Openings – ChildFund

ChildFund India is a child-focused development organisation ensuring children grow up healthy, educated, skilled and safe.

1. Director, Program and Sponsorship

Employment Type
Full Time (Open Ended)
Childfund Work

Location Nawala, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Childfund Division
Global Operations
ChildFund Department
Country Management

Job Details
ChildFund Sri Lanka

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:  Director – Program & Sponsorship
Div/Dept:  Global Operations
Location: Country Office
Reporting Relationship:  Country Director

ABOUT US:
Worldwide, 570 million children live in extreme poverty, vulnerable to many factors that threaten their well-being. Children need protection, support and care at each stage of childhood to stay safe, healthy, learning and on track to achieve their potential. ChildFund works with local partner organizations, governments, corporations and individuals to help create the safe environments children need to thrive.

ChildFund International is committed to a workplace culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms.  Furthermore, ChildFund International is committed to ensuring a workplace that safeguards and protects all children, including preventing their sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as preventing the sexual exploitation and abuse of its staff, partners, and program participants.

SUMMARY:

As member of the Senior Management Team, the Program and Sponsorship Director is responsible for providing strategic leadership for programs and sponsorship initiatives; lead in development and implementation of strategic policies, plans and proposals, networks and partnership initiatives, tools, standards that enhance quality growth and management on all program and sponsorship activities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: Strategic Planning – Leads the development of the Country Strategic Plan (CSP) and ensures Local Partner strategic plans alignment with the CSP; Provides strategic direction, creative inputs and capacity building on alignment and integration of sponsor relations activities and life-stage based programs. Supports the development of realistic and efficient project and program budgets for the country operation.

Program Quality, Technical and  Management support – Lead the diverse  program and sponsorship team, ensure high quality programming  , provide technical leadership to ensure the program results are achieved.;
Program Model Customization – Responsible for adapting ChildFund program models to local contexts, and provide technical guidance and support in implementing the program models.

Program Monitoring & Evaluation – Provides leadership for establishing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems to help measure organization’s progress towards its core outcomes, monitors programs for compliance; Oversees the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of quality sponsorship strategies and activities that promote participation and creativity; Revision of Monitoring & Evaluation (including sponsorship performance) data and facilitates related decision-making by the Senior Management Team.

Sponsorship Enrolment and Quota Management – Leads the definition of programmatic and sponsorship enrolment criteria to select deprived, excluded and vulnerable children and priority locations for ChildFund’s intervention, decides quota levels for partners, oversees building of partner capacity for enrolment and retention processes, exercise quality control on enrolments, plan for and seek global support function (as required) to support systems updates relative to country partner portfolio shifts and planning.

Sponsor administration and Donor Relations – Oversees adequate flow of sponsorship documentation and information from/to local partners and sponsors and donors. Actively participates in business development processes, identifying potential donors and supporters and preparing documents and proposals to mobilize resources from national and international sources. Assures compliance with donor requirements in the implementation process and provides quality and timely reporting to all donors and sponsors; supervises the delivery of Gifts in kind delivery and their administration and management in support of program.

Advocacy, partnership and external networking – Proactive external engagement to identify, build and nurture new and existing partner relationships to achieve strategic goals and enhance program and sponsorship execution and processes for increased impact and quality. Engagement with governmental and non-governmental partners to promote advocacy agenda. Engages with ChildFund Alliance members and strategic partners to build support for ChildFund’s advocacy agenda, country programs and address sponsorship issues. In collaboration with the Country Director, represents ChildFund in important programmatic and strategic networks and alliances at the national and international level.

Knowledge management, learning and collaboration – Facilitates collaboration among country offices and global teams (including sharing of staff resources), documentation,  learning and sharing and promotes further standardization on program delivery, grants and sponsorship execution; Oversees the documentation & dissemination  of best program practices in order to promote program quality through knowledge products, like project and program designs and lessons, case studies and research products that meet standards and enable organization-wide learning; identifies needs and organizes relevant training for staff capacity building in collaboration with Human Resources. Seeks and leverages existing knowledge products in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the teams.

Enterprise Risk Management – actively participates in the regular review of risks affecting ChildFund’s operations in the country and supports the development and implementation of mitigation plans; together with implementation teams and the Senior Management Team provides guidance, training and support in the prevention, reporting, mitigation, investigation and management of all risks covered in corporate policies, including fraud, safety & security, code of conduct amongst others.

Child Safeguarding – Remains alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquires relevant knowledge and skills which will enable the promotion of strong safeguarding practices, understanding the child safeguarding policy and procedures, and self-conduct in a manner consistent with the Child Safeguarding Policy

Qualifications and Experience:
Required Demonstration of knowledge and experience in program and project design; grant acquisition and management; oversight and accountability for large programs; resource stewardship, and cross functional coordination.

Postgraduate with at least 10 years of demonstrated work experience in technical leadership in program management related to one of more of the technical areas of Child Protection, Education, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Reduction, Health and Nutrition preferably in an international not-for-profit environment.
Familiarity with the social, economic, and political environment in the country with respect to legal systems, policies and programs as well as key actors in the area of child rights, community development and family care issues.

Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social and political issues.
Experience in conflict and risk management and ability to pragmatically solve problems, plan a course of action using analytical, conceptual, strategic and forward-thinking abilities to achieve an effective resolution
Proven Supervising/Management experience including direct supervision of professional and support teams, including evaluation of staff performance and deliverables.

Computer proficiency in general office software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook)
Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English and in one of the prevailing local languages ;

PreferredUnderstanding of child sponsorship operations and workflows, sponsorship programming, sponsorship policies and standards

Education
Master’s (preferred) or Bachelor’s degree or similar in areas related to social and child development, program and project management or any other relevant and related field. Equivalent work experience maybe acceptable in lieu of degree.

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

ChildFund International is committed to safeguarding the interests, rights, and well-being of children with whom it is in contact and to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for children.

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2. Manager Sr., Program and Partnership

Employment Type

Full Time (Open Ended)

Childfund Work

Location Nawala, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Childfund Division
Global Operations
ChildFund Department
Country Management

CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL

Title:  Manager Sr., – Program and Partnerships
Div/Dept: Global Operations
Location: Country Office Sri Lanka
Reportees: Managers  and Technical Specialists (5-8 staff)
Reporting Relationship: Director – Program and Sponsorship

ABOUT US:
Worldwide, 570 million children live in extreme poverty, vulnerable to many factors that threaten their well-being. Children need protection, support and care at each stage of childhood to stay safe, healthy, learning and on track to achieve their potential. ChildFund works with local partner organizations, governments, corporations and individuals to help create the safe environments children need to thrive.

ChildFund International is committed to a workplace culture that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms.  Furthermore, ChildFund International is committed to ensuring a workplace that safeguards and protects all children, including preventing their sexual exploitation and abuse, as well as preventing the sexual exploitation and abuse of its staff, partners, and program participants.

summary
Senior Manager- Program and Partnership is a Senior Management Position to contribute to the achievement of ChildFund Sri Lanka’s Country Strategic Plan – one million smiles by 2026. The position will effectively manage ChildFund’s diverse program and partnership portfolio including management of in-country partners. S/he will be required working with a diverse and committed team to deliver high quality program. S/he will be responsible for identifying, developing, nurturing, and evaluating strategic partnerships and collaborations to strengthen the program management and support resource mobilization to scale ChildFund’s impact.

KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partnership Portfolio Management -S/he will be responsible for developing and maintaining a strong partners’ portfolio with an effective mix of different partners that can maximize the impact under our program strategies, program models, and specific interventions. The partners’ portfolio should include partners that are competent to undertake work related to program and sponsorship implementation, advocacy, research, resource mobilization and technical thematic support.
• Be responsible for partner’s performance on agreed program activities, evaluating their achievement based on approved plan and budgets and technical quality standards.
• Be responsible for resource acquisition and implementation of all programs with support of technical teams.

Partner Capacity Enhancement –

• Be responsible for ensuring a strong partnership portfolio through regular assessment of partners and support them in developing and implementing action plans towards enhancing their capacities and their potential role in the overall portfolio.
• Closely monitoring adherence to compliances in line with Assurance processes and addressing capacity gap of partners.

Program Quality Assurance –

• Accountable for program quality management, designing and implementation of all programs of ChildFund in Sri Lanka through the support of technical team.
• Work closely with M & E department to ensure systems and procedures are in place to monitor the processes and outcomes of the program, partner performance on agreed program activities, evaluating their alignment with approved proposals, budgets, and technical quality standards.
• Support Representation, Advocacy and Networking
• Work closely with the Program Director to build and manage relationship with the government agencies, foundations, development organizations, corporations, local authorities, and the public to increase
• ChildFund’s visibility, profile, and credibility.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for new collaborations and/or partnerships.

Knowledge management and learning:

• Ensure collaboration between program implementation team, technical team and M&E team to develop relevant learning and knowledge information through documenting approaches, project and program designs, lessons learnt and case studies for organization-wide learning and sharing to improve overall effectiveness.

Child Safeguarding:

Remain alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand child safeguarding policy and procedures and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Child Safeguarding Policy. Assist partners to adopt and rollout out their own Child Safeguarding policies and processes.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE  

• RequiredBachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in community development/social science discipline. Master’s degree is preferable. Equivalent relevant work experience may be acceptable in lieu of a degree.
• 10+ years specialized experience in managing large partnerships and development programs to support child-focused programming, preferably in one or more of the technical area of Child Protection,  Education,
• Disaster Risk Reduction, Disability Inclusion, Climate Action and humanitarian response.
• Excellent and proven experience in strategic planning and ability to effectively articulate strategy to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent planning, organizational, analytical, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated analytical skills in the field of external and public relations, networking, negotiating, and understanding of different stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective personal and organizational relationships.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social and political issues.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in project  cycle management and managing a diverse team in a complex work setting.
• Computer proficiency in general office software (i.e., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook);
• Demonstrated ability to delegate effectively amongst teams and show commitment to the long-term development of team members through coaching, mentoring and creation of development opportunities; and Preferred English proficiency (Specialist level)

Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

ChildFund International is committed to safeguarding the interests, rights, and well-being of children with whom it is in contact and to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for children.

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