Provide leadership and results-based management to WVI-Cambodia’s Nutrition and WASH technical unit to maximize the impact of World Vision’s programming in the lives of vulnerable children in Cambodia.
To provide Nutrition and WASH technical assistance and oversight to WVI-Laos, contributing to ensure quality and evidence-based programming (up to 20%).
Areas of Responsibility:
Nutrition and WASH Strategic Leadership, Design, Learning and Innovation:
- Accountable and responsible for development and review of Nutrition strategy and programming (TP/TA) in alignment with WV National Strategy and global directives, ensuring development of a strong evidence-based and technically robust approach to programming resulting in improved child well-being outcomes.
- Lead design and development of appropriate Technical Programme (TP) resources for quality implementation, including quality assurance framework and measurement tools for implementation.
- Responsible for ensuring quality and integrity of TP adaptation during roll-out, making adjustments to TP design through analysis of results and learning.
- Identify research and learning agenda for Nutrition and WASH sectors to build evidence on the validity of the Pathway of Change and programme design.
- Lead the design, development and initial testing of innovations based on programme learning.
- Lead in providing necessary technical support for Nutrition and WASH grant-funded projects.
- Bridge the learning between non-sponsorship-funded projects and sponsorship-funding programming.
Team Leadership and Technical Capacity Building
- Lead Nutrition and WASH technical unit to strengthen the role and power of our Theories/Pathways of Change to enable better validation and insight into the change process WVI-Cambodia is contributing to.
- Responsible for development of capacity building plan and on-going capacity building for technical implementation team (TPM, TPO and TPCs) in order implement TPs against programme standards.
- Specifically support TPM to be equipped with up to date and relevant technical approaches and data for engagement with government.
- Model and promote a service mindset focused on enabling frontline staff.
- Encourage the full and appropriate expression of WV’s Christian identity. Participate in and lead where appropriate devotional meetings/gatherings, annual Day of Prayer and other events.
External Engagement and Representation; Resource Acquisition
- Leads proactive engagement of external stakeholders including peer agencies and pre-positing with donors to deepen strategic and operational collaboration for child well-being.
- Responsible for interpreting and applying global, regional and national trends and learning to WVI-Cambodia’s Nutrition and WASH programming.
- Represent WVI-Cambodia within technical, coordination, and advocacy groups/consortia on issues related to Nutrition and WASH.
- Participate in Global Community(ies) of Practice on Nutrition and WASH, Regional sectoral initiatives, and National Forum and Technical Working Groups.
- Lead technical input to proposals, ensuring alignment to TA and TP.
- Participates in National Funding Committee, contributing to decisions on funding priorities and strategies.
Sector Advocacy Agenda
- Working with TL Advocacy, lead on development of Nutrition national policy agenda, ensuring continual evidence base and review of advocacy policy based on learning.
- Be an effective internal and external spokesperson for WVI-Cambodia’s advocacy agenda.
Sector Technical Assistance and Oversight for WVI-Laos
- Working with AD SPQ in Laos, provide WVI-Laos with technical assistance as agreed together. This may include: programme designs, implementation resource development, capacity building, proposal development, quality assurance of implementation, programme evaluation and research.
- Responsible to ensure overall technical quality and integrity of key programming documents, reports and funding proposals.
Educational Background:
Master’s Degree in Nutrition, Public Health, international development or relevant social science, or similar disciplines.
Skills/Experience:
- Proven leadership ability.
- Demonstrated facilitation and collaboration skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent relational skills, especially in a cross-cultural environment.
- Ability to analyse and solve problems, innovate, persuade, network and negotiate
- At least 5 years of experience in Nutrition programming design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation in a development context.
- At least 5 years programme management experience in an international development organization
- At least 3 years of experience in a senior NGO management role in a developing context is preferred
- Strong strategic and operational planning skills and ability to prioritise and handle multiple tasks
- Able to work as part of a team as a positive contributor.
- Fluency in English required, knowledge of the Khmer language an asset, or willingness to learn it
- Programming experience with WV Nutrition programming models is preferred
- Previous experience working in Cambodia or SE Asia, and/or experience working in World Vision is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in programme or project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and report writing is preferred.
- Has initiated & implemented significant organizational change is preferred
- Experience in representation to government, donor & UN agencies is preferred.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Oct 8 2018
Active Until:
Nov 8 2018
Hiring Organization:
World Vision
industry:
Nonprofit