Job Detail

World Vision International (WVI) began emergency relief operations in Afghanistan in 2001 by addressing the urgent needs of children and families affected by natural disasters and decades of conflict. More than a decade later, World Vision Afghanistan’s (WVA) programs have expanded to development sectors such as health, nutrition, WASH, child protection, and education, empowering women to engage in civil and social change through interfaith partnership.

WVA targets the most vulnerable in its interventions; including children, women, Internally Displace Persons (IDPs), and returnee refugees, as well as the most impoverished and marginalized families. These priorities have been chosen to contribute to our Goal of: “Improved survival and well-being of Afghan girls and boys, building the foundations for a better future for Afghan children and their communities.” 

Our work is well established in Herat, Badghis, Ghor, and Faryab provinces in the western region of Afghanistan. We work closely with all levels of society including children, parents, teachers, village councils, religious leaders, ministries, provincial departments, and other national and international agencies.

Job Description:

Building Relationship:

Leadership

• Demonstrate World Vision’s core values, vision, and mission.
• Build a team of highly committed and competent staff, ensuring cooperation and coordination among relevant staff within the Project. Mentor, coach and provide opportunities for the professional growth of staff that directly report to this position.
• Create a learning environment in which staff within the assigned project regularly reflect, learn from mistakes, and use lessons for personal growth and to revise work plans to improve mission impact.
• Ensure that staff understand and follow the WV safeguarding policy and that awareness-raising on child protection, response, and incident reporting is occurring

Grant Implementation:

• Ensure a start-up workshop inclusive of all relevant stakeholders
• Direct and oversee the implementation of the grant, ensuring that the project’s ultimate, Intermediate and Immediate Outcomes are achieved in line with the Detailed Implementation Plan and the available budget
• Led project team in participatory planning of project implementation activities, ensuring adherence to technical standards, best practices, and donor guidelines
• Provide timely input and contribution to the completion of monthly work plans, and monthly, quarterly, and end-of-project reports and ensure grant management compliance consistent with donor and WV regulations.
• In collaboration with the Zonal managers, ensure effective liaison with local government officials, local communities, donor representatives, and other stakeholders, making use of an appropriate accountability framework
• Provide required documents/tools to support departments, particularly Finance, P&C, Procurement, Logistics, and Procurement to ensure good practice in the provision of support services

Staff Supervision, Management, and Capacity Building/ Continuous Learning

• Supervise a team of senior national staff with skills across a diverse set of technical areas
• Develop and maintain an adequate human resource plan consistent with WV policies, donor requirements, and local laws and ensure the proper technical and operational capacity of staff to manage and implement project initiatives
• Ensure competent and motivated staff are hired and retained
• Conduct ongoing reviews of staff performance in line with WVs performance management system, ensuring opportunities for staff feedback
• Ensure proper technical capacity of staff is available by providing training and performance management to project staff
• WV’s frontline and technical staff are equipped with knowledge, tools and resources to support project implementation
• Guide, mentor, and build the capacity of the WV Project staff in order to deliver high-quality outputs

Budget Management:

• Manage grant budget within approved spending levels for both WV and Donor and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donor and key management staff at World Vision. 
• In conjunction with the Finance team, ensure grant/project compliance whereby project expenditures are reasonable, allocable, prudent, and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure compliance with external audits.

Monitoring, Reporting, Documentation & Knowledge Management, and Compliance

• Maintain effective project quality assurance mechanisms, including a monitoring system for tracking of project progress against indicators, activities, and key project milestones, reporting, evaluation, and communication systems
• Conduct routine visits to all project sites for purposes of monitoring and operational support
• Submit timely accurate and quality reports that meet donor requirements
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for monitoring, reporting, documentation, and knowledge management, including the establishment of standard tools and systems for documentation and information sharing of project progress, best practices, lessons learned and success stories

Coordination and strengthened partnership

• Foster participatory planning and monitoring by engaging primary stakeholder groups in all stages of the project from project inception to project close-out
• Establish strong communication and working relationship between the project team and other WV support departments.
• Create an enabling environment for dialogue, information sharing, partnerships, and, cooperation when delivering project interventions
• Represent World Vision in the local coordination forums and liaise with Government officials and other partners wherever appropriate and required.
• In conjunction with other stakeholders, effectively advocate for changes in standards, policies, and legislations based on insights and demands from targeted communities.
• Effectively represent WV operations and mission when accompanying visitors, e.g. donor and/or Government representatives, journalists, and other delegations to project sites

Other

• Adhere to WV Child and Adult Safeguarding policy and standards.
• Adhere to WV accountability standards.
• To be aware and prepared to implement WV Afghanistan Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs plan under the context of WASH, Livelihoods, and Health interventions.
• While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the duties involved in this position, World Vision reserves the right to add, remove or alter duties when necessary

Submission Guideline:

The application closing date is 16-Jan-2024. Qualified applicants can apply for the position by filling in the online application form in WV Career portal. applicants can also attach their CV and cover letter in the online system. Please note that only the applications received through the online portal will be considered for this position.

Applicants can login to WV online application system by copying and pasting the following link into their

Submission Email:

https://worldvision.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WorldVisionInternational/details/Project-Manager_JR27978-1