Career Opportunities at World Vision

Duties for the Community Mobilizer Job

Project Implementation

• Liaise with the AACs to rescue girls subjected to FGM, early marriages and other forms of abuse.
• Facilitate teachers to roll out life skills development and enforcement of life skills curriculum in schools.
• Facilitate community dialogues for the total abandonment of FGM and other harmful cultural practices
• Ensure integration of girl child education and accelerating abandonment of FGM grant interventions
• Support to coordinate linkages and systematic referrals between decentralized systems and services(counties) and the beneficiaries(children at risk of harmful practices among other vulnerable categories)
• Facilitate Empowerment of girls, and women in the focus counties by building their capacity to raise their voices to oppose harmful practices, and ultimately contribute to breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and discrimination.
• Facilitate social support towards total abandonment of FGM and other harmful cultural practices by engaging influential voices, organizing collective discussions and dialogues to educate communities on human rights and health issues
• Facilitate cohesive and sustained information flow on harmful cultural practices within the designated areas.
• Ensure effective integration of accelerating abandonment of FGM grant interventions with other projects in the program

Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

• Support in the coordination of joint monitoring visits between the donor and the national office contribute to evaluation planning, support data collection, analysis and interpretation
• Monitor on a monthly basis project indicators and make relevant improvements
• In collaboration with key stakeholders including the NO Technical Specialist analyze trends in the focus counties and develop strategies to address them
• Ensure timely submission of quality reports (Annual, Semi-annul and Monthly Management Reports) in line with WV/grant reporting guidelines and the donor expectations for both the UNICEF funded grant and the Girl Child Education project Grants
• Utilize financial planning tools such as spending plans, work plans based on project activities and budgets.
• Utilize budget estimates and anticipated costs based on programmatic priorities and activities for planning purposes.
• Monitor on a monthly basis the project expenditure alongside implementation
• Actively participate in the identification, documentation and dissemination of promising practices of accelerating abandonment of FGM and in the target project areas.

Engagement, Networking and Collaboration

• Participate in mobilizing stakeholders during baselines , evaluations and other relevant programming activities
• Collaborate with community leaders and education partners to plan the education monitoring activities
• Represent WVK in forums within the sub-county
• Actively participate in National/International education/FGM/Gender days at the county and sub-county level.
• Provide necessary support in capacity building forums for CVA ,BOMs, FBOs, CBOs, AAC and other functional structures for promoting sustainable quality education and protection interventions
• Facilitate exchange visits for rescued girls to learn from other girls’ mentorship programme.

Community Mobilizer Job Qualifications

• A diploma in sociology, education, community development, gender studies or related field
• Have two years’ experience in community development work preferably child advocacy or child rights
• Prior experience working with partners at community level
• Computer literacy
• A local from Laisamis Sub County is preferred (include copy of identity card)

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Responsibilities for the Technical Advisor Job

• Reviews requests for technical services from the National offices, Regional offices, Support offices and global center and develops terms of reference for provision of such expertise.
• Provides high quality technical assistance to National Offices for TA/TP and programme design, monitoring and evaluation. This would include level 1 or 2 or 3 services to the clients.
• Co-creates and develops new project models in collaboration with and as per the requests from the GC Sector Lead.
• Scale-up core project model implementation in NOs, in alignment with strategy.
• Provides technical assistance NOs to contextualize and adapt partnership guidance in consideration of their contexts.
• Conducts technical reviews and provides consulting in response to requests from NO, SO, RO or GC clients.
• Work alongside National Office staff to build understanding of WV’s global sectoral approaches and core project models.
• Provide training to clients as requested.
• Mentors and coaches technical staff in NOs, and SOs.
• Identify innovative and promising approaches in field implementation as they provide technical services to the NOs.
• Share learnings within team (sector and/or project model).

Technical Advisor Job Qualifications

• Mid-level/junior technical specialist.
• 5 years (min) field lever experience.
• Master’s degree in relevant technical area of specialization.
• Donor experience necessary.
• Practitioner/contributor Sector DME experience.
• Language skills appropriate to geographic assignment’.
• Training / adult learning as a required capability.
• Strong experience in grants acquisition and management with bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Experience both in programming, and revenue acquisition related areas.