Job Title: District Manager
Location: Zambezia/Maganja da Costa, Mozambique
Job Type: Full-time
Application Deadline: March 6, 2025
Job Requisition ID: JR40549
About the Organization
With over 70 years of experience, our mission is to help the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience a full life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we work in nearly 100 countries with over 34,000 staff to transform the lives of children, even in the most dangerous places.
Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a difference in the lives of vulnerable children!
Key Responsibilities
Accountabilities and Results
- Conduct monthly staff meetings to address issues, reflect on program progress, and encourage learning for improvement.
- Ensure high-quality completion of People & Culture (P+C) documentation, including PRFs, PAFs, Annual Performance Plans, Mid-Year Performance Reviews, and Learning and Development plans.
- Build staff capacity by developing and implementing personal capacity-building plans, providing coaching, and enhancing commitment, character, competence, and critical thinking.
Local Relationships and Advocacy
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including government, NGOs, and churches.
- Act as the primary focal point for government relations in the district, ensuring support for World Vision’s projects.
- Align WV’s plans with district development plans and communicate WV’s approaches to stakeholders.
- Build alliances with organizations focused on child well-being and develop advocacy partnerships to influence policy development.
Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (DME)
- Ensure timely and high-quality DME processes.
- Lead the writing of district design documents in line with LEAP standards.
- Balance community needs, national strategy, and global best practices in project approaches.
- Develop annual plans and budgets, integrating disaster management, advocacy, and cross-cutting themes like gender and faith.
- Facilitate baselines, evaluations, and monitoring reports to improve project implementation.
Program Implementation and Management
- Apply WV’s Development Program Approach (DPA) principles throughout the district program.
- Ensure adherence to Child Protection, DME, and Sponsorship standards.
- Improve integration between projects funded by sponsorship, grants, or private donors.
- Develop monthly staff plans, annual procurement plans, and monitor progress against project targets.
- Lead disaster response efforts and adjust program activities as needed.
Sponsorship Management and Child Protection
- Ensure compliance with sponsorship standards and integration with development programming.
- Educate government and communities on WV’s sponsorship approach.
- Ensure staff follow the WV Child Protection Policy and respond promptly to child protection incidents.
Financial Management
- Prepare and monitor annual budgets, ensuring good stewardship of financial resources.
- Review monthly financial reports and prepare variance explanations.
- Ensure compliance with WV financial policies and prepare management responses to audits.
Reporting
- Prepare and submit regular reports to district, province, and national offices, including Monthly Management Reports, 6-monthly Programme Reports, and Annual Programme Reports.
- Monitor the local context and report on changes affecting program activities.
- Provide coaching to staff to improve report quality.
Support Office Relationships
- Build effective relationships with Support Offices, responding to queries and hosting visits.
- Ensure a good flow of information between district projects and Support Offices.
General
- Communicate World Vision’s Christian ethos and demonstrate spiritual leadership.
- Attend and lead weekly devotions.
Position Requirements
Education and Knowledge
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (Development, Management, Social Sciences).
- Conceptual understanding of and commitment to development work among the poor.
- Knowledge of program/project cycle management and aspects of development work (health, education, food security, child protection, disaster management, advocacy).
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years in managerial or leadership positions.
- Experience in project/programme management throughout the project cycle.
Skills/Abilities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Portuguese.
- Strong planning, budgeting, and organizational skills.
- Strong knowledge of financial management and accounting principles.
How to Apply
- Application Link: District Manager – JR40549
- Deadline: March 6, 2025
