World Vision International NGO Regional Sponsorship Transformation and Child Protection Lead Jobs in Malawi
The purpose of the Sponsorship Transformation and Child Protection Regional Lead role is to provide strategic leadership in Sponsorship Transformation and quality Child Protection. This role will provide leadership in child sponsorship and enhancing child sponsorship operations, which include increasing effectiveness, simplicity, and relevance of child sponsorship operations.
This role will lead initiatives that transform sponsorship for the next generation and working with Field Offices to develop evidence-based practices that leverage sponsorship as a developmental asset enabling the sustained well-being of children.
This role can work from any location within SAR where World Vision is registered.
Major Responsibilities
Transformative Sponsorship
Provide leadership that transforms sponsorship and enhances sponsorship operations through;
Strategic leadership and integration of sponsorship: Ensure integration of sponsorship in relevant NO strategies, Technical Programmes (TPs) and National Community Engagement & Sponsorship Plans (CESP) according to their context and priorities.
Risk Management and mitigation: Provide technical leadership for developing and monitoring on-going risk management processes assuring accountability, transparency and integrity to children, programme communities and sponsors. Functional Sponsorship risk management and mitigation plan executed.
Sponsorship Ministry Capacity Building: Provide guidance to field offices (FOs) to implement the Sponsorship capacity building framework and plans; and other Global capacity building initiatives, developed because of capacity needs assessment.
RC portfolio management: Provide support and manage risks related to SO funding transitions, while ensuring regional Sponsorship funding picture is clear for leadership’s informed decision making.
Field Office strategies articulate Child Sponsorship sufficiently and sponsorship is well integrated and contributing to delivery of CWB outcomes as well as impact reporting.
Leadership and supervision to the Regional Sponsorship Quality Assurance Specialist
Work with Regional Sponsorship Quality Assurance Specialist to ensure: Sponsorship 3.0:
Monitoring and Evaluation: Provide guidance in monitoring, reporting, evaluation and learning of transformative sponsorship.
Innovation and Learning: Generate regional level periodic reports on sponsorship and RC well-being and engage Field offices and regional leadership accordingly. Facilitate and/or participate in learning events. Document lessons learned and generated stories of impact.
Evidence-Based Practices: Lead the sponsorship related learning and best practices generation, establishing systems and processes for sponsorship knowledge management and sharing across the Region.
Knowledge Management: Establish a regular cycle of documenting Child Protection and Sponsorship Transformation project success and impact to improve programme implementation, re-design, strategy revision, policy advocacy, and external publications.
Child Protection
Grow the scope and quality of child protection efforts in all WV SAR operation areas.
Child Protection technical programming: Provide technical guidance in child protection ensuring quality design and implementation of the WVI child protection core project models and supporting approaches in all WV programming contexts in alignment with strategy.
Influence decision makers and technical specialists across the region, for continuous Child Protection Programme Quality and quality improvement using programme data.
Child Protection Minimum Requirements (CPMR): Provide guidance and leadership in ensuring all programs with Child Sponsorship programs implement the CPMR ensuring Registered Children are included in the CMPR interventions.
Contribution to resource acquisition and retention: contribute to the regional resource development efforts and retention of new and existing sponsors and programmatic impact, with the focus on child protection sensitive programming.
Support Safeguarding strengthening efforts on child protection incidences: Support the regional Safeguarding Lead by ensuring all Safeguarding policies and guidelines are followed and continued awareness on existing reporting mechanisms with FO teams.
Support field offices leverage the Integrated Child protection minimum requirements and strengthen child protection programming across the contexts.
Ensure that field offices are equipped to successfully implement Child protection core project models and supporting approaches and fully leverage sponsorship and child protection integration opportunities.
Ensure that Child Protection standards are ensured and followed.
Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, learning, Research, and Impact
Work with the Program Quality and Impact team to generate evidence and data for external engagement, influence, and resourcing.
Well defined, structured, and usable repository of data for external engagement.
External engagement and cross function Networking
Represents the Region in relevant partnership forum, networks and working groups.
Position WV as an organisation of excellence in Child Protection including representation of WV at key regional CP&P forums, to advance the protection of vulnerable boys and girls.
Foster on-going engagement between Sponsorship, technical units, and Global Child Protection units to share and respond to critical issues that affect sponsorship performance, and child protection.
Enhanced positioning of regional office with donors and external partners on child protection for improved policy influence, grant acquisition and programmatic impact.
CP and child participation best practices are used in regional policy advocacy; WV regional office produces quality external facing publications and reports.
Increased engagement and integration between sponsorship and technical units.
Improved collaboration and networking for quality sponsorship performance.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Master’s degree in Child Protection, Social Work, Operations Management, Business/ Public administration, international development, Child Development or related field.
The incumbent will bring to this role a combination of Child Sponsorship and Child Protection, Program Quality, and Impact reporting experience.
5+ years working on holistic, development, 5 years’ experience in project management of WV or similar NGO Operations/ child sponsorship and child protection.
5 years’ experience in detailed business and data analysis.
Broad and deep experience in Child Sponsorship, DME, Field Operations, Child Protection, Communications, and cross-functional senior management experiences within WV.
Strong understanding of global strategies and frameworks to end violence against children. Knowledge on legal international conventions related to child protection. Good technical/ impact report writing skills.
Strong inter-personal communication and collaboration skills Strong negotiation, networking, liaison, and donor engagement skills Comfort and confidence working in a diverse and inclusive team environment.
Compassion and commitment to ending violence against the world’s most vulnerable children. Demonstrated proficiency using Excel, Microsoft Suite of products, databases, and statistical packages. Consistently demonstrates high-level influence and strategic engagement skills and tactical savvy in delivery of technical assistance.
Ability to think broadly and look at the macro, strategic issues to inform strategy choices and management process.
Practical field experience Child Sponsorship and Child Protection License, registration, or certification required to perform this position
Demonstrated ability to report, present, communicate and influence, written and verbal in modern standard, grammatically correct English.
Language Requirements
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
Fluency in written and spoken French or Portuguese desired.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; World Vision International NGO Regional Sponsorship Transformation and Child Protection Lead Jobs in Malawi
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