Description
POSITION SUMMARY: Director of Program/Quality Assurance is responsible for researching, monitoring and evaluation, planning, developing and implementing an organization’s programs in line with the overall organizational strategy on empowering the local church to serve the most vulnerable.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Director of Program and Quality Assurance implements programs by building the capacity, mentor and coach Church Empowerment and programs staffs.
Director of Program and Quality Assurance leads a team of programs and church empowerment managers and ensure programs are easily integrated into a CEZ model and be able to oversee other program funded by public donors targeting communities and government ministries.
The Bishop of Chipata Diocese and President of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops George Lungu has directed that no Catholic Institution in Eastern Province should access empowerment funds through the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs.
Bishop Lungu says while he is aware that Government has come up with the Church Empowerment fund to help churches as they struggle financially, the ZCCB has taken a stand to respectively decline receiving or accessing the funds.
In a statement, Bishop Lungu says in the principles of social justice and preferential options for the poor, the Church prefers to see the same money being channeled to other needy areas such as debt servicing, paying retirees and workers at Chipata City Council who have stayed for nine months without salaries.