About Trickle Up

Since 1979, Trickle Up has focused on the poorest and most vulnerable, working with participants who live in extreme poverty and face multiple levels of exclusion due to gender, ethnicity, religion, and disability. The organization has worked with over 485,000 participants and their families, helping to sustainably lift over two million people out of extreme poverty in India, Africa, and the Americas. Our mission is to partner with women in extreme poverty to build economic opportunity and drive inclusion. Trickle Up works through partner organizations, to build paths to savings, food security, and agency, resulting in sustainable poverty reduction at scale.

Position Overview

Trickle Up Program seeks a Graduation Approach Team Lead, as part of its participation in a consortium preparing a bid. USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/BHA) is anticipated to release a Request for Applications (RFA) for the Niger Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in or around January 2025. Trickle Up plans to join a consortium, which will cover an approximate five-year period beginning in or around October 2025.

The RFSA program will work to improve and sustain the food and nutrition security of vulnerable populations through multi-year resilience food and nutrition security activities. Trickle Up anticipates that BHA will rely heavily on a Graduation Approach in the design of this Niger RFSA.

This position is vital in ensuring that the activity design aligns with the principles of the Graduation Approach, and in maintaining the technical quality and integrity of the project. The Graduation Approach Team Lead will play a critical role in integrating all aspects of a full graduation approach dimensions, particularly focusing on social inclusion and the resilience of marginalized populations, into food security and community resilience activities.

This is a Key Personnel position, subject to USAID approval. It is also subject to project award and funding. National and international candidates are encouraged to apply. This position will be based in Niamey. This is an unaccompanied post location.

Principal Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the implementation of the five components of the graduation approach, ensuring adherence to the project's framework and goals.
• Apply an in-depth understanding of gender, age, and socio-cultural factors in participant targeting and program design.
• Ensure social dimensions of food security and community resilience are addressed effectively across all components of the activity.
• Focus on social inclusion, particularly on IDPs, marginalized populations, gender, and youth integration, to achieve intended outcomes.
• Collaborate with Chief of Party, M&E Lead, and other key personnel for the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from diverse sources.
• Ensure that all components of the graduation approach are integrated and create multiplier effects.
• Maintain consistent, high-quality technical implementation among sub-awardees and implementation locations.
• Ensure technical interventions are integrated, layered, and sequenced appropriately within the activity and with external stakeholders including USAID, the private sector, other donors, and the Republic of Niger.

Qualifications

Education requirements

• Bachelor's degree required, Master’s degree preferred.

Language requirements

• Fluent in English and French (spoken and written)

Experience requirements

• 10 years of related experience in implementing the graduation approach in challenging contexts is required.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing the five components of the graduation approach and have an in-depth understanding of how gender, age, and other locally relevant socio-cultural factors may play a role in targeting participants.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources in collaboration with the M&E Lead.
• Excellent management, interpersonal, facilitation, and monitoring skills, and the ability to network and communicate with a wide range of stakeholders and field experience in low-resource environments.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as evidenced in previous management positions and programming.
• Demonstrated commitment to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Harassment (PSEAH).

Knowledge and skills

• Strong writing, editing, and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and grow a fundraising portfolio.
• Ability to work independently and in a team in a resource-limited environment.
• Well-organized, experienced project manager with strong analytical and creative abilities. Able to set priorities, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail.
• Prospect research skills.
• A working knowledge of Raiser's Edge or comparable donor database.

Behavioral competencies

• Thrives in a small, highly collaborative, fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Superb people skills.
• A naturally optimistic and enthusiastic personality who talks about solutions, not problems.
• A sincere commitment to helping alleviate poverty.

To Apply 

To be considered, please click the “Apply” button at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions to upload your cover letter and resume.  We are sorry we are unable to answer phone calls related to this posting.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks and other reference-check databases Trickle Up participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this initiative, as part of the referencing process, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment during employment.  By applying, you confirm your understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Trickle Up requires that employees be vaccinated for COVID-19 before visiting or working in a Trickle Up office or conducting any travel or in-person meetings on behalf of our organization. If you are hired for this position, Trickle Up will require proof that you have received the COVID-19 vaccine or have a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.

Trickle Up is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and extend equal opportunity to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by law. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform essential job functions.