WVI, Sr. Technical Advisor, TSO (Livelihoods)

*Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within a jurisdiction (country or US state) where WVI is registered to operate.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Meets clients’ requests for technical assistance to ensure programmes are technically sound and quality improved in programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models. Technical assistance provided to clients in grant-related requests contributes to growth in grant portfolio and meets donor requirements.

Leadership provided to a team of technical and sub-sector professionals and collaboration and planning with cross-sector Sr Technical Advisors ensures quality, timely and well-integrated services to the client.

Meets other technical consulting service requests in other areas such as project guidance materials, donor representations, policy influence roles as requested by GC/RO and other clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy:

• Contributes to global sectoral approach (based on requests from GC sector team).

Policies, Standards and Guidance:

• Provides options and recommendations to National Offices on the development of TA/TP to best meet the ministry strategies and targets in the client’s context for programme execution.
• Provides high quality technical support to the clients in the design, execution, monitoring and evaluation of technical programmes.
• Co-creates and develops new project models in collaboration with and as per the requests from the GC Sector Lead.
• Scale-up core project model implementation in NOs, in alignment with strategy.
• Provides technical expertise to NO to contextualize and adapt partnership guidance.
• Conducts mid-term reviews of technical programmes in response to requests from NOs, ROs and SOs.
• Ensures quality of technical services and capability of external technical consultants in respective sectors.

Staff Capability:

• Identify talented and or capable sector professionals in NOs and share the information with GC Sector teams.
• Provides capacity building services for sector competency development as per the requests from clients.
• Build capability of TSO sector specialists through coaching, mentoring, and appropriate on-the-job and external learning opportunities.
• Directs and plans work with senior technical specialists from other sectors to ensure cross-sectoral integration in achieving the CWB objectives as per the project models being scaled up.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of evidence-based approaches in the sector globally for both development and humanitarian contexts. In addition, maintain up-to-date knowledge and awareness of approaches being applied in related sectors or themes in development and humanitarian contexts and identify approaches which show promise for the Sector.
• When deployed, provides technical expertise during emergency responses.

Innovation/Research:

• Identify innovative and promising approaches in field implementation and share the information with GC Sector team and CoP.
• Collaborate with GC sector teams to ensure learnings are disseminated.
• Ensure learnings are shared within TSO.

Resource Development:

• Develops major proposals for grant donors as per specific requests from clients.
• Provides other services such as donor liaison or acting as Chief of Party during grants start-up based on service requests from clients.

Programme Quality/Evidence of Impact:

• Lead team of 4-7 sector and sub-sector specialists to ensure that NOs and SOs receive the best quality and timely technical services in specific sectors for programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models in alignment with WV’s strategy.
• Reviews the quality of technical services by the TSO specialists when issues of technical quality are escalated to line management by clients.
• Ensure NO TA and TP designs meet organizational standards.
• Participate in programme evaluations where requested by NO.

Knowledge Management and Communications:

• With Director Quality and Innovation document learnings, case studies or evaluations to ensure learnings are shared with the broader CoP.
• Contributes to organizational learning through active engagement and leadership within CoPs.
• Ensures participation of TSO technical specialists in Sector COP.
• Collaborate with GC sector teams to ensure learnings are disseminated.
• Ensures personal ongoing professional development and growth.

Internal Relationships:

• Works closely with the GC Sector Team lead and ministry leaders to ensure collaboration and coordination.

External Engagement:

• Engage with external agencies as needed in the provision of technical services to clients.
• Based on requests from GC sector team, AJC/EE and other clients represent WV as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Masters in sector, International Development or related field.
• Leaders in their field, 5-10 years (min) field level experience.
• Geographic/donor experience necessary; practitioner with higher level thought leadership and people management skills.
• Sector DME experience.
• Language skills appropriate to geographic assignment; understanding of WV’s identity and distinctive (TD, partnering, etc).
• training / adult learning as a required capability.
• Strong experience in grants acquisition and management with bilateral and multilateral donors.

Work Environment/Travel:

• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.