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.
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Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:
Project Management
Provide supportive and empowering leadership of project staff in accordance with the Transformational Development principles
Collaborate with field staff, technical advisors and key stakeholders in the community to determine the right mix of project models and cross-cutting themes, ensuring that the program activities address the root causes of vulnerability and strengthen the Drivers of Sustainability, with a view to ensuring that improvements in CWB brought about through the program continue and are further enhanced after World Vision leaves.
Adapt the program design to fit the local context and continually review and adapt it as needs and circumstances change as informed by community engagement and other action learning processes.
Design program to strengthen gender equality and the empowerment of people with disabilities and disadvantaged minorities
Work with RDP department and technical program staff to design projects for donors that are based on consultation with local communities and which promote Transformational Development and Sustainability.
Provide leadership, technical and administrative guidance to Project Coordinator, Community Development Officers, M&E and Comms staff.
Prepare detailed implementation plan and key milestones based on approved plan, budget and framework agreed with the donor.
Oversee monthly activity work plans and budgets within WVTL’s project team
Ensure effective and efficient utilization of program resources through monitoring and tracking expenditures against project plan
Conduct quarterly progress review of project within WVTL and across partner organizations
Identify project risks and prepare mitigation measures
Address implementation and operational challenges. Raise issues and recommend changes and course of action to supervisor as needed.
Identify any capacity gaps amongst WVTL staff and implementing partner and facilitate capacity building activities where appropriate and possible.
Stakeholders Engagement, Partner Monitoring and Support
Represent Project at joint coordination meetings with CARE, PARTISIPA and DFAT
Manage financial partners who will implement key parts of the project
Collaborate with Area Managers and Project Coordinators on stakeholder engagement plans and activities
Lead external relationships and engagement with relevant NGOs and government institution at national and municipality level.
Build a range of effective relationships at the program level to encourage
collaboration, local ownership and to build resilience
Facilitate the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships to make use of different strengths and diverse resources within the community
Support partnerships to ensure that shared projects are implemented effectively to achieve agreed goals.
Develop capability of local partners, stakeholders and duty-bearers with a view to ensuring that there is continuing accountability, capacity and resources to support Child Well-being after World Vision leaves.
Promote and establish appropriate reflection and learning events in order to improve design of programs/projects.
Ensure that project team and implementing partner have access to appropriate information, tools and resources to enable compliance of projects with organizational standards and legal requirement in the areas of financial management, supply chain management, people management and project management
Provide technical support for project and implementing partner to deliver project outcomes, including reaching most vulnerable population as per project design
Ensure rigorous beneficiary selection in discussion with local government authorities, stakeholders, WVTL staff and implementing partner
Manage, monitor and document performance of implementing partner every month, to ensure that the implementation of project is delivered according to plan, budget, timeline and in alignment with quality standards and benchmarks
Support implementing partner to manage relationship with Local Government, bodies and networks as necessary
Manage field visits of donor and WVTL’s key stakeholders
Information Management and Project Reporting
Responsible for Reporting that will be shared with CARE and submitted to DFAT
Prepare monthly management reports and other periodic reports per WVTL requirements
Draft annual and end of project reports per donor timeline, formatting and requirements. Collaborate with other WVTL staff for report review and approval process for submission.
Clearly communicate timeline, process, and specific requirements to internal/field teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality information, data and reports
Ensure WVI systems are kept up to date with project information
Ensure project information and database is updated by relevant staff updating database and other digital platforms to input statistics and data
Collect relevant information that will be useful for preparing program and project profiles
Prepare program/project summaries including infographics on progress
Coordinate within WVTL and implementing partner to maintain data that are properly disaggregated and stored to inform project progress
Ensure rigorous beneficiary selection in discussion with local government authorities, stakeholders, WVTL staff and implementing partner
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
Fulfill roles and responsibilities per the approved WVTL Monitoring Guidelines.
Collaborate with WVTL’s Evidence and Learning team to ensure that baseline, midterm review and final evaluations/endlines are conducted well and in timeline manner
Ensure that appropriate M&E tools are used and in place to monitor and track progress within WVTL as well as implementing partner
Carry out regular monitoring at field level and interact with stakeholders and beneficiaries
Establish WVTL accountability mechanism to make project accountable to beneficiaries
Others
Familiarize with WVTL country strategy, technical programs, projects, policies and guidelines.
Carry out duties as assigned by supervisor and WVTL management
Ensure rigorous beneficiary selection in discussion with local government authorities, stakeholders, WVTL staff and implementing partner
Application will be closed on: 14 November 2025 5:00pm TLT
World Vision Timor-Leste applies the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and has zero tolerance towards incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with WV Timor-Leste’s work. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, and individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented communities. Our recruitment processes are designed to be accessible and fair, ensuring equal opportunity for all candidates.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only