World Vision International is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. For over two decades. World Vision has been working with urban and rural communities in all the 10 Regions of Ghana to improve provision of water, promote sanitation and hygiene practices and quality education, particularly at the basic level, enhance food security and respond to disasters.

Job Summary:

World Vision Ghana (WVG) is looking for highly qualified, proactive, motivational and resourceful persons to fill the above position.

Reports to: Ministry Quality & Strategy Director
Supervises: 4 Technical Specialists

Purpose of the position:
To advise, lead and co-ordinate National Office (NO). Strategy formulation, development, implementation and evaluation; follow-up on the implementation of Peer Review recommendations and provide leadership and line supervision to technical specialists in the sectors of health, WASH, education and agriculture/food security/natural resource management, ensuring adequate and effective co-ordination of technical support is provided for WVG ministry operations.

Major Responsibilities:

•  Lead and co-ordinate the National Office strategy development, implementation, monitoring (including reporting), evaluation, review and dissemination in alignment with partnership and regional strategies
•  Lead and co-ordinate the contextualisation and development of global strategies and standards for use at the National Office
•  Co-ordinate the development of intervention sector and departmental specific strategies
•  Lead the development of NO Annual operating plan and follow up on its implementation and reporting
•  Participate in the review of proposals for funding to ensure their alignment with the National Office Strategy
•  Create a clear understanding of the performance standards and indicators in all operating units of the National Office in alignment with the NO Strategy
•  Establish and maintain a NO dashboard to track NO, ADPs, Sectors and Divisional Strategy Implementation with all respect to indicators and targets and report regularly on their performance status
•  Provide leadership and line management to a team of programme technical specialists, including coaching, mentoring and performance management
•  Represent World Vision Ghana at meetings, conferences and other related and relevant fora relating to Ministry Quality and Strategy
•  Establish clear guidance and mechanisms for the effective integration of intervention sector and departments in WVG mainstream ministry

Qualification Required & Experience

Job Specification:
Minimum Education level required:

•  Education: Master's Degree in Planning, Development Studies, Management, or any other Social Sciences
•  Experience: 7 to 10 years of business experience with 5+ years of extensive strategy consulting and developing
•  Preferred: Technical experience in any other sector such as Health, Nutrition, Agriculture, Food Security, or Education is highly preferred

Other Competencies:

•  Programme/Project management skills
•  Leadership and Co-ordination skills
•  Training (Capacity Building) skills
•  Has a broad understanding of the humanitarian industry issues, trends and strategies
•  Strong communication and facilitation skills and interpersonal skills at a senior management level
•  Strong ability to build senior relationships and influence at all levels within an organisation
•  Ability to manage multiple key strategy projects and initiatives, including setting strategy direction
•   Experience in building a business case with both Financial and strategic rationale to support any business-driven initiative
•  Posses humanitarian business acumen and ability to read and synthesise with various financial and industry specific productivity and competitive analysis reports
•  Experience in working within a fast-paced, complex, dynamic, multi-cultural business environment
•  Thorough knowledge of MS Office suite and Lotus Notes, Knowledge of other statistical packages such as SPSS an advantage
•  Adequate skills in planning and conducting research

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria should send their application letters and CV quoting only the job title as the subject to:

ghana@wvi.org

Closing Date: 18 December, 2012

As a Child focused organisation, World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. WV is an equal opportunities employer. Women are highly encouraged to apply