JOB DESCRIPTION

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Compliant and Feedback Reporting Officer (Hotline Operator) will be an integral part of the NO MEAL team, World Vision Ethiopia’s call Centre operations. The hotline operator will be responsible for receiving calls, providing information, and referring callers to appropriate services. The operator will maintain accurate records of all calls and adhere to strict confidentiality protocols.

1. Managing Toll-Free Lines

• receive register and record calls of complaints which comes through the short code. Works closely with the MEAL department. Manages the phone calls and refer for the relevant departments within a short period based on the standard. Keep confidentialities of each compliant
• Maintain a functional hotline to receive and address complaints, feedback, and inquiries from project participants. Promptly report any system malfunctions.
• Answer, record, and respond to calls and text messages from beneficiaries and stakeholders. Maintain confidentiality throughout the process.
• Accurately translate complaints from local languages into English and record them in the SMAP database.
• Escalate urgent or sensitive cases, such as harassment, fraud, SEA, or abuse, to appropriate units
• Work with relevant departments within WV Ethiopia to follow up on feedback and complaints, ensuring timely resolution.
• Regularly provide updates, summaries, and periodic reports to the Program Accountability Specialist or team.
• Promote hotline awareness, contribute to community sensitization initiatives to increase awareness and usage of the hotline.

2. Analyzing Feedback Data.

• Manage complaints with respect to basic principles of confidentiality, data protection, human rights, and mental capacity in relation to information-sharing as well as WVE Safeguarding policy
• Enhance program quality by utilizing feedback data to inform program development and advocacy efforts.
• Maintain system integrity, Keep the system up-to-date by recording actions taken and closing resolved cases.

3. Ensuring Compliance with Ethical Standards and Guidelines

• Ensure program qualities by providing well recorded community feedbacks that will be input for future program development on safe programing matrix as well as inputs for advocacy and policy influencing protect WVE reputation Other Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles. Performs other duties as assigned
• Adhere with code of conduct, ethical standards, ensuring that all interactions with project participants are respectful, and free from bias.
• Adhere to the personal data privacy and protection principles, especially upholding confidentiality in the CFM process from beginning to end including related information.

4. Facilitating partner Communication

• Share community feedback with appropriate departments to support program improvements.
• Regularly communicate with program teams and management to ensure effective feedback management

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Bachelor”s degree in communication, social work, psychology, sociology or related fields of studies
• Strong ability to communicate clearly and impactfully with a range of program participants; stakeholders including WVE staffs.
• Proven ability to keep confidentiality of reported cases
• Good knowledge of culture of the community that WVE working at.

Preferred: -knowledge of GBV and other protection issues like prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA). -Proven NGO experience

• knowledge of GBV and other protection issues like prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
• Proven NGO experience

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications:

• knowledge of GBV and other protection issues like prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).
• Proven NGO experience

Language requirement: Amharic, Tigrigna, Afaan Oromo (minimum of two) Multilingual will be highly advantageous

World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.

Disclaimer: World Vision Ethiopia is a reputable organization that values transparency and fairness in its recruitment process and does not solicit any money for any job application. We encourage all job seekers to be cautious of any job ads that require payment or personal information upfront. If you have any questions or concerns about our job ads or recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only