Regional Technical Senior Specialist

Chemonics seeks a Regional Technical Senior Specialist - Livelihoods (RTSS-LH) in support of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) 8 Decision Support (DS) project based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The FEWS NET DS project maintains six regional offices (i.e. East Africa; Southern Africa; West Africa; Middle East, North Africa, and Europe; Asia; and Latin America and the Caribbean) that coordinate and oversee technical and administrative management of over 40 country offices. The FEWS NET DS Team uses a livelihoods-based food security analytical framework grounded in Household Economy Analysis (HEA) principles. The RTSS-LH will liaise extensively with Household Economy Analysis (HEA) working groups throughout the region and must be able to articulate FEWS NET's livelihoods approach, and its relevance for acute food insecurity analysis, to partners. The RTSS-LH will be expected to provide critical inputs to regional decision-support products, technical assistance and guidance to country teams, and training on relevant HEA food security analyses and tools, for FEWS NET and partner staff. The RTSS-LH will contribute to high-quality and effective early warning of threats to food security by supporting efforts to mitigate food insecurity and prevent food crises through the provision of actionable, evidence-based food security analysis.
- Asia Region: Afghanistan, Burma, Nepal, and Pakistan
We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
FEWS NET is an integrated set of activities funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is intended to provide timely, accurate, evidence-based, and transparent food security early warning information and analysis. The eighth phase of FEWS NET includes the Decision Support (DS) project which is charged with providing integrated monitoring and analyses of current and forecast acute food insecurity in countries worldwide to support the USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) policy and programmatic decisions. Based on an in-depth understanding of local livelihoods, FEWS NET DS Team monitors information and data on factors that affect food security, such as conflict, weather conditions and climate, crops, pasture, markets and trade, and nutrition. The work of the FEWS NET DS Team relies on close collaboration with international, regional, and national partners on food security data and information gathering and analysis. Major activities include joint monitoring and assessments, data sharing and exchanges, collaborative analysis and reporting, and technical capacity strengthening.
**Responsibilities**
The main responsibilities of the RTSS-LH include, but are not limited to:
- Contributing to the identification of priority HEA livelihood activities in line with the strategic orientation of the DS Team's work, including directly carrying out monitoring activities through field assessments in both presence and expanded global early warning (EGEW) countries monitored by FEWS NET within the region
- Providing high quality and effective early warning of threats to food security and supporting efforts to mitigate food insecurity and prevent food crises through the effective communication of actionable, evidence-based HEA food security analysis
- Providing HEA livelihoods-related inputs into monthly reporting requirements in a timely and quality manner, including conducting and sharing outputs from Outcome Analyses and other livelihoods analyses to contribute to Food Security Outlooks (FSOs) and FSO Updates
- Collaborating with regional and international partners in food security monitoring and analysis through the implementation of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) protocols, including providing technical support in the use of HEA within those protocols
- Providing regional leadership for the identification, review, and compilation of appropriate livelihoods data, by supporting national offices in maintaining a livelihoods knowledge base composed of, at a minimum, livelihood zone profiles and maps, sub-national seasonal monitoring calendars, and technical databases relevant to maintain livelihoods profiles and/or baselines in both presence and EGEW countries within the region
- Under the direction of the Livelihoods Advisor, helping establish and/or maintain systematic, timely, high-quality, and efficient HEA livelihoods data compilation and management processes among country, regional, and home office staff. Supporting the collection, organization, and storage of primary and secondary livelihoods data and information for submission to the FEWS NET Hub and USAID. Liaising with FEWS NET DS project staff and partners to facilitate timely data flows
- Contributing to the regular collection, organization, and storage of data as set out by the FEWS NET Senior Management Team in collaboration with the FEWS NET Data, Knowledge, and Learning Hub (Hub). As p

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