Partnership Facilitator III

Work Base

Thai-Myanmar Border (Mae Sot and Umphang Districts, Tak Province, or Mae Sariang District, Mae Hong Son Province).

This career professional is Compassion's primary liaison to the local church and is responsible for strengthening local ownership, capacity and resources of local church partners to minister to children and youth in their own context. As the primary liaison, this facilitator is responsible for developing relationships with church partners and denominational leaders that are characterized by mutual respect, trust, and service that builds up church ministry. He or she is accountable for managing partner relationships through the Partner Management core process, for improving achievement of church outcomes, and for bringing a developmental mindset to all other aspects of the partnership, including mobilizing staff and other resources to support the church. At this career level, the incumbent generally conducts projects independently or participates as a team member for major, complex, or international initiatives. He or she may coach and oversee the work of other facilitators.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Demonstrates a personal commitment to serve, respect, and empower the church according to principles outlined in Compassion’s ministry philosophies.
• Church Maturation - Strengthens church ownership and capacity through a developmental mindset and the Partnership Management core process.
• Facilitates partnerships with church leaders to collaboratively reflect on youth and church outcomes and plan for how to best grow in capacity and maturity.
• Facilitates the development and implementation of church owned strategies that build on each church's strengths to engage participation of parents and caregivers, children and youth in all aspects of the ministry, including program design, local resource mobilization, decision making, etc.
• Supports churches as they actively identify and engage the change makers who influence change in children and youth, such as parents, schools, peers, etc.
• Actively facilitates and engages church leadership involvement in the broader community as an agent of social transformation that promotes child development and child protection.
• Works with pastors, other church leaders and church staff to identify capacity development needs.
• Serves as Compassion’s key liaison with church partners by mobilizing and coaching other Church Facing Team (CFT) members and financial resources in ways that are consistent with a developmental mindset and the Partnership Principles.
• Builds church and cluster capacity for local resource mobilization and sharing of resources among nearby churches.
• Partners with churches to equip them to identify and mobilize local resources, services and relationships, as well as develop plans to help maximize their own resources to support the ministry to children and youth.
• Supports the formation and strengthening of strategic relationships and alliances at the cluster or community level to further the ministry impact of partner churches.
• Program Cycle – Provides support and guidance to the church partner throughout all phases of the Program Cycle.
• Needs Assessment – Mobilizes CFT members to compile and organize information to inform the church partners about the needs of children and youth they serve.
• Facilitates the church partner in gathering local information about child and youth needs, and synthesizing local data with external data.
• Planning - Facilitates church partner led planning of their Child and Youth (CY) ministry.
• Supports the church partner to develop an effective multi-year strategic plan by assisting the church partner to identify and prioritize CY needs as well as select interventions that will address the prioritized needs and challenges.
• Builds the capacity of the local church leadership to invite greater participation of other church ministry leaders, parents/caregivers, youth, community leaders, and other key stakeholders in identifying needs, planning and implementing CY interventions.
• Supports the church to develop an annual plan and budget to implement customized program interventions.
• Implementation – Builds the capacity of church partners, with support from other CFT members, to carry out their chosen interventions and monitor progress toward successful implementation.
• Evaluation – Facilitates the church partner, with support from other CFT members, through the facilitation of a learning and reflection process on effectiveness of the interventions to inform planning in the next cycle.
• Builds church capacity for learning and reflection.
• Coordination of CFT - Coordinates Church Facing Team (CFT) support to each church partner.
• Through the Facilitation Workplan, sets goals and priorities for how the CFT will support each church partner based on the church’s level of ownership, capacity and resources (maturity), the local context, needs identified by CFT members, local church and denominational priorities and National Office priorities.
• Creates Facilitation Workplans that are highly strategic and lead to greater effectiveness by targeting each church's individual needs.
• Facilitates a shared understanding among CFT members of the church’s needs.
• Reviews reports and support documentation from CFT members, as well as perspectives from the church partner to gain understanding of the church’s unique needs and challenges and mobilize appropriate support for the church partner.