Job Summary
This activity is a 5-year program worth approximately USD $25 to $32 million. The project is expected to start in October 2026 and this position is contingent upon funding and donor approval. The COP will lead overall vision, technical expertise and administrative leadership for the program and services as the project’s representative for USDA, the government of the country of implementation and other key stakeholders. To accomplish this, the COP will lead a team of technical experts and support staff ensuring adherence to USDA regulations and World Vision policies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITES
- 25% Oversee the technical aspects of the project, including planning, implementation, project results, and deliverables, in accordance with the project work plan. Ensure clarity regarding plans and priorities, and foster effective collaboration across the project team, which comprises staff from partner organizations.
End Results
Timely, efficient program implementation
- 35% Build and maintain productive working relationships with USDA, project partners, and key stakeholders while ensuring compliance with USDA requirements, U.S. government regulations, and World Vision’s policies and procedures. Serve as the primary liaison among all project stakeholders.
End Results
Effective working relationships with engaged stakeholders
- 20% Manage the project’s operational, financial, and administrative priorities; direct the planning and budgeting processes; design and oversee an annual project. Facilitate the preparation of project deliverables, including annual work-plans, quarterly and annual reports, final project report, project activity updates, and other project-related communication and reporting materials in accordance with USDA deadlines and guidelines.
End Results
Budget within spending limits and at projected spending levels. Program activities compliant with donor requirements. Accurate, comprehensive reports submitted to donor.
- 15% Supervise a team of technical staff and ensure clear roles, responsibilities, and lines of communication are maintained among the team members. Provide guidance and mentoring to managers and staff to achieve project goals and develop national leadership capacity. Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies.
End Results
Empowered, engaged staff
- 5% Represent the project at high-level meetings, conferences, and other fora. Champion how the project supports USDA’s Learning Agenda and contributes to thought leadership of the education sector.
End Results
- World Vision is known to the donor and other stakeholders as a major actor in McGovern-Dole
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience managing and implementing large and complex international donor-funded programs
- Experience as a COP, Deputy COP, or Senior Project Manager
- Experience in school feeding, nutrition, and literacy programming
- Experience in leading and managing large grants in a complex/ fragile environment
- Proven ability to communicate a common vision among diverse partners and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams
- High level of interpersonal, technical, and analytical skills, including a demonstrated ability to interact effectively and collaborate with a broad range of public and private sector counterparts and other key stakeholders
- Familiarity with and commitment to addressing gender equality in programming, Do No Harm Principles and adaptive management and learning
Required Professional Experience
- Advanced degree in education, agriculture, nutrition, public health, business administration, development studies, international relations, or related field or equivalent qualifications in grant management and work history in developing countries
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in international development project management (USAID program management required)
- COP, Deputy COP, or Senior Project Manager experience
Required Language(s)
- Fluency in oral and written English is required
- Fluency in French, Spanish or Portuguese is advantageou
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Key Responsibilities:
Programmatic and technical Implementation for nutrition projects
- Ensure all malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women are identified, admitted and discharged from IMAM programs as per national Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) guidelines
- Support the communities to identify Nutrition gaps and develop community led solutions during implementation of nutrition and livelihoods projects.
- Provide technical support to the Ministry of Health staff to be able to implement PD Hearth, BFCI, IMAM Surge and Family MUAC models at both County and Sub County level.
- Work closely with community Health promoters to mobilize communities to participate in nutrition project interventions
- Strengthening of community structures to ensure they receive appropriate health and nutrition services.
- Support Community health promoters to conduct household nutrition counselling for project beneficiaries at community level.
- Ensure effective integration of gender, child protection, disability, Christian commitment and advocacy into nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
- Integration of nutrition into livelihood interventions to ensure food security at household level.
- In liaison with project accountant ensure monthly tracking of project expenditure and manage work plans and budgets.
Quality assurance for programmatic Designs, Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation processes
- Develop quality reports: weekly situation reports, monthly reports and quarterly reports as per WV and/donor(s) reporting guidelines
- In liaison with other project partners and MoH develop monitoring plan, analyse nutrition information from health information system and other sources to understand trends for timely decision making
- Document success stories, and best practices to demonstrate the impact created by WVK from the project implementation
- Monitor project implementation levels and report progress, impact and best practices.
- Work with M&E officer to develop ToRs for various activities that require external support and identify specific data requirements.
- Support MOH monitoring to ensure strengthened health systems and accurate reporting in the KHIS.
- Ensure timely analysis of monitoring data and dissemination to key stakeholders for management decision making.
- Support the implementation of processes to ensure quality of existing project data, and information collection.
- Ensure the project is compliant to the Humanitarian accountability requirements.
- Ensure Project alignment to the donor requirements and support office evaluation protocols and methodological tools.
- Ensure reporting to the CMAM database and PD Hearth database.
Advocacy, Engagement, Networking & Partnerships & Resource Acquisition
- Represent WVK in nutrition stakeholder meetings county and/or sub-county levels.
- Participate in advocacy activities to ensure resource allocation to nutrition by county governments.
- Engaging with MoH at County & Sub-County level to influence resource allocation nutrition
- Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels
- Identify potential areas for fundraising and provide information to inform fund raising initiatives for health and nutrition, education, gender, child protection and disability at all levels
Enhanced Empowerment, Documentation & Capacity Development
- Ensure capacity Building of government officers, community members and CBOs to enable them effectively manage and sustain Health and Nutrition interventions.
- Conduct training and sensitization of health facility staff and Community Health Promoters on PD Hearth, BFCI, MIYCN, IMAM, Family and micronutrients supplementation.
- Support the Sub-County and County nutrition officers to conduct community Training and follow ups for community units.
- Ensure continuous learning and documentation of lessons learnt and best practices for program design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks related to emergency response.
- Coordinate the sharing of learning related to MEAL practices across offices and provide support when internal/external reviews, evaluations, and lessons learned exercises should be employed.
- Support the development of project case studies, human interest stories, documentaries and other related materials.
- In collaboration with M&E officers document lessons learnt and reports (printed, visual) and published for sharing with the donor and other partners and proactively share information and learning with internal and external stakeholders.
KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Required Professional Experience
- At least three years working experience of which two should be in PD Hearth, maternal infant and young child nutrition and Nutrition Sensitive interventions.
- Good understanding of Ministry of health systems, Nutrition programming models, standards and guidelines, Ministries of Health structures at county and national levels
- Familiarity of national Health and Nutrition policy and advocacy instruments and structures
- First-hand experience in Health and Nutrition community resilience programming
- Significant experience working with an NGO environment, community and people’s groups, state institutions etc.
- Familiarity with gender inclusion in community interventions. Good analytical skills with appropriate attention to detail
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills.
- High professional ethics and integrity
- Good Empirical knowledge of humanitarian codes, principles and practice;
- Computer literacy in MS office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
- Excellent team player with ability to work under minimum supervision
Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification:
- Must have a minimum of a Minimum of Bachelor degree in Nutrition, Food Science and Nutrition, Food Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health Nutrition or the equivalent from a recognized University
Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:
- Experience working in multicultural, multi-location, values driven teams;
- Experience in working on donor funded programs
- Good understanding of Nutrition programming in emergency and developmental contexts
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