Humanitarian Policy and External Engagement Advisor

  • Senior-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 28 August 2024
  • Italy
  • Remote position
  • Closing on 10 September 2024
  • Current

Job Description

With over 70 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 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Humanitarian Policy and External Engagement Advisor, you will be responsible for strategic engagement with external stakeholders, specifically WFP, as well as priority global events and processes related to food security in humanitarian response. You will develop time-bound, intensive and targeted influencing strategies to achieve shifts in operations and international policy towards children and families affected by disaster/crisis, with a focus on addressing hunger. Specifically, this will focus on addressing operational constraints to ensure World Vision can reach the most vulnerable children with humanitarian assistance, especially in the areas of food and cash assistance, and ensure alignment of World Vision’s operations with the global campaign on hunger and malnutrition. You will engage closely with technical and operational teams to advance on-the-ground priorities and be expected to support the mobilisation of resources as a critical member of the External Engagement and Resource Development (EERD) team.

Requirements include:

  • A post graduate degree in a relevant field (equivalent of a Master’s in international or public relations, international development, or law)
  • 10 years relevant job experience, including in management, with significant time spent in active humanitarian response contexts and food security
  • Experience working with a food-based agency at HQ or field level
  • In depth understanding of civil society leverage points in the global humanitarian community including strong familiarity with relevant UN and coalition processes across NY and Geneva
  • Effective written and verbal communication in English. Other UN languages such as French, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese, are preferred.
  • Ability to travel to/within domestically and internationally as needed

Is this the job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the application deadline of 10 SEPT 2024.

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

About the Organization

The World Vision Partnership is a global community of people passionately committed to improving the lives and futures of the world’s most vulnerable children.

We believe that every child is a precious gift to the entire world and that their well-being concerns us all. We will not rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed. We are looking for people who share our beliefs and our passion.

www.wvi.org

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.

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