Program Director, REAPER II at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Save the Children is seeking a highly qualified Program Director for the anticipated USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Evidence Aggregation for Programmatic Approaches 2 (REAPER 2) Activity. They will lead the REAPER 2 program, focusing on broad evidence aggregation and synthesis activities for existing evidence aggregation work and the identification and application of innovative tools to improve the speed and quality of evidence review. These activities will inform creation of knowledge products and learning opportunities.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• At least ten (10) years of experience in management, particularly in managing research efforts, such as evaluations and large-scale, mixed-method surveys;
• At least 5 years of experience in designing, managing, leading, and coordinating food security and resilience programs and evaluations.
• Demonstrated experience in providing strategic direction, technical assistance and thought leadership related to resilience to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience in building collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, fostering engagement and learning across USAID Bureaus and learning mechanisms and serves as a main point of contact for the portfolio and maintain regular communication with donors and partners to ensure transparency and efficiency of plans, reports and actions.
• Technical expertise in agriculture, food security, nutrition, resilience, or related fields in the context of international development;
• Familiarity with a range of evidence generation approaches and their associated levels of rigor, including evidence gap maps, systematic evidence review and synthesis, and dissemination formats to facilitate knowledge utilization;
• Experience with program evaluation designs and methods (experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations, non-experimental designs, qualitative methods, etc.)
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in international development, resilience, evaluation, statistics or other related fields
• Experience with USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
• Experience working on large USAID contracts
• Experience working for an international NGO and/or other global development firm