Food Assistance Advocacy Officer

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14 Month Term Position – Brussels
The Trans-Atlantic Food Assistance Dialogue, through one of its members, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, is seeking to hire a Brussels-based experienced public policy advocate with a strong food security background to assist in influencing the content of a new Food Assistance Convention to replace the current Food Aid Convention. 

The successful candidate will be able, with minimal supervision, to carry out the following tasks:

1. Establish effective liaison with the key institutions linked to the Convention – (The International Grains Council (London), European Commission (Brussels), World Food Program (Rome), Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (Brussels)) in order to track the development of the negotiations and the key issues emerging from them.
2. Develop a website [and related electronic means] for posting the key information needed (a) by TAFAD members to engage their own national FAC representatives and (b) by other civil society organizations with an interest in food assistance to provide their own input into the negotiations.
3. Organize events to promote the awareness and engagement of other food security-related networks, Southern civil society and the Human Rights community in the issues affecting the negotiations.  Whenever appropriate, the interests, concerns and recommendations coming from these events will be relayed to TAFAD members and integrated into TAFAD advocacy.
4. Research food assistance related issues arising from the FAC negotiations and prepare briefs for TAFAD members [and other interested groups].
5. Other tasks as directed by the TAFAD Executive Committee.

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and attributes:

1. Several years work experience in a related field (e.g. food security, human rights, development policy)
2. Master’s level qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g. international development studies, agricultural economics, food security, etc.)
3. Strong communication and committee work skills
4. Knowledge of the creation and maintenance of websites and Web 2.0 communication methods.
5. Fluency in written and spoken English and working knowledge of French.

Supervision/Accountability
The successful candidate will work independently but under the supervision of a Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe staff member and will be accountable to an Advocacy Campaign Steering Committee made up of 3-4 members of the Trans-Atlantic Food Assistance Dialogue. 

Salary: depending upon experience.

Application Deadline – 30 September 2009

Please send application letter and resume to m.windfuhr@diakonie-human-rights.org

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