Local Level Advocacy Learning Hub Lead, MEER -- Location: Sarajevo

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Reporting to the Field Support Director this role will have two primary purposes:

1) networking across a diverse region, partnership, and external partners, so that our teams have access to learnings, innovation, knowledge, skills, and experiences;
2) facilitate collaboration for mutual benefit and CWB impact. A central component of the role is to connect all internal and external stakeholders in Local Level Advocacy, to generate learning through mapping and selecting aligned projects across WV Middle East/Eastern Europe Region (MEER) NOs, to transfer learning to general NO program implementation with a focus on driving quality results, and to transmit learning to our people through an action oriented learning methodology. This position will lead these four functions with the aim to achieve the objective of increasing our impact on Child and Youth Well-being by increasing effectiveness, scale, reflection, and evidence-based review.

Lead the continuous quality improvement of WV MEER’s child focused LLA programs, by providing program support to the 10 countries, promoting innovation through research and piloting and stimulate cooperation amongst WV, partner organizations and government bodies.

Local Initiative for National Change (LINC)Project:
To manage and coordinate the achievement of LINC Project objectives through collaboration and partnership with internal World Vision stakeholders (National Offices, MEERO technical advisors, WVI technical advisors and LINC Technical advisors) and external stakeholders (civil society innovators, universities, ‘Think Tanks’ and donors).


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide Strategic Guidance to the Local Level Advocacy LH
• Ensure that the LLALH is impact driven toward generating internal and external learning that strengthens NOs in their focus and capacity to successfully reach the partnership Global Targets and MEER and NO strategies.
• Ensure that the LLALH operates based on the principle of inclusiveness. Align contextually diverse local level advocacy projects from NOs to the LLALH. Ensure the learning from the aligned projects is transmitted back to NOs so as to strengthen impact, scale-up and action.
• Ensure that the LLALH does not become infrastructure heavy, but instead loosely embraced by the host BiH NO making the LLALH flexible, adaptable, and collaborative.
• The LLALH should develop and celebrate a unique design and implementation plan (DIP) with the aim to generate, transfer and transmit learning into action and impact on CWB in MEER.
  
  Generate Learning for impact
• Ensure the LLALH is grounded within the real issues facing WV field staff, and that an impact evidence base will emerge equipping a network of NO interested in LLA with the knowledge to expand their financial donor base, deepen their internal and external partnerships, and turn failures into opportunities.
• Conduct a mapping process, based on solid criteria, to select the NOs best practices within projects. Elevate and connect these projects into a network of LLA aligned projects to generate shared evidence and learning.
• Identify and explore creative ways to fill skill and systems gaps in producing a professional evidence base needed to informed decision making, investment, and ministry impact in the sphere of LLA.
  
  Transfer: Impact through collaborative learning
• Build a LLALH that has a goal driven orientation toward transferring knowledge, ensuring scale up of what has been discovered and deemed contextually useful across the NOs to improve child and youth well-being in MEER;
• Establish a LLALH with a strong field oriented approach based on experimenting, daring to fail, innovating, incubating, discovering, monitoring, and evaluating to ensure that the network of aligned projects in the hubs will organically transfer learning for operational scale-up and fundraising;
• The LHs Lead is accountable to ensure a high level of cross-pollination of learning occurs between the network of hubs with the aim to create an open and fluid platform that will effectively disseminate information and ideas, attract innovation, and sharpen impact of our core ministry;
• Working with FSDs, other LH Leads and the NOs develop a learning agenda from evidence collected through the LHs with a shift from an instructional methodology to a “learning by doing” methodology.
• Develop a system whereby the learning is captured from the LLA aligned projects for knowledge refinement and management, and can be simply transferred to NOs as requested and needed to enhance their impact on CWB.
  
  Transmit: Impact through partnership and scale-up
• The LLALH Lead’s extensive internal and external network must attract cutting edge thinking and strategic and technical partnering opportunities;
• Ensure the LH plays its part in fundraising by strengthening our comparative advantage through positioning WV NOs as credible thought leaders in key topics within LLA based on a network of evidence and impact driven aligned projects;
• Ensure that the learning from the LLALH works to enhance NO expertise, building credibility and organizational reputation with governments positioning and enabling NOs to influence reforms and promote “aligned projects to policy adoption” for sustained impact;
• The LLALHs Lead is accountable to ensure innovative scaled-up for impact by involving and enhancing partnering with governments, coalitions, donors, universities and thought leaders stimulating programmatic experimentation and creativity for permanent impact for the most vulnerable;
• Provide advice and guidance to national offices in drafting and submitting proposals in alignment with their LLA strategies.
  
  LINC Project Management
• Support NOs in preparation and finalization of NO Action Plans
• Prepare Scope of Services and time-table for LINC Project to respond to NO requests for capacity building support
• Prepare and submit reports to donors, senior management (MEERO and NOs)
• Manage and oversee Project budget
• Supervise and manage LINC Project Technical Advisors

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

REQUIRED:
• M.A. or higher degree in Development Studies, Politics, Law, International studies
• Experience in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs in developing countries.
• Strategy development
• Relational Maturity and Initiative
• 50%-40% travel time required
• This role involves facilitation and coordination of a virtual / geographically dispersed group of people working on aligned projects.
  
  PREFERRED:
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in working with local level advocacy
• Experience in working in partnerships with coalitions government outreach project implementation research

Local Level Advocacy Learning Hub Lead, MEER -- Location: Sarajevo