Here’s where you come in:
** Position location: South Africa, Johannesburg and in the Southern Africa Region – home based, where WVI is registered to operate.
As Senior Technical Advisor, you will lead technical support to field offices in the Southern Africa region in the mobilization and growth of humanitarian grants. You will be accountable for deepening World Vision’s engagement with UN Multilaterals (WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR and OCHA) and other donors, such as USAID and others, to support food, cash and vouchers, and other sectors within humanitarian response.
Through these engagements, you will be expected to influence field offices to diversify their programme portfolio and donor base as well as contribute to strengthening partnership linkages for humanitarian responses at regional and national level.
You will also provide thought leadership in the documentation of learnings from the field offices, share promising practices across the World Vision Partnership, as well as with other relevant external stakeholders to influence the growth of humanitarian grants. You will be expected to be the World Vision representative to all inter-agency coordination mechanisms with a bearing on food and cash/voucher programming (such as Food and Nutrition security clusters, Cash Working Groups, NEPAD, SADC), as well as lead and facilitate the prepositioning of World Vision with donors for funding opportunities at regional and field office levels.
Requirements include:
- University degree or Postgraduate qualification in social science, international studies, public administration, agricultural economics or other relevant fields; or the equivalent combination of education and experience in a related area.
- Minimum of 8 years in humanitarian work focusing on relief and development programming.
- 8 years’ experience in project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, training/capacity building, conceptual program planning in both a relief and development setting.
- Effective in written and verbal communication in English. Proficiency in other languages such as French and Spanish would be desirable.
- Frequent international travel (30%) including field visits in humanitarian responses, external engagement/ representation at international conferences.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 11 FEB 2020. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.
Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.