Are you an experienced food assistance professional with a heart for the hurting? As an Emergency Food Assistance Technical Advisor in South Sudan, you will be given the opportunity to provide expertise and oversight to the organization’s emergency food assistance activities in South Sudan. For an opportunity to serve a struggling population in a tangible way, put your talents to use for a humanitarian cause with an eternal purpose through Samaritan’s Purse. Join us today!
Description of Job Duties:
- Provides technical leadership and advice related to the Food Assistance Program.
- Identifies, analyzes, and reports on humanitarian needs, providing detailed recommendations for intervention.
- Prepares work plans, and coordinates food/non-food-item distributions in multiple locations.
- Actively engages with program stakeholders, including local leaders, beneficiaries, and other government authorities.
- Ensures timeliness and accuracy of reports submitted to stakeholders.
- Collaborates with the Emergency Relief Manager (ERM), Deputy ERM, Finance Manager, Program Development Officers, and other technical advisors regarding design and budget for the Emergency Food Assistance Program.
- Ensures program’s compliance with sector standards by improving processes and procedures for storage, management, and transfer of food and non-food-items.
- Reviews and adapts Emergency Food Assistance strategies in order to meet the changing context by maintaining effective program feedback mechanisms.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university.
- Three (3) years’ experience with Food Assistance Program Management and/or other beneficiary assistance modalities preferred; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
- Twelve credit hours of college-level Biblical studies strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of the perspectives, requirements, and standards of major humanitarian donors.
- Experience in coordination with other international humanitarian organizations and UN agencies operating in complex emergencies.
- Project management and organizational skills.
- Team management experience.
- Experience working and living overseas, particularly in austere and/or remote environments.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word and Excel.
- Fluent spoken and written English required; Arabic language proficiency desirable.
- Possesses strong interpersonal communication skills, preferably with people of different educational, linguistic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.
- High degree of flexibility; willing to travel in and out of field.
12 month contract with potential for renewal.
This position is unaccompanied.
International Employee Benefits
Employees who choose to work internationally get to take advantage of the following benefits:
- Medical, prescription, dental & vision coverage
- Disability insurance
- Term Life insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Ten paid holidays (holiday observance will depend on the host country)
- Annual home leave
- Twelve vacation days per year
To receive consideration for this position, please submit application, cover letter, and current resume through the link, below:
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- Job City Upper Nile State
