World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization working to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty. The organization “Value People”; you can expect to work in an environment that values your unique contributions and respects the dignity of each person. We are now inviting suitable individuals with high motivation and commitment for the following challenging and exciting work.

Program Officer / Assistant Program Officer (Children-in-Ministry Department)

Location: Guangzhou

Purpose of the position:

The position supports the design and implementation of Technical Programmes in areas of Child Protection, Education and Lifeskills and child participation in WV project areas. The position has to support Technical Lead to coordinate and develop capacity building for field operations and local partners for effective activity implementation. The position has to work closely with departments (including DME and Advocacy) in WV China and on quality programming and on identifying potential partnership with technical expects in Mainland.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical input in specific subject matters in Child Protection, Lifeskills education and child participation

• Capacity building for staff and other stakeholders matters in Child Protection, Lifeskills education and child participation

• Identify and engage with partners at local and international level for project implementation

• Design, implement, monitor and evaluate special funded projects that are addressing specific issues of children with vulnerabilities (e.g. child-focused programming, disability, children in crisis programming and children in emergencies).

• Support/development of training modules, tools and guidelines to support Child protection and education programming

• Identify new project initiatives, support the preparation of proposals and communicate with local partners

• Identify and engage in higher level collaboration with provincial partners, INGOs, and LNGOs in mainstreaming of WV’s programmes

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree or above in Policy, Public Administration, Social Sciences or equivalent fields, preferably focusing in child welfare and development, social work

• Minimum 5 years of experience working (including project management) in specific technical subject matters (e.g. Education & Life Skills, Child Protection etc) or children related services.

• Knowledge in planning of training outlines, preparing training materials and conducting training to sectoral practitioners (teachers, CBO workers and government officials)

• Knowledge in the development and contextualization of programming tools and activity guidance in the subject matter

• Strong skills for relating and working with children

• Understand issues on the education, child protection, children development and child rights in Asia and international context and relationship to policies in China

• Knowledge of project management and experience in project design and proposal development

• Proactive and dedicated to coach a team of technical specialists who are with different cultural and technical background

• Strong skills for relating and working with children

• Self-motivated, good management (including time management and self-management skills) and organizational skills.

• Good command in written and spoken Chinese (Putonghua) and English

• Frequent travel within China is needed

• Candidate with less experience will be considered as Assistant Program Officer.

  
  

  World Vision is a learning organization, with strong reputation in the NGO community. In your job, there are opportunities to grow and develop that are inherent in working in a global organization. Interested parties please send application letter with full CV, current and expected salary to People & Culture Department by email (hr_imq@wvchi.org). We work in an environment rich with a culturally diverse workforce; come join and use your skills and talents to make a tangible difference in the lives of those we serve.

  More information about our organization is available at our website: http://www.worldvision.org.cn

All information provided will only be used for recruitment-related purpose. Applicants not invited for interview within four weeks should consider their application unsuccessful. All the applications would be destroyed after the recruitment exercise.

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