World Vision Uganda Jobs – Child Sponsorship Assistant

Position: Child Sponsorship and Development Assistant (World Vision Uganda Jobs)

Report to: Child Sponsorship and Development Facilitator

Location: Various Field Offices in Eastern and Western Uganda

Job Summary

World Vision Uganda Jobs: Timely/quality implementation of field level programmatic activities and sponsorship performance is in line with targets and partnership standards and managed in a manner that contributes to sustained and improved child wellbeing.

Major Responsibilities:

Implementation and reporting of planned activities

• Participate in planning and budgeting, preparation of work plans, implementation of planned activities and monitoring/ reporting of progress.
• Facilitate and monitor the implementation of planned activities and community level engagements.
• Mobilize and facilitate the engagements of stakeholders during planning and development meetings, workshops and other fora.
• Identify local level partners and support and facilitate the partners in the implementation of planned activities.
• Facilitate stakeholders and partners in supervision and monitoring of programmatic activities.
• Support the collection and documentation of impact and success stories.

Community engagement and advocacy

• Innovatively support communities including RC households to participate and benefit from the programme development.
• Sensitize community on sponsorship (RC guardians, community leaders and other community members) and facilitate participation in the sponsorship management project.
• Train the children committees in the respective parishes in advocating for their wellbeing.
• Support and facilitate the children committees to plan for and hold meetings at all levels (School, parish and sub county) on a regular basis and document findings
• Support the children committees to conduct outreaches within their villages/parishes and sub counties
• Mobilize and facilitate active participation of children and their communities to participate in planning, monitoring and implementation of community development initiatives.
• Build the capacity of children, families and community to collectively engage local leaders on identified issues.
• Follow-up on commitments by leaders on improvement of the wellbeing of children.
• Mobilize communities to participate in annual children care and protection days – such as the Day of African child.
• Plan for and implement regular scheduled and unscheduled HR audits and other risk mitigation measures.
• Ensure identified gaps are addressed within agreed timeline(s) and recommend to management appropriate action to mitigate future risks.

Management of sponsorship performance

• Monitoring of RC in line with partnership standards.
• RC records and files well managed and stored securely.
• Support RCs to correspond with sponsors in a timely manner.
• Facilitate processing of all special mails; Christmas cards, Spontaneous letters, APR, introductory letters within partnership standard.
• Support children to respond to sponsor correspondences- Sponsor letters and introductory letters.
• Support management of Support Office Queries, Gift Notifications, mails, and file copies of correspondences in children’s files.
• Conduct and produce quality periodic mailings (APR and Christmas Cards).
• Take quality pictures according to the required standards
• Mobilize and support RC families to adequately prepare for and manage sponsor visits

Monitoring of Registered Children

• RC monitoring and follow up of the child wellbeing in accordance to the minimum programming standard (once every 90 days).
• Support development of integrated monitoring plan in assigned area with ADP stakeholders
• Complete and file the monitoring data in the children files.
• Analyze and follow up critical RCs findings (especially RCs with challenges).
• Compile monitoring reports for management action.
• Hold monthly / quarterly meetings with Child Monitors and guardians/parents and child protection committees to address findings from monitoring.
• Work with CDF to identify, train monitors and partners.
• Provide information on support and benefit of RC to the CSDF and SDA to enable entry in STEP

Child Protection and Wellbeing

• Monitor the wellbeing and child abuse cases and report any accordance in line with child protection policy and guidelines.
• Work with local leaders to protection children from child violations and abuses on child protection.
• Sensitization of children including all RC on child protection.
• Sensitize children, guardians/parents and other stakeholders about children’s rights and responsibilities with a view to identify child violations.
• Report cases of child abuse in the programme area.
• Report cases of child incidents for follow up.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• Only candidates with a minimum of a Bachelor Degree in in any of the following Health, Agriculture, Education and related fields will be considered; Community Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Public Health, Environmental Science, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Education attained from a recognized institution of higher Learning.
• At least one year of experience in Development work attained from an International NGO, with sound understanding of programming
• You must be able to ride a Motor Cycle with a clean riders permit-class A
• You must be able to communicate in the local language of the programme area
• Strong experience in documentation and evidence based/impact reporting
• Ability to work in a team to achieve excellence in execution, committed, accountable and passionate about the work we do.
• Commitment to World Vision mission and partnership values and sensitivity to its various expressions across cultures and denomination.
• Track record demonstrating high integrity, reliable and dependable
• Networking and influencing skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

How to Apply:

To Apply click here

Application Deadline Date: 19-May-17

World Vision Uganda Jobs – Child Sponsorship Assistant