Senior Technical Manager

Required Professional Experience

• Technical skills: Specialist experience in child protection, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), gender-based violence (GBV)
  
• Strong Project Management skills
  
• Experience: 8 years of ECM technical experience in an international NGO; with 4 years’ + experience in overseeing child protection, and / PSEA, GBV work as a team lead
  
• Strong Country and multi-community understanding of child marriage issues in Kenya
  
• Other: strong relationship building/network capacity, excellent communication skills, spiritual maturity in Christian faith, ability to influence, innovative, and proactive personality.
  

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Development studies, human rights, International development or equivalent in technical area, or field/practical experience working with situations of policy formation, guidance and implementation preferred
  

Preferred Knowledge & Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of global strategies and frameworks to end violence against children and child marriage.
  
• Experience with research and development of programming models
  
• Strong communication skills, particularly advanced writing skills as shown through technical documents, thought pieces and proposals and report writing skills for a variety of stakeholders
  
• Excellent writing skills as shown through technical documents, thought pieces, and proposals
  
• Strong workshop facilitation skills
  
• Ability to build relationships cross culturally as well as motivate and develop staff
  
• Experience leading a community of practice
  
• Consistently demonstrates high-level influence and strategic engagement skills and tactical savvy in delivery of technical assistance.
  
• Expertise in designing, piloting, and evaluating innovative tools to advance ending child marriage.
  
• Ability to use data and evidence to inform programming and innovation.
  

Project Management and Technical support for child protection programming and Implementation

• Provide technical support and guidance in the design and implementation of WVs child protection project approaches/models and ensure that they are in alignment with WV’s global strategy, considering field contexts of our field offices.
  
• Provide overall technical support to the field Managers to ensure ECM is implemented within the various contexts in collaborative manner for impact.
  
• Ensure WV technical approaches/models and strategies are known by Child Protection Officers and Project leaders and guide FO on how the project technical strategies are implemented.
  
• Ensure training and fidelity of implementation of child protection models and proper adherence to phasing and sequencing implementation plan
  
• Ensure technical approaches, promoted methodology and tools are designed to meet WV’s ministry goals as well as donor sector strategies.
  
• Work with program and M&E Leads to develop evidence-building strategies that strengthen delivery of WV approaches.
  
• Ensure technical implementation of programming is aligned with the overall goal of ECM Program.
  
• Conducts field support in accordance with the implementation plan, monitoring and evaluation plan and in coordination with the ECM Director and other Project staff.
  
• Identify and communicate program quality concerns early to ensure swift resolution; escalate program quality concerns appropriately to ECM Director and other key stakeholders.
  

Capacity Strengthening

• Oversee the development and implementation of technical capacity building plan for FO staff.
  
• Provide guidance, capacity building and technical support to ECM FOs in their implementation and monitoring of the World Vision models.
  
• Act as Technical Lead to build the capacity and positioning of ECM Field Offices in integrated implementation of the five key program pillars.
  
• Develop and conduct training in program methodologies and concepts.
  
• Provide follow-on expertise for technical assistance to FOs, as required.
  
• Support qualitative monitoring of program interventions in coordination with M&E colleagues.
  

External Engagements

• Provide technical support in child protection dialogues, external engagement and strategic positioning.
  
• Proactively seek opportunities for external engagement and technical branding of project learnings and achievements.
  
• Provide technical support in strategic networks, engaging as ‘technical expert’ with priority stakeholders.
  
• Contribute to or participate in assessments, surveys or evaluations as necessary for standards setting.
  
• Support the coordination of the learning agenda (with consultant and M & E colleagues)
  
• Work with program and M&E Leads to disseminate best practice and learning.
  
• Coordinate adaptive management learning and reflection (CLA) together with MEL staff.