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Resource Mobilization and Donor Liaison Team Leader-Rwanda

Position Title:	Resource Mobilization and Donor Liaison Team Leader-Rwanda	Application Deadline Date:	16 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Rwanda, Kigali	Position Start Date	01 Oct 2013
Region:	Africa\East Africa	Position End Date:	30 Sep 2015
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Rwanda	Program/Office Name:	Rwanda
City/Province:	Rwanda, Kigali	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	15/160	Recruitment Status:	Actively Recruiting
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013AFEFCHI-9AYPFE

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

• Reports to the Programs Development and Quality Assurance Director with a matrix Reporting Relationship to the Regional Resource Development (RDU) Director.
• Provides Leadership and Management in the development of World Vision Rwanda resource diversification strategy, strengthen networking and resource acquisition capabilities for Vision Rwanda.
• Responsible for the implementation and coordination of Grant Acquisition Management (GAM) processes, proposal formulation, donor liaison.
• Track GAM performance metrics and build the capacity of local staff in resource acquisition, grants management and provide support to projects.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Grant performance

• Grow the current National Office (NO) institutional grant portfolio.
• Achieve new grant growth targets set by NO and regional office.

Develop Grant Acquisition and Management Business Plan to ensure that the NO has a GAM Business Plan, which includes a donor landscape mapping, preposition and donor engagement plan, and an analysis of the NO capacity levels as well as inefficient grant proposal tracking system.

• NO has identified key partners and is member of key grant networks.
• Prepare monthly management reports for NO and senior management.

Develop quality proposals

• Review and research possible proposals and recommend whether NO should pursue these opportunities within the parameters of the growth targets and strategy.
• Lead grant applications and review donor proposal requirements.
• Meet with donors to clarify proposal requirements.
• Pay field visits to collect data from Area Development Programmes (ADP) Managers for inclusion in proposals.
• Assist in the review of draft proposals prepared by NO staff, and provide technical inputs and English editing.
• Together with NO staff, assist research, develop and finalise high quality proposals for submission.
• Ensure proposals submitted by NO meet the requirements of donors.

Management and Building Capacity of Local Staff

• Building the capacity of NO staff in grant acquisition, management and compliance to develop local capacity.
• Build staff capacity on institutional grant project/program management.

Leadership and Coordination of Donor Liaison

• Cultivate, serve and strengthen relationships with all Major Donors, Mid-Level Donors, and support Donor liaison Coordinator in building strong relationships with support offices and Church Partners.
• Ensure that there is integration of sponsorship and Grant acquisition initiatives to maximise WV Rwanda target for child well-being aspirations.
• Provide timely and high quality information for SO funded ADPs and projects, including project updates, tracking of project outputs, prayer updates, photos/videos and stories.
• Develop capacity building programs to ensure that staff and communities understand and appreciate the importance of engagement with Donors.
• Participating in the spiritual nurturing of staff and communities in alignment with World Vision’s vision mission and values.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• Masters Degree in International Development, International Relations, Rural Development or any related field. Master’s Degree in Development, Social Science, Management or other field applicable to developing country context preferred.
• Leadership capabilities that includes coaching staff to high level of performance & engaging in effective cross cultural & cross functional working to achieve shared goals and effective indirect line management.
• Experienced networker with an ability to maintain a good up to date knowledge of the grant opportunities and trends in the humanitarian sector.
• Proven experience in development work with a thorough understanding of sustainable development and sectoral interventions.
• At least 5 years of team management experience, preferably from a National Office.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of project management with government and multilateral agencies grant funded projects and experience of grant compliance procedures for major bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Demonstrated track record in proposal development, funding acquisitions and grant management for major government donors preferred.
• Strong organization and delegation abilities; high performance and quality standards; negotiation skills; ability to motivate teams and inspire teamwork.
• Track record of successfully training, developing/mentoring and supervising grant staff.
• Working knowledge of the WV Partnership preferred and ability to interface sensitively with people from various departments in both field and support offices.

Preferred:

• Ability to engage at a strategic level with bilateral and multilateral donors IO and INGO etc.
• Proven experience in development work with a thorough understanding of sustainable development and sectoral interventions
• Strong budgetary and financial management skills

ResourceMobilisation.pdf

Regional Quality Assurance Director - Southern Africa Region

Position Title:	Regional Quality Assurance Director - Southern Africa Region	Application Deadline Date:	12 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Preferred, Johannesburg South Africa, though can be in any Southern Africa country where WV operates	Position Start Date	04 Nov 2013
Region:	Africa\Southern Africa	Position End Date:	03 Nov 2015
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	South Africa	Program/Office Name:	Southern Africa Regional Office
City/Province:	Preferred, Johannesburg South Africa, though can be in any Southern Africa country where WV operates	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	18/172	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013AFSMNAE-9ATCPT

*LOCATION PREFERRED: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, THOUGH CAN BE IN AN SOUTHERN AFRICA COUNTRY WHERE WORLD VISION OPERATES*

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Ensure that all Regional programme quality initiatives, Sponsorship Operations, programmes and projects implemented by the National Offices meet adequate technical and management standards in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Provide the regional entities and the line management with the appropriate monitoring data on ministry quality issues for management decision making and appropriate management action.

Scope:

• Quality assurance standards for programming includes:
• improvement in the Child Well Being Outcomes (CWBO), CWB reporting, Child Participation and Inclusion.
• Project and Programme Management.
• alignment with the RO/NO strategies and
• approved partnership standards in integrated programming, DME, sponsorship operations, financial management and people management.
• Partnering and collaboration.
• The scope of responsibility for this position includes all National Offices in the region. This person works with the Senior Management Teams in National Offices. This person manages Programme Effectiveness specialists and Sponsorship Operations Advisor and team at the regional level. This person is a senior member of the Integrated Programming Team (IPT) in the region and works closely with the Director of Learning Centres, Senior Project Management Advisor, Greenfields Director and Regional Office of Strategy Management (ROSM). This person has a matrix reporting relationship for technical guidance with relevant Global Centre (GC) entities. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensures that National Office (NO) programming are in alignment with the Regional and National strategies.
• Supports the work of the Programming Effectiveness Specialists, Sponsorship Operations Advisor and technical specialists in preparing plans for adoption of Development Programming Approach (DPA), transition to new sponsorship programming and operations standards and continued introduction/ strengthening of DME including indicators for child well-being in order to operationalize their national strategies.
• Supports the work of Programming Effectiveness specialists, Sponsorship Operations Advisors and technical specialists and ensures that monitoring and reporting mechanisms are setup in National Offices (NO) around accepted Quality Assurance (QA) standards.
• Promote ministry quality and integration of 3 lines of ministry in the region as per Partnership Standards.
• Guide National Offices in matters of Quality Assurance as the Organization transitions towards “One Operation, One Organization” (04).
• Assist in mainstreaming best practices and learning across the region; from Learning Centres and Greenfields.

Monitoring and Reporting:

• Provides the Regional Leader (RL) and SLT with regular monitoring reports on the status of Quality Assurance Standards and Mechanisms in the region.
• Provides Regional Leader (RL) and SLT with regular reporting on the Global National Office Dashboard (GNOD) indicators for programme quality management and programme outcomes and develops appropriate recommendations for follow up.
• Provide annual report on the contribution of World Vision to the well-being of children (Child Well Being Annual Report –CWBAR) to support the development of the regional strategy and decision making process for the approval of national strategy.
• Provide Annual Business Plan and Monthly Reports to the regional leadership.
• Closely works with the technical specialists, the National Directors, the Regional Office of Strategy Management (ROSM), the Project Management Unit, Greenfields and GC-IMS in the development, implementation and monitoring of strategies for Learning Centres in selected National Offices. 

Global Partnerships & External Collaboration:

• Ensures that the regional ministry leaders participate as members of relevant global Communities of Practice (CoP).
• Facilitate the contribution of the region in the development of global ministry standards, policies and guidelines through participation in relevant working groups, partnership processes and feedback mechanisms.
• Support regional and partnership initiatives in relation topics on programming quality.
• Develop / build linkages with other (external) organizations and Support Offices that contribute towards the effective delivery of effective ministry in alignment with programming effectiveness policy. 

Capacity Building:

• Supports the Programming Effectiveness Specialists, Sponsorship Operations Advisors and technical specialists in developing and implementing effectiveness plans for integrated capacity building.

Leadership & Supervision:

• Provide leadership and effective management of the regional technical specialists (Program Effectiveness Specialists, Senior Sponsorship Advisor and any that may be added) as appropriate.
• Develop and manage work plans and budgets. 

General:

• Work closely with the members of the IPT and SLT; promoting mutual learning, support and accountability.
• Contribute and support activities that enrich and develop mutual growth in Christ.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the IP Director, Senior Director of Operations (SDO) or Regional Leader(RL).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• A Master’s Degree in Research Methods/Statistics or Social Science related field.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of Design Monitoring and Evaluation (DME), Program Effectiveness, as well as Quality Assurance.
• Knowledge on child development, protection issues and development programming.
• Knowledge of other various technical sectors of development and how these sectors can be effectively integrated to Quality Assurance.
• Analytical, problem solving, negotiation, cross cultural and strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated competencies in monitoring and evaluation including the accompanying MIS.
• Skills in data analysis using computer programs.
• Ability to and commitment to work with and lead a broad variety of people from various cultural, linguistic, religious and educational backgrounds.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Coaching, Mentoring, Training and Facilitation skills.
• Strong Christian commitment as evidenced by life and character with sensitivity to restricted contexts.
• At least 10 years’ experience in relief and development work, out of which at least three years in senior leadership position at the National or Regional levels.
• Experience monitoring and evaluating child learning gains.
• Work experience in WV National Office at grassroots level.
• Experience in program design and proposal writing.

Preferred:

• A PhD will be an added advantage.

RegionalQualityAssur.pdf

Integrated Health Project Manager

Position Title:	Integrated Health Project Manager	Application Deadline Date:	10 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Bamako,Mali	Position Start Date	15 Oct 2013
Region:	Africa\West Africa	Position End Date:	14 Sep 2015
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Mali	Program/Office Name:	Integrated Health Project
City/Province:	Bamako,Mali	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	15/160	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013AFWJYOE-9ASKT7

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Project Manager will have overall responsibility of an anticipated Unites States Agency for International Development (USAID) Integrated Rural Project to combat maternal and child malnutrition in Mali. This includes overall responsibility for project management, supervision, administration and implementation of the cooperative agreement. S/he will have principal responsibility for representation of the project to the USAID.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Management:

• Direct and oversee World Vision's work in an assigned program of more than US$4 million, ensuring that all program goals are met through proper design, staffing, and implementation.
• Organise and direct the work of local staff and short-term advisors. Provide supervision, training and performance appraisals.
• Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems. Submit timely accurate and professional program reports that meet donor requirements to appropriate World Vision Partnership staff.
• Establish leadership and personal credibility and implement and maintain clearly understood chain of authority and accountability.
• Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV policies, donor requirements (such as A-110, A-122, A-133, 22 CFR 211, etc.) and local laws. Ensure proper technical capacity of staff to manage complex government funded projects.
• Liaise with host government officials; coordinate and collaborate with top-level officials of the Ministry of Public Service and Labour, Ministry of Education, and other agencies related to the program.
• Discuss plans and strategies with different stakeholders to ensure proper understanding of the project’s concepts, including time frame.
• Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions.
• Engage with key project partners (local and international) to ensure ownership, and participation to achieve project objectives.
• Attend and participate in weekly chapel services and daily devotional meetings.

Financial Oversight:

• Manage grant/project budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and WVUS International Programs Group headquarters staff.
• Ensure grant/project expenses are reasonable, allocable, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure clean A-133 audits.
• Oversee property and equipment acquisition, disposition, and management in compliance with WV internal and donor requirements.

Monitoring & Evaluation, Representation, & other

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• Master’s degree in a related field, or a Bachelor’s degree with commensurate experience (10+ years) required.
• Knowledge of implementing nutrition, maternal and child health, and water, sanitation and hygiene projects in politically complex environments.
• Experience in implementation of USAID health projects in developing countries in integrated programming such as nutrition, maternal and child health, water, sanitation and hygiene, small-scale agriculture, and/or livelihoods.
• Fluency in English and French required.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in project management, supervision, administration, and implementation of grant, cooperative agreement and contract requirements (including meeting deadlines, achieving targets, and overseeing the preparation and submission of required reports).
• Experience managing inter-agency consortia essential.
• Proven ability in the management of large integrated programmes in developing countries.
• Familiarity with USG programmes, their history and their development.
• Mastery of USAID regulations governing such programmes.
• Demonstrated accomplishment in working with host-country professionals, ministries, and with donor colleagues in country.
• Ability to integrate teams of professionals around common goals.
• Leadership of large and diverse teams.
• Diplomacy, strong presentation skills, speaking and writing.
• Travel required; must be willing to travel and work for periods of time to field project sites.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of relevant national languages (Bambara and French) .
• MPH.
• Experience working in Muslim context.

IntegratedHealthProj.pdf

Integrated Programs Director - WV Mali

Position Title:	Integrated Programs Director - WV Mali	Application Deadline Date:	09 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Bamako	Position Start Date	01 Oct 2013
Region:	Africa\West Africa	Position End Date:	30 Sep 2015
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Mali	Program/Office Name:	World Vision Mali
City/Province:	Bamako	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	18/172	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Family - Spouse with Children
		Requisition Num:	2013JYOE-98N9J7

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To provide overall strategic leadership in the management, integration and coordination of all operations to ensure that programs and projects are in line with the National Office and Sector Strategies and standards for the achievement of child well-being aspirations.
To lead continuous quality improvement of World Vision Mali Programmes so that we can demonstrate improvement in child well-being and adherence to WV Partnership and humanitarian industry global standards.
Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strategy Development & Planning - Contribute to country, sector, and support service strategy development/planning/ implementation/reporting in order to ensure alignment with key WV ministry principles, standards, and guidelines.
• Program Quality & Accountability - Ensure WV Mali program quality standards and WVI and global standards are understood and applied in design, monitoring, implementation, and reporting on programs so as to attain our quality objectives.
• Program Quality - Provide leadership in the development and implementation DPA in WV Mali Programs.
• Program Management - Ensure quality and timely preparation and submission of divisional strategic plan, annual operations plan and budgets.
• Program Management - Ensure availability of Project/program Information for Project Management Information System (PMIS).
• Program Management – Provide leadership in the development and implementation of HEA programming in WV Mali.
• Stewardship and Accountability - Ensure Stewardship and accountability for organization resources – equipment, materials, finance and human are used for the intended purposes.
• Networking and Coordination – Build and sustain strong relationships with WV Support Offices, government, community, church leaders, NGOs as well as other development partners.
• Performance Management - Provide leadership in performance management to enhance smooth staff relations and accountability.
• Program Integration - Provide leadership support to ensure appropriate coordination and integration of sponsorship and non-sponsorship programs in WV Mali.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• Educational level required: Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or any development field: social sciences, development studies, management, education, agriculture or public health.
• Experience: Thorough understanding of project/ program design, monitoring and evaluation gained through at least 10 years of relevant experience in World Vision or similar organization.
• Knowledge and familiarity with rules and regulations of major donors: USAID, CIDA, DFID, ECHO, EU, AFD, DANIDA, etc.
• Demonstrated excellent stewardship of resources and able to hold others accountable.
• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
• Attend and participate/lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Must be bilingual (English and French).

Preferred:

• Master in development studies with 7 years post qualification experience in WV or similar organization.

IntegratedProgramsDi.pdf

Program Officer, WV Mali

Position Title:	Program Officer, WV Mali	Application Deadline Date:	05 Sep 2013
Position Location:	Bamako, Mali	Position Start Date	15 Oct 2013
Region:	Africa\West Africa	Position End Date:	14 Oct 2014
Requisition Category:	International	Recruitment Priority:	Need Immediately
Country Name:	Mali	Program/Office Name:	World Vision Mali
City/Province:	Bamako, Mali	Employee Type:	Contract
Job Grade Level:	13/152	Recruitment Status:	Advertising in Progress
Is this a family post?	Non-family - Staff only
		Requisition Num:	2013AFWJYOE-9ATHB8

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

To provide technical assistance to the Humanitarian Emergency Affairs (HEA) team in the program design, grant acquisition, implementation, evaluation and reporting for all the projects and programs under WV HEA.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program Development and Grant Acquisition:

• Participate in actual project design, implementation, and evaluation.
• Develop concept papers and prepare proposals to donor and work to ensure the program has adequate funding resources.

When Required Liaise with Donor and Support Offices:

• Prepare monthly, annual and end-of-project narrative reports and newsletter. Support Project Managers to produce professional and high quality management reports for major donors in a timely manner, meeting donor reporting requirements.
• Compile/collate major donor management reports.
• Participate in needs assessments.
• Assist in annual operating plan preparation including: design, needs assessment, proposal writing, marketing, evaluation and reporting.
• Monitor program's progress ensuring goals and objectives are achieved and non-financial grant requirements are adhered to.

Implement Technical and Managerial Evaluations and Audits of all Projects with Project Managers, Government Donors and Support Offices:

• Conduct periodic field visits to insure that programs are implemented according to design.
• Ensure that program implementation is in line with the principles of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, SPHERE standards and relevant WV internal standards and policies.
• Prepare program update to key WV support offices and the regional office.
• Actively participate in UN led cluster coordination meetings, and other relevant coordination meetings.

Financial Management:

• Monitor funding status for each sector of the program to identify possible funding gaps and ensure smooth transitions from one grant to the next.
• Obtain funding for program’s unfunded sections.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Required:

• Educational level: University degree development studies or related field. Masters preferred.
• Technical Training qualifications: Understanding of humanitarian sector. Experience with program proposals and reporting. Experience with bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills and detail orientation.
• Excellent English communication skills (oral and written).
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office and Lotus Notes.
• Good understanding of World Vision and Sphere relief standards.
• Knowledge of and adherence to the Red Cross and NGO Code of Conduct.
• Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity and physical stamina.
• Ability to work in and contribute to team building environment.
• Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Flexibility.
• Commitment to World Vision Core Values and Mission Statement.
• Ability to exhibit exemplary lifestyle as interpreted in specific local cultural context.
• Agreement with World Vision’s Christian ethos and participation in devotions.
• Experience: 2 years experience in the humanitarian sector.

Preferred:

• Good command of French.

ProgramOfficer,WVMal.pdf

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