Technical Advisor III - Resilience Monitoring Global Coordinator at Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, Maryland

Job Description:

Position title: Technical Advisor III - Resilience Monitoring Global Coordinator

Location: Remote, United States | (Remote)


Responsibilities:

• Lead CRS’ global efforts on recurrent resilience monitoring, primarily through MIRA.
• Lead the development of a strategic plan for scaling MIRA within CRS in collaboration with key internal stakeholders.
• Work with technical experts across the agency to provide direct technical assistance to CRS countries and projects implementing MIRA.
• Develop and/or revise guidance for project design and implementation to ensure consistent and high-quality MIRA implementation across CRS projects using the approach.
• Support country teams to develop strategies for effective data utilization as part of CRS programs and amongst external stakeholders.
• Manage relationship with the learning partner (Cornell University), including oversight of the global contract and separate project-level engagements.
• Advance global discussions on context monitoring alongside other related CRS teams (emergency food security team, market monitoring team, agriculture/livelihoods team, etc.).
• Coordinate closely with the CRS’s Senior Technical Advisor for Resilience to ensure alignment with broader resilience-building efforts.
• Coordinate with CRS’ internal data analytics teams to ensure quality and relevant analytics for projects and to identify opportunities for more advanced analytics that benefit programming and thought leadership.
• Develop and share MIRA-related communications products through social media, webinars, and other avenues to promote CRS’ work.
• Engage with external partners at the global level (USG, donors, peer orgs, research partners) and country level (governments, donors, projects, research partners) to promote the adoption of MIRA and support co-creation or collaboration efforts.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for collaboration in research using MIRA data.
• Manage global MIRA team and supervise staff, including developing and overseeing individual and group work plans.
• Lead the MIRA Community of Practice to engage internal stakeholders to share experiences and learn from each other.
• Regularly update and consult MIRA advisory group on strategy for expansion and quality assurance.
• Contribute to efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities in resilience monitoring, including support to proposal development and project design.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in food security, resilience, development economics, or a related field.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of work experience in food security or resilience within the international development field, ideally with an international NGO, with a minimum of three (3) years field experience.
• Experience in the development and production of guidance, curricula, tools, and other products to support food security and/or resilience monitoring. Demonstrated experience supporting diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and informal methods.
• Knowledge of food security indicators and related analytics (e.g. IPC, FEWSNET), and also common resilience monitoring approaches.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, statistics/data analytics, data visualization, and using data for programming purposes.
• Track record of contributing to successful business development activities capturing public and/or private donor funding.
• Demonstrated experience and success representing a comparable organization and influencing donors, government, international NGOs, local partners, etc. at global and country levels.
• Experience managing staff and contractual relationships with partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in food security, resilience, development economics, or a related field highly desired.
• Knowledge of data systems technologies highly desired.

Required Languages - Fluency in English. Working ability in French, Spanish or Arabic strongly preferred.

Travel - Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% time, including to and in di?cult operating environments.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Very strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.
• Very strong written and oral communication skills.
• Very strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Strong skills in managing diverse staff in different locations.
• Working ?uency with Microsoft O?ce software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) required. Ability to use data analytics tools (e.g., SPSS) and data visualization (e.g., Power BI) strongly preferred.

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

What we offer

CRS offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, vision, generous retirement savings plan and the opportunity to work in a collaborative, mission-driven culture that is committed to improving the lives of the poor throughout the world.

CRS is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Selection and hiring decisions are made without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, veteran status or any other protected area.

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