*this fixed term role is supported by grant funding that is approved for a one-year period.
This career specialist serves on a technical advising team to consult and provide implementation support for global program designs, initiatives and tools. The specialist provides competent knowledge in a given sub specialty in their field. At this career level, the incumbent works independently on moderate to highly complex issues. He or she may coach and/or oversee the work other specialists.
What will you do?
Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
Champions and implements global program designs, standards and training tools in alignment with the ministry's objectives. Serves as a key contributor among cross-functional teams to equip National Offices to provide holistic development to caregivers, children and youth. Partners with Regional staff and stakeholders in order to provide strategically designed program implementation support and learning strategies of moderate complexity.
Focusing on Compassion’s overall theory of change and outcomes framework, provides consulting in individual area(s) of specialization to National Offices.
Supports the design and development of Compassion's program models to be implemented globally, including theory, standards, activities, tools and resources and indicators. Collaborates and partners with National Office staff and stakeholders and provides subject matter expertise within area of specialty.
Supports program data and provides ongoing subject matter expertise in using high quality data to measure program inputs, outputs, outcomes on a global scale. Aids Regional staff by providing coaching and knowledge for measurement usage and interpretation. Serves as a subject matter expert regarding metric creation, collection and usage.
Independently conducts special training and initiatives and consults with others regarding industry standards, national policies and best practices.
Identifies and analyzes moderately complex global program process problems and defines the scope of activities required to address the issues, including requirement definition, process review, impact assessment and operational streamlining where appropriate to increase productivity and efficiency. Prepare supporting documentation such as presentations, future state maps, success metrics, business requirements and related impact analyses. Participates in the creation of new processes.
Defines relevant metrics and develops reports utilized to track overall program development and implementation success. Analyzes data to identify improvement opportunities.
Provides expertise and coaching to other program support and partnership staff in Regional and national offices as requested.
Why work here?
The mission: Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.
Our benefits: Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.
Spiritual growth: Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.
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Skills Required
- Commitment to and public witness of Christian faith and values
- Adherence to child protection policies and Code of Conduct; ability to report and support responses to incidents
- Subject matter expertise in disaster preparedness or related programmatic specialization
- Experience designing and implementing program models, standards, tools, and training
- Ability to analyze program data, create metrics, and produce reports to measure outcomes
- Experience providing coaching, consulting, and capacity-building to regional and national staff
- Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and prepare business requirements and impact analyses
What We Do
Compassion International is a Christian child development ministry aimed at releasing children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty in Jesus’ name. We are church-based: Compassion believes the Church is God’s chosen instrument to bring hope to a hurting world. We believe the strategic placement of local churches makes them best suited to address the holistic needs of the children in their communities. And only they can effectively deliver the Jesus-based teaching and whole-life care that children in poverty deserve. Compassion partners with 8,000+ churches in 25 countries around the world to deliver our holistic child development program. We are child-focused: Compassion’s ministry is focused on the individual child and his/her development. We offer this assistance irrespective of caste, creed, class or religion. At Compassion, we believe entire communities will feel the positive impact of our presence because what happens in the life of a child ripples throughout his or her environment. We are Christ-centered: Jesus is the core of our ministry and his life and teachings shape our programs. They reflect the spiritual commitments of our staff. And they guide how we love people, respect communities and cooperate with nations. We are committed to integrity: We hold ourselves to the highest professional and biblical principles in all aspects of our ministry and maintain the highest industry standards for our allocation of funds. Compassion and Compassion International are registered trademarks of the United States government
