Senior Director, Christian Identity in Programming

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 Senior Director, Christian Identity in Programming, you will be responsible for driving thought leadership and setting standards for technical excellence in the appropriate expression of World Vision (WV)’s Christian faith in strategies and programmes. The role specifically provides leadership to help achieve Strategic Imperative 1 of WV’s Global Strategy, to further develop and scale guidance and evidence-based models for integrating our Christian faith in ministry practice and tackling the roots of poverty, vulnerability and injustice. This includes:

• Supporting accountable implementation of the Partnership Policy on Transformational Development; Setting the agenda and providing strategic leadership and direction for Faith & Development (F&D) programming globally;
• Driving thought leadership and innovation to assure WV’s Christian faith is appropriately integrated in WV’s Programmes across all contexts, technical areas and funding streams;
• Supporting related technical capacities and capabilities across contexts;
• Leveraging internal and external stakeholders to accelerate roll-out of our F&D project models and faith integration in programming globally across all contexts to deliver WV’s Global Strategy, Our Promise.
• Liaising with key stakeholders and teams to help ensure WV can tell the story of our Christian faith in programming.

Requirements include:

• Post graduate degree in in international development, ministry engagement, theology or other related fields
• Theological/biblical training at least on bachelor level
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a senior leadership role in the humanitarian and development industry with particular experience in leading and developing high performance teams (including experience managing diverse teams remotely and across time zones)
• Substantial field experience with direct exposure to fragile contexts in different cultural and faith contexts
• Broad experience and commitment in working with children: In-depth understanding and work on children especially the most vulnerable in developing and fragile contexts needed
• Broad experience in relationship building and working with churches, faith-based organisations and other faith groups
• Effective in written and verbal communication in English and proficient in one other language – Spanish, French (preferred)
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time, including per travel to conflict-affected contexts.