With 75 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
Major Responsibilities
1. Effective and Innovative Leadership in Disaster management (DM)
- Ensure the National Office (NO) strategy demonstrates action to address common risks and hazards prevalent in country.
- Ensure the NO Technical Programmes integrates aspects of DM, especially Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), appropriate for its context.
- During emergencies, set up contingency plan, develop and monitor implementation of Response strategy/plan that addresses WV strategic goals to meet humanitarian needs.
- Ensure deployment of effective resources for emergencies.
- Assuring standards of excellence in the management of human, financial, capital, and technical resources of the Portfolio.
- Ensure World Vision implements principled humanitarian action that adheres to internal and international humanitarian standards.
- Ensure Clusters or long-term programs in high-risk contexts systematically mainstream DRR including clearly articulated Child Focused DRR components
- influencing key internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead the Documentation and sharing of best practices in disaster management across the organization to enhance learning.
- Setup CBP project team and ensure each staff contributes to the project outcomes according to the plan.
2. Preparedness & Early Actions
- Ensure timely information, early warning data is gathered, analyzed and reported to the NO Senior Leadership and shared with the Regional office on a monthly basis at a minimum.
- As needed and required, Disaster Preparedness Plans (DPPs) are developed, implemented and managed.
- Ensure Early Warning information is utilized to adjust interventions and activities to ensure child wellbeing in changing contexts.
- Investigate and propose to senior management the best cash delivery agent/s for Food Assistance.
- Ensure the National Office has a designated NEPRF and a clear NEPRF policy.
- Be actively involved and/or ensure National Office involvement in major consortiums/Working Groups/ groups directly involved with humanitarian response as needed and as appropriate.
- Work with Resource Development Unit to ensure adequate funding to address humanitarian needs is acquired.
- Preposition relevant vendors through sensitization and signing of MOUs for timely adequate supplies for any response.
3. Capacity Building
- Ensure the proper functional capacity of National Disaster Management Team (NDMTs) including identification, reporting, training, growth and the deployment of NDMTs (as per the EMS Structure)
- Ensure the NO conducts Annual DM capacity assessment and performance reviews.
- Work together with M&E Team to identify areas for research to deepen the learning around Cash Based Programming (CBP).
- Ensure members of the NDMT Complete all security courses relating to their sector on e-campus.
4. Operation plan for all food assistance project is in place & guides implementation
- Prepare and present comprehensive operating plan for the Food Assistance Program.
- Setup CBP project team and ensure each staff contributes to the project outcomes according to the plan.
- Together with M&E unit setup monitoring indicators and ensure M&E unit are delivering monitoring reports on regular basis.
- Setup / revise project budget and monitor its implementation. Ensure all expenditures according to WV financial policies and manual.
- Monitor donor’s incoming commitment to ensure funds availability for monthly operation.
- Ensure project is running according to the agreed timeframe and Detailed Implementation Plan.
- Monitor the transfer-value to ensure its efficacy / relevancy to the current retail price. If transfer-value no longer relevant, revise the transfer-value by engaging relevant stakeholders and revise project budget accordingly.
- Coordinate and communicate with internal stakeholder to promote integration and smooth project transition.
- Coordinate with external stakeholders including, but not limited to, academia, NGOs, Government, Private Sector, USAID and WFP in order to advance the learning goal of the project.
- Maintain all documentation relating directly to Cash Transfer activities appropriately filed.
5. Reporting
- Develop sector reports (MMR, Semi-Annual, Annual Reports) and CWB Annual Report
- Prepare monthly reports and coordinate monthly reflection meetings internally with unit members and externally with the relevant sectors
- Ensure reports are sent according to the agreed schedule to donor, Support Offices, FPMG and other relevant entities.
- Manage ad-hoc issues arise from day-to-day project implementation
- Keep management and EARO HEA team informed of the emergency operations under way and accomplished by all WV Programs in the country.
Qualifications,Technical Skills and Experience
- Minimum 7 years of professional experience in humanitarian assistance programs/projects in emergency situations, refugee resettlement, returnee reintegration, cash transfers, livelihoods, and empowerment of vulnerable groups.
- Practical experience in coordinating/managing refugee camps.
- Proven experience in managing projects funded by multilateral donors, including UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF, ECHO, the Start Fund, or other similar humanitarian donors.
- Ability to mobilize and manage multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and a strong collaborative approach.
Other Competencies/Attributes:
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
- Good theoretical and working knowledge of Cash-Based Programming
- Good working knowledge of WFP, USAID, EU, CIDA and other food resource donor guidelines.
- Extensive understanding of Social Safety Nets, Livelihoods and associated methodologies (e.g. Logical framework approach, results-based management, most significant change etc...)
- An understanding of labor-based interventions (FFA/FFW)
- Understanding of basic economics i.e. elasticity of demand and supply and substitution effects
- Ability to articulate the disincentive hypothesis as it relates to food aid and the possible interactions between food and markets (labor and commodity)
- A clear appreciation of coping mechanism and strategies
- Analytical and systematic in approach, yet able to think and act strategically
- Experience in Project Management
- Proven skills in process and group facilitation, training and capacity building
- Ability to train and mentor
- Proven Ability to influence, network and collaborate with national level government, NGO and UN Agency child protection peers.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Language requirements: French, English and Swahili
- Committed to WV values and able to demonstrate them.
- Self- motivated and able to work under pressure
- Strong relationship building/network capacity, excellent communication skills, spiritual maturity in Christian faith, ability to influence, innovative, and proactive personality
Working Environment / Conditions:
- Field: 20%
- Office and external engagement: 80%
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
