WVI, Technical Advisor, TSO (Health)

*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:

Position provides high quality technical assistance to NOs in programme design, execution, monitoring, evaluation and scale-up of core project models in alignment with WV’s strategy and help achieve child well-being impact. Develops proposals for grant donors, individuals, businesses, institutions and/or foundations as per requests from the NOs and SOs. Position is deployed for disaster response and other requests from the clients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Policies, Standards and Guidance:

• Reviews requests for technical services from the National offices, Regional offices, Support offices and global center and develops terms of reference for provision of such expertise.
• Provides high quality technical assistance to National Offices for TA/TP and programme design, monitoring and evaluation. This would include level 1 or 2 or 3 services to the clients.
• 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 assistance NOs to contextualize and adapt partnership guidance in consideration of their contexts.
• Conducts technical reviews and provides consulting in response to requests from NO, SO, RO or GC clients.

Staff Capability:

• Work alongside National Office staff to build understanding of WV’s global sectoral approaches and core project models.
• Provide training to clients as requested.
• Mentors and coaches technical staff in NOs, and SOs.

Innovation/Research:

• Identify innovative and promising approaches in field implementation as they provide technical services to the NOs.
• Share learnings within team (sector and/or project model).

Resource Development:

• Develops winning proposals for grant donors as per specific requests from clients.
• Acts as Chief of Party or other technical staff of grant funded programmes of National offices during start-up phase.
• Provides other services based on service requests from clients.

Programme Quality/Evidence of Impact:

• Ensure NO TA and TP designs meet organizational standards.
• Influence decision makers and technical specialists in the NOs and SOs for continuous quality improvement.
• Participate in programme evaluations where requested by NO.
• Undertake quality assessments based on requests from the line management and provide necessary advise.

Knowledge Management and Communications:

• Document lessons learned.
• Contributes to organizational learning through active engagement and leadership within CoPs.
• Ensures personal ongoing professional development and growth.

Internal Relationships:

• Work collaboratively with staff in other TSO sectors, and with GC sector and ministry teams.
• Approach work with a commitment to client-service, that grows the capacity of NO clients.

External Engagement:

• Engage with external agencies as needed in the provision of technical services to clients.
• Based on requests from clients represent WV as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Mid-level/junior technical specialist.
• 5 years (min) field lever experience.
• Master’s degree in relevant technical area of specialization.
• Donor experience necessary.
• Practitioner/contributor Sector DME experience.
• Language skills appropriate to geographic assignment’.
• Training / adult learning as a required capability.
• Strong experience in grants acquisition and management with bilateral and multilateral donors.
• Experience both in programming, and revenue acquisition related areas.

Work Environment/Travel:

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