WVV Sponsorship Facilitator

Background

WVV Child sponsorship enhances the quality of WVV’s transformation development and public awareness ministries by providing sponsors, children, and their families and communities with a service that allows sharing of other resources, hopes and experiences in a way that it can transform both. Child sponsorship provides the majority of resources for transformational development. Therefore, Child sponsorship is a required core competency of WVV. Reflecting Christ’s love for children, WVV Child sponsorship creates a special relationship between children, their families and communities, and sponsors that contribute to the transformation of all toward the wholeness of life with dignity, justice, peace and hope.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

The position supports AP manager in ensuring the focus on children’s well-being and the transformation of registered children, their families and communities and sponsors through collaborating with Development Facilitators and local sponsorship volunteers network, partners in planning and implementing sponsorship activities in the designated AP working area. The position assists AP manager to ensure Sponsorship operations and initiatives are well integrated and deployed within TP projects of the AP, provides technical support to DFs to ensure appropriate RC targeting which is aligned with WV’s Sponsorship minimum Programming standards.

Key Responsibilities

ROLE DIMENSION/DESCRIPTION:

SPONSORSHIP SERVICE OPERATIONS

Ensures sponsor communication activities (Sponsor’s Letter, Christmas Card, Child’s Annual Progress Report, Gift Notifications…) are designed in engaging and meaningful way so as to contribute to life skills and development assets of children

SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMMING

Makes sure RC and their families are intentionally included in the AP’s programming interventions as part of transformational development.
Ensures budgeted number of RC which is agreed with the support office is maintained through timely processing of new growth, replacement and reactivation.

COMMUNITY AWARENESS & TRAINING

In cooperation with DFs, the sponsorship communication messages and materials (adapted with local context as possible) are distributed to all RC’s parents and non-RC’s parents;
In collaboration with other the DFs, the sponsorship network and National Communicator(s), documenting stories about RC and their families and significant changes in their life, achievements, best practices and learning experiences are compiled for WV publications and shared within the Partnership.

Knowledge & Skill

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

Knowledge & Skills:

Conceptual understanding of and commitment to development work, especially Christian, child-focused, community-based development concepts, approaches and processes;
Strong understand of community-led development work
Demonstrated training and facilitation skills, including catalysing, connecting and building the capacity of community groups
Good time management and organizational skills;
Good interpersonal and communications skills;
Fair English, especially email/letters writing skills;
Good computer skills in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and email;