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 33,000+ 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:
Project leadership and management
Provide supervision and technical support to staff in the management of all food resources, ensuring that the reception, handling, storage, and documentation of food commodity movements are aligned with WFP and WVI DMT standards and guidelines.
Ensure an effective reporting system to produce timely and accurate commodities reports to WFP, WVSS Office, DMT, and other key stakeholders like the United Nations and Government counterparts.
Provider oversight, leadership, and management of project staff and partners regarding the Juba Yambio Food Assistance project.
Monitor and supervise the implementation of project interventions.
Ensure implementation is within the design timelines and is aligned to WVI DMT, and donor guidelines
Budget Management:
Manage all food resources and commodities budgets in conjunction with the Food Assistance Technical Lead, Zonal Programme Manager, and Finance Manager, and ensure spending and expenditures are within budget and adhere to donor requirements.
Risk and security management: Actively combat fraud and corruption within the wider program, ensuring projects are ready for Risk-Based Audits.
Conduct regular periodic financial performance reviews and advise leadership of any issues needing close attention
Staff Supervision, Management, and Capacity Building:
Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV policies, donor requirements, and local laws, and ensure proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives.
Conduct quarterly reviews of staff performance in line with WVs performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback.
Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management:
Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including a monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems.
Conduct routine visits to all project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support.
Ensure Commodity Tracking System (CTS) support to the food assistance commodity reporting team, including follow.
Donor and Stakeholder Engagement:
Participate in inter-agency coordination meetings, assessments, task force teams, and workshops/conferences, representing WV in engagement opportunities to local government officials, UN/NGO agencies, and the community in a positive and professional manner.
Monitoring, documentation, and reporting
Provide day-to-day leadership to project teams in planning, implementing, and reporting of project activities as per approved DIP, budgets, and other tools
Continuously review implementation progress, work with the team to develop and track catch-up plans, and ensure follow-through.
Guide and provide technical support to project officers and partners
Compile field visit and data validation reports and identify opportunities for improvement and present monthly, quarterly, bi-annual and annual reports in line with WV & donor standards
Support effective monitoring, documentation and reporting in compliance with agreed standards
Ensure full participation of beneficiary communities, with particular regard for those marginalized due to gender and disability, in design, monitoring and evaluation by attending community mobilizations, meetings and community trainings. Pay close attention to PSEA/safeguarding standards and ensure appropriate feedback mechanisms and reporting channels are robust and functioning
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE:
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, social sciences, management, business administration, international development or a related field including grant management.
Additional trainings in project management, monitoring and evaluations, cash and voucher programming among others.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience implementing food assistance programs with at least 3 years at project management level. community health programs. Knowledge of WV Food Assistance systems will be an added advantage.
Excellent and practical experience designing and implementing all food and cash modalities – GFD, nutrition (TSFP/BSFP), FFE, FFA, and Cash and voucher
Experience working in fragile, and difficult contexts with very limited amenities will be an added advantage
Experience leading teams and working with partners is very vital for this role
Excellent skills required in program assessments and design, reporting, documentation, monitoring and evaluation
Must have strong organizational skills and ability to work with diverse teams across the organization
Must be a creative individual with strong sense of vision, commitment and priorities
A mature and committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities
Excellent communication skills (written and oral) and with strong leadership and interpersonal skills
· Sound knowledge of humanitarian international standards, policies and procedures including the Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, HAP-I Standard, ECB Good Enough Guide, Sphere Standard (Humanitarian Charter and Participation Standard), donor requirements and WV Humanitarian Accountability Framework.
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Ability to maintain performance expectations in diverse cultural contexts, psychologically stressful environments, and physical hardship conditions with limited resources.
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Ability to work in high tension and high security risk situations and be able to adapt to rapidly changing contexts.
· Strong English communication skills (both oral and written).
Positive collaboration and facilitation skills including the ability to train and supervise a multi-cultural team.
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Proven ability to manage complex partnership relationships including effective coordination with host country government.
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Good cross-cultural communication skills.
· Willingness to spend at least 30% of the time in the field visiting projects sometimes under difficult living conditions.
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Effective in written and verbal communication in English.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only