WVV Area Program Manager - Son Tra, Da Nang

**Purpose of Position**
**Key Responsibilities**
**Leadership and People Management (30%)**
• Provide overall leadership to the AP team, including organizational values
• Work with People & Culture (P&C) department to recruit and provide orientation for new staff
• Supervise, coach, mentor, provide adequate feedback and support to AP staff to ensure their high performance toward the shared goals
• Identify and address development needs of AP staff to ensure that they are well equipped with core and job-specific competencies to carry out quality work
• Identify and address staffing issues in a timely and professional manner, in working with P&C department
• Promote ongoing reflection, learning culture and KAIZEN spirit among AP staff
• Organize the AP office and facilitate a working environment of trust, mutual respect, and care among all staff
**Program Management in assigned District(s) (50%)**
• Lead the adaptation of TPs following the standard guidelines/ tools and complete all AP level documents (log-frame, Indicator Tracking Table, Monitoring & Evaluation plan, narrative AP Plan)
• Mobilize technical, human, financial resources to implement the program
• Prepare required reports for the AP (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annually, etc.)
• Lead AP staff to mainstream Cross Cutting Themes (gender equality and social inclusion, disability, climate change adaption, etc.) program activities
• Lead the implementation of the Program Information Management System
• Document evidences and disseminate WVV's project models to external partner for replication, advocacy and funding acquisition purpose
• Manage resources with integrity and stewardship, in compliance with WVV's financial policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with procurement team for strategic sourcing at AP level
• Collaborate with zonal and national technical team for any advocacy efforts in provincial/city or national level.
**Community Engagement**
• Raise awareness of local partners and community on WV's Christian identity and core values, child focused and community-based development approach
• Lead the AP planning process as well as the annual community review & planning process.
• Promote shared monitoring and integrated reflection with local partners and community to review the progress and identify areas for improvements
• Identify and mobilize community resources for joint advocacy activities at district level
• Lead the documentation of best practices, lessons learnt, Most Significant Change stories and share with external and internal stakeholders for learning and advocacy purpose
• Lead the process of MVC mapping and inclusion in the project activities
• Build effective relationships with support office; provide support office with vital program information, documentation, stories and reports on a timely manner and get them involved in key events/milestones of the program
**Partnership and Networking**
• Build effective working relationship with various development partners including PMB and technical departments at commune, district and city levels.
• Network with external stakeholders (NGOs, CSO, local businesses, etc.) and create space for collaboration and partnership toward improved well-being of children, especially the most vulnerable in the designated area.
• Look for and build good connection with corporate sectors to find opportunities for Private non-sponsorship fund in the designated area.
• Act as an ambassador of World Vision's brand by strictly following World Vision's brand and communications guidelines when working with external partners and developing communications products (print, audio, or video).
**Sponsorship Integration in Programming**
• Lead the process to promote Child Sponsorship as a transformative relationship of children and sponsors, fulfilling donor promise.
• Ensure participation of registered children in program activities as per the Partnership Child Sponsorship Standards.
• Lead the process to ensure Child Sponsorship is included in the AP plans to maximise integration with programme activities and to promote Child Sponsorship contributes to child well-being through two essentials Community-Led Care & Protection and Children's Participation and Voice within the community.
• Manage quality of child sponsorship operations including periodical Child Monitoring Standards, Sponsorship Operation Index (SOI), MVC inclusion, RC case management, sponsor and RC engagement (correspondence, sponsorship 2.0, sponsor visit) and manage RC portfolio as the RC budget commitment with the SO.
• Lead the process to ensure the child sponsorship risk management plan in place as part of the RBIA.
• Facilitate the process of program approach towards sustainability.
**HEA-DRR**
• Support communities and partners to develop and implement community-based disaster preparedness plans and response to climate change, aiming at building household & family resilience.
• Take Disaster Risk Reduction - Response to Climate Change (DRR-RCC) account when designing, implementation, M&E of AP/Project's activities to ensure that climate change and disaster risks can be addressed and reduced. He/she is also expected to lead, coordinate with functional departments, join emergency response in the targeted Area Program when needed to ensure humanitarian standards and accountability.
**GAM/PNS Acquisition and Management (15%)**
**Proposal development:**
• Participate in proposal development by analysing the context, identifying community needs, facilitating needs assessment, identifying and estimating target beneficiaries disaggregated by multiple aspects (gender, disability, ethnic minority, etc.)
• Engage with local government and local partners such as mass organizations, the private sector on the field during proposal design
• Work with Enterprise Risk Management Senior Officer in risk assessment of the proposed project
**Donor, SO, and partner engagement:**
• Ensure donors are engaged in the field through effective field visits and responsive communications
• Engage with Support Offices on PNS opportunities when assigned.
• Establish partnerships with local non-governmental organisations, government entities and the private sector in the implementation of projects.
**Others (5%)**
• Manage directly the safety and security within the team based on WVV guidelines, through security assessment, planning and management.
• Prepare and regularly the risk registers for the team
• Identify and mitigate the risks that could impact the achievement of goals of the team
• Perform other duties as assigned by the manager to contribute to the team performance