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Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Job title: Sponsorship and Community Coordinator for Uvs Area Program

Location: based in Uvs province

Contract type: fixed

35%

Ensure program quality through effective planning, implementation, and monitoring with communities and partners

Lead local planning process ensuring Critical  Paths of  WV’s development program approach (DPA)Ensure primary focus area plans in the creation of annual area program plans within the stipulated time and ensure proper budget utilization and spending in accordance with WV policies, standards and procedures.Regular update MVC mapping and have a clear focus of target MVC markers: is tracking improvement in MVC well-being, reflecting, and adapting based on that tracking and is increasing its MVC targets achieving for both RC and non RC Regularly visit registered children’s families and continuously monitor the most vulnerable households.Conduct Program Quality self-review with the stakeholders, community, and within the Area Program team and ensure learning is addressed during the next planning and implementation and how our program and project contribute to the child well-being.Monitor and report on sustainability indicators: there is ongoing staff reflection/equipping on community engagement and project mode scale up within AP areas and at national level and leads to changes and program plans. 

Engaging and visioning with communities

Ensure effective communication about World Vision (WV)’s identity, mission, vision, values, and our approach to development. This includes child sponsorship as integrated within the broader community engagement processDevelop and maintain a strong understanding of the local context, including government perspectives and plans, ensuring all voices are heard, especially those of children and youth, including the most vulnerable  Facilitate effective working relationships between local stakeholder groups and between local partners and others outside the area and identify key priorities for child well-being

Capacity building of partners and community

Build close relationships and actively learn within partner communities, through home visits, immersion in communities and with host families, attending community social events, etc.Train and coach partner local groups on appropriate skills and self-assessment methods to build their capacity for the management of local initiatives.Facilitate formation and ongoing capacity building of new and existing partners for holistic sustainable development 

Resource acquisition and knowledge management

Collaborate/support with GAM, PRQD and NRD to share local needs/project ideas towards the wellbeing of most vulnerable children within the target and non-target areas.Support local sponsorship fundraising initiatives such as M2M, corporate engagement, and one-time event at both local and national level.

15%

Sponsorship in Programming:

Sponsorship Integration: Provide Sponsorship in Programming subject matter expertise and technical support to ensure Child Sponsorship is integrated within AP Annual Plans and TP and CESP activities. Ensure Sponsorship Risk Management is reviewed and applied. Review the quality of Sponsorship in Programming annually using the SiP Reflection tool. Ensure community, families, and children’s understanding of child sponsorship for transformation.RC and MVC inclusion and participation: Ensure all RC are aware of major planned activities in the AP that they could participate in and benefit from.   Ensure all RC are included (participating and benefitting) in age-appropriate program activities (TP / CESP), as per Standards, contributing to their overall development. Ensure inclusion of MVC in sponsorship whenever appropriate. Ensure child participation data is captured, updated in SSUI, and analysed to inform AP Manager and team of the status of RC as a proxy.Community engagement: Participate in sponsorship education processes and provide technical input on sponsorship messaging and sponsorship aspects of community engagement, and ongoing community sponsorship education and messaging processes. Actively engage RC parents and community on new sponsorship initiatives to strengthen the participation of parents and communities in sponsorship activities.Manage Child Sponsorship to contribute to Community-led Care & Protection: Work with the AP team to ensure Child Sponsorship contribution to the local care and child protection efforts. Establish child selection and monitoring through local Child Well-Being Committee linked to child protection. This includes -Child selection: the development of child community selection criteria into sponsorship programme, community participation in selection processes and mandated documentation is complete.CMS: Support child monitoring processes to ensure children are monitored according to Child Monitoring Standards.Case management and follow-up: Ensure SSUI Child-Wellbeing data (Case Management) is regularly reviewed and updated. Ensure reporting and follow-up adherence to child death, sickness and accident/protection protocols.Program links: Provide analysis and interpretation of CMS, Child-Wellbeing and child participation data with the AP team for appropriate case management follow-through and action.

10%

Sponsorship Management and Coordination:

Child Sponsorship essentials: Manage Child Sponsorship as a transformative relationship between children and sponsors, fulfilling donor promise. Ensure participation of registered children, ensuring Child Sponsorship contributes to child well-being through two essentials of Community-Led Care & Protection and Children’s Participation and Voice within the community.Child, family, and community’s experience of Sponsorship: Manage the operations of Child Sponsorship within the Area Programme to ensure that community, family, and children’s experience of every aspect of sponsorship is enjoyable and transformative and that children’s views are actively considered through feedback processes. Ensure every sponsorship activity with children contributes directly to the child’s life alongside any organizational output that is gathered. Utilize sponsorship to build child leadership, skills, and voice.Sponsorship operations implementation: Provide specialized support for implementating of Sponsorship Operations within the Area Programme. Ensure Child Sponsorship processes are managed efficiently and with quality according to global and national standards. Facilitate efficient and timely implementation of planned activities within time, scope and budget. Review Sponsorship Standards to ensure they are consistently met and achieved. Identify issues and concerns on sponsorship service operations to ensure effective functioning of Sponsorship Operations within the AP.Integration and planning: Support the AP Manager to ensure Sponsorship is included within AP plans to maximize integration with program activities and to support the development of Community-Led Care & Protection and Children’s Participation and Voice within the community.Sponsorship reporting: Facilitate Child Sponsorship reporting to ensure the well-being of Registered Children and manage quality of Child Sponsorship, such as periodical CMS and SOI Exception reports (SSUI) for review, analysis, tracking and follow-up at AP level (analyse, reconcile AP Performance status, identify emerging issues and engage stakeholders).RC Portfolio: Engage AP Manager to manage sponsorship key business process of RC Management to ensure RC supply for Support Offices is always within standard and meets budget, including creating new child records and reactivating holds.

10%

Sponsor and Child Engagement:

Nurture sponsor and child connections: Facilitate quality and timely communication between sponsors and Registered Children.Manage sponsorship activities to contribute to Child Participation, Life Skills and Voice: Ensure sponsor engagement feature opportunities (IL, SL, CR, CGV, CPA, CC, APR, DPR, etc.) contribute to developing life skills and promoting child participation and voice. Support implementation of sponsor communication through program activities as per activity designs.Efficient management & delivery of sponsor engagement features: Facilitate practices and appropriate tools to ensure management of sponsor child communications (IL, SL, GN, EL, APR, CEW, CC, Queries, FL, BB, Sponsorship 2.0 content and sponsor queries), within sponsorship standards.Quality review: A quality review of Sponsorship 2.0 products and translations.Facilitate translation: Facilitate translation of correspondence to ensure accuracy and emotional nuance is communicated to children and sponsors.Production and delivery of materials: Support design coordination, development of communication materials, quality assurance and administration.Sponsor visits: Plan and facilitate sponsor visits, and ensure the visiting sponsors are well attended to and get broad exposure and positive impression from visit, with adherence of required protocolsCapture transformational stories: Ensure Quality Communication that captures Transformational Stories to communicate with sponsors. Support the capture, documenting and share of lessons, good practices, innovations, impact stories, photos and videos for other stakeholders.

10%

Quality Assurance and Risk Management:

Child protection standards: Facilitate to ensure sponsorship data management, quality and practices are aligned to sponsorship and child protection policies, standards and procedures. Maintain updated child information in the system and ensure data protection per WV Guidelines.Awareness: Facilitate awareness of community, sponsors, registered children, and AP staff on sponsorship protocols and standards. 

Risk management: Support in identifying and mitigating all risk exposures at the AP level and Sponsorship Risk Assessment Programme as part of the RBIA and other accountability review processes to manage implementation.

10%

Sponsorship Systems and Processes:

Manage business processes: Manage Sponsorship Business Processes to achieve efficient outcomes. Regularly review or contextualise any business process with emerging problems in meeting standards.Child data record management: Coordinate child data record management (quality, entry in SSUI, monitoring, tracking, exception reporting, follow-up) by partnership standards.Systems maintained, updated and function: Collaborate with WVIT and NO IT in maintenaning and updating of sponsorship systems to ensure SSUI, child data, sponsorship systems and Horizon mobiles are maintained and regularly updated as per WVIT protocols and properly functioning at the field level. Ensure the functioning of all Sponsorship Business Systems (data flow between AP, NO and SOs,and vice versa - reconciliation of data discrepancies)Storage, filing and security meet policy requirements: Ensure storage and safe-keeping of child data, sponsor addresses, sponsorship documents, files, systems and are aligned to child protection policies, standards and procedures. Maintain security of Sponsorship data, system resources and sponsor addresses.

5%

Capacity Building, Team Management and Collaboration:

Annual reflection: Facilitate annual reflection and assessments on community sponsorship understanding, child participation and voice and community led child protection. Maximise child participation and voice in annual reflections and other opportunities that arise, such as evaluations or community processes.Sponsorship capacity building: Facilitate capacity building trainings on sponsorship standards, emerging practices in child participation, child engagement, SOI, CS, correspondence, rich media, business processes, manuals, policies and sponsorship initiatives to staff, children, community volunteers and partners - follow up its implementation and application. Enable team of staff and volunteer to establish a strong relationship with and mechanism to support children and families for active participation and engagement in programme and sponsorship.  Capacity Gaps: Identify capacity gaps at the Area Program level, volunteers and community and use the most appropriate training approach to address.IT training: Provide capacity building to CCs on SSUI Mobile, Horizon Desktop and Rich Media. Provide orientation to community volunteers on relevant Horizon features and practical training and testing of their performance.Equip community volunteers, CWB committees: To inspire, equip and manage community volunteers and CWB committees as active agents of change for children with the required skills to meet Child Sponsorship requirements and to be emotionally available for children to contribute positively to their lives. Ensure appropriate training for emerging child and adolescent leaders.

  5%

Other

Any other activities in the related field as assigned by the AP Manager and Operations DirectorContribute to the common goal and aspirations of the WVI Mongolia, be an active member of the teamAttends devotions and weekly chapel services and supports the spiritual development of his/her team.Self-development (Physically, Emotionally, Spiritually and Professionally)Contribute to ongoing reflection & learning within the team to improve program performance

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only