Area Program Coordinator

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Back ground

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following role. 

Position: Area Program Coordinator

Report to: Programme Manager

Location: Korobobi, Gulu District

Advert Start Date: 30th August 2023

Advert End Date: 5th September 2023

Purpose of the position:

To guide and facilitate Program Development, Monitoring and Implementation in an Area Program (AP) in line with Program plans.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

Programming/operations & Technical Support

Area Program Plans (AOP,DIPs/cash flows/ITTs)designed and scoring 80% and approved by 31st July

95% of outputs indicators are achieving targets by 30th of September

Annual report submitted with quality and scoring 80% quality scores.

 Semiannual report for AP written and scoring 80% quality performance by 30th April

A pull out of all milestone activities that lead to outputs in the AP are extracted and tracked monthly together with output targets.

Generate a list of the MV Households and Children to inform implementation

Strategic functional partnerships and advocacy at the local level

Support Evidence based local and National level advocacy influencing polices, practices and systems/structures for sustainable development

One Sub-county dialogue meeting in the AP conducted in line with issues generated from CVA engagements on child wellbeing issues and one report shared with PM-It takes a world

Evidence of working with the local churches on supporting the Most Vulnerable in at least 2 issues of Ending child marriage and ending Violence in school

One sub county Recommitment event on the it takes a world Campaign with clear documentation in place.

One By-law/ordinance or petition initiated/passed/followed up for implementation around CWB in the AP. 

Evidence of CSDF as an active member of the sub county TPC with quarterly reports to the PM on all TPC engagements.

Area program engagement with other CBO’s/CSOs for child wellbeing conducted, documented and shared for advocacy and engagement on CWBO’s.

Strategic management of compliance to performance standards

Mobilize Children and Empower Communities for sustainable development

4 Quarterly Sub County joint monitoring and discussion conducted in the AP and reports shared with the PM

Household clusters established and functional

100% functionality of all initiatives (S4T, COVA, TFE, Child Development and participation centers, Energy saving stoves, and a documentation of success in each to inform programming

4 quarterly children’s parliament’s functional with evidence of engagement with local leaders and influencing decisions.

All sub county CDPPs reviewed and approved and informing Plans

Climate change messages shared with the communities in AP community in local language on a quarterly basis.

Quarterly engagements with RC guardians on program implementation and key CWB issue status and action points shared with the PM

Strategic management of DME and other learning and application processes

Improved timeliness and communication of Programmes information for better decision making

100% of all monthly activities for the TPs implemented for all the 12 months evidenced by the monthly reports.

All outputs attaining quarterly targets of more than 90% with evidence of discussion with stakeholders.

12 monthly management report produced and submitted to PM by 14th of every month

Community assets monitoring conducted in the cluster on quarterly basis and four quarterly community assets monitoring reports shared with the PM per quarter

Strengthened Strategic Leadership and Performance Management

Competent program teams nurtured and motivated to deliver on strategy

100% Performance Reviews for all Project Officers in the AP completed and submitted to PM by 20th March and 15th Sep

Quarterly Documented evidence of Continuous capacity building for Technical Project Officers and partners to implement the National strategy and alignment to our promise.

End of contracts completed and approved by PM at least 2 months to end of contract

Project Officers and Sponsorship Operation Officer capacity for partnership and community engagement built with evidence of good performance in place

Evidence of Christianity growth and practice for staff and supervisees

Sponsorship operations effectively managed at the AP

Evidence on monthly sponsorship meetings with Staff and COVAs

Sponsorship SOIs maintained in green

Evidence of discussion on child wellbeing reports, draw actions and take action on child wellbeing issues

Evidence of integrated monitoring plans and implementation.

100% delivery of APRs and Christmas cards as per national standards.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience.

Education: A minimum of a University Degree in Social Science, Agriculture, Development Studies, Education or any relevant field.

Post Graduate Qualification in Project Planning and Management is a Must.

Experience: At least five years’ experience facilitating community development in sectors of Health, Livelihood, Education and Child Protection.

Experience working with local partners and District Local Governments in all sectors and Community Based Services.

Must be willing to be based in local settings

Technical skills:

Ability to establish and maintain conducive collegial relations and perform effectively as a member of a team.

Excellent planning, coordination, and reporting skills with the ability to organize a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.

Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching.

Excellent time management and planning capacity..

Must be highly reliable and independent.

Ability to work with minimal supervision.

You must be able to ride a motor cycle with a clean riders’ license.

Networking and advocacy skills

Person of high integrity and willing to work with minimal supervision

Proven and solid experience and excellent skills in capacity building if systems, staff, partners and others actors related to child rights governance and child protection.

Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in.

Strong results oriented, with ability to challenge existing mind sets

The position is field based and requires ability to ride and willingness to travel to hard to reach field locations for project implementation and monitoring.