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Summary

Save the Children is recruiting for a Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) Advisor. This position sits on the Knowledge Management, Learning and Communications (KLC) team within the Department of Hunger and Livelihoods (DHL) and supports CLA activities across the Departments program portfolio. Programs include directly implemented awards as well as a range of associate awards that work to strengthen the capacity of other implementing partners to design and implement effective emergency and non-emergency food security activities and build the evidence base to support adaptive management for project improvements. Technical sectors include gender and youth, food security and livelihoods, agriculture, resilience, climate adaptation, and water, sanitation, and hygiene.

The Advisor will help design and lead implementation of a strategic approach to CLA and build a culture of collaboration, adaptive management, continuous learning, and high-quality program delivery. The Advisor will work closely with program teams and other stakeholders to ensure knowledge and learning are captured and shared to drive adaptations across programs.

The CLA Advisor will be responsible for overseeing and managing CLA tasks, working collaboratively with all DHL programs. The Advisor will help develop and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning, evidence generation and application, and collaborative community building across DHL, Save the Children, and our implementing partners.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

CLA Strategy and Implementation (40%)

• Develop, refine, and implement a robust CLA strategy and implementation framework for continuous collaboration, learning, and adapting among project staff, partners, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Design and facilitate regular knowledge-sharing, collaborative planning and learning events, addressing key learning questions for internal and external stakeholders through roundtables, workshops, pause and reflect sessions, staff retreats, DHL staff meetings, online discussion forums, reports, after action reviews, etc.
• Contribute to building effective, collaboration and learning partnerships with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Agreement Office Representative (AOR) and technical leads.

Staff and organizational development (30%)

• Provide capacity-strengthening and mentoring on CLA, knowledge management, and adaptive management methods, tools, and best practices.
• Help to create a team culture where it is safe to experiment, fail fast, and learn from experiences to drive problem-solving.
• Provide guidance, recommendations, and leadership to develop digital CLA and knowledge management systems, approaches, and templates to ensure that lessons learned, and best practices are documented and accessible to all stakeholders.
• Provide support to develop program proposals, work plans, and reports that include CLA approaches and resources.

CLA Stakeholder Engagement (30%)

• Ensure programs and stakeholders use CLA systems and tools to inform and improve each individual program, as well as feed into the broader DHL and Save the Children initiatives.
• Actively engage with stakeholders to share and promote the use of CLA across stakeholders and identify emerging or persistent needs. Participate in relevant external events to identify innovative approaches to improve internal CLA activities.
• Provide support to develop program proposals, work plans and reporting to ensure inclusion of CLA approaches and resources.
• Provide CLA and documentation technical assistance to DHL and associate awards.
• Assess CLA needs and build effective, productive relationships with internal teams, consortium partners, implementing partners and donors .
• In coordination with partners, help develop activities that reflect industry standards in adult learning, knowledge transfer, and application.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Proven experience in helping develop and build staff capacity in knowledge management, stakeholder engagement and organizational learning, preferably in an international context.
• Demonstrated experience with USAID activities, including strong conceptual knowledge USAID’s CLA framework.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and implementing strategic CLA plans, learning and sharing activities and products. Demonstrated skill and experience in building collaborative relationships and driving adoption of new program approaches.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally up to 10% of the time
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in a range of KLC tools such as MS Teams, SharePoint, Miro, Mural, Zoom, Adobe Creative Suite, and client relationship management (CRM) systems like Microsoft Dynamics.
• Prior experience with USAID-funded programs, including contracts.
• Experience in working with a variety of stakeholders including partners, donors, and other stakeholders.
• Experience developing and implementing learning agendas, theories of change, scenario planning, and other collaborative learning activities.
• Strong facilitation skills (online and in-person).
• Professional proficiency in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and/or, Arabic.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in YOU!

About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

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