Technical Lead

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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) Job Description: The Technical Lead - [Sector] provides sector-specific technical leadership, thought leadership, donor engagement, and resource acquisition to position World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) as a partner of choice for high-impact programming. Reporting to the Technical Director, the Technical Lead is responsible for managing Technical Specialists within their sector, ensuring program quality assurance, evidence-based design, and alignment with organisational priorities and donor expectations. A core function of this role is to lead donor engagement and drive resource acquisition for the sector in close collaboration with the Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM) team, contributing a measurable proportion of funding (e.g., target $ or % contribution) to the national portfolio through technical leadership in proposal development, external engagement, and strategic positioning with donors and partners. The Technical Lead develops and steward's donor relationships, leads proposal design, integrates cross-cutting themes, and mobilises resources to achieve targeted growth and contribution to the national portfolio. Leadership and Team Building Foster a collaborative team environment, providing mentorship and supporting professional development for staff. Capacity Building Support and mentor local institutions (CBOs, FBOs, etc.) and smaller NGOs to enhance their capabilities and ensure compliance with project standards Resource Stewardship Enforce accountability by ensuring efficient resource utilization, adherence to internal controls, and achieving satisfactory financial and operational audit results. Resource Mobilisation & Donor Engagement Lead technical input for proposals and donor engagement, working closely with RAM and Marketing teams. Identify funding opportunities and position WVE as a credible, innovative sector partner. Support preparation of concept notes, technical annexes, logframes, and donor communications. Engage externally to build relationships with donors, government, UN, NGOs, and other stakeholders. Capture measurable contribution to national funding portfolio (e.g., $ value or % increase). Sector Strategy, Technical Guidance & Thought Leadership Lead the development, contextualisation, and periodic review of the sector strategy in alignment with World Vision Ethiopia's National Strategy and WVI global sector models and frameworks . Provide strategic technical guidance to ensure programs are evidence-based, contextually relevant, and focused on the well-being of children and the most vulnerable. Offer thought leadership by contributing to strategic learning agendas, representing WVE in national and global technical platforms, publishing articles, and influencing sector debates. Actively shape and inform the development and refinement of WVI's global sector models through engagement with global technical working groups and communities of practice. Integrate cross-cutting themes (nexus, gender-lens, conflict sensitivity, safeguarding, do no harm, faith & development). Engage with Local Partnerships Specialist to implement the Localization Roadmap and strengthen local partner capacity Program Quality Assurance & Support Provide ongoing technical coaching, mentoring, and capacity building to project staff, regional technical focal points, and implementing partners. Conduct regular field visits to monitor technical quality and provide hands-on support. Support orientation and training of new staff in the sectoral approach and technical standards. Capture innovations, lessons learned, and significant change stories for internal learning and wider dissemination. Capacity Building & Field Support Provide ongoing technical coaching, mentoring, and capacity building to project staff, regional technical focal points, and implementing partners. Conduct regular field visits to monitor technical quality and provide hands-on support. Support orientation and training of new staff in the sectoral approach and technical standards, including cross-cutting themes, and localization approaches. Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEAL) Collaborate with MEAL teams to define sector-specific indicators and ensure robust monitoring systems are in place. Use data and evidence, and change stories for decision-making, learning, and adaptive management. Document and share lessons learned, promising practices, and technical innovations for scale-up and learning across the organisation and the wider World Vision Partnership. Engagement with Government & Sector Networks Represent WVE in

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