Job Description
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our over 37,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.
Here’s where you come in:
*Preferred Location: United Kingdom. Position location to be determined by home country of successful candidate within a jurisdiction (country or US State) where WVI is registered to operate.
As Partnership Leader (Vice President) for Strategy Realisation & Innovation, you will provide leadership and act as a key focal point for the World Vision’s global strategy ‘Our Promise’ building on the progress from Phase One and equipping the Partnership to realise benefits at scale through Phase Two and beyond, maximizing impact for the world’s most vulnerable girls and boys. You will lead the global Strategy Realisation Office (SRO), provide direct support to the World Vision International President and CEO, and facilitate the network of strategy professionals within entities across the Partnership.
You will, in collaboration with others:
- Support the WVI President and CEO to ensure the organisation is focused on the fewest, highest value opportunities to realise ‘Our Promise’ to vulnerable children.
- Support the Executive Leadership team and critical Partnership Forums (such as the Strategy Realisation Steering Committee SRSC and the Partnership Resource Allocation Committee PRAC) to ensure strategic focus, operational excellence, diversity of voice and high quality decision making.
- Ensure the application of a consistent model for strategy implementation, appropriate high level content/focus, and the coordination of all entities efforts to both.
- Oversee the Partnership Planning Cycle through direct support of the PRAC and oversight of the resource allocation framework and related processes.
- Take on internal consulting assignments to meet the needs of Partnership entities in refining strategy, supporting critical business analysis, business planning, organisational strategy and their processes in collaboration with the Partnership senior leadership.
Requirements include:
- Master’s degree preferred in economics, business administration, public administration/management, international development or related field experience.
- Extensive international experiences (minimum of 10 years) and comfort in working across cultures and within complex organisational structures
- Demonstrated breadth of business and organisation development experience and facilitation of processes.
- Proven ability and successful track record in seeing the “big picture” in complex situations by linking information or applying theoretical frameworks, by taking a systems view, or by considering an abstract, innovative, broader or longer term perspective.
- Ability to perform strategic business planning including settling organisational objectives, overseeing competitive analysis, strategy implementation communication and opportunity/innovation recognition.
- Apprenticeship in strategy development within World Vision and/or assigned roles in other international organisations or strategy consulting firms.
- Strength in building effective work relationships with both local and dispersed colleagues, and manage and lead horizontally across the organisation.
- The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 40% of the time.
Is this the job for you?
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.
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position online and apply by the closing date 18 OCT 2020. For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.
Due to the number of applications received, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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.
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