The position

The Country Impact Manager will lead WVA’s relationship with WV Field Offices in the Middle East region. This role has a good blend of activities from portfolio management to advocacy. It could be a good opportunity for those who want to apply their years of field experience in the Australian side of humanitarian operations. The role requires you to build collaborative relationships across WVA internal entities, the World Vision partnership and external stakeholders to contribute to WVA’s evolution as an Impact Business organisation.

Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, enabling us to support our mission of empowering Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable children and adults.

Your responsibilities:

Strategic engagement with WV Field Offices and other humanitarian actors to advocate for change leads to increased humanitarian access and protection of vulnerable people
Ensure WV humanitarian, development and nexus programs are bringing positive impact to affected populations; and ensure programs are meeting donors’ and WV standards
Support WVA’s acquisition of institutional and non-institutional grants as a key contributor.
Support Field Offices to respond to humanitarian emergencies and lead/manage Categort III emergency responses. There is a potential to be deployed to join the in country response team
Support/mentor other CIMs to manage humanitarian responses in their portfolio
Manage projects funded by various donors, including but not limited to DFAT, UN-WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN-OCHA, UNDP, and FAO. Ensure timely funding commitment, and set up a systematic monitoring system and risk management. Ensure projects reach the intended outcomes with strong PSEAH in mind and meet DFAT fiduciary requirements
Contribution to developing and refining key business processes, including grant management processes, tools and resources
Contribution to sectoral discussions to build good practices and a body of knowledge in humanitarian operations, nexus programming, localisations, etc.
Who we’re looking for

We are looking for someone with field experience in managing humanitarian programs in fragile contexts, strong in project management, proven track record in remote management and excellent at building cross-culture relationships.

You will have:

Minimum two years experience working in fragile countries managing humanitarian operations
Significant complex grant management experience, ideally with a grant portfolio
Understanding of procurement or grants structures and processes of the Australian Government, public service, and/or other international organisations. Knowledge of DFAT and the requirements of the AHP is helpful
Knowledge of humanitarian principles, disaster management cycle, humanitarian coordination mechanisms, the international humanitarian system and International Humanitarian Law
Influencing and Negotiation skills, including relationship management with public donors
Program and project management experience, including an understanding of contracting and contract management as well as risk management
Relevant tertiary qualifications: these may include International Relations/International Development, Humanitarian Assistance, legal, or a relevant technical field
The role requirements of this position require the successful candidate(s) to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

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 may 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, flexible working arrangements, 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: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us