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Multi Sectoral-Integrated Program Manager

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World Vision logoWorld Vision · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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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: Strategic Technical Leadership and Program Quality - Provide overall strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation of all project sectors including Education in Emergencies, Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Shelter/NFI, MPCA, Emergency Agriculture, and Humanitarian Information Management. - Lead the development and periodic review of the project's integrated technical strategy, ensuring coherence, complementarity, and synergy across sectors. - Ensure all sector interventions are aligned with humanitarian principles, Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), INEE Minimum Standards, cluster guidance, government policies, and donor requirements. - Lead technical design and review of implementation approaches, tools, guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and sector-specific technical packages. - Ensure effective integration of protection mainstreaming, safeguarding, PSEA, disability inclusion, gender equality, conflict sensitivity, social cohesion, climate resilience, and accountability to affected populations (AAP) across all sectors. - Establish systems for regular technical performance reviews and quality audits to identify implementation gaps and drive continuous improvement. - Lead technical decision-making during emergency escalations, population displacement, disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and access constraints, ensuring timely adaptation of interventions. - Guide the integration of anticipatory action, disaster risk reduction, resilience building, and early recovery approaches within emergency response interventions. - Provide technical oversight for localization initiatives and ensure meaningful engagement and capacity strengthening of local partners. - Lead technical risk analysis and mitigation planning related to program quality, operational access, security, safeguarding, fiduciary risks, and implementation challenges. - Review and approve technical components of annual, biannual quarter work plans, budgets, procurement plans, technical specifications, bills of quantities, training curricula, and implementation schedules. - Ensure quality and appropriateness of activity interventions across different emergency project locations. - Provide strategic leadership for innovation and adoption of best practices and digital solutions that improve program effectiveness and efficiency. - Ensure integrated response models for overall child wellbeing and social cohesion outcomes. - Serve as the principal technical advisor to the Project Director on all program quality, technical risk, and strategic implementation matters. - Ensure donor commitments, technical deliverables, milestone targets, and sector performance indicators are achieved within agreed timelines and quality standards. Technical Supervision and Capacity Strengthening (20%) Directly supervise and support sector specialists and technical coordinators. Establish technical quality assurance mechanisms across all sectors. Lead development of technical guidance notes, SOPs, training packages, and implementation tools. Coordinate capacity assessments and capacity-strengthening plans for staff and local partners. Facilitate cross-sector learning, mentorship, coaching, and supportive supervision. Organize technical review meetings and learning events to promote continuous improvement. Program Performance and Adaptive Management (15%) Monitor technical performance against project indicators and targets. Lead regular program performance reviews and corrective action planning. Identify implementation bottlenecks and provide technical solutions. Ensure strong linkage between assessments, monitoring findings, community feedback, and program adaptation. Support operational decision-making through analysis of program performance data. Ensure timely achievement of project outputs and outcomes across all regions. - Ensure evidence-based programming by promoting the use of assessments, monitoring data, community feedback, research findings, and lessons learned in program design and implementation. - Promote a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the project team and partner organizations. Lead technical review and approval of donor reports, technical papers, assessments, evaluations, lessons learned documents, case studies, and knowledge products before submission. Coordination, Representation and Advocacy (15%) Represent the project in national humanitarian coordination mechanisms, clusters,


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