare supporting documentation such as presentations, future state maps, success metrics, business requirements and related impact analyses. Participates in the creation of new processes.
• Defines relevant metrics and develops reports utilized to track overall program development and implementation success. Analyzes data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provides expertise and coaching to other program support and partnership staff in Regional and national offices as requested.

What do you bring?

• Relief & Development Expertise: Significant experience in humanitarian relief and international development, with the ability to engage effectively across sectors and diverse country contexts.
• Partner Engagement & Capacity Building: Strong experience coaching, problem-solving, and providing technical support to implementing partners/sub-awardees, including facilitation partner reviews and traveling to country offices as needed.
• Food Security & Market-Based Programming: Technical expertise in food security, agricultural systems, and food assistance, including emergency food programming, cash-based assistance, and market analysis to determine appropriate interventions.

Why work here?

• The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
• Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.
• Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.