Project Officer – Citizen Voices Addressing Violence Against Children (CVAVAC) Project
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Employee Contract Type:Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
Job Description Summary
The Project Officer will facilitate effective, comprehensive and sustainable implementation of all the planned project initiatives at the local and district level. The incumbent will be responsible for capacity enhancement to different and relevant community based structures and other strategic partners as to facilitate their meaningful engagement in local and district level child protection and advocacy efforts aimed at ensuring policy influence and improved service delivery in the child protection and justice sectors. The Project Officer will be based at the regional level in Mohale’s hoek.
Engaging with communities: 15%
- Ensures effective communication about World Vision’s identity, mission, vision, values and our approach to development. This includes child sponsorship as integrated within broader community engagement process.
- Develops and maintains a strong understanding of the local context, including government perspectives and plans, ensuring all voices are heard, especially those of children and adolescent, including the most vulnerable.
- Supports critical awareness in community’s response to the well-being of children and other vulnerable groups and ensure participation of these groups in community development processes.
- Facilitates effective working relationships between local stakeholder groups and between local partners and others outside the area.
- Identifies new partners within and outside the community, identify how these partners can work together towards shared priorities for child well-being.
- Mobilizes and supports the creation and strengthening of groups of key stakeholders which catalyze community engagement to improve child well-being.
- Facilitates local advocacy and support key community meetings /workshops designed to explore and identify key priorities for child well-being.
Partnering and planning with communities: 15%
- Implements activities in association with local partners.
- Leads local planning processes using WV’s development program approach.
- Facilitates the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships.
- Supports local level partners to identify needs and their underlying causes; and recognizing local assets and resources which could support them in meeting these needs, mobilize these in program implementation.
- Ensures technical experts from WV and partner agencies engage in the root cause analysis and project planning, assisting them to communicate with community in clear and practical ways and providing information about community needs.
- Ensures local project plans are shared with the Cluster Program Managers and support is provided in the creation of annual area program plans.
Sponsorship program integration: 15%
- Educates the community on sponsorship messaging, integrated with broader community engagement process.
- Manages ongoing capacity building of partners and community groups as part of integrated capacity building on CWB.
- Participates in youth champions on WV advocacy models to ensure sustainability in WV programming
Partner and community capacity building: 15%
- Facilitates capacity building that helps create an environment that promotes the rights, protection and participation of adolescents and children, including the most vulnerable.
- Builds the capacity of WV and partner community groups to deliver the joint outcomes effectively.
- Trains and coach partner community groups on appropriate skills and self-assessment methods to build their capacity for management of local initiatives.
- Identifies and engage relevant capacity building support from technical experts in WV and in partner agencies, as required.
Implementation and monitoring with communities and partners: 15%
- Leads implementation of technical program within the allocated primary focus area.
- Facilitates community, including the most vulnerable, to participate in the gathering of, reflection upon and learning from monitoring data.
- Contributes to analysis and interpretation of monitoring data.
- Ensures monitoring data is shared with relevant WV staff.
- Ensures reports on shared projects are communicated within community as agreed with partners.
- Assists partners in documenting their own learning.
- Utilizes knowledge assets to improve programmatic outcomes.
- Ensures Child Protection project lessons learnt and promising practices are documented and shared with stakeholders.
- Tracks, documents and shares success stories to inform interventions.
Promotion of WVIL’s safeguarding mandate: 25%
- Supports the referral and reunification processes of all incidents reported at the regional level.
- Reports adult and child safeguarding incidents for designated area programs (Levels 1-3).
- Supports proper implementation of the office’s Safeguarding Incident Preparedness Plans at the local area program level.
- Provides clear monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually reports and data on child protection and advocacy activities, outputs and outcomes in AP communities.
Qualifications and Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- Educational level required: BA /BSC Degree in Social Work, Community development, Education. Development Studies, Sociology
- Technical Training qualifications required: Professional technical skill desired (certification in Child Protection or experience)
- Experience: 3 years in development facilitation.
Other Competencies/Attributes
- Development facilitation skills
- Monitoring, reporting and proposal writing skills
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
- Attend and participate/lead in daily devotions and weekly Chapel services.
Remuneration:
Competitive with market standards.
Application Requirements:
Please upload the following documents when you submit your application:
- CV showing full contact details of 4 referees (2 professional referees, 1 spiritual referee and 1 HR Practitioner). The required contact details are referees’ full names, designation, email address and contact numbers.
- Copies of educational certificates and transcripts
- Copy of national ID
Closing Date for Applications:
Friday , 21st February, 2024 at 11:59PM
Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only