Child Well-being Aspirations / Outcomes and Targets:

• Delivering improved outcomes for children in line with the WVI Nepal Country Strategy 2021-2025 and contextualized WVI’s global Our Promise strategy for the most vulnerable children.  
• Providing strategic oversight and leadership to ensure impactful programs implementation through local partner Non-Government Organizations (PNGOs), evidence generation and learning,  
• Preparing for and implementing rapid and effective responses to major emergencies affecting children, including having an up to date preparedness plan and Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and building relationships with key humanitarian and development actors.  
• Creating enabling environment to champion innovative programming, process and systems. 

• Effective execution of Country Strategy and Annual Work Plan meeting desired child well-being results and organizational efficiency.  

• Evidenced-based programs result. 
• Well-trained and ready to deploy National Disaster Management Team (NDMT) 
• Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) organization score card meet the highest standard and updated BCP 
• Innovative programming and systems at scale.  

Lead effective external engagement and strategic partnership for child well-being, locally and internationally as a WVI Twin Citizen:

• Defining strategic partnership objectives with Government of Nepal at all levels, CSOs, Development Partners, Local Community Leaders including inter-faith leaders, and Private Sector (including Media) to achieve shared child well-being objectives.  
• Building relationship with key decision makers and partnership including strategic national partners towards shared child well-being objectives. 
• Coaching Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and external-facing Senior Managers to pro-actively and constructively engage with external partners in influencing programs and policy development and implementation on child rights issues through multiple development, advocacy and humanitarian forums (i.e. Technical Working Groups of Association of INGOs in Nepal/ AIN, Provincial Partner Coordination Meeting, Humanitarian Cluster and Development Partners Coordination). 
• Acting as a Twin Citizen ensuring that National Office participate in global processes and decisions and allocates resources and talent where most needed (Partnership wide), share and apply relevant good practices.  
• Championing effective implementation of global pilot on pooled resources of Child Sponsorship Funding Model (CSFM) to increase impacts on child well-being in partnership with Global, Regional and Support (Funding) Offices. 

• Clear and up to date Strategic Partners list and objectives, aligned with Country Strategy and Annual Work Plan.  
• WVI Nepal plays significant role and effective partner in changing policy issues for the increased well-being of children. 
• Cohesive external engagement to promote feasibility of at-scale innovative programming, policy influence and resources mobilization. 
• WVI Nepal successfully source, adapts and implement Partnership and industry best practices. 
• Effective CSFM implementation and lessons learned documented. 
• Regular communications with key stakeholders (governments, donors, INGOs, media) 

Achieve Operational and Stewardship Excellence and Optimal Yield to Ministry:

• Ensuring functioning project management information system and other support systems so that all programs are managed on time, on budget and on targets, in achieving the desired impact on child well-being.  
• Ensuring program quality through rigorous program management cycle (design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, learning) and effective execution of community accountability system and PNGOs capacity strengthening. 
• Ensuring effective stewardship and accountability of WVI Nepal resources, finances and people, consistent with performance standards established by WVI. 
• Implementing fit-for-purpose and adaptive organization and cost structure and systems/process supportive for effective field implementation and organizational efficiency 
• Promoting and model high level of transparency, integrity and zero tolerance to fraud 
• Ensuring pro-active risks identification, mitigation and review in collaboration with Risks Committee.  
• Ensuring organizational compliance to relevant Government directives and laws and WVI Bylaws.  
• In dialogue with Global and Regional Office for potential future implementation of shared support services in the region tailored to Nepal’s context.  

• Effective programs implementation meeting desired results (time, budget, target indicators) evidenced by relevant project information system and relevant organization performance dashboards.  
• Efficient management of human, financial, capital and technical resources, including optimal growth on yield to ministry (resources to field implementation) 
• Program Support Cost ratio and other efficiency ratio correspond to organizational standards 
• Minimum of Acceptable Risk audit opinion and zero tolerance to fraud  
• Risks are known and effectively managed. 

Increase and Diversify Funding Portfolio:

• Ensuring that business development plans, cross-function collaboration system, decision making process, and the necessary staffing are in place to maintain, diversify and grow the funding base for the country programs, supports the donor engagement plan as needed, liaising pro-actively and extensively with funding offices, as well as the bilateral and multilateral donor?communities.  
• Facilitate effective consortium and partnership formation with key partners 
• Ensuring high level quality check and compliance with relevant WVI, government, and donors. 

• Diverse and integrated funding portfolios meeting agreed targets. 
• Streamlined donors’ engagement implementation. 
• Signed partnership with consortium and strategic partners. 

Enable thriving and inclusive organisational culture and build high performing team:

• Serving as a role model and lead as example on servant leadership, aspired organization cultures and WVI core values 
• Building a culture of workplace diversity and inclusion, including appropriate gender and ethnicity diversity across all levels of staff, and appropriate implementation of WVI core values in respect to multi faith context in Nepal 
• Support in cultivating a culture of creative thinking valuing creativity, out-of-the box thinking to bring solutions to the challenges faced at work and in the community where WVI Nepal serves. 
• Ensuring effective performance management implementation & fit-for-purpose capacity building programs for all staff are in place and delivered 
• Building succession of identified critical roles 

• Demonstrated mature and servant leadership including understanding and commitment to our Vision, Mission and WVI Christian faith-based identity  
• Demonstrated understanding in building inclusive workforce in respect to local cultures and common-values shared by all staff and partners with various background  
• Established culture of innovation, healthy and thriving work environment 
• Organizational succession plans, capacity gap analysis and personal development plans are established, high caliber internal candidates are available for key positions in country and globally. 
• Highly engaged staff, high performing staff retention.