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:

Key Outputs/Responsibilities (Accountabilities and results)

Team Leadership

· Facilitate a working environment of mutual trust, respect, and care among all staff. Encourage effective teamwork, with staff members supporting each other

Conduct monthly staff meetings to ensure issues are raised and addressed and to encourage reflection on Programme progress and learning for improvement

 · Ensure P+C documentation is completed to a high standard including PRFs, PAFs, Annual Performance Plans, Mid-Year Performance Reviews, Annual Performance Reviews, and Learning and Development plans.

· Take responsible for building the capacity of programme staff, enhancing their commitment, character, competence, and critical thinking; work with direct reports to develop and implement personal capacity building plans, identifying specific capacity gaps and appropriate development opportunities; provide coaching to direct reports to enhance their capacity.

Local Relationships and Local Level Advocacy

· Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders at the district level, including government, other NGOs and churches.

· Act as the primary focal point for government relations in the District, with the District Administrator and other key government agencies. Maintain strong and open relationships with government entities to ensure their support for WV’s projects.

· Develop a good understanding of district development plans to ensure that WV’s plans are aligned with, and complementing, government plans.

· Communicate WV’s approaches to government and other stakeholders such that they can become a partner with WV rather than viewing WV as a donor.

· Prepare and submit key information and reports to government to ensure they are kept up to date with WV’s project works.

· Build alliances with other organisations who have a focus on the well-being of children, which can then work together with WV to increase impact. Ensure these retain a focus on the most vulnerable children.

· Develop advocacy partnerships with other like minded organisations, seeking to influence policy development and application in the best interests of children

Programme DME and Planning

· Ensure that necessary DME processes are completed on time and to a high quality

· Lead in the writing of District design documents, delegating relevant sections to appropriate staff, and ensuring that these are in line with LEAP standards and requirements

· Ensure that project approaches find a balance between community needs and capacity, national strategy, and global models of good practice.

· Lead the overall development of annual plans and budgets, based on Programme design and NO strategy

· Ensure that disaster management and advocacy approaches are effectively built in to all project and programme designs.

· Ensure key cross-cutting themes such as gender, faith and vulnerability are integrated into project designs

· Ensure monitoring reports are prepared and are used as a basis for revising and improving on project implementation.

· Facilitate the conducting of baselines and evaluations, which will be led by the DME team.

Sponsorship Management and Child Protection

 · Ensure compliance with sponsorship standards and integration of child sponsorship with development programming in accordance with sponsorship and programming guidelines. This will include achieving targets in SOIs, RC Monitoring, GNs and new sponsorship initiatives.

 · Ensure government and local communities understand WV’s approach to sponsorship.

· Ensure that staff understand and follow the WV Child Protection Policy

· Ensure that efforts are taken to respond promptly and appropriately to child protection incidents (for both sponsored children and non-sponsored children), and that awareness raising for prevention and reporting of child protection incidents occurs within the ADP area.

Financial Management

· Ensure that annual budgets are prepared and submitted on time

· Monitor funding commitments and spending against budget, ensuring that good stewardship of financial resources is being practiced and that spending is on target with project plans.

· Review monthly financial reports and prepare monthly variance explanations to ensure variances from targets are understood.

· Lead the preparation of mid-year budget revisions to adjust for learnings in the first half of the year.

· Ensure that WV financial policies are always followed, and that management action is taken when staff do not follow policies.

· Prepare management responses to audits and take follow up action to ensure.

Reporting

· Prepare and submit regular reports to the District, Province and National Office, compiling reports from other departments of the District team. Specifically, these include Monthly Management Report, 6-monthly Programme Report, Annual Programme Report.

 · Prepare and submit reports to local government as requested or as needed by government offices.

 · Ensure that there is a good flow of information between District, Province and National Office such that issues are identified and reported on before they become difficult to manage.

· Monitor local context and report on how changes in context may affect programme activities. This includes changes in the security environment.

· Provide coaching and feedback to staff to improve the quality of reports that are prepared.

Support Office Relationships

· Build effective relationships with Support Offices. Respond to queries and requests for information and stories in a timely manner. Ensure a good flow of information between District projects and Support Offices such that they continue to see WV Mozambique as an effective partner.

· Host visits from Support Office staff and Sponsors; ensure they have a good understanding of WV’s work in the ADP, the challenges and the successes.

General

· Communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

· While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the duties involved in this position, World Vision reserves the right to add, remove or alter duties when necessary

· Attend and lead weekly devotions.

Person Specification Education and Knowledge

 · Bachelor’s Degree in relevant subject (Development, Management, Social Sciences)

· Conceptual understanding of, and commitment to, development work among the poor

· Thorough working knowledge of programme/project cycle management

· Basic knowledge of aspects of development work including health, education, food security, child protection, disaster management and advocacy.

Experience

· Minimum of 5 years in managerial and/or leadership positions.

· Experience of Project/Programme Management throughout the whole project cycle. Skills/Abilities · Excellent written and oral communication skills in both English and Portuguese

· Strong planning, budgeting and organisational skills

· Strong knowledge of financial management and accounting principles

· Ability to facilitate development processes, bringing in diverse organisations and building plans to work towards a common goal

· Ability to build and lead a team with diverse roles

· Strong computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and Excel, or other similar software

 Work Environment

· Based in the District Office, with travel to the communities up to 50% of the time

· Travel to Provincial Office once a quarter.

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