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World Vision International

*Preferred position location: Manila, Philippines. Other locations to be determined by home country of successful candidate in a jurisdiction (US state or country) where WVI is registered to operate.

World Vision is a humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our almost 37,500 staff members working in nearly 100 countries are united through our ethos, mission and shared desire for all individuals, especially children, to overcome poverty, inequality and injustice.

Here’s where you come in:

As Child Sponsorship Capacity Building Advisor, you will nurture and develop talented practitioners in Field Offices in order to strategically position child sponsorship and deliver high quality child sponsorship operations in the country. You are also responsible for the implementation of global child sponsorship capacity building in coordination with the Sponsorship Field Operations and Business Support & Ministry Integration teams. You will ensure coverage and continuous improvements of capacity building implementation as well as closely partner with the Business Support & Ministry Integration Team to review/develop critical materials, system and mechanism, including sponsorship learning and development curricula (e.g. Managing Sponsorship with Excellence, Sponsorship Basic Training, Walking with Volunteers). You will also play a critical role in partnering with Regional and Field Office leaders to enable organizational-level change and continuous improvements in field sponsorship operations and program integration.

Requirements include:

• Academic qualification in adult learning and development, business administration, human resources, arts, development or related field.
• Minimum ten years in development NGO experience, with 5 years in a combination of capacity building, knowledge management or development programming roles working with multiple projects.
• Experienced group facilitator and people developer with a passion for identifying and developing talent for high quality results and performance.
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work across cultures, demonstrated experience of influence of non-reporting relationships and authority.
• Ability to effectively communicate with many different functions, cultures and levels in the organisation (orally and in writing.). Fluency in English.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.