Come join a team that’s driving climate action on a global scale

Help the planet fight back and improve the lives of millions of children.  Join the World Vision team and help us achieve a bold vision to scale up Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) a simple solution capable of regenerating land and lives, all by harnessing a universe of underground roots.

This exciting role will support acquisition teams across World Vision Australia (WVA), other World Vision Support Offices (WVSOs) and World Vision National Offices (WVNOs) to pre-position for and acquire new private and institutional funding for projects that help scale-up FMNR and restore degraded land.

This role leads programming guidance and provides technical advice to priority countries, regions and projects on the FMNR scaling programming approach and FMNR integration into diverse sectoral programming approaches.

Watch this short video below to see the generational change you can be part of.

Your areas of responsibility

• In collaboration with stakeholders from across WVA, other WVSOs and WVNOs, lead/support the design of new projects that support FMNR scaling (i.e., re-greening, integrated and FMNR scaling projects)
• Work cross-functionally with relevant teams across WVA and the World Vision (WV) Partnership to ensure high-quality donor reporting for priority projects
• Lead the development and implementation of a training plan targeting resource acquisition teams across WVA, other WVSOs and WVNOs
• Develop, continually iterate, and disseminate technical guidance on the FMNR scaling approach and FMNR integration
• Regularly communicate and share insights, learnings and emerging best practices from priority projects with relevant stakeholders
• Review field-facing project reports and Indicator Tracking Tables (ITTs) for priority projects to ensure they meet requirements
• Participate in project monitoring meetings and field-monitoring visits for priority projects to gather insights on project progress and identify best practices and lessons learned to inform the iteration of the FMNR scaling approach and FMNR integration
• Actively participates in the FMNR Scale-Up Team’s agile work processes and rhythms

Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, who has an open mindset and proactive attitude.

You will have:

• Project design and management experience, ideally within the international aid and development sector
• Experience developing and rolling-out technical guidance and training 
• Experience training, coaching and mentoring others
• Experience working with diverse teams and cross-culturally to achieve shared outcomes
• An agile and problem-solving mindset
• Experience working in environment/climate/landscape restoration/natural resource management (desirable)
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (i.e., international development, natural resource management, environmental science, public health, business, economics etc.)

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

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, 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