Cluster Director for the National Resource Development (NRD) offices (Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica & Mexico)

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 childrens life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Please submit your CV in English.

Employee Contract Type:

This position is open for Local Applicants based in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica & Mexico.

Applicants from other countries (where WVI is registered) will be considered to be hired on a local contract (not IA).

Open-ended contract (Full time)

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The NRDs Cluster Director (Director de Bloque NRDs in Spanish) will strategically ensure the impact and relevance of World Vision in the Cluster formed by the National Resource Development (NRD) offices of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico by leading the collaborative integration of the National Offices through establishing and implementing a shared strategic framework that includes impact, sustainability, external engagement, programming and organizational effectiveness. The Cluster Director will also be in charge of fostering relationships with and maintaining accountability to Boards and Advisory Councils within the Cluster.

This role is responsible for ensuring the leverage of local resources and success for a major impact.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Culture:

• Ensuring people issues are front and center, promoting a culture that embraces diversity, interfaith collaboration, gender balance and engagement with all staff.
• Promote WVs Vision, Mission, Core Values and key Partnership Standards and Practices among the staff and partners and ensure these are the core foundation of the National Office strategy and work.
• Lead the Cluster Team and ensure diverse representation on the leadership team.
• Engage, influence, lead and grow the Country Program Directors and functional leaders of the Cluster and help them to consolidate their leadership and representativeness.
• Lead to model living our faith with boldness and humility through a high standard of personal Christian leadership, ministry and integrity through lifestyle and work relationships.
• Ensure leadership development and successor identification in the cluster of all strategic roles, areas and initiatives.
• Ensure that National Offices (NOs) build an organizational culture based in WV’s mission, vision and values, one that is integrated and shared across the Cluster.

Twin Citizenship and Collaborative Integration:

• Lead the consolidation of the Cluster in all strategic matters by ensuring an agile model of working via collaboration and integration.
• Identify, communicate and monitor the benefits of the collaborative model of the Cluster.
• Represent WV and engage and build strategic alliances with the Governments, major donor agencies, local donors, WV Partnership, non-governmental agencies, churches and media with Clusters scope.
• Ensure WV is positioned as a leading NGO in promoting the well-being and rights of children within the Cluster to develop public and stakeholders confidence and trust.

Strategy

• Lead the strategy vision for the Cluster, by ensuring the Cluster Strategy framework design, implementation and update on times established for the contribution to Our Promise strategic mandates and regional priorities.
• Ensure an integrated approach to the strategic framework progress from National Offices (NOs).
• Ensure National Offices (NOs) accountability in Strategic Framework progress.
• Lead the implementation of strategic priorities for different areas of ministry in the Cluster.

Ministry Performance

• Ensure the desired impact in the lives of the Most Vulnerable Children (MVC) is achieved in all National Offices (NOs) and the Cluster.
• Lead an innovative approach to impact and make sure it is measured, monitored and timely communicated.
• Ensure technical capacity is in place in the Cluster Field Offices to meet programming quality standards and other impact & ministry indicators.
• Ensure Clusters indicators in Development, Advocacy, Humanitarian & Emergencies Affairs (HEA) and public Engagement are met according to plans and strategic framework.
• Ensure the positioning of World Vision as the 1st reference of the organization in favor of children’s protection through strong advocacy and public engagement strategies.

Stewardship Excellence and Governance

• Ensure excellent standards in the management of the human, financial, capital and technical resources of the organization, which includes inspiring and maintaining high standards of work and clear accountability to stakeholders.
• Have overall responsibility for the assessment of risks and the development of risk management planning to mitigate risks to office operations, staff, assets and programs.
• Lead the measurement and communication of the benefits of the collaborative model.
• Ensure boards and Advisory Councils participation, talents and connections are been capitalized for impact in a national and cluster level.
• Interact with and be held accountable by the Boards / Advisory Councils and Regional Leader.

Sustainability

• Ensure a solid and intentional branding strategy for Cluster by leveling local and regional initiatives and contacts.
• Provide overall strategic leadership and initiative for identifying and securing financial resources.
• Create, maintain and leverage key relations with external donors and partners of sub-regional presence.
• Ensure that NOs have a clear plan or strategy for self-sustainability according to the planned cut of international funds.

COMPETENCES AND VALUED LEADERSHIP STYLE

• Christian values and servant leadership: Jesus as a model (person at the center).
• Spirit of Collaboration: builder of alliances within the organization, with other entities and external organizations.
• Mobilizer, Inspirator, uniting wills not by imposition but by shared vision.
• Ability to delegate, listen and make decisions by listening to the different stakeholders.
• Committed to the appropriate use of resources to maximize impact.
• Encourages open and respectful dialogue; values diversity, innovation and is not afraid of failure.
• Integrity and process monitoring, but with a balance of organizational agility and not a culture of fear.

KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

Minimum required professional experience education, training, license, registration and/or certifications:

• + 10 years in executive leadership positions in multinationals or international organizations.
• Masters degree in Management, Social Sciences or equivalent.
• Training in leadership, direction, strategy or equivalents.
• Experience in a regional or sub-regional level in one of the major ministries (Relief, Development, Advocacy) with close familiarity with the other two.
• Experience in working with external partners in regional and sub-regional context.
• Experience in coordinating and communicating persuasively to the Board, Senior Management Team, staff, donors, NGOs, government officials, community leaders and other stakeholders.
• Experience working in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and/or Mexico contexts.
• Experience in marketing and fundraising in general and generating revenue in particular,
• Experience in combining slow and fast onset programs. Ability to juggle emergency response with long-term transformational development.

Preference of skills, knowledge and experiences:

• Experience in children-focused organizations.
• Experience with the Humanitarian industry and/or World Vision.
• Experience overseeing a large Government grant, its acquisition and donor engagement.
• Knowledge of Transformational Development Indicators and other internal measurements is preferred.
• Training in Public Engagement or Marketing
• Articles or publications on relevant topics.
• Achieving quality results and service, practicing accountability and integrity
• Communicating information effectively and adapting to audiences
• Thinking clearly, deeply and broadly,
• Leading and practicing innovation and change
• Building collaborative relationships practicing gender and cultural diversity,
• Leading World Visions Christian identity and commitments and learning for growth and development
• Maintaining work/life balance and effectiveness

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency or high level of professional and technical Spanish and English, both spoken and written.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 25% of the time.
• This role will be remote based working with a geographically dispersed team.

Key working relationships

• Directives Boards and Advisory Councils.
• External Stakeholders in multi-country presence (Cooperation Agencies, Companies, Churches, Government)
• Stakeholders from the World Vision Partnership (Global Center [GC], Support Offices [SOs], Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Office [LACRO], Leadership in National Offices/Clusters).

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only