Program Quality, Risk Strategy Director

World Vision International - WVI

Staff Closes 23 Aug 2026 22 days left

Overview

Supports the Programme Manager to plan, implement, monitor and report on education and life skills activities. The role coordinates quality delivery of interventions with schools, communities, faith actors and government partners.


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 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 and vulnerable children are included in activities and documented.
  • Support child mapping, monitoring, participation risk assessments, informed consent and documentation.
  • Promote safe, meaningful and inclusive child participation.
  • Ensure Sponsorship 2.0/3.0 child and community content is 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 environmental initiatives.
  • 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 education stakeholders.
  • 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 to deliver integrated programming.
  • Integrate relevant campaign activities.
  • Support design, monitoring and evaluation of 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.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
Languages Preferred
Ability to communicate in local languages relevant to assigned project locations is an advantage.
Contract Duration
Local - Fixed Term
Work Modality
Office-based role with frequent travel to assigned field/project locations, schools and communities to support implementation, training, monitoring and partner engagement. Ability to travel to rural and hard-to-reach communities and facilitate trainings, meetings, club activities, monitoring visits and community engagements.
Remuneration
Not specified
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