Development Officer

• Looing for Registered Social Worker
• Office Location: Daet, Camarines Norte.

Job Summary

The Development Officer plays a crucial role in engaging stakeholders, contributing to realizing the value for the shareholders and investors, fostering collaboration, and ensuring transparency to sustain and expand FH's impact on children and communities. This role co-facilitates community-led system sensing (systems mapping) and delivers solutions that build resilience. Additionally, this role supports sponsorship-related communication, child participation, and compliance requirements.

This role reports to the Value Exchange Relationship Coordinator (VERC).

Principal Responsibilities

*Please note: this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job and may change depending on the exigencies of service.

Key Result #1: Community Engagement and Sponsorship Development

• Facilitate meaningful conversations with shareholders to understand their needs, challenges, and aspirations.
• Facilitate and equip shareholders to guide the program's direction.
• Plan and implement sponsorship engagement activities, ensuring child participation and compliance.
• Ensure sponsorship registration process follows the established portfolio management schedule and ensure that all registration is complete with quality data.
• Maintain the Registered Children portfolio as per the agreed schedule.
• Mobilize shareholders, encouraging active participation and ownership of initiatives that enhance their well-being, development, and systemic transformation.
• Organize and align community efforts, ensuring that various stakeholders work harmoniously to achieve shared goals and maximize impact.
• Support and nurture emerging community leaders to drive systemic change
• Implement activities within the respective area as per the approved annual work plan and budget.

Key Result #2: Value Exchange Relationships

• Establish and maintain partnerships with local organizations, government entities, and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate relationships and coordinate activities in a way that the value exchange between FH and shareholders is clear, equitable, and mutually beneficial, and so that all shareholders, especially children and their caregivers, understand the value they receive from FH's involvement in their communities.
• Collaborate with local partners to align efforts, share resources, and achieve common goals.
• Ensure inclusive and equitable participation of the most vulnerable persons/communities.

Key Result #3: Community Led Systems Sensing and Systemic Solutions

• Facilitate the engagement of children and caregivers in the solution designing process to ensure their needs are addressed to improve development outcomes.
• Collaborate with the VERC and communities to identify and understand systemic challenges and opportunities for change.
• Facilitate the engagement of children and caregivers in the solution designing process to ensure their needs are addressed to improve children's development and learning outcomes.
• Facilitate culturally appropriate, locally driven interventions that foster long-term sustainability.
• Support the implementation of community-led solutions and facilitate the engagement of children and caregivers in appropriate programming.
• Empower shareholders to foster ownership and sustainability.

Key Result #4: Partnerships and Collaboration

• Establish and maintain partnerships with local organizations, government entities, and other stakeholders to enhance program delivery and impact.
• Ensure the value exchange between FH and local partners to align efforts, share resources, and achieve common goals, fostering a spirit of cooperation and mutual support.
• Manage, train, and build the capacity of program volunteers and partners in sponsorship development activities.
• Foster and manage partnerships that enhance program effectiveness and sustainability.

Key Result #5: Programmatic Reporting and M&E

• Collect data to monitor program performance and impact, ensuring that data is accurate, timely, and relevant.
• Use the M&E system to track progress, identify areas for improvement, and inform decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with reporting guidelines and safeguarding policies.

Key Result #6: Safeguarding

• Promote the prevention of sexual misconduct, sexual exploitation, abuse, harassment, trafficking, shaming, bullying, or any type of harm among communities, program participants, team members and partners.
• Facilitate Safeguarding messaging with communities, program participants, team members and partners to raise awareness and promote the reporting of safeguarding issues through Community System for Accountability and Feedback (C-SAFE) and EthicsPoint.
• Act as a reporting avenue for safeguarding issues, and facilitate relevant resources (safety, security, well-being) to survivors in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.

Key Result #7: Organizational Culture

• Champion the promotion of FH culture, mindsets and behaviors.
• Exemplify and advocate for FH's Culture in all interactions, serving as a role model.
• Lead the integration of faith-based principles into Value Exchange processes fostering a holistic approach to development.
• Perform any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.

Job Level Specifications

• A vibrant personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a Christian commitment to serving the poor, and full agreement with FH's Christian beliefs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of community development, child sponsorship models, program coordination, and the importance of value exchange in stakeholder relations.
• Understanding and upholding Child Protection Policy.
• Basic understanding of monitoring and evaluation.
• Strong facilitation skills in working with community groups.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements related to donor relations and international development.
• Computer application skills mainly MS Office, and data management.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English and Tagalog is essential.

Experience

• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in community organizing, facilitation role and stakeholder engagement, community development or relationship management, preferably in an NGO or development context.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Social Sciences, Community Development, International Development, or a related field is an added advantage.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company events
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid training

Work Location: In person