Faith and Development Specialist

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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 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 Faith Integration Spiritual Nurture for Children Faith Literacy Interfaith Engagement Technical alignment 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: Programme quality Safeguarding Technical standards Compliance Risk management 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: Church engagement FBO partnerships Interfaith collaboration Strategic networking Resource mobilization 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: Coaching Mentoring Technical accompaniment Learning systems 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: Evidence Learning & data interpretation Data utilization Innovation 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: Christian commitment 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 Risk management Activity Example: Provide Christian value and support to enrich the organization's life, faith, Christian commitments and ministry to th

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