Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 3rd Jul 2020
This unique opportunity as the Senior Policy Advisor (Conflict and Fragility) will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to influence the future direction of Australia’s humanitarian strategy and action in conflict-affected and fragile contexts in the wake of COVID-19.
The role is working amongst Policy and Advocacy team. This team drives the strategic engagement of decision makers and influencers for the promotion of justice for human and child rights.
The successful candidate will research, analyse and identify feasible public policy solutions for children and their families living in situations of conflict and fragility.
In this role, you will build on World Vision’s extensive experience in humanitarian response and engagement in fragile contexts to influence decision-makers to change their policies and practices in conflict-affected and fragile settings, especially in the context of COVID-19. In particular, you will focus on policy solutions concerning children’s mental and physical health in fragile contexts, child safety in conflict settings, and the humanitarian-development-peace nexus to bridge the gap between immediate emergency response and longer-term efforts to build resilience so children can both survive and thrive in these challenging contexts.
Our dream candidate recognises this as their dream job.
They have high-level analytical and public policy development skills, the ability to persuasively influence internal and external stakeholders based on sound and logical reasoning and can handle media as a spokesperson on humanitarian policy issues related to conflict and fragility.
In addition, we are looking for someone who has:
Field experience in conflict-affected, humanitarian, or fragile contexts is desirable, but not required.
This role is a six-month full-time parental leave cover position from August 2020 to January 2021. The role can be based out of either our head office in Burwood East, Victoria, or interstate with other offices.
World Vision Australia takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to 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 child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision is a global community of millions, working together for one purpose: to change the lives of vulnerable children. We are an international humanitarian and development organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
World Vision is committed to helping the world’s most vulnerable children, and we continue to do so in many of the world’s most difficult and underserved places.
Our organisational culture reflects a "Partnership" of World Vision offices in nearly 100 countries and almost 37,000 staff working towards one vision: Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so. World Vision has profound global impact reaching one person every 10 secs with clean water, and every 60 secs a family gets access to tools and support they need to get out of poverty.
A career with World Vision is an opportunity to join a sector-leading humanitarian aid organisation. We collaborate in a high performing and professional culture. Aside from the opportunity for broad and life-changing impact in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable, some of our other benefits include: