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 33,000+ 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:

Resource Acquisition & Management

Coordinate and communicate with local partners, agencies, NGOs and government institutions to perform accurate food security analyses and to ensure efficient delivery of food/cash assistance.Ensure and/or perform accurate, timely recording of data within the specific technical area of work (e.g. assistance programmes, food security and vulnerability assessments) and consistency of information presented to stakeholders.Support the capacity building of WV staff, and national government within the specific technical area.Oversee and/or review the work of other support staff providing practical advice and guidance, to contribute to delivering objectives to agreed standards and deadlines.To provide effective specialized support and technical analyses to policy and programme activities that effectively meet food assistance needs.Participate in negotiate with food and cash aid donors and support offices to ensure the contract terms are satisfactory to World Vision’s needs and ensuring that WV will be able to comply with requirements of all contracts.Coordinate and liaise with Food/Cash Manager and WV sector managers/ coordinators in order to develop an integrated program that includes food/cash as a strategic resource. Make representations with donors for funding of these proposals.

Encouragement, development and implementation of the program and personnel capacity building among project staff and volunteers

Contribute in the process of continuous learning and actively share learning with other teams within the organization  Ensure each team has access to WV’s food/cash training materials including the commodity manual, food monitors manual, pest and rodent control manual, warehouse chart, cash manual and SOP.Develop staff and volunteer capacity building strategy; conduct commodity management training, and Cash and Voucher Programme training as well as training on donor regulation with the help of WVM’s technical team.Understand staff capacity strengthening priorities ensuring WVM identifies opportunities and plans for support. Coordinate organizational development support to staff.Process any complaints from the field and provide feedback on the steps taken to troubleshoot the problem in the back end and provide technical guidance.

Collection of report from all areas and preparation of National office report and Donor reporting.

Receive all monthly food and cash implementing reports from all locations with Project Officers. Ensure the transaction of distribution report from all locations are captured in the database and produce the reports in a logical and systematic fashion which ensure quality and integrity of the data.Monitor the data as it is entered into databased and note any discrepancies and check these with the staff in field office and partner.Analyse report from all locations with project staff and note potential concerns. Highlight these concerns to the supervisor for further recommendation.Submit all reports to supervisor and donor in a timely manner.Make sure that all staff is conversant with WV requirements and donors standards in commodity handling and cash programme management.Contribute to collating lessons learned in relation to project staff.

Maintain effective networking and partnership with donors and stakeholder perform others activities

Regularly attend food security sector and cash working group meeting or others meeting as required.Regularly attend implementing partner meeting at the WFP office. Represent to local authorities and government and partners’ representatives in professional manner as required.Participate in department meeting other staff forums such as operation forumPerform other tasks as may be occasionally required for quality of food and cash programming.Liaise with counterparts to ensure that all World Vision food/cash received is properly distributed and accounted for, providing guidance, advice and support whenever needed.

Establish Digital Payment System

To support the establishment of a digital payment system, a financial service assessment will be conducted, ensuring cash to beneficiary are able to withdraw cash with assistance from the WVM technical team.Engagement with selected banking providers will be initiated to coordinate implementation and operational procedures.

Required Professional Experience

Five years experience in actual food/cash aid programme implementationPrevious exposure to Relief and food aid/cash programmingExperience international NGO or UN organizations has added value

Required Education, training, license, registration and certification

Bachelor degree in any disciplineMaster Degree in such as Public Engagement, Disaster Management, Development Studies, Community Development is preferred

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

Computer literate and have high skills of information sourcing and gathering including internetExcellent knowledge of local context and organizational cultureExcellent interpersonal skillsExcellent analytical and problem solving skillsExcellent knowledge of international mediaGood judgment and knowledge of media ethicsGood knowledge of Myanmar Child Law, Labour Law, United Nations CRC, industry codes of conduct (Red Cross and Red Crescent Code of Conduct, People in Aid) and performance standards (Sphere)Excellent knowledge on Disaster Response, DRR and CBDRRAbility to work autonomouslyResponds promptly in a professional mannerExcellent planning and organizing skill

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only