Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation

  • Senior-level, Full-time staff position
  • Posted on 27 October 2022
  • United Kingdom | Costa Rica | Worldwide
  • Remote position
  • Closing on 26 November 2022
  • 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 Senior Director for Strategy and Innovation, you will be an analytical and strategic thinker; a leader with a strong track record in strategy development in multinational organisations and who is able to solve complex and multi-dimensional problems with agility.

The primary goal of this role is to provide the Advocacy & External Engagement (A&EE) Leadership Team with the strategy, project and business management support needed to maximise A&EE’s contribution to the delivery of our global strategy, Our Promise. Using innovation to drive impact, you will identify external trends and best practices (internal and external) that can support continuous improvement in advocacy and external engagement results across World Vision.

You will also manage the A&EE Strategy and Innovation Team. This is a new team, formed by the amalgamation of two previously separate teams that were each managed by their own Senior Director. It is responsible for the development of the high-level strategic goals for advocacy across World Vision; A&EE strategy realisation in alignment with World Vision’s Our Promise Strategy, A&EE’s strategic measurements on the global Board Scorecard, and the A&EE business plan and its implementation. You will provide A&EE leadership input to the top-level, cross-organisational World Vision internal meetings/processes where the participation of A&EE is invited and valued.

Requirements include:

  • MBA or Masters degree in International Affairs, Public Policy, or other relevant field
  • Minimum 5 year leadership experience working in child rights, international development/humanitarian field and/or government or multilateral context
  • Significant field experience and/or understanding of citizens driven accountability, participatory community-base methodologies and child rights participation in assessing evidence and impact
  • English language fluency
  • Ability to travel 20% Internationally and Domestic

Is this the job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online. We will be accepting applications until the right candidate is found.

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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