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• Provide technical leadership and oversight to WV Uganda’s
  sponsorship team and resources.
• Provide leadership in ensuring effective integration of sponsorship
  in critical Design, Monitoring and Evaluation processes from assessment,
  re/design, M&E and transition in accordance with established
  standards.
• Continuously plan and implement a national office Annual sponsorship
  Operating plan (ASOP) that enables WVU to meet and exceed established
  partnership standards.
• Ensure integration of Child monitoring into programme monitoring;
  generate trend analysis of emerging Child Wellbeing issues from
  Sponsorship Information System and draw recommendations to address these
  emerging Child Wellbeing issues.
• Provides leadership in rolling out Sponsorship Field Operating Model
  ensuring;
• Community-level sponsorship activities are integrated with
  programming activities. This includes planning for inclusion and
  monitoring of Registered Children along with programme planning and
  monitoring.
• Approach to working with community volunteers and partners needs are
  clarified and streamlined to ensure community ownership and
  sustainability.
• Seek opportunities to identify approaches, models and best practices
  in current program that can be scaled up to strengthen and sustain child
  monitoring processes and systems to maximize participation of community
  based partners in recruitment and monitoring of children.
• Develop and maintain organizational sponsorship performance quality
  metrics, and quality dashboards integrating statistical analysis and
  leading specific actions to achieve optimal outcomes in sponsorship
  management and programming.

• Under the overall supervision and coordination of the Operations
  Director
• Lead the Child Protection (CP) strategic planning and be responsible
  for the CP technical program implementation. Provide leadership and
  management (planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring and
  evaluation) of all Child protection and projects across WVU programming
  area.
• Lead reflection on Child Protection Technical Program performance
  with aim of ensuring that all child protection projects and activities are
  implemented on time, target and budget.
• Ensure Child Protection high impact, quality implementation and
  strict compliance with World Vision standards and requirements;
• Support the operational planning and development of Child Protection
  programs in collaboration with Program Managers Finance and other key
  stakeholder;
• Support Child Safeguarding work and ensures World Vision Uganda
  comply with child safe organization standards.
• Provide support and capacity building in the management, design, and
  implementation and monitoring of Child Protection Programs.
• Ensure Child Protection risk management/safeguarding strategies are
  implemented throughout all existing and new programs.
• Work in close collaboration with Advocacy take lead on the design
  and development of a Child Protection local advocacy strategies.

• In collaboration with Technical Program Managers and Regional
  Program Managers ensures that WV’s Development Programme Approach links
  well with technical programs and are jointly being implemented with
  communities and partners within area programmes.
• Contextualize and is responsible for rolling out principles,
  standards and guidance on how World Vision Ugandans works with communities
  and partners to improve and sustain the well-being of children, especially
  the most vulnerable.
• Ensures that WVU programs are implemented in a way that builds local
  ownership and sustainability through community and partner engagement,
  joint planning and implementation, and local advocacy.
• Responsible for contextualisation of the Development Programme
  Approach and ongoing refinement based on learning in applying LEAP 3 and
  refining Sponsorship Field Operating Model, as all of these are
  interrelated and need to be mutually reinforcing.
• Provides guidance on equipping local level staff in Development
  Programming Approach to reinforce their technical depth in engagement with
  communities and local partners in achieving Child Wellbeing (CWB).
• In close working with Senior Programs Manager-Household Engagement
  and accountability approach accelerate the implementation of the
  Development Program Approach initiative called Household Engagement and
  Accountability Approach (HEAA) in WV Uganda Area Programs and grants in a
  manner that meets set standards as well as empowering the wellbeing of
  children, households and communities;
• In collaboration with Technical Program Managers, develops and roles
  out HEAA curriculum that integrates all technical program implementation
  at the household level
• Review and roles out the tools for measuring the impact of HEAA at
  the program level.
• Work in close collaboration with M&E, track the documentation of
  evidence and learning that support the effectiveness of HEAA and ensures
  that all required standards and quality assurance standards are met by
  APs.
• Popularize HEAA in WV international as a promising innovation for
  community engagement and facilitation
• Profile HEAA as WVU strategic initiative and measure how it
  accelerates the realization of the strategy

• The applicant for the World Vision Associate Director – CESP job
  placement should preferably hold a Bachelor’s  Degree in Development Studies, Social
  Work and Social Administration or related field
• Post graduate degree in relevant field (International
  development/international relations).
• Five years’ experience in blending development in aspects of
  sponsorship and child protection in project design, implementation,
  monitoring and evaluation in a complex program environment
• Extensive knowledge of development issues and understanding of the
  community engagement and facilitation best practices
• Excellent application knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Power Point,
  Lotus notes and internet applications.
• Experience in project documentation, reporting, program information
  for donors and the World Vision partnership.
• Capacity to provide solid leadership and decision-making skills for
  efficient and effective day to day project implementation.
• Ability to work with different partners, local authorities, local
  organizations and NGOs, to develop and maintain positive relationships.
• Demonstrate well – developed interpersonal skills, excellent
  communication skills, both verbal, written (in English) as well as
  negotiation skills.
• Strong understanding of systems design and implementation protocols.
• Strong inter-personal skills, and proven team-player.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities.
• Able to solve complex problems and to exercise independent judgment.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically
  upto 40% of the time and occasionally internationally.

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