World Vision Fund Tanzania Jobs 2020

World Vision Fund Tanzania Jobs 2020

• In collaboration with Advocacy/External Engagement (A&EE), Disaster Management EE&RD, and Public Engagement ,develops and successfully achieves external engagement strategy for sector.
• Maintain oversight of (and coordinate where needed) WV’s sectoral external engagement activities.
• Strengthen and expand strategic partnerships (with particular focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and child protection in humanitarian contexts at global level including multi-stakeholder partnerships, UN partnerships, multinational corporates and especially faith actors.
• Lead and coordinate efforts by WV to attain technical and strategic recognition and thought leadership position within the global worldwide sector.
• Identify shared objectives and initiatives with Global Capitals.
• Ensure alignment with A&EE and DM EE&RD (including on global policy positions), and GAM and Public Engagement (on resource development).
• Provide management support and advice for global policy agenda / global moment / campaign as per the Partnership strategy.
• With Director/Innovation, ensure WV’s technical resources and standards align with and/or exceed industry norms.
• Benchmark capabilities and deliverables, process and systems in CPP programme against market leaders, and build towards best of class.
• Identify key external influencers and networks to promote and inform future programme direction.
• Dynamic and relevant external engagement strategy for the sector.
• All sector staff engage in key relationships with external agencies as required by WV’s strategic priorities and advocacy, revenue and other goals.
• Key leaders and institutions as required by the strategic priorities and policy objectives of WV influenced to maximize child well-being.
• Reputation of WV amongst external stakeholders enhanced; with WV recognized as a technical leader in child protection.
• WV entities become a lot more outward oriented and collaborators.
• WV’s understanding of faith as an integral component of child protection is reflected in WV’s positioning and external collaborations; and WV is recognized as a leader in this area. 

Build Capacities:

• Provide authoritative representation, technical, and policy advice to World Vision’s sector community of practice in order to enrich our understanding and external engagement in sector.
• Identify and build capacity of subject matter experts to represent sector externally.
• Ensure external representations by subject matter experts reflect WV’s integrated understanding of development and child well-being and faith identity.
• Communities of practice become a lot more connected with external experts and institutions.
• WV experts represent World Vision’s work in external forums and platforms.
• WV is recognized as a “first in class” organization in the global child protection/ending violence against children community. 

Provide Global Stewardship:

• Support the global resource development strategy providing expertize, and actively.
• Donors increasingly select WV’s work for funding and impact positioning WV as a NGO of choice with key donors and stakeholders.
• Bring to bear evidence of World Vision’s contribution to Child Well-Being (CWB) in child protection in external relations for advocacy, donor relations and building WV’s reputation.
• Donor prepositioning is developed for National Office (NO) and Support Office (SO) entities.
• Increased influence for donor policies contributing to the child well-being, especially the most vulnerable. 

Ensure Accountability:

• Ensure appropriate use of evidence of results from WV’s work with relevant external stakeholders.
• Strategic influential communication of WV’s impact, reach, evidence, and ongoing learning in child protection with important stakeholders.

Promote WV Way:

• Serve as relationship manager and cultivate specific partnerships with all multi-lateral agencies and work closely with WV A&EE and DM EE&RD (especially global capitals) team to realize WV’s sector strategy.
• Provide management support and advice for global policy agenda / global mobilization/ advocacy campaign as per the Partnership strategy.
• Oversees and coordinates closely with Support Offices’ sector team engagement and partners.
• WV’s policy positions are well informed of the external landscape and internal programming experience from the sector perspective.
• WV’s policy positions represented accurately in relation with external stakeholders. 

External Engagement:

• Relationship development and management of key global platforms and partners in the sector.
• Ensure alignment with A&EE, DM EE&RD, GAM, and Public Engagement (Comms).
• Support global campaign and other A&EE global ministries.
• Ensure that external engagement tools and processes (as developed by A&EE) are integrated into sector practice.
• Support Partnership Strategy strategic imperative on partnering and collaboration.
• Represents WV in selected networks, associations, and boards as appropriate, to ensure WV is at the forefront of the global sector debate.
• Identify key networks and associations such as [xxx] and seek WV representation and participation.
• Keep abreast of latest developments and innovations in the broader sector that is relevant to WV and share them internally.
• World Vision is represented well in key external forums participates in networks, working groups, coalitions and formal partnership as appropriate.
• World Vision staff are well supported in their external engagement efforts. 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Marketing or International Development.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation and collaboration skills.
• Proven skills and experience in external engagement that contributes to change in policy and practice and builds s industry reputation.
• 10 years’ work experience with an International Development Organisation, Corporation or Government in the field of external relations, communications and or policy influencing.
• Experience of working in partnership with International Development Organisations through networks, coalitions and partnerships on policy themes related to sector.
• Experience in working with faith actors and on faith related issues.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.
Deadline: 18th August, 2020.