Openings at World Vision Kenya

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The Senior Director, Safeguarding leads a division, including the WVI Safeguarding Unit, to develop and lead implementation of a global strategy for end-to-end Safeguarding processes, including guidelines and tactical delivery at global, regional, and national levels. The Senior Director, Safeguarding develops policy standards and best practices for technical leadership in child and adult safeguarding, including preventing sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

The WVI Safeguarding Unit is mandated by the WVI Board of Directors to provide global strategic and technical leadership for action across the World Vision Partnership in preventing harm through integration of safeguarding across operations and organisational processes.

The unit also ensures reporting and responding to child and adult beneficiary safeguarding risks and incidents, particularly focusing on a survivor-centred and professional approach to investigation and risk mitigation measures.

This role is critical to WVI fulfilling its Board-mandated commitment to be an organisation that is safe for the children and communities  it serves, maximising our efforts to first do no harm to the children and families we engage with and minister alongside. Utilising his/her specialised knowledge of the safeguarding and related fields, the Senior Director, Safeguarding shapes internal and external discourse on key safeguarding topics, moving the organisation and sector closer to achieving "Do No Harm" principles.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Defining standards and policy

• Define Safeguarding standards to which all entities must adhere and evaluate their sufficiency on an annual basis.
• Develop corresponding policy guidance and cross-functional best practices to enable compliance by all entities and which furthers the safeguarding agenda in World Vision and across the sector.
• Define accountability mechanisms for multiple functions, including global, regional, and national P&C, Child Protection, Audit, Sponsorship, Communications, and Supply Chain among others
• Support strategic initiatives and innovations to apply safeguarding policies and principles
• Serve as the Partnership’s spiritual, moral and technical authority on safeguarding issues, conducting himself/herself with the highest levels of integrity while making rapid and pragmatic decisions that ensure the best outcome for children and adult beneficiaries.
• Sets policies and guidelines for direct communication to donors; engage with multilateral agencies in incident management

Safeguarding strategy & system

• Lead a division to develop a global strategy for end-to-end Safeguarding processes, including guidelines and tactical delivery at global, regional, and national levels. Includes influencing leaders who oversee functions which need to embed safeguarding into their processes.
• Identify areas of systemic or emerging organisational weaknesses and gaps and directing efforts of multiple GC, SO, FO, and RO and VisionFund leaders and departments to address strategic gaps
• Proactively address risks in collaboration with key leaders across the Partnership, identifying process improvements that increase efficiency and add value to implementing entities, particularly Field Offices.
• Direct multiple functions and hold accountable senior leaders, managers and stakeholders across the Partnership to take strategic and timely actions to strengthen safeguarding of children and adult beneficiaries, including targeted improvements, culturally relevant prevention efforts, and systematic awareness building.
• Influence budget decisions at global, regional, and national level, including support offices, for safeguarding activities (both prevention and response for investigations and survivor support).

Incident management & organizational learning

• Oversight of incident management protocols, particularly to ensure a survivor-centred approach.
• Ensuring excellence in incident management and response to high-risk safeguarding incidents through the safeguarding investigations team
• Support case managers to oversee incidents to highest possible standards.
• Support crisis management, particularly in cases with external pressures such as donor or media attention.
• Monitor/spot check for potential areas of concern, training needs, and risk mitigation measures for prevention.

Data-driven trend analysis for continuous improvement

• Strategic change management based on data and trends analysis
• Leadership of WVI Safeguarding Oversight Group
• Initiation of targeted and data-driven prevention efforts
• Annual Safeguarding Update Report exercise and Global National Office Dashboard (GNOD) results reporting

Team leadership

• Lead high-performance team and broader safeguarding network. Matrix management of Regional Safeguarding Leads

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Minimum two years’ experience in a developing world environment, minimum 10 years working in NGO sector.
• Experience in strategic leadership, management, and/or policy formation, guidance and implementation.
• Seasoned experience and knowledge from best practice externally as well as field experience of managing child safeguarding and/or adult beneficiary safeguarding (PSEA) protocols.
• Very strong organizational skills; ability to delegate and set clear priorities for work team; ability to complete a complex variety of tasks in an organized manner and to quickly change and adapt to new priorities.
• Experience making judgement calls on need-to-know and right-to-know parties within highly sensitive matters.
• Experience in communicating to and influencing decisions at the highest degrees of organizational leadership and Boards of Directors.
• Proven ability to exercise judgement and decisive leadership, balanced with diplomacy and consensus building, in highly complex and high-stakes situations.
• Able to quickly discern the core issues within a multi-faceted incident and move a team to action.
• Familiarity with child protection issues, beneficiary safeguarding, humanitarian accountability, Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, and the UN Conventions on the Rights of the Child, along with ability to quickly learn, analyse and interpret large amounts of complex information.
• Proven ability to lead cross-cultural teams, seeking diverse views and rapidly building consensus to address multi-faceted challenges.
• Experience achieving timely results while enhancing stakeholder relationships and buy-in in a large, federated organizational structure.
• Demonstrates a level of interpersonal, influencing, and team building skills which net high degrees of trust and efficient collaboration in a diverse and virtual work environment.      
• Experience developing and interpreting complex or challenging policies, with an advanced understanding of implementation implications across various contexts and settings.
• Excellent leadership, management and coaching skills, with a track record of motivating and developing the capacities of others, including peers, direct reports, and staff over which there is no line management authority.
• Experience engaging in external forums, including UN agencies and inter-agency working groups. Well-honed presentation skills, including use of data to influence decisions.
• Expertise in written communication, including drafting and editing technical or legal documents.
• Master’s degree or equivalent in a Legal, Human Resources, Management, Development, Humanitarian or Child Rights-related field; or field/practical experience working with situations of strategic leadership and/or policy formation, guidance and implementation
• Strong technical Safeguarding knowledge gained from continuous learning of best practice externally, as well as extensive operational experience including child safeguarding and adult beneficiary safeguarding and PSEA.
• Deep understanding of and appreciation for WV’s Christian identity and ethos, and how it links to the organisation’s mission, risk management philosophy, and staff motivation at all levels
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time.  
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English; language skills in Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese is a preferred

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Purpose of Position:

To provide programmatic, technical and managerial support in the implementation of Climate Asset Management (CAM) project in Narok, Elgeyo Marakwet, Kwale, and Tana River Counties. The programme goal is Sustained improvement in eco-system restoration, livelihoods, and resilience to climate change for 250,000 smallholder farmers and pastoralists (men, women and youth) covering 250,000 hectares of land in four target Counties in Kenya. The jobholder will be required to give feedback and reports to the Consortium, partners, donor, National, Regional and subsequent Area Program Office where IMARA program is covering. S/he will be an active participant in the consortium reporting and participating in meetings and forums under the CAM Secretariat. The position Holder must be able to communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

Major Responsibilities:

Program Coordination and Management

• The jobholder will be the accountable person for the Program under World Vision Component and will work in close collaboration with the AP Managers, program staffs, Government line ministries in the Counties and Cooperating partners of this grant – Self Help Africa, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Justdiggit, Africa Harvest, Green Belt Movement, and Conservation Alive Kenya.
• Provide technical support and guidance in implementation of the project’s objectives
• Monitor and ensure that grant is managed and executed as per plans within time and budgets, meeting donor, World Vision and community accountability;
• Monitor Budget Utilization in line with planned Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) as per WVK Financial Standards and donor requirements
• Provide effective, innovative and strategic coordinating role in the CAM project implementation;
• Ensure that all CAM project initiatives within the program’s area of influence meet or exceed planned outcomes and are implemented timely;
• Ensure program implementation is in compliance with Donor standards, WVK Policies & Procedures and aligned to acceptable financial & operational audit results.
• Ensure inclusion of cross cutting themes including gender, youth, conflict sensitivity, disability and social inclusion
• Ensure integration between the CAM project activities and other WVK livelihoods and resilience development programs in Kenya, and other relevant Global WV entities
• Actively participate in CAM project meetings, Technical Working Groups, and Program Team meetings as appropriate
• Manage and coordinate the CAM project team ensuring competent and motivated staff as well as manage performance of staff and encourage on-the-job coaching, identify and address learning and training needs and opportunities

Design, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting

• Ensure accurate and quality Program Design Documents (PDD) are on file
• Contextualize and utilize planning guidelines for the CAM project.
• Ensure accurate and quality Annual Operation Plan (AOP) and Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) for the program in place and utilized
• Work closely with CAM project Secretariat MEAL to effectively support the program to carry out all measurements and assessments – baselines, assessments, designs, monitoring and evaluations -  in accordance with donor requirements and WV established standards, policies and procedures;
• Ensure the program achieves Child Well-Being Outcomes in line with the organization’s Ministry Framework and Development Approach, and WVK’s strategic priorities and the program designs.
• Develop monthly schedule for monitoring together with communities and partners;
• Ensure community capacity building plan on monitoring is in place and utilized;
• Monitor monthly program expenditure
• Ensure effective communication between IMARA Secretariat, communities/partners and the baseline/evaluation team;
• Ensure all targeted respondents / stakeholders are mobilized in a timely manner during data collection exercise.
• Apply Contextualized and utilized reporting guidelines
• Generate quality Monthly Management Reports (MMR) informed by accurate analysed data written using language that is appropriate to the reader and in line with World Vision reporting guidelines;
• Generate Quality & Accurate quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports informed by MMR and in line with donor regulations;
• In liaison with Communications Officer, Develop context specific electronic and live media communications on program activities
• Work with MEAL Coordinator ensure effective reflection and learning forums in the counties
• Participate in quarterly monitoring visits to the field to review progress, gather stories of change associated with Market systems development, sustainable natural resources-based VCs, and financial inclusion to identify and address strategic gaps;

Engagement, Networking and Fundraising

• Represent WVK in county, national and other Regional forums as approved by the Program Director.
• Coordinate and Manage Relationships with credible research institutions and private sector to support research component and market systems strengthening component in the program under the agreed framework. 
• Participate in Narok, Elgeyo Marakwet, Kwale, and Tana River Counties Environmental Stakeholders forums/technical working groups as well as supporting WVK the program staff and cluster managers on engagement in relation to Natural Resource Management as well as articulating Environment and Climate change objectives in the forum. 
• Participate in development of innovative NRM, Climate Change Adaptation and other Resilience Building concepts and proposals for building community resilience for fundraising as well as marketing Integrated NRM to various Learning forums.
• Build and Maintain effective communications and pro-active relationships with partners including the county government and the donor
• Collaborate with line ministries and departments in providing technical support and assistance to the program
• Support implementing staff to successfully engage with key internal and external stakeholders, including other CAM project entities, private sector, community, religious leaders and other civil society representatives in order to maximize the impact of interventions;
• Actively engage with peers across the CAM project Consortium and WV Partnership
• Participate in public forums and events as appropriate.

Advocacy: Policy and Budget Influence

• Coordinate advocacy and policy influence initiatives of the program at county and national level
• Increase the visibility of WVK and the donor by maintaining active engagement and advocacy on NRM related matters
• Ensure that staff capacity around policy and advocacy is built.
• Take lead on integrating World Vision Global Campaign on Ending Violence against children

Others

• Lead and participate in daily devotions and other organizational meetings as required;
• Participate and contribute in meetings, committees and task forces.
• Any other duties as assigned by the Program Director or designee

Qualification, Skills and Knowledge

• Degree in Natural Resource Management, Agriculture,  Agro-forestry, Range land Management, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness Management and Marketing, or any other related discipline.
• Post graduate degree in any of the above or Business/MBA/Leadership/organizational development is desirable
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience 3 of which must be in Managing multi agency livelihood and Resilience grants in ASAL Counties;
• At least 3 years’ experience in designing, planning, implementing, supervising and reporting on integrated sustainable Natural Resource-based Value chains marketing, Business Development, Enterprise development and/or Livelihoods programming
• Knowledge in renewable energies and alternative technologies are of advantage;
• Experience in working with consortium partners, county governments, private sector, civil society, donors and local communities;
• Good understanding of NRM in ASAL context and Dryland Agricultural systems Market systems strengthening, Peace Programming and Governance.
• A broad grasp of socio - economic policy issues with respect to NRM, Agriculture, Food security, livestock and other Livelihoods, range management and marketing in both rural and often fragile context
• Familiarity with participatory market approaches and making Markets Work for the Poor approaches
• Deep understanding and ability to work in a fragile often interfaith context
• Understanding of gender and diversity issues and commitment to addressing inequalities in all the key areas of responsibility
• Ability to work under pressure and strict deadlines
• Understanding of development/relief issues with commitment to humanitarian principles and action
• Good financial/budget management
• Good people management, training and coaching skills with strong conceptual and analytical skills
• The ability to work independently, think innovatively and strategically and work effectively within a team