Church Partnership Liaison

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Job Description:

Reports to: Faith and Development Manager.

Location: Kampala, National Office

The Church Partnerships Liaison is a key supportive role that plays a cross-cutting function in the Faith and Development and Sponsorship and Community Engagement program units. The incumbent serves as the primary point of contact for SO Church Teams and GC to help manage relationships, support new innovations, collaborate on content gathering, and strengthen existing activities with SO Church Teams. Its aimed at nurturing relationships with Churches, collaboration with Support Offices and the Global Center Church Engagement Team as well as NOs, as well as Chosen events coordination for an enhanced and unique transforming Chosen child sponsorship experience. The position will initially grant us the opportunity to test the Church Partnerships Liaison in FY24 in Uganda/EAR to support SO Church Engagement Teams. The role is expected to cause mutual transformation between church and AP communities through an enhanced Chosen experience and journey for SO Church Partnerships, as well as children, families and local church leaders in AP communities. The purpose of the role includes:

1.        Serving as the primary point of contact for SO church teams to help manage Chosen Church Partnerships with Uganda.

2.        Collaborating with GC and SOs to innovate new and strengthen existing content, engagements and experiences between SO churches and Uganda.

3.        Contributing to WV Uganda’s strategy & objectives by strengthening Chosen and scaling Uganda’s local AP church collaboration to other Nos.

4.         To support SOs’ partnerships with churches through Chosen.

5.        Supports the spiritual Nurture of children (SNC) intervention across the F&D Programming ecosystem.

6.        Supports the integration of F&D models into WVU Program frameworks.

The incumbent will closely collaborate with:

• Support Offices partnering with WV Uganda for church partnerships: Australia, Taiwan, Korea, Canada, NZ, UK, Netherlands, and Japan
• GC’s Global Church Engagement team to trial and test new innovations
• Appropriate NO departments to ensure alignment and smooth execution (primarily the Senior Leadership Team, Sponsorship Team, F&D, AP Managers & Coordinators, Sector Directors/Managers, Marketing and Advocacy).
• East Africa Region to document and scale best practices, learnings and innovations.
• The F&D Manager particularly on execution of in-country church partnership, SNC and faith model integration mandates.

Key Result Areas:

1. SO Church Engagement Teams Support:

• In liaison with PMs and APCs, prepare background Chosen envisioning trip briefs and Profiles, status reports, itinerary etc.
• Organize preparatory meetings and pre-Chosen Zoom calls with SO church partners and constantly liaise with SO Church Engagement Teams during trip setup.
• Prepare itineraries and liaise with Senior Sponsorship Manager, CE&OC, PMs, APCs, F&D and all other staff charged with ensuring the successful execution of chosen trips.
• In liaison with the PSA, work out logistics and accommodation details taking in mind safety and security protocols.
• Ensure that teams are briefed through the WV security and safeguarding protocols in a timely manner.
• Organize debrief meetings and reports (including pictures and videos) in a manner that enhances the Chosen sponsorship into a life transforming experience.

Content Development.

• Support content gathering trip in Quarter by making the necessary background preparations, contacts with the necessary people and facilitating the data collection.
• Create monthly content updates and thank you videos for churches (raw videos, prayer updates, etc.)

Engagement & Experiences.

• Represent WV Uganda and our partnerships with churches at SO conferences & events, including FY24 WVUS Pastor’s Gathering (March 06-08) and connecting virtually or through recordings with other SO engagements
• Vision Trips - Support 1-2 Multi-SO Chosen Vision Trips with pastors in FY24, and help innovate and improve experience (will not need to support WVUS Vision Trips)

 Regular Communications and Reporting.

• Function as the primary point of contact for SO church teams partnering with Chosen.
• Serve as the primary point of contact with GC’s Church Engagement team (James/Karina).
• Prepare regular briefs and feedback for SOs and GC Church Engagement including Monthly and Annual reports.

2. Spiritual Nurture of Children:

• Support the development and or sourcing/adoption of relevant age appropriate SNC material for effective result bound SNC.
• Support the training of staff and partners in various WV and other SNC models to build an effective and agile SNC resource base.
• Support the timely collection, analysis and reporting on SNC data on agreed performance indicators and ensure it is utilized for informed decisions.
• Support the direct mentorship and coaching of SNC ToTs /facilitators in various SNC models and approaches.
• Facilitate and support churches and faith leaders to deliver effective SNC interventions.
• Document and disseminate SNC stories of change and impact on World Vision platforms, partners and donors as a demonstration of evidence of work and what the Lord is doing.

3. Integration of World Vision Christian Models into IPFs, SFP, strategy and projects:

• Support the roll out of Faith and development models particularly EWV, CF through staff and partner training and ensure their implementation with fidelity in line with their Design Implementation and Quality Assurance Standards (DIQA).
• Support the regular monitoring and reporting of progress on F&D Model performance including making variance analyses and recommending appropriate corrective action.
• Support learning and evidence building initiatives around F&D model integration and performance for improvement, cost effectiveness, scale up and adaptability.

4. WVU Chosen Lead:

• Conceptualize, commit to and present to internal teams and other NOs the Chosen functional dynamics.
•  Evidence to internal teams and across the Partnership the programmatic impact of Chosen for children and families and how Chosen is a catalyst for community transformation and engagement, and church partnership enhancement.
• Support WV Uganda’s current Chosen championing efforts & share learnings with the Global Centre, SO’s and NO’s.
• Position Uganda to inspire passion across the Partnership and influence strategy and decision-making for Chosen.

5. WVU Strategy: Strengthen Chosen & meet Innovation Hub expectations:

• Collaborate with F&D to maintain local church partnerships and enhance local Ugandan church partner efforts integration into Chosen in a way that is mutually beneficial to the local church, community, and advancing WV Uganda’s national strategy.
• Support WV Uganda’s efforts to coordinate tasks across a multi-functional team to support SO needs, namely; Senior Leadership Team, Sponsorship Team, F&D, AP Managers & Coordinators, Sector Directors/Managers, Marketing and Advocacy.
• Work with the GC to align the 1,000 Girls Campaign pilot with Uganda’s advocacy campaign and strengthen Chosen as an opportunity to empower girls.
• Lead deliberate efforts to prominently position and incorporate Chosen in the strategy refresh and redesign process and dynamically adapt it to the rapidly changing programming and contextual demands.

6. Regional and Global Collaborations:

• Collaborate with East Africa Region to Document and Scale Best Practices, Learnings and Innovations to other National Offices Regionally and Globally
• Scale across EAR Chosen best practices and how it is strengthening our relationship and engagement with local church leaders in East Africa.
• Support efforts to position WV Uganda as a champion for Chosen with global stakeholders (SO’s, Global Centre Leaders, NO’s).

7. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:

• Develop and maintain linkage of all Chosen activities with WV child wellbeing outcomes and indicators.
• Work closely with MEAL team to ensure that Chosen data and metrics are appropriately monitored and captured in the main WV output and Outcome Monitoring drives.
• Use outputs and outcome monitoring data to inform and improve Chosen performance.
• Document feedback and lessons learned during implementation.

Participate and contribute in teams, committees and task forces appointed to including Senior Management Team, National  Disaster Management Committee, Risk Committee, National Resource Development Team among others.

Perform any other duty as may be assigned by supervisor or designee from time to time.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS:

• A Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Divinity, Theology, Christian Ministry or Any Other Degree with additional Theological training from a recognized institution.
• Postgraduate qualification in Divinity or Theology or related field will be an added advantage. 
• At least 5 years’ experience working in International Development Organizations, Faith Umbrella Communities, Churches and Christian organizations.
• An interdenominational, non-partisan and mature Christian outlook is a MUST for this role.
• An impeccable above reproach Christian testimony.
• A practicing Clergy and/or person with ordained ministry experience.
• A highly collaborative, accommodative and outgoing people person with a calm and friendly demeanor.
• Must have proven analytical, problem solving skills and ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Must have a deep understanding of the functional dynamics of Uganda’s religious ecosystem.
• Must be conversant with the requisite approaches to working with children and particularly their spiritual nurture.
• Must be upbeat with program integration dynamics in a fast paced and fluid work environment.
•  Proven ability to cultivate and nurture long-term partnerships with churches and faith communities across denominational shades.
• Experience with working with multifaceted multi-ethnic teams and donor liaisons will be key.  
• An agile personality with Christian events management and child sponsorship experience will be an added advantage.
• Must be well respected in society for Christian values and professionalism
• Experience with virtual engagements and communication dynamics.
• A very prolific communicator and writer.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English.
• Must have good interpersonal and communication skills and is willing to stoop low to the level of a child and work with child ministry and sponsorship teams.
• Must be well respected in society for Christian values and professionalism
• Good knowledge and commitment to WV’s ethos, philosophy of work, and CORE documents.
• A practicing Christian with an address and testimony.

Advert start: 20th October, 2026.

Advert end date: 27th October, 2026.

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