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!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Ensure leadership and programme planning is informed by technical standards and operational viability:
- Provide strategic leadership to ensure programmes are aligned with humanitarian principles, organizational standards, and the evolving conflict/protracted context.
- Lead programme design and planning processes, ensuring interventions are technically sound, evidence-based, and operationally feasible.
- Coordinate with technical specialists to integrate sectoral standards, cross-cutting themes, and protection mainstreaming into programme plans.
- Ensure programme priorities are informed by needs assessments, context analysis, and community feedback mechanisms.
Operational planning, implementation and monitoring ensuring effective coordination and timely delivery of project activities:
- Ensure effective coordination among programme, finance, logistics, procurement, security, and support functions to facilitate timely delivery.
- Coordinate with government authorities, UN agencies, clusters, local partners, and other stakeholders to enhance complementarity and avoid duplication.
- Ensure efficient allocation and utilization of human, financial, and material resources in line with approved work plans and budgets.
- Ensure adequate monitoring, reporting and acquittal/closeout of emergency response projects in accordance with the established protocols.
- Oversee programme implementation to ensure activities are delivered on time, within budget, and in accordance with approved plans.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators to track progress, identify challenges, and support timely decision-making.
- Conduct regular field visits to verify programme quality, operational effectiveness, and accountability to affected populations.
- Ensure accountability mechanisms are in place for community and stakeholder feedback as per the protocols (fraud, corruption, etc).
External Engagement, Representation and Coordination
- Represent World Vision in relevant humanitarian, recovery and development coordination mechanisms at provincial and district levels in Cabo Delgado.
- Ensure active participation and technical contributions to the Food Security & Livelihoods, Protection and other relevant clusters, technical working groups and coordination forums.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with government institutions, including INGD, relevant ministries, provincial and district authorities, UN agencies, donors, NGOs, private sector actors and other key stakeholders.
- Position World Vision as a credible and valued partner by ensuring its visibility and active engagement in strategic coordination, stakeholder and donor meetings.
- Identify and leverage opportunities for collaboration, joint initiatives, advocacy and resource mobilization through engagement with external stakeholders.
Operations meet WV minimum quality standards and support improvement, reflection, learning and innovation
- Ensure programmes consistently meet World Vision's minimum quality standards, technical guidelines, and accountability commitments.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning through regular reflection sessions, after-action reviews, and lessons learned processes.
- Promote the use of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) data to improve programme quality and effectiveness.
Education:
- Master's degree in Humanitarian Assistance, International Development, Project Management, Sociology or Social Sciences, Public Administration, or a related field. A Bachelor Honor’s Degree with significant relevant experience may be considered.
- Formal training in humanitarian response, emergency management, conflict-sensitive programming, or humanitarian coordination is an added advantage.
- Certification in Project Management or humanitarian standards (e.g. Sphere, Core Humanitarian Standard) is desirable.
- Working knowledge of humanitarian codes, standards, principles, and mainstreaming of leading cross-cutting themes including accountability to affected populations and conflict-sensitive programming.
Experience:
- Experience in program management and implementation of multi-sectoral emergency response projects including project planning, project design, project management and reporting to major donors.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian and development programming, including at least 3 years in a senior programme management role in Cabo Delgado.
- Demonstrated experience managing multi-sector humanitarian programmes in conflict-affected, fragile, or insecure environments.
- Experience working in a cross-cultural environment, war zones/fragile contexts and engaging with governmental institutions and multilateral agencies
- Proven experience managing donor-funded projects, including grants from institutional donors such as ECHO, USAID/BHA, FCDO, UN agencies, or similar in Cabo Delgado.
Skills/Abilities:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese and English and excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated success in resource mobilization, donor engagement, proposal development, and identifying funding opportunities.
- Strong representation and coordination skills, with experience engaging government authorities, UN agencies, humanitarian clusters, NGOs, faith-based organizations, and community leaders.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with demonstrated ability to motivate, lead, and develop diverse teams operating in challenging environments.
- Sound understanding of safeguarding, child protection, gender equality, inclusion, and protection principles in humanitarian programming.
- Experience working in the CD context is a strong advantage and willingness and ability to travel often to remote and insecure locations, in accordance with organizational security protocols.
- A mature Christian, able to model WV Christian ethos as well as WV Mozambique’s leadership behaviors and guiding principles.
Work Environment
- Based in Pemba, Cabo Delgado with travel to the communities up to 60% of the time.
- Operates in a complex humanitarian and development context across Cabo Delgado, including areas affected by conflict and displacement.
- Collaborates closely with government authorities, community leaders, donors, UN agencies, and NGO partners.
- Works in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that demands strong leadership, adaptability, sound security awareness, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
