Vaga Servisu - Community Development Officer-2 - World Vision Timor-Leste

 

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Community Development Officer-2

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With 75 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!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Team Leadership

• Provide supportive and empowering leadership of programme staff in accordance with the Transformational Development principles
• Collaborate with field staff, technical advisors and key stakeholders in the community to determine the right mix of project models and cross-cutting themes, ensuring that the programme activities address the root causes of vulnerability and strengthen the Drivers of Sustainability, with a view to ensuring that improvements in CWB brought about through the programme continue and are further enhanced after World Vision leaves.
• Adapt the programme design to fit the local context and continually review and adapt it as needs and circumstances change as informed by community engagement and other action learning processes.
• Plan and coordinate local level advocacy initiatives to address barriers to child well-being and promote improved public services, especially for the most vulnerable.
• Promote local to national advocacy linkages that make use of local data to inform national campaigns.

Stakeholders Engagement and Coordination

• Manage WV’s ongoing community engagement and joint monitoring mechanisms that promote local ownership, participation, action learning and adaptation.
• Build a range of effective relationships at the programme level to encourage
• collaboration, local ownership and to build resilience
• Facilitate the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships to make use of different strengths and diverse resources within the community
• Support partnerships to ensure that shared projects are implemented effectively to achieve agreed goals.
• Coordinate with Project Manager, Area Manager and Project Facilitators on stakeholder engagement plans and activities.
• Lead external relationships and engagement with relevant NGOs and government institutions at Municipality and Suco level.
• Ensure that project team and partners have access to appropriate information, tools and resources to enable familiarity and compliance with project requirements.
• Provide technical support to relevant project partners and stakeholders to deliver project outcomes as per project design.
• Ensure rigorous beneficiary selection in discussion with local government authorities, stakeholders and WVTL staff.
• Represent the organization in technical working group at the Municipality level.

Project Delivery, Quality Assurance and Reporting

• Provide day-to-day leadership, technical and administrative guidance to Project Facilitators and M&E and Comms staff to ensure successful project implementation and delivery.
• Coordinate and oversee monthly activity work plans.
• Monitor project spending against budget on a regular basis and provide explanation of variance. Ensure projects responsibly spend up to the level of funding commitment and provide explanation of variance.
• Ensure effective and efficient utilization of program resources through monitoring and tracking expenditures against project plan
• Manage and report on the budget according to accountability standards of the national office and donor guidelines, while ensuring the highest levels of financial stewardship and integrity.
• Facilitate effective teamwork, coordination and work planning between Project Manager, Project Facilitators, Area Manager and the technical team
• Develop TORs and oversee the delivery of technical trainings
• Manage logistics and financial administration related to project activities
• Identify training needs, prepare materials and conduct training for staff and volunteers.
• Identify project risks and recommend course of action to Project Manager and Area Manager as needed.
• Coordinate revision of plans and budgets where needed, in response to monitoring, reflection and learning with the community and the project team.
• Support the Area Manager to prepare and submit quality and timely Monthly Management Report by supplying relevant information and data on activity implementation progress.
• Support the Project Manager in preparing annual report and end of project report.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)

• Fulfill roles and responsibility per approved WVTL Monitoring System Guidelines
• Collaborate with WVTL’s Evidence and Learning team to ensure that baseline, midterm review and final evalutions/endlines are conducted well and in timeline manner
• Ensure the monitoring system and tools are developed and used to track the progress of project implementation and to capture learning.  Train the Project Facilitators on using the tools.
• Support Evidence and Learning team in establishing and implementing accountability mechanism to make project accountable to beneficiaries
• Carry out regular monitoring at field level and interact with stakeholders and beneficiaries
• Share lessons learned with project team, communities, development partners and other WVTL
• stakeholders.

Other Responsibilities

• Attend and participate in weekly devotional meetings.
• Support in hosting the visits of sponsors, donors, and WV staff from other.
• Support WVTL’s relationship with donor by showing impact.
• Assist humanitarian emergency disaster response.

Required Professional Experience

• A minimum of three years of professional experience. Previous experience working in a donor-funded project would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in project implementation, monitoring, evaluation and report writing.
• Proven leadership ability and experience as a team.

Required Education, training, license, registration and certification

• Bachelor’s degree in Agroforestry, Agriculture, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Community Development, Project Management or other relevant field.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Fluent in Tetum. Ability to speak in local dialects would be an added advantage.
• Working knowledge in spoken and written English communication.
• Good interpersonal and coordination skills.
• Proven leadership experience and the able to supervise staff.
• Competency in using computer applications (such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Good administrative skills including budgeting and report writing.
• Organised and able to make strategic work plans.
• Adaptable and able to address problems appropriately.
• Good presentation and communication skills
• Proven time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to  ride  a  motorbike  and  have  the  license  or willingness to learn this

World Vision Timor-Leste applies the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with WV Timor-Leste’s work. World Vision Timor-Leste is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourage candidates of diverse background, women and different-abled, to apply.

The application will be closed on June 17 2025