Save the Children UK Emergency Response Personnel (ERP)- Food Security and Livelihoods Specialist, London

Save the Children’s origins lie in emergency response, and this has remained central to our work ever since. Our approach integrates our emergency and development work, through the medium of our country programmes. With the increasing frequency and severity of emergencies world-wide the organisation is increasing its capacity to support programmes in both sudden onset and chronic emergency situations. Our Emergency Response Personnel (ERP) play a key part with Save the Children’s humanitarian strategy. Members of the ERP scheme are active members of Save the Children’s UK’s humanitarian department, and contribute to organisational learning and help build organisation capacity to respond effectively to emergencies world-wide.

Our Emergency Response Personnel are usually deployed for medium-term assignments for:
• An emergency response where Save the Children is scaling up and we need immediate emergency expertise
• Surge capacity to a country programme by either filling a vacant position and/or adding further skills and experience to country programmes
• Capacity building of individuals and/or country programmes to ensure that programmes are being run effectively

Preventing and addressing food and livelihood insecurity in emergency affected populations plays a crucial role in response and recovery programming for Save the Children. As well as engaging in response and recovery food and non food input distribution, capacity building and market support, Save the Children promotes and practices innovative approaches to addressing problems and prides itself on designing effective hunger programmes based on carefully assessed needs.

Food Security & Livelihoods Specialists are needed for a whole range of countries currently experiencing crises and/or early recovery.

The post holders will contribute to Save the Children’s country capacity to address food and livelihood insecurity in emergency affected populations through programme assessment, design, management, evaluation and training.

How to apply:
In order to apply for this post please visit http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/jobs.htm
Reference Code: 6838

Closing Date: Sunday, 08 January 2012