Southern Africa Region of World Vision International provides oversight to the National Offices covering up to nine counties where World Vision’s focus is predominantly programme implementation.
The nine National Offices are: Zambia, Malawi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Three countries (South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia) have Boards at Intermediate level where National Directors report to both to Regional Leader and the Local Board. Four countries (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe) have Advisory Councils. The other offices are branches of World Vision International with a full reporting relationship to the Regional Leader. The total regional budget is approximately $330 million per year with more than 4,000 staff across the region.
Regional Leader – Southern Africa
The Regional Leader recognises that it is the responsibility of National Offices to implement the whole mission of World Vision in their respective countries. National Directors for each country report to the Regional Leader and have a primary role of supporting, guiding, leading and executing strategy to achieve the mission of World Vision.
To support the Regional Leader in providing primary focus and guidance on strategic, governance and leadership issues, a Senior Director for Operations (SDO) role was created to focus on operational issues, managing the regional office functions and monitoring the National Office performance. The reporting relationship of the SDO is matrix between Regional Leader and Global Director, Field Operations.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
To direct regional operations of World Vision, provide leadership to National Directors and ensure effective management of ministry in alignment with WV’s Vision, Mission, Core Values and global strategic directions. This includes all areas of operations including but not limited to; strategy management, people management, financial resource management, risk management, board and partnership engagement while at the same time managing the performance and effectiveness of National Directors.
To represent, position, enhance and protect World Vision’s ministry in the region both internally within the WV partnership and externally to relevant audiences and bodies.
Regional HIV/AIDS Advisor for Southern Africa
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The primary purpose of this position is to build capacity of 9 Southern Africa National Offices (NOs) in HIV & AIDS programming, support them in grant acquisition and management, particularly PEPFAR, Global Fund as well as developing and implementing Health and HIV&AIDS technical approaches and programs in alignment with Global Centre (GC) and international best practice.
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