Food Security and Livelihoods Proposal Technical Advisor

Terms of Reference

Food Security and Livelihoods Proposal Technical Advisor

About CWS

Church World Service (CWS) is a faith-based global organization with its headquarters in the United States (New York) transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster. Since 1946, CWS has worked to improve livelihoods, increase long-term access to food, address WASH challenges, combat and amplify responses to climate change, respond to natural disasters, mitigate disaster risks, and provide solutions for refugee communities.

Scope of Work

The Business Development (BD) Team of CWS is responsible for all new institutional funding for the organization, and is directly supporting CWS’ organizational priority to diversify funding.

CWS is seeking a proposal lead writer to support identified new Business Development opportunities in Food Security. The work will be informed by current trends, frameworks and methodologies. The Food Security Lead Writer will provide guidance in the development of technical proposals, program design frameworks and associated annexes for bids to public funders. The successful candidate has a strong background in food security with demonstrated success performing lead roles in program design and technical writing.

Responsibilities

Business Development (approximately 15 days)

Provide proposal design and technical writing support for CWS identified public funding opportunities:

• Guide CWS teams on program design, including beneficiary targeting, implementation plans, results frameworks, theories of change.
• Incorporate key technical developments in the food security, resilience and/or livelihoods fields, including but not limited to nature based/ climate smart solutions, inclusive market systems and gender sensitive approaches.
• Conduct desk research to support mappings and gap analysis, intervention approaches and program design.
• Draft technical and narrative sections of the proposal with input provided by country office teams and/or local partners, as well as BDU.
• These include but are not limited to:
• Background statements, gap analysis, gender analysis, activity implementation plans, humanitarian approaches, cross-cutting issues, management and staffing, and organizational capacity statements.
• Supporting color team reviews of the proposal

Abilities and Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years’ field experience in food security programming, with an emphasis on refugee populations and or highly vulnerable populations.
• Prior experience supporting winning food security and/or livelihoods proposals for WFP/ PRM /USAID/ USAID-BHA or other donor governments
• Excellent writing skills in English.
• Technical expertise in the subject matter.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with HQ and country-based team members.

Length and Timeline: 20 working days (non-consecutive)

Following the selection of the consultant, an inception meeting will be organized with the consultant and key CWS staff to discuss the deliverables under this ToR, agree on the proposed work and timeframe, and provide necessary information to the consultant.

Administrative Information

Contract and Payments

A contract will be signed with a selected consultant and will further detail terms, conditions and deliverables. The fee will be paid in two instalments: 30% upon signing the contract, and 70% upon receiving and approving the final report.

Roles and Responsibilities

The reporting of this consultancy will be managed by the Director for Business Development - International, and technical direction will be provided by the Program Focal Person(s).

Copyright

All the outputs produced by the report will be treated as CWS’s property and the consultant will not be able to use the report in any manner without prior permission from CWS.

Policies

The CWS Code of Conduct, Anti-trafficking in Persons Policy and Child Safeguarding Policy outlines the behavior which is expected of all employees and others associated with CWS. It is mandatory that all CWS employees and others associated with CWS sign and abide by these policies.

How to Apply

Applications should include:

• Cover letter outlining the applicant’s applicable experience, proposed methodology and time frame and cost.
• CV

Contact information:

For more information please contact:

Ariane Cartwright

Director, Business Development

Church World Service

Email: acartwright@cwsglobal.org