Overview
Supports the Programme Manager to plan, implement, monitor and report LEARN IPF activities across assigned project locations. The role coordinates quality delivery of foundational literacy, numeracy, life skills, child participation and safe, inclusive learning interventions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support needs assessments, community reviews and context analysis.
- Prepare annual work plans, detailed implementation plans, budgets and activity schedules.
- Coordinate day-to-day implementation of approved LEARN IPF activities.
- Facilitate appropriate project models and approaches.
- Strengthen foundational literacy and numeracy.
- Implement life skills, socio-emotional learning, resilience-building, career guidance and adolescent readiness activities.
- Integrate child protection, safeguarding and PROTECT standards.
- Build the capacity of staff, teachers, volunteers, community leaders, faith actors and partners.
- Contextualize approved training, teaching and learning materials.
- Ensure Registered Children, their families and the most vulnerable children are intentionally included in LEARN IPF activities and properly documented in the sponsorship system.
- Support child mapping, monitoring, participation risk assessments, informed consent and timely documentation.
- Promote safe, meaningful and inclusive child participation.
- Ensure Sponsorship 2.0/3.0 child and community content, photos, videos, reports and other required materials are produced and submitted on time.
- Strengthen community awareness of safeguarding, child rights, reporting mechanisms and do-no-harm practices.
- Model integrity, accountability, servant leadership and responsible stewardship.
- Work with churches, faith leaders and faith communities to integrate values-based learning, spiritual nurture and family strengthening.
- Mobilize faith leaders to promote education for girls and boys, positive parenting, child protection, inclusion and moral support.
- Apply approved models such as Empowered World View and Celebrating Families.
- Mainstream GEDSI in planning, implementation, monitoring and learning.
- Address barriers to education.
- Support referrals and partnerships that improve inclusive teaching, assistive support and protection for vulnerable learners.
- Integrate environmental stewardship and climate resilience across school and community education activities.
- Support schools and communities to promote school gardens, tree planting, waste management, rainwater harvesting, flood mitigation and safe learning environments.
- Engage children and adolescents as environmental stewards and climate advocates.
- Support disaster risk reduction, emergency preparedness and continuity of learning.
- Promote peacebuilding, social cohesion and conflict-sensitive approaches.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with Ghana Education Service, District/Municipal Assemblies, schools, faith actors, traditional leaders, parent groups, youth groups, CSOs and community structures.
- Facilitate community mobilization, partner coordination and joint planning.
- Support Citizen Voice and Action groups, budget advocacy and social accountability actions.
- Represent World Vision in relevant district education forums and coordination platforms.
- Support children, youth and communities to engage constructively with government and service providers.
- Collaborate with WV sector teams.
- Integrate relevant campaign activities.
- Support design, monitoring and evaluation of LEARN IPF interventions.
- Conduct regular monitoring and joint field visits.
- Collect, validate and submit qualitative and quantitative data.
- Track outputs, learning assessments, child participation, safeguarding actions, referrals and completed education interventions.
- Support baseline, midterm, endline, output monitoring and periodic assessments.
- Facilitate reflection, learning and adaptive management sessions.
- Document lessons learned, good practices, innovations and human-interest stories.
- Prepare and submit high-quality activity, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports.
- Support feedback and accountability mechanisms and implementation of audit, risk and evaluation recommendations.
- Identify education and life skills needs, opportunities, field evidence and learning that can inform concept notes, proposals and donor engagement.
- Contribute field data, implementation insights and technical inputs to concept notes and proposals.
- Generate impact stories, case studies and evidence of results.
- Support quality implementation, compliance and timely reporting of grants and PNS projects.
- Build and maintain relationships with local partners, private sector actors and potential donors.
- Support preparation of procurement plans, activity budgets and procurement requests.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain and Finance to ensure timely procurement, delivery and payment.
- Monitor budget execution and expenditure.
- Ensure project finances, assets, attendance records, distribution lists and supporting documents are managed in line with WV and donor requirements.
- Identify emerging operational, safeguarding, financial and reputational risks and escalate them promptly.
- Support implementation of audit, risk assessment and compliance recommendations.
- Perform other tasks as required by management.
Required Experience
Minimum of three (3) years of experience implementing or coordinating education, life skills, youth development or community-based projects, preferably in rural or underserved communities. Experience in project planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, reporting and partner coordination. Practical experience supporting literacy, numeracy, adolescent/youth platforms, teacher coaching, community mobilisation or NGO programming.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Education, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Community Development or a related field.
