• Full Time role
• Location - 1 Vision Drive, East Burwood, Victoria, Australia, 3151
• Salary range - $108,000 - $117,000 + Superannuation

The position

Key role in enabling World Vision Australia (WVA) to grow its significant portfolio of government and multilateral-funded programs through a team of Grants Acquisition & Design Specialists who lead program development design, and high-quality funding proposals. The role requires close collaboration with other World Vision teams – particularly program management and sector specialist teams – as well as with other World Vision offices and partners. You will coach and mentor your team, building the skills of others in grants acquisition, proposal development, and understanding of the requirements of our international donors and partners.

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.

Your areas of responsibility:

• Develop and implement WVA’s Institutional Market strategy to drive growth in income, influence, and impact across WVA’s government and multilateral funding streams
• Lead WVA’s annual ANCP Call for Concepts process, including accountability for strategic investment principles, and concept review and decision making
• Actively contribute to and learn from World Vision’s Global Grants Acquisition and Management network
• Build the capabilities within WVA and partner offices to improve the experience of institutional funding partners, and the quality of World Vision Australia grants.
• Build credible and trusted relationships with prioritised government and multilateral donors and partners, in collaboration with other World Vision stakeholders
• Mentor and coach the team in the development of high quality and successful proposals and designs that meet donor requirements, whilst aligning with World Vision strengths and priorities
• Manage the overall bid submission process, and hold direct accountability for ensuring submissions’ completeness, quality, feasibility, and competitiveness
• Participation in the review and setting of plans and budgets for the Impact Business Development team

Who we’re looking for 

As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities, including the ability to influence, negotiate, build and maintain partnership relationships and collaborate.

You will have:

• Mid to senior level business development experience within a medium to large organisation or consulting firm; acquisition of large-scale grants from public donors
• Program design or business development experience in the international aid and development sector
• Experience partnering with government or multilateral agencies, including leading a portfolio of relationships
• Management experience of small-medium professional teams
• Understanding of procurement or grants structures and processes of the Australian Government, public service, and/or other international organisations
• Proposal, grant and/or tender writing experience
• High success in acquiring funds from investors and donors
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, across a range of audiences
• Postgraduate qualifications, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline, e.g. International Development, International Relations, Economics, Public Health, Evaluation 

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 a criminal record and Working with Children check prior to employment. 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.