Head of Programme Development & Quality

World Vision International

Job Purpose:

Introduce an innovative approach to WV Lebanon s program, quality, and development (PDQ) unit to support high-quality, evidence-based programme design that secures transformational change. Manage and coach experienced technical and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) staff leading high-quality programme delivery based on evidence-based practices and exceptional technical rigor that translates to proven impact locally and nationally. Collaborate closely with senior management staff to ensure adaptive programme and management is integrated throughout the WV Lebanon portfolio, rooting interventions in strategic, evidence-based programming that responds to Lebanon s fragility and the needs of the millions of people in need of support. Facilitate the strategic planning process under the direction of the national director and in close partnership with the director of programmes and grants and acquisition manager, including the pathways of change and high-quality programme and technical approaches that secure deep impact on child wellbeing as well as sustainable outcomes for children and communities across Lebanon.

Technical Quality & Support:

• Manage and motivate a small technical team that supports evidence-based programme design, leading to innovative, sustainable change adapting to Lebanon s fragility and fluidity, bringing a clear, contextualised approach that honours WV Lebanon s priorities and proves deep impact to child well-being and long-term, sustainable change in the populations and communities served.
• Collaborate closely with the director of programs and grants and acquisition management manager to transform the strategic technical approach of its historic sponsorship and partnership non-sponsorship (PNS) programming, supported by WV International s Support Offices globally, whilst working closely with relevant WV Lebanon teams and colleagues across the regional and international partnership.
• Establish a culture of accountability, flexibility, agility, responsiveness, and adaptability across the technical teams, ensuring accountability and clarity as a support function vis- -vis organizational needs, from technical expertise and monitoring to ensuring program quality through consistent and regular field presence and strategic program design.
• Manage technical external representation (donors, partners, line ministries, academia, etc.) via WV Lebanon technical specialist through ensuring active representation across priority sectors for coordination, as well as internal collaboration with the Resource Acquisition & Development (RAD) team and the Coms/Public Affairs Manager.
• Lead development of compelling, high-quality technical briefs and capacity statements with clear leadership positioning and compelling content for use in external engagement, donor positioning, partnership development, and advocacy.
• Evaluate and enhance adequate mechanisms that ensure credible measurement of impact and/or influence of advocacy efforts and specific campaigns.
• With the ND, design and recommend a clear structure that is agile and adaptable to respond to Lebanon s fragile context, including prepositioning surge support resources to be activated in consultation with the regional office and from additional internal or external resources such as the regional office, GC HEA, Technical Service Organisation or consultants.

Programme Quality:

• Lead WVL office in developing, understanding and using a programme approach that is consistent with WV s identity, relevant for the Lebanese context, facilities good programming, and empowers communities by:
  • listening, assessing and engaging the local context;
  • acting appropriately for the specific situation of fragility;
  • mobilizing partners and civil society; and
  • evaluating effectiveness
• Ensure and maintain the quality of relief, adaptive and longer-term programming in alignment with the WV International s and donors standards and guidelines that contributes to child well-being objectives and outcomes and prioritized Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Ensuring the application of the right-based approach in programming and recognising girls and boys as right holders and ensuring that they are consulted as co-creators in the design of program interventions.
• Ensure that all MEAL processes are being executed effectively as per WV International s and donors standards, expectations and guidelines.
• Ensure that standardized means of verification and measurements are applied for outcome and output level indictors for each evidence-based practice, so that impact on child wellbeing can be measured at national scale.
• Establish annual change and transformation targets at outcome level and oversee comprehensive system to ensure these outcomes are met.
• Motivate technical teams to envision and lead complementary research that quantifies and qualifies impact and improved child wellbeing as a result of WV s programmes.

Strategic Support:

• Under the direction of the ND, collaborate with the director of programs in facilitating the WVL 2027 2030 strategy, ensuring integration of technical support and MEAL across the strategy for organizational leadership and credibility as well as deep impact in humanitarian, recovery, and development programming with clear opportunities to influence long-term, transformative change.
• Collaborate with the senior management team in designing survival, adaptive, and longer-term programming using evidence-based practices that address root causes, increase resilience, transform systems and relationships, increase social cohesion, and respond to all situations of fragility for vulnerable children.
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