Stepanavan Area Program Sponsorship Coordinator
LOCATION
Stepanavan, Lori marz, Armenia
DURATION
Open-ended
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
To facilitate child/ sponsor relations in the Area Program and to ensure their full compliance with World Vision International standards and policies, World Vision Armenia’s Sponsorship procedures and objectives.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensuring quality sponsorship operations
Maintain and regularly update Area Program sponsorship database to provide accurate information on registered children, including the most vulnerable non-registered children (personal data, participation, need, etc.);
Ensure that all the communication/ materials received from the Country office Sponsorship Department is acknowledged and processed;
Contribute to the friendly relationship between Sponsors and registered children via timely and efficient correspondence processing and query responding at the Field Office Level;
Create and maintain up-to-date individual files for each child registered in the program, ensuring all necessary information is kept within the file;
Contribute to the well-being of children in target communities through case management;
Coordinate/facilitate sponsors’ visits to the Area Program including transportation and accommodation issues, ensure Child Visitation and Protection standards are followed accordingly, provide orientation and translation support if requested, prepare sponsor visit report;
Use every opportunity to integrate Sponsorship requirements with other projects and communities’ activities.
Participate in Community transformation processes
Plan and oversee the activities on parents’ awareness on sponsorship issues, child management standards and other requirements in the targeted communities;
Participate in staff meeting in the Area Program and ensure that sponsorship standards are met while designing activities;
Provide training to community mobilizers and local partners involved on sponsorship processes;
Support to the process of making Sponsorship as an Asset for children, families and community. Contribute to child empowerment through child participation and voice and to strengthen comment-led care and protection;
Contribute communication skills development among children using different relevant tools.
Sponsorship in Programming
Contribute to the need-based contextualization and implementation of Child Sponsorship programming tools (e.g. child selection criteria, registered children inclusion, Sponsorship in Programming reflection tool, Mapping, etc.) by tracking the efficiency of those tools and regularly informing the Marz Development Manager and Sponsorship Manager;
Pursue, facilitate and track intentional registered children involvement in Program activities with provision of relevant verification materials;
Ensure the regular awareness raising and reflection among target community members and especially with registered children and their families;
Act as field level child protection point person.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Higher education;
Experience of working in the field of public relations, community mobilization, child protection, education;
Good speaking and writing communication skills in English;
Competency in data collection and analysis combined with reporting skills;
Experience in utilizing spreadsheets, database programs and word processing systems;
Ability to apply critical thinking and reflection in daily work;
Ability to set priorities and follow through to completion of complex tasks;
Ability to build and maintain relationships with community stakeholders;
Ability to build collaborations for child well-being;
Basic project management skills;
Facilitation and coordination skills for child sponsorship activities and processes;
Good interpersonal communication skills;
Experience with international NGOs or other similar organizations is preferred.
Ability to travel locally up to 10 percent of time.