Deputy Project Director - Against Child Exploitation (Ace) Project

1. Leadership & Management
• Direct and oversee World Vision's work in the assigned project, ensuring that all project goals are met.
• Organize and direct the work of grant staff and short-term consultants:
- Provide supervision, training and performance management
- Provide leadership and oversight of quality improvement and quality assurance activities implemented by the program
- Provide supervision, training and evaluate performance of staff
• Develop and update workforce planning
• Develop Job Descriptions for staff under the support of People and Culture department:
- Demonstrate strong staff management practices, consistent with WV policies, donor requirements and local laws
- Ensure proper technical capacity of staff is available
• Serve as a resource for disseminating knowledge and skills to WVV, other WV entities and agencies.
• Seamless integration of ACE project activities into existing WVV APs where applicable.
2. Co-ordination and Relationship
• Liaise with Ministry officials; coordinate and collaborate with top-management officials of Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, and/or Ministry of Information and Communication, other line ministries, provincial governments, and other agencies related to the project.
• Liaise with host government officials, local communities, farmers, and other organizations as appropriate.
• Represent WVV in external meetings and act as the contact person with relevant government officials.
• Effective links with the wider target community is built in order to raise awareness of WVV's philosophy and approach to development in general and to ACE measures in particular and foster the ownership and participation of the community in ACE activities.
• Coordination is fostered and duplication of effort is avoided in the ACE target areas by interacting with other NGO's, United Nations agencies, and Government/Mass Organizations.
3. Monitoring and Evaluation
• Ensure timely and accurate reports that meet donor requirements;
• Monitoring Tools for each ACE output and outcome are developed;
• Semi-annual narrative progress reports are timely prepared for submission to SO/donor;
• A mid-term project review and an end-of-project evaluation are planned and implemented;
• Lead the team to document best practices of the programme and share to others.
4. Finance and Administration
• Manage grant budget within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to SO and donor
• Ensure grant/project expenses are reasonable, allocable, prudent and spent in accordance with donor rules and regulations to ensure clean audits
• Financial reports are monitored and used as management tools for evaluating Project progress.
• Oversee supply and equipment acquisition, disposition, and management in compliance with WV internal and donor requirements.