WORK CONTEXT / BACKGROUND
WVI Vietnam is developing a project to help Vietnamese children to learn, entertain and grow in safe online and offline environments, with the tentative timeline from January 2022 to December 2024. The project and the positions required to deliver the project will commence upon confirmed funding from the donor.
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organisation working to create lasting change in the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender. As a child-focused organization, WV’s work focuses on children, ensuring they are protected and their basic needs are met. World Vision International in Vietnam (WVI Vietnam) has a total income of USD 17.9 million (FY2020) with funding from 12 support countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia. Funding of WVI Vietnam consists of Sponsorship program funding (70%) and Private Non-Sponsorship/Grants (30%). WVI Vietnam employs about 430 staff, of which 99% are Vietnamese nationals.
WVI Vietnam currently implements 36 Area Programmes (APs) which operate in 5 zones: North 1 (Hoa Binh and Dien Bien), North 2 (Yen Bai and Tuyen Quang), North 3 (Thanh Hoa and Hai Phong), Centre (Quang Tri, Quang Nam and Danang) and South (Quang Ngai, Binh Thuan, Ho Chi Minh and DakNong). WVI Vietnam’s Area Programs focus within one administrative district of a province which usually populated by ethnic minority people with very high rates of poverty. A uniqueness of WVI Vietnam’s AP approach and structure is that team members are based at district level where the Area Program (AP) is located, which enables them to work closely with government partners and communities on a daily basis. Beside the APs, WVI Vietnam is also implementing different non private sponsorship (PNS) and Grant Projects to meet the specific needs of vulnerable children in both AP and non-AP areas.
Over 70% of the Vietnamese population now has access to the internet. As of June 2021, 9.2% of Facebook users and 18.5% of Youtube users are children aged 13-17. Children use the internet from an early age but do not have enough knowledge and skills to protect themselves from the risk of being sexually abused via chat rooms, live streams, web cameras and smartphones.
PURPOSE OF POSITION
ROLE DIMENSION/DESCRIPTION
The Project Officer is responsible for implementing and achieving the goal, outcomes, and outputs of the project as per its design documents and its logical framework in compliance with donor requirements and World Vision principles and values.
Leadership and people management
• Supervise, coach, mentor, provide adequate feedback to project staff to ensure their high performance toward the shared goals.
• Provide overall leadership to the project team, including spiritual leadership.
• Work with People and Culture (PnC) department to recruit and provide orientation for new staff.
• Identify and address staffing issues in a timely and professional manner, in working with PnC department.
• Promote ongoing reflection and learning culture among project staff.
• Identify and address development needs of project staff to ensure that they are well equipped with core and job-specific competencies to carry out quality work.
Project Implementation & Management
• Prepare annual Plans of Action & Budget with the participation from local partners and community and with support from manager
• Provide clear orientation on the project for project stakeholders.
• Project budget is well managed in full compliance to WV’s and the donor’s policy.
• Lead the development with technical support from the technical team, contribute inputs for the development of high-quality capacity building resources, guidance and materials on online safety and Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse under World Vision’s management.
• Cooperate with partners, World Vision’s technical team and field staff, UNICEF and other stakeholders to coordinate project planning, implementation, and monitoring according to the project agreement and proposal.
• Lead the project team to achieve all the set targets in the Results Framework. Ensure the project implementation achieving at least 95% targets on a quarterly and annual basis.
• Closely work with UNICEF, the technical team, field staff, local partner to ensure producing quality results that meet the standard required by donor (as described in Proposal) as well as the connection between WV’s managed components and UNICEF’s managed components.
• Monthly, annual and end-of-project reports are completed and submitted in a timely manner to supervisors.
Project Monitoring & Evaluation
• Ensure documentation of good practices to learn and share among WV and UNICEF’s project areas and throughout the country, throughout ASEAN region.
• Work with partners to ensure effective regular monitoring and reflection of the project activities.
• Ensure the project M&E system and use data for programming and decision making.
• Conduct quarterly workshops/meetings to monitor data collection, learning and reflection.
Partnering
• Manage communication and advocacy on child online protection (COP), in relation to Vietnam National Programme on COP. Establishing appropriate information-sharing and learning networking among COP stakeholders in Vietnam.
• Ensure the active participation and contribution of district and province related partners, national partners to project goal, especially Ministry/ Department of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry/ Department of Education and Training; Ministry/ Department of Information and Communication and local authorities at commune, district and province levels.
• Liaise with and strengthen relationships with UNICEF, partners at national level, province and district levels, other NGOs, and the private sector in project implementation
• Promotes the project, project models and good practice at the local and national levels.
• Liaise with UNICEF and project donor, be responsible for responding to donor’s requirements/questions relating to project implementation in consultation with Zonal Manager and Child Protection TP manager.
