Social Development Advisor Full Time

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the EMERGE Social Development Advisor, under the supervision of the EMERGE Graduation Approach Lead, you will lead a multi-organizational team to ensure interventions are responsive to the needs of marginalized groups and families within IDP camps and host communities. You will develop and oversee community engagement strategies, assessment tools, and communication materials, while creating knowledge management and learning products to promote social development best practices.

The SDA will provide technical guidance to implementing partners, ensuring standardized approaches to integrating social development issues into livelihoods activities such as savings groups, vocational training, and capacity-building for farmers and entrepreneurs. A key focus is on empowering women and men to participate meaningfully in sectors and value chains, through mentorship, training modules, and facilitating the sharing of best practices.

Requirements include:

• A minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in social development programs, working with men, women, boys and girls with NGO;
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant academic area—e.g., a social science discipline or related a concentration.
• Previous experience with large USAID grants including Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA), Development Food Security Activity (DFSA), Development Food Assistance Programs (DFAP), Multi Year Assistance Programs (MYAP)s and/or Development Assistance Programs (DAP)s, multi-Sector programming is preferred;
• Familiarity with local cultural practices, social norms and approaches.
• Strong English communication skills, particularly advanced writing skills. Conversational Somali and May dialect is preferred.
• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel internationally/domestically up to 50% of the time

Tagged as: Somalia, World Vision