Job Description
With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
The Faith and Development Specialist provides strategic and technical leadership in strengthening faith-integrated programming across Wahana Visi Indonesia. The position ensures quality assurance, technical standards, safeguarding compliance, evidence-based learning, and effective integration of Faith & Development approaches within sectoral, humanitarian, and advocacy programming.
The role also develops strategic engagement with churches, faith-based organizations, and interfaith actors to strengthen partnerships, resource mobilization, and collective action that contribute to sustainable child resultoutcomes.
All staff are expected to contribute to Wahana Visi Indonesia’s core approaches—Transformational Development, Advocacy, and Emergency Response. During emergencies, this role may be required to support organizational readiness and response efforts, ensuring timely, coordinated, and accountable delivery of assistance in line with established systems and standards.
Strategy Development & Faith Integration
Focus:
- Faith & Development strategy
- Spiritual Nurture for Children
Activity Example:
- Lead development and refinement of Faith & Development frameworks, standards, tools, and implementation guidance.
- Ensure integration of faith perspectives across sectoral, humanitarian, and advocacy programming.
- Conduct contextual analysis on religious dynamics, social cohesion, and emerging development issues.
- Support development of strategic plans and roadmaps for Faith Integration, Spiritual Nurture for Children, Church Engagement, and Interfaith Engagement.
- Contribute technical inputs to programme design, assessments, and proposal development.
Quality Assurance & Technical Compliance
Focus:
Activity Example:
- Conduct technical reviews of programme designs, reports, assessments, and proposals.
- Ensure implementation complies with Faith & Development standards and safeguarding requirements.
- Develop quality benchmarks, indicators, and monitoring tools.
- Facilitate programme quality assessments and implementation fidelity reviews.
- Support corrective action planning and continuous improvement processes.
- Ensure contextual relevance, inclusion, accountability, and ethical programming practices.
Leverage Church & Faith Engageent for Child Result
Focus:
Activity Example:
- Develop and maintain partnerships with churches, Christian institutions, and faith-based organizations.
- Facilitate strategic dialogue with faith leaders regarding child result, child protection, social cohesion, and community transformation.
- Support zones in developing contextual church engagement plans.
- Identify opportunities for collaborative initiatives, joint campaigns, and faith-based resource mobilization.
- Represent WVI in selected faith-based networks and forums.
- Facilitate partnerships between local churches and programme areas.
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
Focus:
Activity Example:
- Develop training materials, modules, and learning resources.
- Facilitate capacity strengthening on SPIRITUAL NURTURE FOR CHILDREN, Faith Integration, Faith Literacy, Church Engagement, and Interfaith Engagement.
- Conduct coaching and mentoring for staff and partners.
- Facilitate Communities of Practice and technical learning forums.
- Document and share lessons learned, innovations, and good practices.
Monitoring, Learning & Evidence Generation
Focus:
- Learning & data interpretation
Activity Example:
- Support development of indicators and measurement frameworks.
- Analyze programme trends and implementation gaps.
- Contribute to evaluations, research, case studies, and learning products.
- Support utilization of programme evidence for decision making.
- Promote innovation and adaptive management practices.
Organizational Leadership & Risk Management
Focus:
- Safeguarding culture : Manage all implementations and risks related to Faith and Development according to organization policies, guidelines, and standard. This includes risks in fraud, safeguarding, and other related risks
- Organizational contribution
Activity Example:
- Provide Christian value and support to enrich the organization's life, faith, Christian commitments and ministry to the disadvantaged children and communities we seek to serve.
- Promote safeguarding culture and accountability.
- Support risk identification and mitigation related to Faith & Development programming.
- Foster collaboration across departments and sectors.
- Submit periodic accomplishment reports and maintain transparent documentation.
- Model organizational values and servant leadership.
- Develop and manage annual performance agreement
- Submits periodical/ monthly accomplishment report
- Build and maintain positive spirit of working in team with other staff in respective unit and department
- Be a role model and inspiration in managing work, communication and relationship with internal staff and external parties.
Requirement
- Bachelor’s degree in Theology, Community Development, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Humanitarian Studies, or other relevant disciplines.
- Any relevant interdisciplinary educational background is considerable.
- Training or certification in Faith & Development approaches, safeguarding, programme quality, monitoring & evaluation, project management, or adult learning methodologies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Spiritual Nurture for Children (SPIRITUAL NURTURE FOR CHILDREN), Faith Integration, and Faith Literacy approaches.
- Additional training related to Church Engagement, Interfaith Engagement, Child Protection, Humanitarian Standards, Organizational Capacity Strengthening, or Partnership Development is an advantage.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Faith & Development, community development, programme quality, church engagement, faith-based partnerships, technical advisory, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience in programme quality assurance, technical accompaniment, capacity strengthening, and organizational learning.
- Proven experience in integrating faith perspectives into development, humanitarian, advocacy, and child-focused programming.
- Demonstrated experience in building and managing partnerships with churches, faith-based organizations (FBOs), interfaith actors, and community stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of programme quality standards, safeguarding principles, child resultframeworks, and child-focused programming.
- Experience in programme monitoring, evaluation, learning (MEAL), evidence generation, and knowledge management.
- Proven ability to develop technical guidance, frameworks, tools, standards, and quality assurance mechanisms.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, mentoring, stakeholder engagement, and technical accompaniment skills.
- Experience in representing organizations in networks, forums, partnerships, or multi-stakeholder engagements.
- Experience in proposal development, resource mobilization, advocacy engagement, or partnership development is an advantage.
- Proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and English, both written and spoken.
- Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and report-writing skills in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
- Ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders, including faith leaders, church representatives, faith-based organizations, government officials, development partners, academics, and community representatives.
- Ability to develop technical guidance, learning materials, reports, proposals, partnership documents, and strategic papers in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
- Experience in facilitating discussions, workshops, training sessions, and stakeholder consultations in both Bahasa Indonesia and English is an advantage.
- Additional local language skills are considered an advantage.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically as required for programme quality assurance, technical accompaniment, partnership engagement, monitoring, training facilitation, and field visits.
- Comfortable working in diverse cultural, religious, and operational contexts, including rural, remote, fragile, and disaster-affected areas.
- Ability to engage effectively with churches, faith-based organizations, interfaith actors, government institutions, academic institutions, and development partners.
- Ability to work collaboratively across departments, sectors, zones, and multidisciplinary teams within a matrix management environment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing operational, humanitarian, and organizational contexts.
- Willingness to represent the organization in meetings, forums, consultations, workshops, and strategic partnership engagements at national and sub-national levels.
- Ability to travel frequently and participate in field visits, including in remote, geographically challenging, or disaster-affected locations.
- Adequate physical health and stamina to support travel, stakeholder engagement, training facilitation, workshops, programme reviews, and technical accompaniment activities.
- Ability to conduct extended meetings, learning events, coaching sessions, and technical facilitation with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work in varying environmental conditions while maintaining productivity and professional engagement.
- Strong commitment to the mission, vision, and Christian values of Wahana Visi Indonesia.
- Strong understanding of Faith & Development approaches and their application in transformational development, humanitarian response, advocacy, and social cohesion initiatives.
- Profound understanding of religious beliefs, values, ethics, and practices and their contextual application in child-focused programming.
- Strong understanding of Church Engagement, Faith-Based Organization (FBO) partnerships, and interfaith collaboration approaches.
- Good understanding of safeguarding standards, programme accountability, quality assurance mechanisms, and risk management processes.
- Ability to analyze programme context, implementation gaps, partnership opportunities, risks, and learning findings to improve programme effectiveness and impact.
- Strong interpersonal, networking, and collaboration skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders across faith, government, civil society, and development sectors.
- Strong communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience in developing technical guidance, frameworks, tools, learning materials, modules, and programme standards.
- Ability to facilitate learning, coaching, mentoring, reflective processes, and communities of practice.
- Familiarity with programme monitoring systems, data utilization, evidence generation, and knowledge management processes.
- Ability to work effectively across sectors and multidisciplinary teams within a matrix management environment.
- Ability to adapt to changing contexts, operational priorities, and humanitarian environments.
- Familiarity with project management tools, programme reporting systems, and partnership management processes.
Safeguarding Policy
WVI implements a Safeguarding Policy as a form of our commitment to protect children and adult beneficiaries. WVI has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with WVI work and WVI also participates in the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS).
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
