Project Coordinator (BLOOM) at World Vision
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!
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Planning, implementation, and Management (40%)
- Collaborate with other WVT Urban Programs/project teams to ensure the efficient implementation of economic empowerment activities in alignment with work plans, targets, budgets, and reporting requirements.
- Assist National Program Managers in crafting comprehensive annual and quarterly reports, focusing primarily on the economic empowerment aspects of the projects, and providing necessary details regarding project activities.
- Support the development of annual work plans for economic empowerment interventions within the project
- Act as a focal point for WVT, Partners and Government on all donor compliance requirements, ensuring that staff and partners are correctly informed of donor requirements and are fully capacitated to ensure compliance
- Ensure effective coordination and problem solving between WVT, Partners and government
- Maintain effective working relationships with partners, representing WVT to a high standard in all interactions including partner visits and representation in meeting.
- Ensure effective coordination and problem solving between WVT, Partners and government
- Innovatively collaborate with partners, allies, LGAs and like-minded stakeholders to influence policy and achieve the multiplied impact;
- Develop and support effective linkages and collaboration with key public institutions in the relevant fields.
- Ensure effective coordination and problem solving between WVT, Partners and government
End Results
- Manages stakeholder relationship: develops and maintains contacts of key stakeholders, meeting schedules and minutes
- Established and maintained relationships with the community, government, project staff and World Vision Canada.
- Attends conferences, meetings, trainings as required at district, and regional level, or as required by Project manager
- Supports the project manager to manage changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
Promote Gender-Responsive Economic Empowerment (35%)
- Ensure that economic empowerment initiatives are designed and implemented in a gender-responsive manner.
- Provide essential technical support, including the creation of terms of reference, activity completion reports, and action plans that operationalize economic empowerment initiatives within the projects.
- Lead capacity gap analyses and facilitate the strengthening of implementing partners’ capacities. Conduct stakeholder meetings, training sessions, market information dissemination, and aid in the development of business plans for youth.
- Supervise local market assessments and ensure follow-up on community action plans. Offer technical guidance to project staff, partners, and the community throughout project implementation. Provide comprehensive feedback and reports to Project partners and the supervisor and WVC technical team.
- Monitoring project progress of Finance Inclusion & Marketing related activities through field visits and meetings with partners and beneficiaries, and review of staff reports and provide constructive feedback to partners and project staff
End Results
- Capacity gap of project staff, partners, stakeholders and CBOs identified and worked out towards enhanced capacity of actors
- Program activities respond to results of gender-responsive market assessment
Ensure Quality Economic Development Technical Program Delivery(15%)
- Monitoring project progress of Finance Inclusion & Marketing related activities through field visits and meetings with partners and beneficiaries, and review of staff reports and provide constructive feedback to partners and project staff
- Monitoring project progress of Finance Inclusion & Marketing related activities through field visits and meetings with partners and beneficiaries, and review of staff reports and provide constructive feedback to partners and project staff
End Results
- Project team and stakeholders towards empowering women and girls economically
- Technical resources developed to support Youth Ready and WVT in livelihoods programming for adolescents and youth
- Increased employability and entrepreneurial skills among targeted marginalized adolescent girls, boys and young women’s
Networking and external engagement (10%)
- Support the Project Manager to strengthen relationships with government, district teams, within the education, health sectors and community while implementing project activities
- Build positive work relationship with project collaborators; maintaining unity and trust
- Participate in regional level meetings and engagements in consultation with and feedback to the Project Manager
End Results
- External engagement maximized for visibility of the project and organization
- Project represented in all platform that exhibit the themes of the project such as conferences, symposium etc
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional Experience
- Solid experience in implementing international donor funded projects and ability to coordinate day to day implementation of project activities.
- Track record of supervising staff
- At least five years’ experience in implementing Economic Strengthening projects
- Demonstrated experience in a Project Management role and use of project management cycle in the delivery of development projects is required.
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams is an advantage.
- Experience in delivering technical assistance and/or institutional capacity building is an asset
- Familiar with current Advocacy issues around adolescents, youth on economic empowerment and positive youth development and working with adolescents & youths is a MUST
- Experience in urban programs is an advantage.
- Must have caliber in soft skills training for positive youth development
- Must have a clear understanding of major donors’ perspectives, requirements and standards
- Must have proven analytical/ problem solving abilities
- Experiences in excel management
- Verifiable proven research experience in economic value chain, finance inclusion & marketing
Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification
- Bachelor Degree in Marketing, Finance, Business Administration, economics, social work or any other related field
- Training and development in financial inclusion, marketing, business development, civic engagement, employability skills and personal development skills.
- Training in publication & developing story
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills; Ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders,
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent coordination and planning skills
- Report writing skills: Ability to write complex reports
- Demonstrate high levels of integrity
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent team player with minimum supervision
- Significant experience of working with government officials, multiple partners, community groups and communities.
- Proven experience in facilitating effective project documentation and dissemination of results to a wide range of audiences.
- Experience in working with international donor funded grants
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff
- Good planning and Excellent organizational skills, ability to determine priorities and attention to detail a must
- Work in a multisectoral/ multicultural team- patience, cultural sensitivity and application of contextual understanding in day-to-day work
- High-level of knowledge and practice with Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. required
- Ability to work with tight deadlines for information needs
Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments.
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