Development Facilitator

Build relationships within communities (25%)

• Build positive and constructive relationships with community members and partners in order to understand their realities and facilitate development processes effectively.
• Strengthen the understanding of community development and ownership and of social sustainability among the stakeholders in the area.
• Encourages an understanding of and sensitivity to child development and child vulnerability factors among community members and partners.
• Communicate effectively World Vision’s identity, mission, vision, values and its approach in order to work in ways that are contextually appropriate and clear.
• Undertake social networks analysis in order to understand the functions various stakeholders fulfill, power dynamics, and to identify potential local partners and assess their capacity building needs.

Act as a Catalyst, broker and facilitator in working with partners (20%)

• Facilitate relationship building and strengthen relationships and partnerships between existing groups in the community
• Actively search for new partners within and outside the community, identify how these partners can work together towards shared priorities for child well-being and initiate, develop and manage partnership arrangements with them.

Build community and partners’ capacity (15%)

• Build the capacity of WV and partner community groups to deliver the joint outcomes effectively.
• Build the capacity of WV and partner community groups to maintain and monitor the effectiveness of their partnerships over time.
• Train partner community groups on appropriate skills and self-assessment methods to build their capacity for management of local initiatives.
• Build the capacity of community partners and volunteers to facilitate and manage development plans focused on child well-being.
• Participate in and support the community partners in the development and implementation of monitoring and evaluation tools and measurements of program/project effectiveness to track the delivery of joint outcomes.
• Encourage and enable communities to share and learn from their own experiences as part of confidence and capacity building.
• Assist communities and partners to prepare and implement community-managed disaster preparedness plans.

Assist in Program planning and implementation (15%)

• Actively support the Area Manager and collaborate with project coordinators and sponsorship officer, and social groups in project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes relevant to assigned areas.
• Work with social groups to support, monitor and evaluate ongoing activities according to approved stated objectives, plan of action, budget and record progress.
• Ensure that gender analysis, Faith & Development, and child protection are mainstreamed within WV initiatives in the assigned communities.
• Raise awareness and facilitate critical analysis of community issues and opportunities.
• Facilitate visioning and planning processes with community members – especially the most vulnerable, and within community based groups.
• Actively participate as an ADP team member in sharing feedback, reflection and learning.

Work with technical specialists and subject matter experts (5%)

• Help community partners to prioritize projects based on opportunity, needs and community capacities.
• Assist stakeholders and community partners to identify and mobilize community resources needed for project implementation.
• Supporting advocacy work with partners for children’s needs, rights, protection, and participation.
• Facilitate Sponsorship Assessment (10%)
• Facilitate assessment of feasibility, risk management and community readiness for sponsorship in the context.
• Assist community preparation for sponsorship by introducing sponsorship as a way of focusing the attention of the program on the well-being of all children – especially the most vulnerable.
• Facilitate community understanding of how to be active promoters of sponsorship and its possible development impacts.
• Facilitate community-led selection of registered children and use the child monitoring standard to catalyze and advance community –led child protection mechanisms.
• Select, train, support, and monitor sponsorship volunteers or partner groups to follow-up with sponsored children and their families
• Conduct sponsorship communication through programme activities for individual engagement and respond to queries on a periodical basis through ongoing visits/activities.

Perform other duties as required (10%)

• Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally.
• Attend and participate in WVL’s spiritual nurture and other organizational events.
• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture.
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Line Manager