World Vision
World Vision
is an International Christian Relief and Development organization, whose goal
is to achieve long – lasting benefits in the quality of life for vulnerable
children and their families, displaced persons and communities.
VisionFund Deputy
Regional Director, East Africa Region
Reference: 580 – 18G31008
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Purpose of Position:
World Vision (WV) is a Christian relief,
development, and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children,
families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
One important
component of World Visions work is microfinance, providing financial services
such as credit, savings and insurance to the poor, enabling them to earn
increased income, build assets and provide for their families.
Numerous
studies confirm the strong impact of microfinance on the well-being of
children. Studies also show, however, that the integration of microfinance with
other development activities can have an even greater impact when compared to
either microfinance alone or development activities alone.
WVs
microfinance operations are managed through VisionFund International (VFI) and
its 6,000 staff, a WV subsidiary.
VFI manages a
network of 36 microfinance institutions (MFIs) globally and has outstanding
loans of approximately $450 million to some 800,000 clients and annual network
revenues of over $138 million.
VisionFund is seeking a Deputy Regional Director (DRD) to assist the Regional
Director (RD) in leading and managing the execution of VisionFunds strategy in
the region. The CEOs of each MFI in the region will report jointly to the RD
and their local Boards.
The RD is
therefore responsible for ensuring the delivery of financial and social
performance in the region.
The role also
involves managing the regional MFI technical staff who support the RD in
capacity building and oversight of the MFIs, ensuring proper governance,
controls, policies, procedures, and performance targets are achieved.
The role of
DRD will involve extended periods in country filling the roles of CEO/COO/CFO
as needs arise.
Key Responsibilities:
Ensure MFIs Deliver to Performance Targets:
- Supervise jointly with
the MFI board the MFI CEOs and manage performance expectations in support
to local MFI and global VFI priorities, ensuring balanced achievement of
MFI double bottom-lines of social and financial performance.
Build
Capacity in the MFI:
- Support regional roll
out of global centre initiatives including how central services and
regional banking software can be deployed to improve service to the MFIs
and their clients and to reduce costs and improve sustainability. - Provide timely, and
responsive but prioritized consulting services for MFI issues and
concerns. - Ensure competent and
quality staff are hired in the key positions of CEO, CFO and COO and
support MFI management in other staff hiring as needed.
Develop and
Maintain a Strong Control Environment:
- Work with the CEO of
each MFI to ensure controls and compliance culture are operating well. - Sits on and attends
all MFI boards in their region where legally possible to represent the
interests of VFI. - Work with Governance
Director for ensuring all MFIs (WV/VFI) boards and are in compliance with
local laws, regulatory and lender/donor requirements and WV/VFI policies,
procedures and directives.
Strategy
Development and Execution:
- Provide inputs and
work with VF strategy director and the rest of VFI Senior Executive Team
on refinements to, or revision of VFI global strategy, especially as it
relates to priority MFIs. - Support fund raising
efforts for MFIs and coordinate with VFI director for marketing and
fundraising and director for global funding and corporate finance Funding
Manager.
Personal and
Staff Development
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
The key ability VisionFund is seeking is leadership.
In addition
to experience with microfinance and banking operations (lending, deposit
taking), the successful candidate will have experience developing and nurturing
a talented team, and spotting improvement opportunities and making those happen
in a complex and dynamic environment.
In addition,
the following specific knowledge, skills and abilities are required, and may
have been acquired through a combination of formal schooling, selfeducation,
prior experience or onthejob training.
- Given the need to
control financial risk within the MFIs, it is imperative that this
individual will have good financial analysis, risk management and
accounting skills. - Thorough knowledge and
extensive experience in governance and compliance, microfinance and
banking operations. 10 years of leadership experience largely in banking
or microfinance environment. - Although central
treasury expertise will be provided by GC, this person will have
understanding of balance sheet risk management including interest rate
risk, liquidity risk and foreign exchange risk as well as bank funding
processes and contracting. - Solid understanding of
financial reporting and performance measurements and planning/forecasting. - Able to balance
Christian values with sound commercial practices. - MBA preferred but will
consider a Bachelor of Commerce. - Good project
management and organizational skills. - Highly developed
Consulting skills, with ability to analyze, recommend solutions, mentor
and direct people. - Balanced and
respectful approach to groups differing responsibilities. Sensitive to
complexity of WV direction, MFI board independence and shareholder
requirements. - Good communication and
influence skills in both oral and written forms. - Strong staff leader
desirous of developing and encouraging staff. - Effective coach and
able to train people in VisionFund policies and procedures. - Must be experienced in
managing effective support of accounting and loan tracking systems. - Must be able to
simultaneously manage multiple priorities and projects. - Must be cross
culturally sensitive as will work with associates from different cultural
contexts and time zones. - Flexibility on hours
to contact people within wide time zone differences is required. - Ability and
willingness to travel extensively and for long periods of time.
The Somalia
program wishes to invite applications from highly competent dynamic,
self-driven and results oriented candidate to fill the below mentioned position.Senior Program
Management Officer
Reference:
1598 – 15N09052
Location: Karen, Nairobi, Kenya
This is a
position within Program Development and Quality Assistance department, focused
primarily on providing program management support to multiple key grants.
The job
holder will ensure program reporting and compliance oversight as well as donor
relations for high-value, complex, multi-sector, multi partner and multi donor
funded grants, in line with WVS strategy.
He/she will
have a high capacity for managing multiple deadlines and project details, to
supervise the completion of monthly, quarterly and annual reports of the
highest quality and donor satisfaction and compliance.
This will be
done in an exceptionally efficient manner which empowers and capacitates the
field project team to complete the bulk of the required report details the
first time.
On occasion
he/she will support in proposal planning and development processes in
collaboration with the Program Development (acquisition) team, ensuring lessons
learnt and experiences from the ongoing grants are inbuilt into new grants
acquisition processes.
The position
will support the development and promotion of strategic alliances with donors,
multilateral agencies, and other NGOs for purposes of increasing resources for
children and families WV serves.
Major Responsibilities:
Programme Development:
- Spearhead the sub-
grant agreement application process and preparation ensuring all the donor
requirements and project deliverables are included as per the grants
checklist and when changes are made the process is updated. - Support WV Somalia
partners in the development of detailed implementation plans, quarterly
cash flows, indicator tracking tables, and other project management tools. - Prepare and execute
the Consortium funded program grant tracker and regularly update this
sharing with the PD Manager for overall update on monthly basis. - Regularly review
project evaluations, lessons learned workshop documents, field visit
reports, and project reports across the program and from other NGOs and
donors to apply emerging innovations and best practices in future
proposals. - Assist the PM Manager
in documenting and updating WVS technical program approaches based on
emerging practices.
Relationship
building and competitive intelligence gathering:
- Represent WV Somalia
in various donor and coordination forums at National level and providing
programmatic information as required to promote WV visibility, servant
leadership, and good will with donors including, UN Agencies, bilateral,
multilaterals, Support Offices, and NGO peers. - Maintain relationships
with donor and key partner agencies/stakeholders for current grants being
managed and keep up to date in terms of any changes in the same and
regularly update PM Team Lead on this. - Participate in
briefing and providing updates (as well as in preparation of documents/
material in advance of such briefings) to current and prospective donor
representatives, both in formal and informally to build and strengthen relationships. - Help plan and execute
donor forums and presentations, key meetings such as learning events to
share learning, promote best practices, coordinate programming, and foster
alliances and consortia opportunities. Support in preparation of effective
donor marketing materials for events and meetings. - Actively research,
monitor and plan for new funding and marketing opportunities, including
advanced intelligence on competitive calls, staff changes among key
donors, new funding available for resilience and related issues, and other
new opportunities for the SomReP consortium, in line with SomRePs
fundraising strategy.
Program
reporting & donor compliance:
- Review final drafts of
project reports from field Project Managers for completeness of narrative
information, accuracy of quantitative data, sufficiency of lessons learned
documentation, inclusion of project or security challenges, and other
donor requirements or preferences. - Track continuous
improvement of report quality from the field by tracking on behalf of the
Programs team the hours spent by all Program Officers reviewing project
reports, along with quality rating of each draft report. Assist Program
Management Team Lead in consolidating findings for Operations to act upon. - Ensure delivery of
timely reports and other contractually obligated donor deliverables (e.g.
baseline reports, learning reports) by documenting and sharing internal
deadlines on all deliverables with full project team and SO stakeholders
on each assigned project. Support other Program Officers to do the same by
sharing internal timeline templates and other effective tools. - Provide timely,
detailed and quality program reports to Support Offices and donors on
consortium, emergency and rehabilitative grant funded programs. - Spearhead final review
of narrative reports for all assigned projects, providing appropriate
feedback to implementing teams (Ops Manager, Project Managers) and/or
implementing partners. - Streamline report
review process to incorporate feedback from M&E, Finance, and any
Technical Advisors for each project report. - Coach as appropriate
implementing teams or partners on satisfactory reports writing. - Proactively raise
reporting, implementation or donor compliance challenges with QA, Ops
Managers, Program Management Team Lead, and SOs to seek efficient
resolution. - Support consortium
funded grants to ensure compliance and adherence to WVS policies and
procedures, donor regulations and monitoring mechanisms which allow
transparent and accountable implementation of projects;
Field project
events, monitoring visits and support:
- Partnering with the
Acquisition PO for each new grant won and assigned, utilize the startup
process as an avenue to build capacity/coach the implementing teams and or
partners on donor compliance and expectations from each grant to be
managed. - Participate as
appropriate in midterm reviews, mid-year and final lessons learnt events
with the purpose of acquiring insight on the progress of implementation,
addressing challenges related to under expenditure, slow pace of
implementation, capturing best practices across partners with a view of
highlighting those in subsequent grant acquisition phases. - Coach and follow-up
with project teams on specific reporting gaps to ensure continuous
improvement. Support Program Management Team Lead in providing guidance
and training curriculum on high quality reporting standards and practices. - Participate in
field-level Quarterly Review Meetings, visit field project sites, and meet
with operations staff to gather emerging challenges, lessons learned, and
innovations to apply to future proposals. - Escort donors and
partners to the field on monitoring visits as may be required.
Qualifications:
Education / Knowledge / Technical Skills and Experience
Educational level required:
First degree in Development
studies or related field
Technical Training qualifications desired:
Professional technical
skill desired: Humanitarian standards (SPHERE, HAP), specific trainings on
donor requirements e.g. OFDA, DFID, EuropeAid training, personal security
awareness training.
Experience:
3+ years working in humanitarian or development
field, preferably with one or more previous assignments in developing contexts.
Previous professional performance ratings should indicate consistently high
performance and potential for future growth.
Other:
Demonstrated, exceptional writing skills: the
ability to develop quality reports under tight deadlines. Must be able to
succinctly express key points in technically accurate fashion, efficiently
summarize and compile large amounts of information, and ensure accuracy and
logical flow of reported information.
Proven programming and project management experience:Must be
highly organized, detailed oriented, able to detect gaps or missing information
others may not, efficient in analyzing information, and succinct in producing
verbal and written summaries of key points.
Experience working with both bilateral and multilateral donors, particularly
USAID, Danida, Sida, EU/ECHO, and DFID. Experience working with development banks,
such as World Bank, African Development Bank a plus.
Excellent English languages skills; written and verbal.
Networking/external engagement skills:
proven experience in
networking with donors and partners to bring about funding opportunities and/or
negotiate favorable terms in existing agreements. Able to speak persuasively in
front of groups a plus.
Team player; the ability to mobilize and work as part of a diverse team to
achieve the overall goal
How to Apply
to apply online
Regional IT
Director, East Africa Region
Reference: 1296 – 17G18013
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Purpose of Position:
- Provide IT leadership
in the region and align the IT strategy to enable the ministry and
contribute to its effectiveness, quality and accountability in achieving
strategic business goals.
- Provide a strategic
interface between business and IT, engaging stakeholders, managing relationships
and understanding business requirements to align technology solutions and
services to enable the achievement of short and long term business
objectives in the region.
- Accountable for end to
end delivery of IT services in region, leveraging the IT governance
framework, that defines the working relationships and sharing of IT
resources in the global IT organization, for the delivery of technology
solutions and services to ensure business and customer satisfaction.
- Provide leadership to
the IT resources in the region, fostering a team environment, identifying,
nurturing and developing talent, driving performance improvement and
creating experiences that motivate, stretch and celebrate the capacities
of the resources in achieving results.
Key
Responsibilities:
Leadership & Strategy:
- Provide IT leadership
in the region. - Align IT strategy to
enable the regional business strategy. - Trusted advisor and
partner to the business. - Member of advisory
board for the prioritization of IT initiatives in the region. - Owns regional IT
operating plan (ROP).
Engagement /
Relationship Management:
- Establish and maintain
a strategic and positive relationship with business stakeholders. - Proactively serves as
the primary point of contact from IT for business leaders and key stakeholders,
enabling business to leverage WV IT technical and leadership capability. - Understand business
context, strategy and plans, identifying customer requirements and unmet
needs. - Maintains awareness of
changes to the organization (s) strategy, goals and processes to ensure
requirements appropriately reflect the needs of the organization(s). - Facilitates changes in
services required/provided when necessary. - Analyzes technology
trends to determine impact to the achievement of organization(s) goals. - Lead business through
the demand management process for new requests and maintain visibility of
the regional demand pipeline. - Negotiate Service
Level expectations based on customer requirements and in accordance with
the WV IT standards. - Advises on options,
risks, costs versus benefits, and impacts on products, business processes
and system priorities. - Works with business
stakeholders in the identification and evaluation of risks associated with
business decisions and supports the development of risk mitigation plans.
Customer
Satisfaction / Service Fulfilment:
- Accountable for end to
end delivery of IT services in the region according to SLAs. - Owns regional IT
performance metrics for measuring and reporting how IT services are
meeting service level expectations. - Owns customer
satisfaction metrics for measuring and reporting how IT services are
meeting customer expectations. - Manages customer
expectations. - Owns Voice of Customer
feedback loop for gathering customer input to drive customer satisfaction
and service improvement. - Works with the
business to validate that expected business outcomes are realized – return
on investment (ROI).
- Accountable for the
performance of the IT resources in the region. - Set performances
objectives, individual development plans and conduct annual performance
reviews. - Drive performance
improvement targeting specific identified areas of development. - Build trust-based
relationships that foster a team environment and a team that lives the WV
IT culture. - Create experiences
that motivate, stretch and celebrate the capacities of resources in the
region. - Coach, guide and
mentor IT team in the region.
Knowledge,
Skills & Abilities:
- Bachelors degree in
Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business
Administration or other related field, or equivalent work experience. - Requires leadership,
business knowledge, negotiation skills and experience/in-depth knowledge
of IT infrastructure operations and/or software implementation and support
across multiple countries. - Requires demonstrated
ability to launch and deliver one or more IT project(s) across multiple
countries on time and within budget. - Typically requires 10
15 years of IT experience, 5-7 years of experience in the areas of IT
leadership, project management, process engineering or solutions
management. - Requires experience in
managing teams and building relationships with people at a variety of
levels. - Willingness and
ability to travel domestically and internationally, as necessary. - Industry
certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, CoBIT, ISACA, PMI, etc.
Regional
Governance Advisor, Africa
Reference: 1612 – 17R15004
Purpose of Position:
The purpose of this regional position is to apply
the relevant knowledge, skills and methods that promote the development of high
performing national office governing boards and advisory councils that guide,
protect and ensure the achievement of the World Vision Mission and Vision.
To this end, the position will lead board development, provide and manage
governance training, clarify decision rights and accountability in all aspects
of World Vision governance in the region.
As a member
of the Global Governance Dept, the position supports regional implementation of
WVIs best practice governance model by national boards, advisory councils and
alignment with microfinance organizations boards.
It also
supports the Partnership national office governance Transition and Peer Review
processes according to established standards.
The position
makes an important contribution to governance policy development, research and
creation of quality resource materials.
Key Responsibilities:
Board Development & Capacity Building:
- Provide capacity
building and development facilitation and training in best practice
governance to Boards and Advisory Councils, in collaboration with the RL,
SDs and NDs. - Facilitate the
assessment of governance effectiveness in National Offices and develop
action plans to address identified gaps. - Create and implement
regional governance strategy, annual work plan and Regional Forum Plan for
capacity building and other learning processes. - Support the defining
of baseline Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for governance at national,
regional, and global level, to promote effectiveness and alignment to
Partnership standards. - Ensure monitoring,
observation, regular communication and quality board meeting reporting, so
as to keep track of Board and Advisory Council performance. - Provide support and
quality control for National Office Board and Advisory Council Transitions
where appropriate. - Coach and advice
national directors and senior leadership to support their boards and
Advisory Councils and derive value from their work. - Contribute content and
develop board training modules.
Peer Review
& Global International Audit (GIA):
- In conjunction with
the Peer Review department, provide support and counsel to board and staff
with regard to the self-review, in preparation for Peer Reviews. - Provide advice for an
appropriate follow-up and implementation of peer review recommendations. - Participate as a peer
in reviews assigned and scheduled by the Peer Review Department. - Support GIAs risk
audits related to the governance functioning. - Contribute to regional
senior management meetings as appropriate and articulate governance issues
as well as Global Governance Department planning and coordination
meetings. - Participate in the
development of a contextualized Regional Forum that is governance-focused
and a development opportunity for boards and Advisory Councils. - Occasionally attend
Board or Advisory Council meetings as a resource advisor /observer on
governance with agreement of parties concerned. - Liaise with VisionFund
governance department to ensure alignment between National Offices and
VisionFund MFIs on governance issues as per WVI policies.
- Attend and participate
in weekly chapel, devotions and regional/departmental retreats. - Practice the Core
Values, Covenant of Partnership and Partnership Principles. - Undertake any other
tasks that are consistent with the positions purposes, as may be required
by the Partnership Leader, Global Governance.
Knowledge,
Skills and Abilities
- Masters level or
higher degree in related field such as Human Development, Law,
Organisational Development, Corporate Business and related Management, or
Governance. - Extensive knowledge
and understanding of the functioning of International NGOs such as World
Vision in terms of their governance, management and operations. - Broad knowledge and
understanding of current board governance issues in the region and/or the
world. - Experience in senior
management roles, including working directly under and reporting to a
board, serving on a board, preferably including experience in the
non-profit sector. - An understanding of
current practices in governance in the corporate as well as the NGO
sectors. - Excellent
communication skills and strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills. - Proven ability to work
with high level members of board and advisory councils across physical and
cultural distances. - Understanding of peer
review mechanisms. - Ability to lead and
coordinate board assessments and facilitate board training. - Ability to conceive
and formalize sound strategy to meet the mission and deliver on objectives
and tasks on time. - Outstanding
coordination skills, with ability to handle multiple activities
concurrently, work under pressure, and meet deadlines. - International
experience/exposure through travel or living working in other countries. - Ability to participate
effectively in a virtual team while ensuring achievement of team
objectives. - Good diplomatic,
influencing and negotiating skill with ability to exercise discretion. - Demonstrated
commitment to World Vision’s mission statement and Core Values. - Proven ability to work
across different cultures and nationalities within the region. - Effective in written
and verbal communication in English. - Ability and willingness
to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time. - Willingness to work
outside the normal working hours from time to time, due to the need to
connect with people in different time zones. - Ability to work in a
virtual team.
- Masters Level or
Higher Degree in related field such as Human Development, Law,
Organizational Development, Corporate Business Management or Governance. - Experience in
development of quality board tools and polices. - Board experience and
board development facilitation. - Ability to work in a
complex organization. - Understanding of
current practices in corporate governance and NGO sector governance.
How to Apply
to apply online
Application Deadline Date:
13-Sep-15
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