Sponsorship Officer-database at World Vision Tanzania

World Vision International is a Christian relief, development, and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision Tanzania (WVT) impacts the lives of more than 3.3 million Tanzanians, including 1.2 million under five children. WVT facilitates programmes through five zones in 13 out of 30 regions in the country.        

 “Our vision for every child, Life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every Heart, the will to make it so’

World Vision Tanzania is seeking to recruit a suitable candidate to fill the following position:

Job Ref No: WVT/P&C/FY14/40

Job Title: Sponsorship Officer-database

Reports to: Cluster Sponsorship Officer

Location: Cluster Office

Purpose of the position:

To handle sponsorship business processes in the cluster and facilitates proper functioning and updates of the sponsorship systems (KPI, CMS and STEP) as per Sponsorship Minimum Programming Standards (SMPS).

Communicate World Vision's Christian ethos and demonstrate a quality of spiritual life that is an example to others.

Major Responsibilities

1: Receive, sort and dispatch all mails/parcels and seasonal cards to and from the ADP and NO

2: Process information in STEP and support ADP staff to respond to email queries from various SOs and submit periodic reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly, biannual and annual)

3: Receive Child to Sponsor (C to S) mails, APR and Christmas cards from ADPs and ensure that mails and parcels are encoded properly, verify sponsor address, print and facilitate affixing of sponsor labels and stamps

4: Handle and distribute all incoming GNs from SOs to ADPs along with the preparation of summary GN reports by SOs.

5: Key in data on STEP and SD+ in a timely manner and update RC information on an annual basis and CMS on a quarterly basis

6: Read and create S.O. diskettes, prepare discrepancy memos for reconciliation once per week and perform daily backups

7: Receive, review and process digital images and transfer them to the respective Support Office

8: Ensure that all project data presented in PIH/PMIS  are accurately updated into sponsorship databases for the ongoing and new projects.

Qualifications:  Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or self-education, prior experience or on-the-job training:

Minimum Qualification required: Qualification required: BA in social sciences and other related fields

• Basic knowledge in computer
• Experience:  1 - 2 years

Other Technical Skills & Abilities:

• Computer skills 

Other Competencies/Attributes:

• Must be a committed Christian, able to stand above denominational diversities.
• Perform other duties as required.

Working Environment / Conditions:

• Work environment: Few office work with frequent visits to the field
• Travel:  20% Domestic travel is required.
• On call: 50%

How to apply:

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their applications letter (addressed to People and Culture Manager) together with an updated CV and copies of relevant credentials, contacts and three referees one of them being a church leader towvt_jobs@wvi.org before 21st May 2014