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Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

Job title: Area Program Manager

Location: Uvs province, Mongolia

Contract type: Fixed-term

Deadline: September 3, 2024

Leadership & Strategic management

• Contributes to World Vision Mongolia’s rural programming planning and implementation by co-developing issues-based projects or programs
• Provide strategic guidance and insights on overall program implementation to maximize program impact in the province
• Provides strong and positive leadership to the Area program ensuring competent and motivated staff are hired and retained and high-performers identified and nurtured.
• Supports professional and personal development of Area program staff, emphasizing on-the-job coaching and facilitating ongoing action learning and reflection.
• Review the staff development plans annually, cross-checking them with National office integrated competency development plans.
• Conducts frequent conversations with staff to support their performance and development, and ensure World Vision’s performance management processes are followed.

Program and project management

• Lead staff coordinating with Technical Program Coordinators in planning and implementing Technical programs in the AP and ensuring scope, quality, budget, and schedule are met as per plan
• Lead Development Facilitators in developing Individual Plans for their Target Areas, Monitor progress and inform the Operations Director on critical issues, and implement the decisions
• Analyze Technical program and Community Engagement and Sponsorship Program guidelines, Plans, implementation processes and progress in the Area Programs, and inform the Operations Director on critical issues with recommendations for collaborative decision-making with Technical Project Coordinators.
• Analyze problems of the community along with the Development Facilitator and develop plans on sustainability, crosscutting elements, disaster risk reduction, and advocacy
• Conduct reflections and analyze implementation mechanisms for developing/adopting/ Sharing best practices, Lessons learned, Innovations, and Changes in the Projects and Project management approaches

Accountability and quality assurance

• Appropriate estimation, allocation, coordination, spending, and distribution of all program resources, including monetary.
• Program effectiveness is regularly assessed and evaluated to ensure follow-up on program review/audit.
• Promote World Vision International’s core values of stewardship throughout the Area Program and Operations areas.
• Negotiate with the Technical Programme Managers on a realistic local implementation plan and adaptation, including budget and technical support as required
• Provides oversight to ensure the integrated monitoring plan includes children as part of the program/ Sponsorship integrated plan design process (including Integrated Activity Plan).
• Promotes establishment of children’s rights networks and supports policy that seeks to change structures and systems that jeopardize the rights of children in coordination with advocacy.
• Ensure Most Vulnerable Children assessment and mapping are done within the program area and ensure their involvement and benefiting from technical project interventions/ models.

Resource acquisition

• Submit proposals for startup funding and preposition World Vision Mongolia to address child wellbeing issues in the province / urban context.
• Coordinate and support Grant Acquisition Management team on the development of quality proposals/ concepts to contribute towards the well-being of Most Vulnerable Children within the province area.
• Guide and direct to mobilize resources effectively and efficiently
• Ensure corporate and other private donor engagement

Liaison/ Networking

• Develop and maintain good relationships with major (government/private) donors and World Vision Support Offices, including planning how to approach donors (government/private donors and support offices); streamlining strategic dialogues and overseeing the implementation process.
• Develop and maintain good relationships with National Office departments on Learning through Evaluation with Accountability and Planning-3 Technical Approaches/Programs, Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs, Sponsorship and Advocacy. To participate in related events as appropriate.
• Act as a role model in advocating/promoting the organization and stakeholder transformation to World Vision’s principles and vision.
• Manage donor concerns (government/private donors and support offices) ensuring proper resolutions for both parties have been reached.
• Initiate and maintain regular contact with other International non-government organizations, local non- government organizations and government officials to obtain experience and coordinate information regarding current and future works within the province area
• World Vision International Mongolia represented through coordination, liaison and building collaborative relationships with donors, other Non-government organizations, government authorities and other stakeholders and partners
• Maintain strong networking/ partnerships with Support Offices

Reporting and knowledge Management

• Timely submission of Area programs’ reports compiling Development Facilitators reports and provide information for annual/ semiannual reporting to the Support Office
• Ensure financial reports and explanations of Technical Programs are adequately prepared and reported
• Ensures relevant information is made available for technical programme reports.
• Ensures monitoring info is used to improve programme performance.
• Manages Area program data on Horizon system
• Manages annual Area program wide reviews.
• Leads the process of continuous learning of Area program s’ staff on Development program approach, program quality, humanitarian action and development aspects.
• Capture the program information and success stories, best practice and lessons learnt
• Communicate effectively World Vision’s identity mission, vision, values and our approach to work in contextually appropriate ways

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