World Vision

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:

The Program Development and Partnerships Manager(PDPM) facilitates programme development and resource acquisition for humanitarian and development programming with high appropriateness, timeliness, and effectiveness standards. The purpose of this position is to lead the design process of full proposals and concept papers and provide the final review of all proposals and concept notes developed by the team of program officers and technical managers before submission to donors and World Vision support offices. The PDPM will lead the team of program officers and ensure that progress on grants is communicated timely manner with key stakeholders and donor visits are strategic, well-timed, and smoothly executed and managed. The PDPM builds, maintains, and coordinates strategic partnerships with donors, UN agencies, INGOs, and Local organizations. Oversees implementation of the WVSS Partnership Management Policy and its related TORs and will represent WV in the South Sudan Localization Working Group; this is a platform where we will be sharing our localization efforts with other partners and the NGO Forum.

Strategy - Our Promise:

• Provide resource acquisition and program development leadership in line with our promise;
• Ensure that strategy drives programming in WVSS such that proposals, annual operating plans, and budgets are aligned to the approved country program strategy.
• Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of the country strategy implementation plan (CSIP)
• Lead and coordinate the roll-out of the fragile context programme approach
• Support annual strategy review

Proposal development:

Lead the acquisition process for assigned proposals, ensuring timely submission, managing all components of the process, including but not limited to the following:

• Serve as proposal lead as assigned or support designated proposal manager, ensuring support/engagement of technical sector specialists, grant finance officer, and other key departments in project design.
• Prepare/write grant concept papers, proposals, and budgets for World Vision’s partnership and major donors
• Participate in project design, implementation, and evaluation in collaboration with the sector advisors, operations team, and Quality Assurance department.
• Work closely with the Grants finance team and program operations on all proposal budgets to ensure a rational and harmonized proposal budget
• Work with WVSS Program Quality and strategy team to ensure that a monitoring and evaluation system is included in grant proposals. Assist QA as needed in setting up reporting templates and processes for developing a detailed implementation plan.
• Ensure engagement of key stakeholders (e.g., government ministries, communities, regional leadership, sector specialists, and program quality officers) in the proposal design process
• Ensure incorporation of internal and international humanitarian standards into all project designs in collaboration with sector leads and the QA department.
• Lead WVSS contributions on joint initiatives with partners. When necessary, lead WVSS efforts in forming consortia.
• Work closely with the finance department, quality assurance, sector teams, human resources, supply chain, and all relevant departments on all proposal budgets.
• Facilitate and share lessons learned in the proposal development process.

Post-submission:

• Follow up with donor(s) and partner(s) as necessary. For awarded grants, ensure a complete, smooth transition to project managers, which includes actively supporting the grant start-up process. If the proposal is denied, ensure debrief from the donor and disseminate lessons learned to all relevant parties.
• Assist the WVSS People & Culture department by clearly communicating the project staffing/consulting needs after submitting a proposal.

Grant Start-Up

• Ensure program officers develop guidelines for grant start-up workshops
• Ensure program officers coordinate grant start-up with Support Offices, partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Ensure program officers assist the Operations Director in start-up workshop and any required training (e.g., donor requirements).
• Ensure program officers communicate outcomes of grant start-up to the donor and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure all involved staff have copies of approved program design (narrative, logframe, monitoring and evaluation plan, budget) and grant agreement and that they understand donor regulations, reporting and other requirements.
• Ensure the Human Resources department is aware about the staffing/recruitment plan
• Communicate outcomes of grant start-up to the donor and internal stakeholders

Partnerships and Engagement

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with major bilateral and multilateral donors, including EU, ECHO, USAID, BHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, GAC, FCDO, Irish Aid, FAO, HPF, and World Vision Support Offices;
• Coordinate with the operations team to host visits and respond to communication.
• Ensure that WVSS builds its reputation for integrity, expertise, and reliability;
• Maintain WVSS master list of stakeholders' contact information and update regularly;
• Coordinate information sharing among technical managers related to Cluster and other external engagements and maintain an archive of relevant evaluations and reports
• Ensure that WVSS is a thought leader in FSL and known for its health programming;
• Contribute to the development of communications and marketing materials when requested
• Lead the “partner of choice” initiative led by the GC team
• Contribute to the development of communications and marketing materials
• Lead external partner mapping exercise and ensure that results are incorporated into the program development strategy. To this effect, maintain a database with potential NNGO partners.
• Lead WVSS localization and partnering roadmap and plan of action.
• Maintain local partners ' database, with timely capacity assessment and
• Ensure implementation of the WVSS Partnership Management Policy and its related TORs
• Lead WV participation in the South Sudan Localization Working Group; this is a platform where we will be sharing our localization efforts with other partners and the NGO Forum.
• Lead and coordinate WVSS Partnership Management Committee

Team Leadership and Risk Management

• Create performance agreements with each direct report, and conduct quarterly reviews and end-of-year performance appraisals;
• Provide guidance and direction to the team as required and establish team cohesion and growth, including the organization of capacity-building opportunities;
• Coach and mentor team in conducting assessments, setting personal development goals, and providing ongoing support on tools and relevant training resources/material;
• Lead recruitment of qualified project management staff.
• Ensure the Human Resources department is aware about the staffing/recruitment plan
• Assess the level of risks associated with program development and ensure sufficient alignment with relevant WV strategies at all levels,
• Lead the development, monitoring, and mitigation of key risks in resource acquisition, program development, and quality.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement processes for resource acquisition
• Collaborate with senior management and contribute to developing policies and procedures for RAP.
• Ensure compliance with administration policies and procedures.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only