World Vision recrute un Responsable de subvention – Communication and Behavior Change, Burundi
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 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Employé à durée déterminée (durée déterminée)
Job Description:
I. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning and Implementation
- Develop and update the SC&BC planning in collaboration with the project Team and under the supervision of the Malaria Project manager.
- Develop and implement a communication strategy on social and behavior change.
- Organize and coordinate awareness and social mobilization campaigns against Malaria.
- Ensure that grant facilitators are working to achieve the project goals and objectives and that the project is maintaining World Vision and donor standards.
- Plan and manage communications in response to both slow- and rapid-onset emergency disaster/relief situations – ensuring that the Project is provided with quality stories, photos and media interviews from the field.
- Develop regular project newsletter highlighting significant changes/impact/life stories and lessons and share with managers on quarterly basis.
Staff management, capacity building and coaching and partnership
- Supervise that staff report correctly. Conduct regular implementation the Performance Development Management (PDM) system.
- Strengthen partners’ capacities in communication technics for social and behavior change.
- Conduct employee capacity building needs assessments and Integrated Competency Development.
- Participate in employee learning and development plans.
- Mentor, coach and provide opportunities for the professional growth of Project Officers and all other staff that directly report to this position.
- Develop the capacity for the participation of local partners and local authorities to plan, implement, monitor and coordinate activities.
Business policies, procedures and guidelines
- Ensuring internal and external communication standards and policies as well as all grant requirements are adhered to.
- Ensure the project goal and objectives are properly implemented in order to contribute to global fund and WVI strategies and aligned to the government priorities in terms of malaria programming .
- Ensure compliance with donor/WVI branding policies and coordinate communication events as required.
- Demonstrates World Vision’s core values, vision, mission and Transformational Development/Program integrated ministry model by all staff in the project assigned Area. Provide spiritual leadership to the Communication team.
- Work with the Finance Manager/Officers, Administration Officer and other departments to build a strong internal control environment, ensuring compliance with WV financial policies and procedures and promoting a culture of transparency and accountability.
Coordination, supervision, risk management
- Conduct field trip for formative supervision both at provincial, communal and community levels
- Organize coordination meetings with partners and share feedback with the supervisor.
- Conduct Monthly risks analysis /Risks management
Project reporting, monitoring, evaluation
- Ensure accurate quality narrative reports are submitted in a timely manner and according to the donor requirements. Establish and maintain effective project reporting and communication systems.
- Regularly monitor and review the progress of implementation and escalate project management issues early and openly.
- Monitor the development and the implementation of the communication plan and make recommendations to relevant staff.
- Produce consistently and timely feature stories and photos for Sharing with World Vision Partnership-wide website.
Other duties
- Attend and participate in weekly chapel services and daily devotional meetings
- Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor or designee from time to time
II. QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE/TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Minimum Qualification and Experience required:
- Bachelor’s degree in communication, Journalism, French or English language, International relations, social sciences or other related domain with 5 years working experience.
- At least 3 years of the international development experience of Social Communication and Behaviour Change within the NGO; must involve implementation and management of large-scale programme activities.
- Familiarity with Global Fund requirements, their history and their development
- Familiarity with Public Health System and have been working with.
Technical Skills & Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with many types of stakeholders, including the local Donors, officials from various levels of government, civil society and manage consortium and others.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Through understanding of Burundi labor law and practices, especially contract management
- Excellent oral and written English and French communication skills.
- Strong organizational, facilitation, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.
- Strong administrative skills and has an eye for details.
- Excellent inter-personnel relationship skills.
- High level aptitude of integrity and confidentiality
- Proficient knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, Access & PowerPoint)
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with staff and partners at all levels
- Cross-cultural sensitivity, flexible worldview, emotional maturity.
Other Competencies/Attributes:
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
- Highly motivated and result-oriented, with exceptional attention to details.
- Excellent communication skills and sensitivity to other cultures.
- Creates and encourages a climate of team-working and collaboration in a multi-cultural environment.
- Strong and extensive experience in health system strengthening, community mobilization and capacity building
- Consistently achieves high-level results, managing and delivering projects on-time and on-budget.
- Has high-level leadership and supervisory skills; provides others with a clear direction; motivates and empowers others; provides staff with development opportunities and coaching.
- High ability to engage with Donors and market WV Burundi profile.
- Analyses and integrates diverse and complex quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources.
- Sets, develops and revises organizational strategy and develops clear visions for project implementation.
- Actively nurtures good relationships with people across all organizational levels and boundaries, and with government leaders and stakeholders.
- Identifies urgent and potentially difficult decisions and acts on them promptly; initiates and generates team- and department-wide activities.
- Negotiates effectively by exploring a range of possibilities.
- Computer Literate in Microsoft Office Packages
III. WORKING ENVIRONMENT / CONDITIONS:
- Work environment: Office-based.
- Travel: 40 % Domestic travel is required.
- On call: As required.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only