Child Well being Development Facilitator at World Vision in Cluster Lubumbashi

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 31,000+ 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 ROLE DIMENSION / DESCRIPTION 1. Engaging and visioning with communities · Ensures effective communication about World Vision’s identity, mission, vision, values and our approach to development. This includes child sponsorship as integrated within broader community engagement process. · Develops and maintains a strong understanding of the local context, including government perspectives and plans, ensuring all voices are heard, especially those of children and youth, including the most vulnerable. · Supports critical awareness in community’s response to the well-being of children and other vulnerable groups and ensure participation of these groups in community development processes. · Facilitates effective working relationships between local stakeholder groups and between local partners and others outside the area. · Identifies new partners within and outside the community, identify how these partners can work together towards shared priorities for child well-being. · Mobilizes and support the creation and strengthening of groups of key stakeholders which catalyze community engagement to improve child well-being. · Facilitates local advocacy and support key community meetings/workshops designed to explore and identify key priorities for child well-being. 2. Partnering and planning with communities Facilitate partnering/ networking with and connections among different local stakeholders (formal and informal community groups, businesses, NGOs and local government agencies, etc.) to mobilize resources for the well-being of children. Facilitate capacity building for communities and local partners in AP planning and annual community review Facilitate AP planning activities at the assigned area Facilitate annual community review and planning at the assigned area Support communities and partners to develop and implement the community-based disaster preparedness plans · Implements activities in association with local partners. · Leads local planning processes using WV’s development programme approach. · Facilitates the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships. · Supports local level partners to identify needs and their underlying causes; and recognizing local assets and resources which could support them in meeting these needs, mobilize these in programme implementation. · Ensures technical experts from WV and partner agencies engage in the root cause analysis and project planning, assisting them to communicate with community in clear and practical ways and providing information about community needs. · Ensures local programme plans are shared with the Cluster Programme Manager and support is provided in the creation of annual area programme plans. 3. Sponsorship facilitation (in programmes where sponsorship is applicable) · Orients community on sponsorship messaging, integrated with broader community engagement process. · Manages ongoing education as part of broader community mobilisation process. · Manages ongoing capacity building of partners and community groups as part of integrated capacity building on CWB. · Facilitates development of child selection criteria through the CWB committee. · Supports CWB Committee in the child selection process. · Facilitates the use of Child Monitoring Standards to catalyse and advance community-led child protection mechanisms. · Responds to service operations indicators on a periodical basis through ongoing visits/ activities. · Ongoing implementation of sponsor communication through programme activities as per the activity desig