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)

Provides overall leadership, technical expertise and effective management through the Livelihood & Resilience Unit, to ensure Wahana Visi Indonesia’s strategic ministry objectives and Child Result are achieved with the highest quality and accountability in a way that reflects World Vision’s core values, mission and strategic directions; this includes for Emergency Response situations.

Maintain and enhance the role and positioning of Wahana Visi Indonesia in advocating for and responding to Livelihood & Resilience needs in Indonesia aligned with national strategy. The Livelihood & Resilience Manager will engage externally to position WVI as a trusted partner. S/he will represent Wahana Visi Indonesia externally with a variety of stakeholders.

The position integrates key technical areas including food security, climate-resilient agriculture, climate change adaptation, market-based programming, financial literacy, and youth economic empowerment, ensuring alignment with World Vision’s (partnership) global strategy and national priorities. S/he will working closely with Specialist in WV Global/Regional/National level, other sectors to strengthen integrated approaches to achieve outcomes, ensuring quality monitoring and evaluation of Livelihood programming and demonstrating evidence of impact. Engage proactively, strategically and technically in acquisition of sustainable funding and resources for an impactful Livelihood & Resilience program. This position together with the acquisition team will also lead proposal development writing for funding acquisition in Livelihood & Resilience sector.

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 & Planning

• Ensure Livelihood & Resilience Programmes contribute to child-wellbeing outcomes, reach the Most Vulnerable Children, and are delivered through integrated and sectoral programming that is of high-level quality and accountability.

• Incorporate data effectively from the landscape analysis and other Livelihood & Resilience guidance into the development of the National Strategy and Integrated approach for Livelihood & Resilience, ensuring alignment with relevant references, guidance and policies including Government of Indonesia development plans.

• Lead the development of a logical framework to guide the achievement of design programme objectives.  

• Gather feedback from a wide range of Livelihood and other sector staff on the Livelihood components of the office’s National Strategy and the Integrated approach to ensure technical quality and points of collaboration between sectors.

• Facilitate identification and selection of core Livelihood project models and additional approaches for programming relevant to the context and root causes of violence.

• Develop Livelihood advocacy strategy that aligned to partnership and national strategy

Resource Acquisition, Networking & Coordination

• Ensure collaboration with Acquisition Team in project proposal development that related with Livelihood & Resilience issues. 

• With Acquisition Team lead technical writing of project proposal to ensure technical rigors and project viability.  

• Maintain and enhance good relations including involvement in meeting with government donors, supporters, and Wahana Visi support offices, especially in relation to Livelihood & Resilience issues

• Ensure that Wahana Visi Indonesia maintains and enhances good relations with the Ministry of Livelihood & Resilience, other government Livelihood & Resilience institutions at national level, as well as Provincial authorities and others.

• Contribute to WVIDN’s advocacy efforts at local and national level on Livelihood & Resilience-related issues with the government, public, corporate, partners, supporters, etc.

• Build and maintain good relationship with Regional Office, Global Centre and other Field Offices in WV Partnership.

Capacity Building

• Equip the Program(s) capacity to be able to identify Livelihood & Resilience as a project goal within log frame through trainings, awareness raising, communications, etc. 

• Provide technical support to Program(s) in evaluation of Livelihood & Resilience program, include interpretation and use of data. 

• Build capacity of Livelihood & Resilience Specialist to ensure quality support for ministry implementation. 

• Serve as a resource and spokesperson on Livelihood issues both in WV Indonesia, and within the World Vision partnership, keeping up to date on emerging Livelihood issues and program responses appropriate for Indonesian context.

Accountability & Quality Assurance

• Continually monitor the performance and progress against quality, strategy and objectives of the Livelihood & Resilience Design programme. Ensure that the Livelihood & Resilience programme is maintaining Wahana Visi Indonesia and donor accountability standards.

• Together with Livelihood & Resilience team implement technical and managerial evaluations of all Livelihood & Resilience projects in line with donor guidelines.

• Ensuring alignment to safeguarding of Livelihood design programme activities

• Responsible for the high-level analysis and Livelihood & Resilience Annual Design programme Report in achieving National target

Management and Leadership

• Submits periodical/ monthly accomplishment report

• Build and maintain positive spirit of working in team with other staff in respective unit and department

• Provide Christian leadership and support to enrich the organization’s life, faith, Christian Commitments and ministry to the disadvantaged children and communities we seek to serve.

• Provide line management for Livelihood & Resilience team, including performance management, coaching and capacity building. 

• Conduct regular team meeting, Community of Practices and workshops to organize the work of the team and help the project staffs to achieve the target quality on time.

• Ensure matrix management with relevant departments is done well for Livelihood & Resilience team. 

• Be a role model and inspiration in managing work, communication and relationship with internal staff and external parties.

• Ensure that all implementations are carried out and risks related to Livelihood & Resilience are effectively managed in accordance with organizational policies, guidelines, and standards. This includes risks related to fraud, safeguarding, and other associated risks.

Requirement

• A bachelor's or master's degree in a relevant field such as economics, development studies, business administration, agriculture, or a related discipline.

• Min 5 year’s experience in economic, Livelihood & Resilience/Food Security & Agriculture/Market Based Programming and climate change related projects and issues.

• Experience in budget management and financial oversight related to Livelihood & Resilience initiatives.
• Good communication skills in english (written & verbal)

• Climate Change Adaptation training and courses

• Strong project management skills with the ability to develop, implement, monitor, and evaluate projects effectively.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective internal and external communication.

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