Empowered World View Project Officer

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ensure that EWV is integrated into technical programs and grants, including in fragile contexts

Ensure sufficient field office and Front line staff for EWV (ToTs) in collaboration with the TSO
Coach and mentor EWV to cascade the program.
Engage Operations & Program quality teams to ensure FO leadership support
Ensure EWV is integrated with other technical projects at the field level
Collaborate with NO GAM teams to ensure EWV is written in the grant proposals

END RESULTS

EWV Integrated in all in all THRIVE 2.0 as a foundation and enabled model

Project Management and Serves as the main point of contact with WVUS in ensuring donor promise is achieved and communicated well.

Coordinate development of annual plans and budget for the Scale Up Project
Collaborate with implementing THRIVE 2.0 APs to prepare donor-facing reports
Work with the finance team to ensure efficient and effective utilization of the resources

END RESULTS:

The project runs as per the plans on EWV-related interventions
Quality donor-facing reports prepared
Efficient and effective utilization of the project resources

Strengthen EWV Design, Monitoring & Evaluation for greater impact

Collaborate with Clusters and Field Offices Program quality teams to ensure EWV indicators are standardized and applied across all projects
Work with THRIVE 2.0 APs to complete the EWV Project Model documentation as a CPM
Work with THRIVE 2.0 APs to develop the ‘Design Implementation Quality Assurance’ documentation
Support respective clusters and APs to ensure that EWV activities and progress are captured in the horizon
Support and coordinate EWV-related research

END RESULTS:

EWV well included and streamlined on design, Monitoring and evaluation of the project
EWV as the enabling model is implemented with Fidelity
Work with the DM&E officer to ensure EWV indicators well sorted and tracked

Support and coordinate scale-up of EWV in THRIVE 2.0 APs and with partners:

Ensure quality implementation of EWV in APs and Clusters,
Coordinate training of Trainer of Transformers (ToTs)
Build strong relationships with partners and especially the faith actors to uptake EWV
Work with implementing offices to strengthen the integration of EWV into the Development Programme Approach

END RESULTS

EWV well scaled up in all THRIVE 2.0 Aps

Participate in other organizational meetings as required.

Participate in National offices’ strategy reviews

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Required Professional Experience

At least three years of program management experience
Facilitation skills in training or facilitating staff and community-level empowerment approaches.
Experience in design, monitoring, and evaluation (DM&E)
Experience in coordinating faith initiatives in programming
Spiritual maturity; clear articulation of personal faith in Christ about how their faith informs their life and work. Able to stand above denominational diversities.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Gender, Community Development, Development Studies and related studies with at least 3 years experience.

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

Excellent communication skills; Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders,
Strategic, creative, and innovative thinking
Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
Ability/experience of managing and working with a network
Excellent coordination and planning skills
Report writing skills: Ability to write reports
Demonstrate high levels of integrity
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent team player with minimum supervision
Significant experience of working with government officials, multiple partners, community groups and communities.
Proven experience in facilitating effective project documentation and dissemination of results to a wide range of audiences.
Experience in working with donor funds
Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff
Good planning and Excellent organizational skills, ability to determine priorities and attention to detail a must
Good Communication skills (English & Swahili)
Work in a multisector/ multicultural team- patience, cultural sensitivity and application of contextual understanding in day-to-day work
Ability to work with tight deadlines for information needs
Experience of working with government

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically up to 30 % of the time and occasionally internationally.
Ability to work in a multicultural context as a flexible and respectful team player
Willingness to travel to the field as and when needed

Language Requirements