Program Officer

World Vision International (WVI)—a leading international non-governmental organization—is looking for Program Officer

World Vision’s focus is 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 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

World Vision is committed to safeguarding children and adult beneficiaries believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation and expects all employees, interns, volunteers and all WV affiliates share the same commitment. WV takes diligent measures to screen out all people who might seek to use WV to harm children or adult beneficiaries, or whose past actions indicate an unacceptable risk of such harm. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedures include extensive identification checks prior to employment or engagement with WV in order to ensure safeguarding to the fullest extent.

Join a highly motivated team of world-class international and local humanitarian professionals to establish, build, and grow World Vision’s presence in Ukraine. You will work alongside global professionals, improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a multinational organization that will prepare you for work in the world’s best-in-class companies in the future.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in social sciences, international development, linguistics, or related field
• 4 years' experience in one of the large international organizations in the capacity of GAM or PO
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong facilitation skills
• Strong knowledge of major donors, such as USAID, UN, CIDA, Aus Aid
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Respect of deadlines
• English language fluency
• Willingness to travel 20% of the time

Responsibilities

• Monitor funding status for each sector of the UCR to identify possible funding gaps and ensure smooth transitions from one grant to the next
• Lead the development, design and writing of high-quality concept notes and proposals in close coordination with the Technical Team and Operations, including facilitating design workshops and review processes
• Support in donor and partnership mapping, and annual grant acquisition target setting
• Ensure monthly, annual and end-of-project narrative reports, newsletters, situational reports and other reports are prepared in coordination with Operation and Finance department and the Support Offices
• Lead the development of grant amendment and overseeing revision process as required
• Schedule and facilitate regular and ad-hoc meetings with SOs, assigned donors and follow-up with stakeholders on action plans
• Schedule and facilitate project review meetings on a monthly or quarterly basis in line with projects needs and project monitoring plan agreed at the project start with Head of GAM
• Follow up on monitoring mission reports with SO and ensure recommendations are streamlined across the projects staff — particularly PMs and Technical Advisors — to improve project implementation, and design and feed into GAM business plansOther Responsibilities HEA
• Be aware of the emergency procedures in a response and ensure that necessary preparedness measures have been implemented

Additional Information

• Full-time in office presence
• Official employment according to Ukrainian labour law
• Medical insurance
• Foreign language courses
• WVI Institutional trainings
• Only candidates with Ukrainian citizenship or authorization to work in Ukraine will be considered
• Submit resume and cover letter IN ENGLISH
• Resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this position may close sooner than anticipated