• Drive impact at scale. Lead strategy. Achieve funding success.
• Location: VIC, NSW or ACT preferred (Hybrid)
  
• Type: Full time, permanent
  
• Travel: Occasional national and international travel required

Are you a visionary leader who thrives at the intersection of innovation, impact, and strategy? Do you want to shape how one of Australia’s largest INGOs secures funding and delivers life-changing programs for vulnerable communities?

World Vision Australia (WVA) is looking for an exceptional Senior Manager – Health, Nutrition & Economic Development (HNED) to drive bold growth across government, multilateral, and private sector-funded programs. You'll lead a team of passionate specialists to design, fund, and scale world-class programs in economic empowerment, health systems and nutrition.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead growth: Develop and execute funding strategies with national and multilateral donors, investors, and the private sector—leveraging market value systems to drive innovative, evidence-based solutions and unlock opportunities where resilient health and agri-food systems intersect, including emerging climate-health entry points.
• Spark innovation: Lead innovative program design leveraging new technologies, blended finance, and green economy models—promoting cross-sectoral integration with Climate, WASH, Economic Development, GEDSI, and MEAL teams to co-create holistic, multi-sectoral solutions.
• Influence change: Forge high-impact partnerships and consortia by collaborating with governments, private sector actors, research institutions, think tanks, and donors—enhancing external positioning through strategic engagement with key donors and influential networks to build credibility and drive influence.
• Amplify impact: Oversee strategic bids, tenders, and proposals aligned to WVA’s Institutional Market Growth Strategy and evolving donor priorities.
• Champion leadership: Guide and mentor a high-performing team of technical and acquisition specialists; drive technical excellence in acquisition through the development of high-quality proposals, concept notes, and strategic bids.

What You Bring:

• A passion for inclusive, community-led development.
• 5+ years in institutional fundraising or consulting, and 10+ years in senior team leadership.
• Proven success securing large-scale grants and managing complex, multi-stakeholder bids.
• Expertise in economic development, public health, or nutrition programming, ideally in a global or humanitarian setting.
• A collaborative mindset, excellent communication, and strategic foresight.
• A postgrad degree in international development, economics, public health, business 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.