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Senior Technical Advisor - Livelihoods (TSO)
Reference 10336-18G12156
Location Global Town/City
Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within a jurisdiction (country or U.S. State) where WVI is registered to operate.
Application Deadline Date 15-Jun-18
world vision jobs in uganda
Meets clients’ requests for technical assistance to ensure programmes are technically sound and quality improved in programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models. Technical assistance provided to clients in grant-related requests contributes to growth in grant portfolio and meets donor requirements.
Leadership provided to a team of technical and sub-sector professionals and collaboration and planning with cross-sector Sr. Technical Advisors ensures quality, timely and well-integrated services to the client.
Meets other technical consulting service requests in other areas such as project guidance materials, donor representations, policy influence roles as requested by Global Center / Regional Office (GC/RO) and other clients.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategy:
Contributes to global sectoral approach (based on requests from GC sector team).
Policies, Standards and Guidance:
Provides options and recommendations to National Offices on the development of Technical Approach/Technical Programme (TA/TP) to best meet the ministry strategies and targets in the client’s context for programme execution.
Provides high quality technical support to the clients in the design, execution, monitoring and evaluation of technical programmes.
Co-creates and develops new project models in collaboration with and as per the requests from the GC Sector Lead.
Scale-up core project model implementation in National Offices (NOs), in alignment with strategy.
Provides technical expertise to NO to contextualize and adapt partnership guidance.
Conducts mid-term reviews of technical programmes in response to requests from National Offices (NOs), Regional Offices (ROs) and Support Offices (SOs).
Ensures quality of technical services and capability of external technical consultants in respective sectors.
Staff Capability:
Identify talented and or capable sector professionals in NOs and share the information with GC Sector teams.
Provides capacity building services for sector competency development as per the requests from clients.
Build capability of TSO sector specialists through coaching, mentoring, and appropriate on-the-job and external learning opportunities.
Directs and plans work with senior technical specialists from other sectors to ensure cross-sectoral integration in achieving the Child Well-Being (CWB) objectives as per the project models being scaled up.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of evidence-based approaches in the sector globally for both development and humanitarian contexts.
In addition, maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of approaches being applied in related sectors or themes in development and humanitarian contexts and identify approaches which show promise for the Sector.
When deployed, provides technical expertise during emergency responses.
Innovation/Research:
Identify innovative and promising approaches in field implementation and share the information with GC Sector team and Communities of Practice (CoP).
Collaborate with GC sector teams to ensure learnings are disseminated.
Ensure learnings are shared within TSO.
Senior Technical Advisor - Livelihoods (TSO)
Reference 10336-18G12156
Location Global Town/City
Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within a jurisdiction (country or U.S. State) where WVI is registered to operate.
Application Deadline Date 15-Jun-18
world vision jobs in uganda
Meets clients’ requests for technical assistance to ensure programmes are technically sound and quality improved in programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models. Technical assistance provided to clients in grant-related requests contributes to growth in grant portfolio and meets donor requirements.
Leadership provided to a team of technical and sub-sector professionals and collaboration and planning with cross-sector Sr. Technical Advisors ensures quality, timely and well-integrated services to the client.
Meets other technical consulting service requests in other areas such as project guidance materials, donor representations, policy influence roles as requested by Global Center / Regional Office (GC/RO) and other clients.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategy:
Contributes to global sectoral approach (based on requests from GC sector team).
Policies, Standards and Guidance:
Provides options and recommendations to National Offices on the development of Technical Approach/Technical Programme (TA/TP) to best meet the ministry strategies and targets in the client’s context for programme execution.
Provides high quality technical support to the clients in the design, execution, monitoring and evaluation of technical programmes.
Co-creates and develops new project models in collaboration with and as per the requests from the GC Sector Lead.
Scale-up core project model implementation in National Offices (NOs), in alignment with strategy.
Provides technical expertise to NO to contextualize and adapt partnership guidance.
Conducts mid-term reviews of technical programmes in response to requests from National Offices (NOs), Regional Offices (ROs) and Support Offices (SOs).
Ensures quality of technical services and capability of external technical consultants in respective sectors.
Staff Capability:
Identify talented and or capable sector professionals in NOs and share the information with GC Sector teams.
Provides capacity building services for sector competency development as per the requests from clients.
Build capability of TSO sector specialists through coaching, mentoring, and appropriate on-the-job and external learning opportunities.
Directs and plans work with senior technical specialists from other sectors to ensure cross-sectoral integration in achieving the Child Well-Being (CWB) objectives as per the project models being scaled up.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of evidence-based approaches in the sector globally for both development and humanitarian contexts.
In addition, maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of approaches being applied in related sectors or themes in development and humanitarian contexts and identify approaches which show promise for the Sector.
When deployed, provides technical expertise during emergency responses.
Innovation/Research:
Identify innovative and promising approaches in field implementation and share the information with GC Sector team and Communities of Practice (CoP).
Collaborate with GC sector teams to ensure learnings are disseminated.
Ensure learnings are shared within TSO.
