Area Program Coordinator job at World Vision

With over 70 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!

Key Responsibilities:
Quality Technical programs and projects designed and effectively and efficiently implemented
• Guide Programme staff to design and develop quality Area Program Plans (AOP, DIPs/cash flows/ITTs) in line with partnership, national guidelines and standards
• Facilitate output indicators achievements for all projects and PNSFs within 95% on a monthly basis
• Prepare and submit quality Area Program Semi-Annual and Annual reports.
• A pull out of all milestone activities that lead to outputs in the AP are extracted and tracked monthly together with output targets.
• Generate a list of the MV Households and Children to inform implementation
Engagement & Advocacy
• Facilitate Sub-county dialogue meetings in the AP conducted in line with issues generated from CVA engagements on child wellbeing issues and reports shared with PM.
• Evidence of working with the local churches on supporting the Most Vulnerable with issues of Ending child marriage and ending Violence in schools.
• Guide and ensure Sub County Recommitment events on the it takes a world Campaign are conducted with clear documentation in place.
• Ensure By-laws/ordinances or petitions are initiated/passed/followed up for implementation around CWB in the AP.
• Evidence of APC as an active member of the Sub County TPC with quarterly reports to the PM on all TPC engagements.
• Area program engagement with other CBO’s/CSOs for child wellbeing conducted, documented and shared for advocacy and engagement on CWBO’s.
Sustainable Impact
• Organize Quarterly Sub County joint monitoring sessions and discussions conducted in the AP with reports shared with the PM
• Facilitate establishment of Household clusters in the Programme Focus Area and ensure functionality
• Ensure 100% functionality of all initiatives (S4T, COVA, TFE, Child Development and participation centers, Energy saving stoves, and a documentation of success in each to inform programming
• Ensure quarterly children’s parliaments are functional with evidence of engagement with local leaders and influencing decisions.
• Facilitate and ensure all sub county CDPPs reviewed and approved and informing Plans
• Climate change messages shared with the communities in AP community in local language on a quarterly basis.
• Quarterly engagements with RC guardians on program implementation and key CWB issue status and action points shared with the PM
Urgency for Execution
• 100% of all monthly activities for the TPs implemented for all the 12 months evidenced by the monthly reports.
• All outputs attaining quarterly targets of more than 90% with evidence of discussion with stakeholders.
• Prepare and submit monthly management reports to inform Programme progress
• Community assets monitoring conducted in the cluster on quarterly basis and four quarterly community assets monitoring reports shared with the PM per quarter.
• Monthly Budget utilization kept within +/-10% variance for 12 months.
Talent Management
• Timely management of performance with 100% performance agreements, quarterly reviews, annual reviews and end of contract evaluations completed and submitted to the Programmes Manager on time.
• Area Programme team is robust and working well together.
• Evidence of Monthly recognition nominations in the AP.
• Quarterly Documented evidence of Continuous capacity building for Technical Project Officers and partners to implement the National strategy and alignment to our promise.
• Project Officers and Sponsorship Operation Officer capacity for partnership and community engagement built with evidence of good performance in place.
• Evidence of Christianity growth and practice for staff and supervisees
Learning & Application
• Documentation of CDPCs impact in the AP conducted and shared in a learning forum
• An activity file for each project in the AP kept up-to-date and physically available and stored in a secure place.
• A monthly output monitoring report with evidence of data collection tools kept and filed in a secure place.
• 100% functionality of M&E database in the AP for all projects and evidence of data validation and sharing with stakeholders in place every quarter.
• Evidence of compilation of success stories compiled and submitted along with the monthly report to the PM,
Systems Strengthening
• The AP ensuring compliance and alignment with WV standards, policies, guidelines, AP has risk register which is updated quarterly and the updates reported in MMR AP audit not registering any major audit issue that puts the cluster at unacceptable rating

Sponsorship operations effectively managed at the AP
Evidence on monthly sponsorship meetings with Staff and COVAs Management of SOIs in line with sponsorship standards. Evidence of discussion on child wellbeing reports, draw actions and take action on child wellbeing issues Evidence of integrated monitoring plans and implementation. 100% delivery of APRs and Christmas cards as per national standards.

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