Director, Talent Acquisition

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:

As World Vision International’s Director of Talent Acquisition (TA), you will lead and develop a highly proficient, global Talent Acquisition team of International Recruiters, Sourcing Specialists and Recruiting Coordinators. Motivated by our Christian faith, our mission is to identify great Internal and External talent across the globe, to help World Vision keep Our Promise to the world’s most vulnerable children.

You are an experienced and strategic international HR leader who will lead the TA team in developing and implementing team strategy; while continuously improving recruiting processes, tools, and resources. You will ensure the Talent Acquisition team structure is set up to best meet the global talent needs of World Vision International (WVI). This will include further expanding the digitising of TA processes and also growing team knowledge and utilisation of Workday talent acquisition tools and metrics to better enhance WVI’s ability to attract high performing talent in a competitive job market and sector.

To ensure success as the Director of Talent Acquisition, you will also position the WVI Talent Acquisition team as a Centre of Expertise within the World Vision Partnership, inspiring the team for exceptional delivery of positive recruitment and candidate onboarding experiences.

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required as a minimum.
• 10+ years’ Talent Acquisition work experience, preferably in both the INGO and for-profit sector.
• 7+ years’ experience in recruitment of leadership, managerial and professional technical positions across multiple countries and cultures.
• At least 5 years’ experience in full-cycle recruiting, sourcing, and employment branding, much of it within a global or multinational context.
• Experience in planning and forecasting workforce staffing needs, including pipelining.
• Proficiency in Workday, Microsoft Office, MS Teams and internet recruiting and sourcing.
• A deep understanding and passion for recruitment, aware of the latest trends and global talent market.
• Mature Christian faith, including basic doctrinal knowledge to discern candidate cultural fit and meet WVI Board expectations in the hiring of Christian leaders while providing training for TA Managers and staff as needed in this critical skill.

Travel and work environment:

• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 15% of the time.
• The position requires flexibility to accommodate clients (candidates and leaders) in different time zones for scheduling meetings and supporting various recruitment outcomes.