Job description
- Be a Thought Leader and shape the strategic plans for our field impact teams
- Use your Influencing Skills to drive income generation from Institutional Donors
World Vision Australia is the third largest Support Office within the World Vision Partnership that drives income generation for the field offices globally to deliver impact and to influence decision makers to support the most vulnerable children.
We have a rare opportunity to join our team as the Head of Impact Business Development based in Canberra. This is a critical role ensuring our field programs have the resources and technical capabilities to do their job. You will shape the work that lands in our field offices, ensuring we deliver the intended impact that the communities we serve are seeking.
The purpose of this role is twofold:
- To drive income generation for field programming from Institutional Donors, and
- To develop and implement innovative, best practice program models, and support their implementation in field offices.
This role manages the grant acquisition and technical advisory teams, with 6 direct and up to 50 indirect reports. The Head of Impact Business Development has a leadership position on the Field Impact Lead Team.
The ability to undertake both domestic and overseas travel from time to time is a requirement for this role.
What Success Looks Like
The successful applicant will lead and inspire a team of highly experienced technical professionals. Therefore, to be considered for this opportunity, we require applicants with skills and experience in the following:
- Extensive experience in strategy & business development
- High success in acquiring funds from investors and donors
- Strong institutional government experience with a technical background
- Demonstrated leadership and management experience in high performing diverse teams
- Demonstrated experience in leading new initiatives
- Experience managing stakeholder engagement and communication to desired business outcomes
- Experience assisting leaders navigate through risks and issues
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills to influence, partner, collaborate and negotiate
- Ability to Influence strategies and plans of partners; both WV entities and any external partners
- Creative thinking to see and design new opportunities
- A relevant degree in economics, health, international relations, international development, or similar
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process
For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, a hybrid working week, free on-site parking, and an onsite café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website.