Global Technical Excellence Lead, Education

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 the Global Technical Excellence Lead, you will have the opportunity to make global impact and change in the Education sector. You will provide technical excellence, global leadership and direction for the Education sector, leveraging both internal and external stakeholders to maximise their contribution to child well-being. This will be done by:

• Growing the Education portfolio through new business development including grants, contracts and through strategic partnerships.
• Overseeing World Vision (WV)’s sector programming to ensure that it reflects the organizational distinctive of Christ-centered, community empowering and child focused in its standards and practices and the highest technical standards are met in its programming.
• Building WV’s reputation within the sector, creating partnerships and innovative approaches and strengthening and mobilising WV’s sector community of practice to execute excellence in programming that demonstrates evidence of impact.
• Positioning and branding WV as a leading child-focused organisation and representing WV at high level external boards and advisory councils.

Requirements include:

• Master’s in Education or closely related field required, with a strong preference for an EdD or other relevant doctoral level degree.
• In-depth knowledge /subject matter expert in education sector programming.
• Proven global education expert with a minimum of 12 years’ experience designing and leading global education programming in developing contexts including sub-Saharan Africa and/or South East Asia.
• Strong experience developing strategy and policy within the International NGO sector or a development agency such as the United Nations.
• Strong experience and proven skills in leading a team of technical professionals and global education programming.
• Experience in humanitarian response, emergency relief and fragile contexts.
• Recent and extensive experience living and working in sub-Saharan Africa and/or South East Asia.
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English and French, Spanish or Arabic. Additional languages representative of the countries WV serves is an advantage.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.