Job Description

With over 70 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.
Come join our 34,000+ 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)
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Purpose of the Job:
A Program Coordinator (PC) works with a team of Community Mobilizers in the communities to enable mutual transformation - in the lives of children, families, supporters and WV staff themselves. The role serves as the primary link between the WV India Area Development Program office and the community mobilisers focusing on working with local groups and organisations to contribute towards child well-being priorities in the area.
A Programme coordinator acts as a facilitator and helps the community mobiliser's teams to build on their existing strengths and facilitate links to technical support. They will be also responsible for a cluster to implement programmes and sponsorship in addition to providing coaching and mentoring.
Key Deliverables:Ensure the effective communication of WV India identity, mission, vision, core values and approach to development including child sponsorship. Facilitate in enhancing the capacity of the community on ownership of child well-being. Identifying partners at the local level (block) and develop multi stakeholder partnership in line with the TPs. Explore opportunities for resource diversification at local level. Facilitate the development of locally contextual child selection criteria, and support the child selection process within in the primary focus areas. Ensure the presence monitoring of registered children and communications as per the sponsorship standards and inclusion of the Registered Children (RC) & families in development programme. Promote community led child monitoring and management of cases for children identified for follow up with the Danger signs & symptoms. Establish community led child protection mechanism in their own clusters. Ensure the inclusion of the most vulnerable as programme participants from the primary focussed area (PFA) Identify and engage relevant capacity building support to local community mobilisers s from technical experts from within and outside, as required Facilitate community based monitoring of programmes & monitoring support to the community mobilisers s within the Monitor the end user issues within the PFA. Enhance influence at the Block level. Promote a culture of excellence, team work and learning among the other community mobilisers s in the ADP. * Contribute to ongoing reflection and learning within the team/ partners to improve programme performance