World Vision
With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Here’s where you come in:
World Vision’s work in external engagement helps ensure we are strongly positioned to build trust, credibility, and relationships with others to accelerate World Vision’s long-lasting impact on child well-being.
As the Advisor for External Engagement (EE), you will play a key role in helping World Vision accomplish this goal by providing intelligence, analysis, advice, briefings, messaging, mapping, calendars and other tools to enhance the effectiveness of our global cross-team EE. Particular focus will be around priority events/processes and Tier 1 stakeholders (i.e., UNICEF, WFP, WHO, etc.).
You will also build connections between EE, communications and social mobilisation; support the development of regional EE plans; create Monitoring & Evaluation mechanisms and platforms; and develop and support working groups, strategy and initiatives to strengthen World Vision’s External Engagement at the global level.
You will work closely with a Core Group of EE partners to align annual planning, helping World Vision collaborate and advocate for broader impact.
Requirements include:
- BA in public relations, international development, international relations, or similar.
- 5+ years experiences in external engagement, advocacy, or similar.
- Proven experience working in advocacy skilled across a range of advocacy disciplines (policy, external relations, communications, local level advocacy, campaigning)
- Strong project management, critical thinking, and faciliation, and interpersonal skills.
- A strong team player, highly collaborative, able to work effectively with people, works well in remote teams.
- A fast and effective learner – identifies relevant gaps in knowledge, does research and masters a new skill/area of expertise quickly.
- (preferred) knowledgeable about institutional audiences – “politically savvy”, governments, NGO partners, UN system, donors.
How to apply
Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online by the closing date of 21 FEB 2023.
Compensation: For positions filled in the United States, the typical salary range for this role is $61,526 to $76,908 USD Annually. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, job level, internal equity and budget. Exact salary offers will be determined by factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, experience and geographic location.
World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.
For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org. Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.