Technology & Innovation Manager
Job Ref No: WVT/P&C/FY13/66
Job Title: Technology & Innovation Manager
Reports to: Innovation & Strategic Partnership Director
Location: Head Office Arusha
Purpose of the position:
To
provide management and support to the Technology and Innovation Unit
in ensuring the identification, piloting, introduction and scaling-up of
innovative technology solutions that make sense to the people with whom
we work and ensuring that they become embedded in World Vision Tanzania
culture and programmers.
Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others
Major Responsibilities:
1: Facilitate
identification and piloting of innovative technology that support
effective WVT’s design and implementation work in baseline, evaluations
and monitoring as well as aggregation of results for child well-being
indicators and their reporting that will increase donor engagement and
transparency.
2:
Facilitate in collaboration with partners identification and
application of mobile technology innovations, radio technology solutions
and weather-forecasting technology in communities
3:
Facilitate mapping out of World Vision Tanzania (WVT) areas of
operations, including the natural and social characteristics of the
intervention areas, to help WVT better understand the nature of the
communities and their particular areas of vulnerability, as well as
household demographics.
4:Facilitate
implementation of mobile technology interventions as a means of
communicating with small-holder-farmers essential information on markets
and market-prices, farm inputs, farm practices etc, to help farmers
make appropriate farming decisions.
5:
Facilitate in collaboration with partners development of a short,
medium and long-range weather forecasting system and ensure
accessibility of this information to staff and partners to inform them
prevailing climate change trends and enable farmers and all partners
make better and more informed choices about the type of seeds, planting
and harvestings of their crops.
6:
Work in collaboration with partners to establish a database for
household information of individual participating farmers in WVT’s
programmes. To help in tracking actual progress and development of
farming communities using real, household-level data including under
five children, youth and families well being.
7:
Facilitate in collaboration with partners who works with local radio
stations to develop and broadcast interactive radio programmers’ for
rural communities to provide information and learning opportunities to
farmers in order to enhance their knowledge and skills to improve their
economic opportunities.
8:
Facilitate scaling-up of Community Knowledge Centers (CKC) model and
vision in 30 more ADPs to provide a technology hub in a rural community
that can offer technology services as well as provide economic and
employment opportunities for young people.
9:
Facilitate implementation of WVT Knowledge Management (KM) operational
framework to ensure all WVT operation’s data, information and knowledge
is stored in a central location accessible to all staff and partners
anytime anywhere over the cloud-based server.
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
Minimum
Qualification required: Masters Degree in Management Information
Systems (MIS) Business Administration or Project Management.
Experience:
The ideal candidate will be a self-directed with 5+ years of business
experience with a proven, measurable track record of success and display
strong interest in the power of creativity and innovation to positively
impact business and organizations effectiveness.
- Preferred:
Understanding of global technological trends
- Technical Skills & Abilities:
- Advanced Computer skills
- Programmers and Project’s Programming skills
- Demonstrated ability in supervision
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Tact and diplomacy in dealing with staff-related to work environment needs
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and public
Other Competencies/Attributes:
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
- Must be able to provide spiritual leadership within but not limited to chapel and daily devotions;
- Must have outstanding oral and written communications and relationship skills and;
- Must be willing to perform other duties as required.
Senior Manager
Job Ref No: WVT/P&C/FY13/64
Job Title: Senior Manager – Church for Community Transformation
Reports to: Innovations and Strategic Partnerships Director
Location: Head Office
Purpose of the position:
To
provide strategic leadership in the empowerment of church (and
community) leadership for holistic community transformation through
mobilization process and exploitation of locally available resources for
sustainable transformational development within their communities
Observe mission and core values of World Vision and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.
Major Responsibilities:
- 1. Strategic Engagement
- Develop strategic partnership with key like-minded organizations to empowering the church (and community) leadership to exploit local resource for holistic transformational development
- Develop, review and update strategic plan, annual operating plan and budget
- Develop concept papers and proposals for Church for Community transformation
- 2. Empowering and mentoring leaders
- Strategize and implement plans for exposure visits of key strategic church (and community leaders) leaders to evidence-based locally resourced organizations such as Christian Impact Mission (CIM), Tearfund and others
- Execute strategies for empowering church (and community) leadership through biblical worldview modules in partnership with Samaritan Strategy Africa for the transformation of peoples’ mindset
- Build church’s capacity on children holistic child development and protection through different modules such as Celebrating Families
- Provide capacity building, trainings and mentorship to community leaders in partnership with successful community transformers
- 3. Mobilization, training, monitoring and reporting
- In partnership with CIM, mobilize community members to adopt different agricultural technologies, including rainwater harvesting, to increase productivity and profitability for the wellbeing of children
Facilitate the mobilization, training and support community members to form Commercial
- Producer Groups and Commercial Villages for market linkages
- Identify and support most productive individuals to establish model farms as learning sites
General Duties
- Facilitate documentation of learning and success for the projects
- Build a team of staff through effective communication and capacity building.
Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:
- Minimum Qualification required: Masters in Social Sciences/Theology
- Experience: 10 years in community or church related work
- Technical Skills & Abilities:
- Computer skills.
- Demonstrated ability in supervision
- Working knowledge of proposal writing
- Good planning and organizational skills
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and donors
- Good understanding of and respect for diverse churches and Christian organization
Other Competencies/Attributes:
- Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
- Perform other duties as required
Working Environment / Conditions:
- Work environment: Office-based with regular travel to the field
- Travel: 20% Domestic travel is required.
- On call: 10%
How to Apply How to apply:
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications letter (addressed to People and Culture Director) together with an updated CV and copies of relevant credentials, contacts and three referees one of them being a church leader to wvt_jobs@wvi.org OR wvt_recruit@wvi.org
Deadline October 2,2013
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