Campaign Specialist

With over 70 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.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Employé à durée déterminée (durée déterminée)

Job Description:

Purpose of the position:

The overall purpose of this position is to provide technical leadership for implementation of the World Vision  global campaign entitled “ It takes a World to End Violence Against Children” by contextualizing it to the operational and practical realities in Ethiopia.  The position holder will work closely with Advocacy and external Engagement Associate Director of World Vision Ethiopia.  S/he is expected to lead in planning the entire campaign activities, mobilizing partners,  execution of the campaign plans and partners engagements at all levels, capacity building for World Vision Ethiopia staff and partners, monitoring impacts of engagements at practical and policy levels,  documentation of progresses against plans and learnings from national and operational levels engagements with pertinent partners; and) and sharing key lessons with the wider partnership by working closely with Communications Department at NO, and Hub levels, and East Africa Regional Office.

The incumbent is expected to lead the process of mainstreaming the theme of campaign across all WVE programs and projects irrespective of source of funding; provides technical support and capacity building to all WVE staff in designing, planning and implementing the campaign through all programs.  S/he follows up and monitors progress of planned activities by all concerned and facilitate review and evaluations of progress made over the course of the campaign lifetime.

The position is also expected to communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

Major Responsibilities:

Planning and Execution

• Lead in planning and execution of “It takes a world to end violence against children” campaign in Ethiopia by working closely with Advocacy and External Engagement Associate Director, Communications Team, and East Africa Regional Office and building partnership with concerned government offices and non-governmental organizations

• Work closely with all technical teams across sectors at the NO level to align the campaign  themes with all Technical Program (TPs) and sectors;

• Work closely with monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability (MEAL) team and to establish clear and standard monitoring, learning and evaluation systems;

• Conduct capacity assessments, training, technical capacity building plan and monitoring for AP staff and partners together with Technical Program Managers and Area Program Managers to ensure staff are equipped with EVAC campaign requirements;

• Promote Child Safe Organizational practices and contribute to the enhancement of technical models and resource/tools for It Takes a World to End Violence Against Children campaign implementation.

Networking, coordination and collaboration

• Provide basic and progress update for periodic internal coordination meetings with WVE’s SLT, CPO managers, and AP Managers to review the progress of EVAC;

• Represent WVE in external consultative meetings and forums with government stakeholders, CSOs, NGOs and community leaders in subjects related to EVAC.

Qualifications:  Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in law, social work, psychology, sociology or related fields with minimum of three years’ experience or  
• Bachelor degree in the similar fields with at least five years’ experience;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as policy advocacy experience;
• Knowledge and proven experience in addressing  child protection and child protection systems, gender based violence (GBV), harmful traditional practices (HTPs) and similar areas in Ethiopia; 
• Experience in campaign design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and report writing;
• Experiences in overall design, monitoring, evaluation, report writing and proposals development;
• Competent in written and verbal English communication;
• Strong computer literacy (including MS Word, Excel, PPT, e internet and  Email usage)

Working Environment / Conditions:

• Work environment:  Office-based with frequent travel to regions, APs/Cluster Offices
• Work station: Head Office

Duty station: Addis Ababa Office-based with frequent travel to the project site and partners offices

Additional Requirements: Committed to WV’s vision, mission and core values

 World Vision Ethiopia is a child focused Organization and is striving to keep children safe and is committed to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for this position.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only