JOB DESCRIPTION

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Effective rapport building for mutual trust and accountability with communities and community stakeholders.
• Strictly adhere to the religious and cultural values and practices of target communities along the relationship chain.
• Maintain good terms of relationship with Immediate Supervisor, other colleagues, TP specialists and management lead.
• Maintain good terms of relationship with local partners, I/NGOs and concerned departments.
• Advocate and mobilize communities so that they can identify and address their real needs.
• Facilitate communities to make the voices of every participant heard and accounted important.
• Facilitate, educate and capacitate communities to come up with their own business ideas and plans which meet their contextual needs.
• Find the best way and develop proper system towards team synergy especially within respective core team.
• Adapt to the social, religious and cultural environment of the new workplace with a will to cope well with new challenges.
• Conduct review meetings or workshops for partnership health checklist and further action plan development wherever relevant/necessary.
• Deliver information about the organization, its missions and purposes to local stakeholders including other NGOs and authorities in a timely and persuasive manner.
• Take the lead in community advocacy meetings and clearly explain the goal and objectives of the project and planned implementation plans.
• Form Community Based Organizations (CBOs) or Producer Groups or Working Groups where necessary or relevant.
• Ensure that every participant in the advocacy meeting clearly understands a role to partake.
• Closely work with TP Specialists for identifying the livelihood needs and business opportunities of target communities.
• Identify gender sensitive potential livelihood activities which promise greater return for target beneficiaries.
• Facilitate target communities so that they can come up with business ideas and thus identify new business opportunities which can enhance their livelihoods.
• Identify potential business value chain and market linkage with local market actors and find a way to link with target beneficiaries or Producer Groups.
• Identify potential partners or opportunities and initiate to set up partnership system.
• Mobilize target communities to habituate learning and reflection system from respective activity.
• Facilitate and capacitate communities to set up their community development goals and action plans.
• Render required and relevant support to the community in close coordination and collaboration with respective technical specialists.
• Closely monitor and analyze the progress, development and behavior change of communities and report to TP specialists on a regular basis.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Two years experiences in the community development field are essential
• University bachelor’s degree in any discipline is essential
• Community mobilization, facilitation skills and formation of community-based organization.
• Skills in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, leadership, team management and organization.
• Previous experience in Agriculture and Livestock related projects, Market Linkage and Micro-credit activities.
• Proper community and partner engagement is essential
• Willing to subscribe to WV core values and core documents.
• Basic knowledge in value chain assessment, market linkage and financial accounting.
• Willing to serve the poor and work with the community is essential
• Interpersonal skills, team building and negotiation is essential
• Computer knowledge and skills is essential
• Application of our promise 2030 and have sound knowledge on respective technical program.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only