Faith Integration Capacity Building Advisor at World Vision International

Faith Integration Capacity Building Advisor at World Vision August 2024

locations

• Nairobi, Kenya
• West Africa Regional Office, Senegal
• Kampala (National Office), Uganda
• Pasig City, Philippines
• Regional Office, South Africa
• Timor-Leste – Home Working
• Bangladesh – Home Working
• Arusha, Tanzania
• National Office, Laos
• GC Manila Office, Philippines
• Bangkok, Thailand
• Zambia National Office
• Sri Lanka Home Based, Sri Lanka
• Eastern Regional Office, DRC

time type Full time
job requisition id JR34408

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 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy
of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:
World
Vision is a Christian humanitarian organisation with a mission centered
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 and leading
team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings are expected
in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its
departments.

The Faith Integration Capacity Building Technical
Advisor provides high-quality technical advice and practical support to
Field Offices in developing skills, capacities, and competencies
necessary to enable the quality implementation and scale-up of F&D
models and approaches in alignment with World Vision’s global strategy
and country strategies. The role demands most of this support to be done
virtually, digitally, through diverse, dynamic, and innovative adult
learning and capacity-building methods—new and existing approaches and
technologies to be utilized and improved upon for the highest efficiency
and impact. The role will report to the Global Centre Faith &
Development Programme Quality & Innovation Senior Advisor.

Key Job Responsibilities:
(a) Support Capacity Building of Faith & Development (F&D) Models and Approaches for staff and partners

• Harmonize,
  standardize and improve the capacity building (especially training of
  facilitators) process for all faith and development (F&D) core
  project models
• Contribute to the development of learning pathways for technical staff
• Ensure all F&D core project model (CPM) facilitator and trainer records are maintained

Utilize
various standardized, innovative, digital, face-to-face, and hybrid
adult learning methods to support Field Offices (FO) in building their
capacity to scale up core project model implementation:

• Build
  a cadre of facilitators and trainers (including Master Trainers) across
  Field Offices, Regional Offices, and Support Offices who can deliver
  workshops and training (especially standardized Training of
  Facilitators) on Faith & Development core project models and key
  programme staff and partners (especially church and faith partners).
• Support
  regional office and field office leadership in planning, integrating,
  and implementing F&D core project models and approaches, as well as
  mentor and coach key field offices Faith & Development and technical
  staff.

Support via Technical Academy:

• Support
  all Faith & Development Technical Academy e-courses to help ensure
  quality, including supporting course owners, acting as Master Trainer as
  necessary, and taking the lead to promote all Faith & Development
  Technical Academy courses to achieve full enrolment.
• Build and manage a cadre of trainers for the Talent Academy Faith & Development courses.

(b)
Support Capacity Building of World Vision’s Christian faith in strategy
development, programme assessments, designs, baselines, and evaluations

• Provide technical advice and support for integration of Faith & Development into all stages of programme design.
• Through
  dynamic digital capacity-building methods, support field offices and
  other stakeholders to understand how to use the Spiritual Landscape
  Assessment (or equivalent) as a tool for strategy and programme design.
• Support
  FOs and other stakeholders with the necessary competencies to have our
  Christian faith inform and guide our work through WV’s Transformational
  Development approach and the drivers of sustainability, especially GESI
  and Social Accountability and the faith & development project
  models.

(c) Support Capacity Building of WV’s Christian Faith in Grant Acquisition

• Support
  national, regional, and global capacity building and training on the
  integration of faith models, approaches, and partnerships into grants.
• Work
  with grants acquisition management (GAM) leads and GAM Consultants to
  strengthen understanding and capacity faith integration across all
  stages of the Grant life cycle.
• Provide technical advice to
  grant design, development, and start-up as a means of building capacity
  in a Field Office or Region Office team.
• Increase the number of
  grant acquisition staff with knowledge, attitudes, and skills to
  integrate faith models, approaches, and partnerships into grant designs.

(d)
In collaboration with regional office faith & development (F&D)
Advisors, Knowledge Management F&D Advisors, and F&D
Communications Advisors, promote learning and innovation in regional
Offices, especially

• Help ensure
  feedback loops from the field office to the global center on faith and
  development implementation are effective for continuous improvement and
  learning.
• Support the Identification of field office innovations
  in faith and development programming, document and share these to
  promote active learning & continuous improvement.
• Support
  field offices to participate in and contribute faith & development
  good practice to cross-sector communities of practice and learning
  networks.
• Collaborate with knowledge management to support the
  sharing of good practices and lessons learned with external bodies and
  networks.
• Provide feedback from field offices and regionals to
  Global Centre Faith & Development (F&D) to update and improve
  F&D project models.

(e) Professional Development

• Commitment to ongoing learning for professional development and growth.
• Keep
  up to date with industry standards and approaches to faith integration
  in programming and dynamic/innovative approaches to online/digital adult
  learning methods.

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Required Professional Experience, Education and/or Certification:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in relevant technical area.
• 5 years of field-level experience in development programmes
• 5 years of experience working with World Vision’s Faith & Development models and approaches or similar experience
• High
  digital literacy and ability to effectively navigate, influence, and
  support adult learning and capacity building in a digital, virtual
  environment.
• Advanced MS Excel skills, using complex formulas,
  SharePoint, MS Teams management, MS forms (and other digital data
  collection tools)
• Ability to influence and build consensus when diverse viewpoints exist
• Solid understanding and practical experience of Transformational Development and WV’s Development Programme Approach
• Knowledge
  of Disaster Management Evaluation (DME) methods and World Vision’s
  approach to DME and programme quality assurance (advanced knowledge
  preferred)
• Experience integrating faith models, approaches, and partnerships into grant acquisition and/or implementation.
• Proven experience across multiple regions and contexts.
• Fluent in spoken and written English. Additional French and Spanish fluency preferred.
• Fragile humanitarian experience is an added advance.
• Professional training in adult learning techniques and Christian holistic development theory is highly preferred.

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations.

• Must have a conducive home working environment and strong, reliable internet and power situation.
• This position travels up to 30% of the time.
• Given
  the global, digital, and virtual nature of this role, it often requires
  hours outside of standard working hours in any given timezone (i.e.,
  willingness to work before 8 am and/or after 5 pm some days).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 23 AUGUST 2024.
Applicant Types Accepted: Local Applicants Only