Development Facilitator (Hermel)

World Vision; Lebanon (Lebanon County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

World Vision seeks a local program coordinator to strengthen community-led development and sponsorship activities. You will build relationships with partners and communities, support program planning, monitoring, and reporting, and guide advocacy groups to advance child well-being.

The role emphasizes collaboration with diverse stakeholders, data-driven decision making, and safeguarding responsibilities in a field-based setting.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant community development experience.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Comfortable working with diverse communities and partners.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with community members and partners to support development processes.
• Assist program planning, implementation, and monitoring with local partners.
• Coordinate sponsorship activities and ensure child well-being reporting.
• Facilitate advocacy working groups and partner coordination.
• Monitor data entry and maintain program records in Horizon-like systems.

Skills

Community development

Facilitation

Communication

Cross-cultural sensitivity

Analytical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Education

University degree in community development or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

With 75 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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

The purpose of the position is to serve as a catalyst, partnership broker, and builder of the capacity of local partners, facilitating the community-led initiatives to improve and sustain the well‑being of children and their families.

To implement with partner the program activities and sponsorship Operation and to facilitate the participation and engagement of Registered Children in programs by applying Sponsorship standard.

Build Strong Relationship and understanding of Sponsorship Operations.

• Build positive and constructive relationships with community members and partners in order to understand their realities and facilitate development processes effectively.

• Strengthen the understanding of community development and ownership and of social sustainability among the stakeholders in the area.

• Increase the understanding of and sensitivity to child development and child vulnerability factors among community members and partners

• Communicate effectively World Vision’s identity, mission, vision, values and its approach in order to work in ways that are contextually appropriate and clear.

• Undertake social networks analysis in order to understand the functions various stakeholders fulfill, power dynamics, and to identify potential local partners and assess their capacity building needs.

• Ensure community understanding of sponsorship and respond to questions and concerns promptly and sensitively

• Ensure partners, including their volunteers and children, are involved in managing the ongoing registration of children.

• Conduct community sensitization to ensure that parents understand sponsorship before registration through appropriate activities.

• Plan and implement as per sponsorship guidelines activities that promote children’s participation using child-friendly methods and tools.

• Work closely with the sponsorship officer to apply Child Monitoring Standards and processes in program activities in ways that promote their outcomes.

• Equip partners, volunteers and community groups to monitor children through visits and project activities.

• Prepare and gather sponsorship 2.0 requirements such as child video greetings, community photos albums and others as requested via mobile Horizon.

• Follow up on the well‑being of child and report any issue that require case management with proper follow up.

• Ensure the presence and participation of children in all sector activities and provide accurate means of verification.

• Ensure accurate data entry via Horizon mobile phone.

• Conduct regular visits to children to process incoming and outgoing correspondence such as thank you letter, Introductory letter report, child expression worksheet, and farewell letter

• Report on child protection incident to the related assigned staff member.

• Take the lead in distributing any community support items or gift in kinds while gathering necessary means of verification

• Manage 2-3 community assistants in conducting the program activities.

Assist in Program planning and implementation

• Actively support program team leader in project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting processes relevant to assigned area
• Work with social groups to support, monitor and evaluate ongoing activities according to approved stated objectives, plan of action, M&E tools, budget and record progress.
• Actively participate in sharing feedback, reflection and learning with proper documentation for the results.
• Collect accurate and timely data for project design, monitoring, implementation and evaluation.

Handle Advocacy Working Groups

• Facilitate advocacy working groups in partnership with SDCs

• Facilitate children council advocacy working groups

• Provide technical support for children councils and adult advocacy working groups to come up with advocacy messaging, initiatives and campaigns to tackle CP issues

Act as a Catalyst, broker and facilitator in working with partners

• Enable and facilitate networking and connections among local stakeholder groups and between local partners

• Actively search for new partners within and outside the community, identify how these partners can work together towards shared priorities for child well‑being and initiate, develop and manage partnership arrangements with them.

• Work with partners to coordinate volunteers’ efforts to enable integration and synergy and prevent duplication and burn‑out.

Perform Other Duties as Required:

• Attend Program and MEAL related meetings within WVL, and with the sector, donors, and local authorities as needed.
• Attend and participate in capacity building trainings locally and internationally.
• Attend and participate in WVL’s spiritual nurture and other organizational events.
• Act responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture.
• Report Child Protection (CP) incidents as per the safeguarding policy guidelines.
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Line Manager.

Minimum Requirements:

• 2 years of previous relevant experience, including at least one year of development facilitation in and with communities

• Strong understanding of community‑led development work

• Basic understanding of design, monitoring, and evaluation

• Strong critical and analytical thinking skills

• Strong facilitation skills

• Strong communication skills and cross cultural sensitivity

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability and commitment to listen to others

• University degree in a field related to community development work (preferably with experience in a field such as sociology, public health, agriculture, economics, education, etc.).

• Computer literate in Microsoft Office package.

As a Christian organisation, World Vision is founded on the biblical principles that women and men, girls and boys are created in the image of God, and of Jesus’ love for all people without discrimination. This means that we recognise and affirm the equal worth, dignity and rights of women, men, girls and boys with and without disability and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.

Applicant Types Accepted: