This unique opportunity as Manager, Middle Income Countries Asia Africa will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to drive and manage a team of Country Impact Managers and a Country Information Officer ensuring impact across a broad portfolio of international development programs.

In this role you will lead a team responsible for engaging relevant WV National Offices. You will lead engagement with relevant WV Regional Offices, represent WVA in WV International initiatives and align the team’s portfolio with strategies relevant to WVA and the WV global partnership.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Developing a high-level understanding of the intersection of the long-term Country (CSIP) strategies and the WVA multi-year support strategy
• Building credible and trusted relationships with key stakeholders within WVA’s Field Impact Group, across WVA and with priority WV National/Regional/Other Support offices
• Contributing strategically and operationally to foster agility and cross functional engagement for effective generation and communication of impact to internal and external stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach team members to deliver quality programming through active participation in design, monitoring and evaluation processes within their country portfolios
• Actively seek and create opportunities for yourself and team members to build productive relationships with external stakeholders such as ACFID and, Donors (in particular Institutional Donors e.g. DFAT, European Commission)
• Providing leadership and accountability for compliance, reporting and safeguarding standards for all projects, including meeting DFAT ANCP Accreditation requirements.
• Role modelling and encouraging a culture of trust, learning, reflection and innovation within teams
• Contributing to the development of relevant tools, market offerings and guidance.

Who we’re looking for 

To be successful in this role you will have a good understanding of the unique needs and requirements of government and multilateral donors within an international development context.

In addition to this:

• Effective management of small-medium highly skilled professional teams.
• Experience building productive and positive relationships with offices/organisations based in developing countries understanding of WV processes to support National Offices.
• Understanding of procurement or grants structures and processes of the Australian Government, European Commission and/or other international institutions.
• Experience building and shifting a culture within a team or department.
• Financial and management reporting; business planning
• Experience of project management methodologies and theory.
• Demonstrated application of technical skills in a relevant context (program/project management, NFP/NGO, public service, foundation or other donors).
• Relevant tertiary qualifications: these may include Business/commerce, International Relations/International Development, accounting, legal, or a relevant technical field.

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: www.worldvision.com.au/about-us