Deadline: 04 December, 2020

Location: Dakar, Senegal

The World Vision International is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Faith and Development Advisor.

The mission of the organisation includes working with the poor, people who are oppressed and promoting human transformation.

Responsibilities

• Support national offices to integrate faith into all strategies and programme documents by using existing tools and approaches and in collaboration with West Africa Reginal Office (WARO) programme quality
• Support national offices to gather and report on impact or evidence generated from the quality implementation of faith models in APs
• Facilitate the sharing of best practices on faith and development implementation between national offices
• Coordinate the development and implementation of regional faith and development plan and framework
• Support national offices to conduct an extensive mapping of all faith entities nationally but specifically in WV areas of operations
• Support national office to formalise relationship with the church and faith leaders by signing MoUs
• Support national offices to train faith leaders in all faith-based models and approaches in collaboration with TSO
• Ensure the church is fully participating and very active in the spiritual nurture of children and all other activities at all levels
• Support national offices to prepare and preposition faith leaders to respond to any form of emergency or child well-being issues nationally and at the AP level
• Represent and speak for WV in all church-related forums to discuss issues related to faith and development in each context
• Support national offices to develop faith messaging in collaboration with WARO communication and programme quality
• Ensure all staff members understand and are using the faith and development policies in their day-to-day work and in representing WV in forums
• Be very sensitive in adapting faith-based messaging in different context
• Create and nurture a network of faith and development managers within WAR for the purpose of implementing related strategies and programmes
• Support capacity building and leadership development
• Support the human resource process of staff recruitment, induction and staff care
• Develop and roll out spiritual nurture materials for the WAR staff

Requirements

• Degree in Theology or Social Sciences, an advanced degree preferred
• Five years, minimum, of working for a child-focused NGO or international agency in the field
• Excellent skills required in programme design, reporting and documentation, and monitoring and evaluation, and in managing by results
• Knowledge of the global church, mission and context in the Sahel region and strong interfaith and social cohesion facilitation and exposure
• Knowledge of World Vision operations
• Strong coordination, presentation, coordination and networking skills
• Demonstrated proficiency in using Microsoft Office, databases and statistical packages

To apply and for more information, click here.

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