The position

The Acquisition Specialist actively supports the pursuit of high-priority funding opportunities to enhance organisation impact and ensure sustainable growth for the delivery of World Vision Australia’s Corporate and Institutional Market strategies. This involves contributing to market research, building and maintaining relationships with key donors, field offices and partners, undertaking pre-positioning activities, actively maintaining a pipeline of funding opportunities, developing high-quality proposals, grants and/or tenders, and reporting on acquisition performance.

Success in this role requires collaboration with internal teams—including technical advisors, program management, corporate, impact and evidence teams—as well as other World Vision field offices, external partners and donors.

Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, tackling global issues and supporting our mission to empower Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable.

Key Responsibilities

• Support business development plans to strengthen partnerships with government, donors, and private sector, including conducting market research to identify trends and opportunities.
• Develop project concepts with World Vision teams and maintain relationships with donors and partners. Collaborate across teams to design donor-focused solutions.
• Lead bid teams to create high-quality proposals and budgets, write edit, and proofread funding proposals and manage bid submissions to ensure compliance and competitiveness.
• Train and coach teams to improve proposal quality and partner engagement.
• Develop donor briefs and collect data for reporting and support global acquisition strategies.
• Lead transition of acquired proposals to implementation teams and seek opportunities to extend or scale successful programs.

Who we’re looking for 

As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities including the ability to see opportunities where others see obstacles and demonstrate a can-do attitude, creativity and a focus on solutions.

You will have:

• Understanding of humanitarian challenges and community-led development, knowledge of donor landscapes, and experience with funding processes.
• Skilled in proposal writing, bid management, and building donor relationships.
• Proven leadership in multidisciplinary teams, with experience in developing or conflict-affected areas.
• Strong background in program design, contractor management, and applying research.
• Ability to work independently and achieve outcomes within project timelines
• Relevant degree in international development, international relations, business, management, economics, or similar.

The selection process 

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.

We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families.  World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work. 

We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, birthday leave, flexible working arrangements, free on-site parking and an onsite café for our employees.

For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us.