• Join a world class organisation making a real difference
  
• Brand New Role | Permanent opportunity | Immediate Start
  
• Location – East Burwood VIC or Potts Point NSW

World Vision Australia is seeking a dynamic individual to join us as a Grant Acquisition Advisor on a permanent basis. In this newly created role, you will contribute to the achievement of the private and institutional grants acquisition for the Australia First Nations Program (AFNP) within World Vision Australia (WVA).

Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, enabling us to support our mission of empowering Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable children and adults within our Australian context.

Other Key accountabilities include:

• You will be responsible for researching opportunities, supporting collaboration and coordination between World Vision Australia (WVA) and Australia First Nations Program (AFNP)   
• Researching, writing and coordination of Government grants proposals and engaging relevant stakeholders as part of this process. This may include work for our First Nations partner organisations to help them secure funding to operationalise project models. 
• Undertaking government donor research and analysis and develop donor profiles, to better understand donor requirements, strategies, and needs.
• Conducting industry and policy research and analysis as required
• Support Program Managers and Lead team members in exploring partnering opportunities, e.g. research, facilitate discussions, coordinate meetings.  
• In coordination with responsible contract managers, support all grant management activities including reviewing reports, and supporting audits. 

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will have a breadth of capabilities, including great interpersonal skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders and partners supporting collaboration and outcomes.

• You apply a positive lens and growth mindset to your work; seeing challenges as opportunities
• Technical expertise in grant writing 
• Solid understanding of the First Nations funding context
• Tertiary qualifications in social sciences, community development or related discipline.
• Self-managed work experience, with ability to maintain focus and achieve outcomes under pressure.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and collaborative work environment
• Supporting and coordinating the management of multiple projects to specified timelines
• Experience or a keen interest working with First Nations communities  

Working for World Vision means you are making the world better

It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward. 

The selection process

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, 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