Technical Excellence Director, Southern Africa Region

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 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Here’s where you come in:

The Technical Excellence Team exists to drive World Vision’s technical brand in programming, influencing and resourcing for sustainable impact. As the Technical Excellence Director, you will lead the Regional Technical Excellence Team to ensure integrated resource development, technical support, high quality program design and consistent technical implementation of World Vision programs in the Southern Africa Region (SAR) creating impact for the children and adults in the communities where World Vision operates.

Supporting Field Offices (FOs) to have technical capability is crucial for our future impact, and using SAR’s technical excellence, you will enable us to position ourselves with external audiences based on our technical excellence across SAR’s core technical sectors; HIV, Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI), Health, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action (ESCA), Child Protection, Livelihoods, Faith and Development (F&D), WASH; achieved through integration between funding streams Humanitarian/Disaster Management, Gifts in Kind, Sponsorship and Grants. You will work together with Field Offices (FOs), Support Offices (SOs) and World Vision International teams.

Requirements include:

• Master’s degree in in Management, International Relations, International Development, Social Science, Evaluation, Data analytics or similar field
• You will bring a deep understanding of the complex drivers of poverty, injustice, and inequality; and a holistic, inquisitive approach to seeking solutions to these complex development challenges. You understand no one person, sector, donor or team can achieve this alone, and you are comfortable building and leading high-level partnerships. You are skilled at big-picture leadership and can contextualize your vision for a variety of audiences.
• At least 10 years’ experience in relief and development work, of which at least 5 years in a leadership position at national or regional level preferably in Southern Africa or similar context
• Extensive experience in design and implementation of integrated programs that are multi-sector and multi-donor.
• Fluency in written and spoken English, required

Travel / work environment requirement

• 40% travel to World Vision Field Offices is expected
• Virtual/hybrid work environment
• Based in any location within SAR where WV is registered, with a preference for Angola or Mozambique