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 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 in regard to Juba Yambio
Food Assistance project.
- Monitor and supervise the implementation of project interventions.
- Ensure implementation is within the design timelines and are aligned to WVI DMT, and donor guidelines
Budget Management:
- Manage all food resources and commodities budgets in 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:
- 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 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 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 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
Qualifications/Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
Minimum Qualification required:
- 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 2 years’ experience implementing food assistance programs with at least 1 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
- Knowledge of the Sphere standards, Code of Conduct for Red Cross/ Red crescent, Humanitarian Accountability Partnerships (HAP) and other international humanitarian standards.
- Excellent computer skills, familiarity with MS Word, Lotus Notes, MS Excel and Power Point would be an added advantage.
- Field-based international NGO work experience in Food Assistance program leadership, with a minimum of 5 years total development and emergency experience in food logistics (warehousing, transportation, distributions) in a fragile or challenging and complex context with responsibility of overseeing comprehensive food security programs at a senior level.
- 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
- Demonstrates Christ-centered life and work
- Fluency in English language and the local languages spoken is an added advantage.
- Understands and is committed to WV’s vision, mission and core values
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only