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Senior Advisor, Global Partnerships
World Vision. Lead World Vision International’s advocacy engagement with faith-based investors, business actors and ESG/sustainability networks .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in partnership management and private sector engagement, with a strong focus on private finance, ESG/sustainability, and impact finance. Proven ability to build and manage high-level relationships, influence stakeholders, and develop strategic engagement plans.
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Master’s Or Doctoral Degree10+ Years Of Experience In Partnership ManagementExpertise In Private Finance And ESG/SustainabilityStrong Written And Spoken EnglishProficient Use Of Microsoft Office Suite
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Hard Skills
Partnership ManagementPrivate Sector EngagementBusiness DevelopmentPolicy InfluenceStrategic PlanningImpact FinanceBlended FinanceSocial Impact BondsMicrofinanceStakeholder Engagement
Soft Skills
Interpersonal SkillsRelationship-BuildingCommunication SkillsEntrepreneurial SpiritAbility To Influence Without Authority
Tools & Technologies
Microsoft WordMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMS TeamsOneDriveAI Tools
Industry Keywords
Faith-Based InvestmentInnovative FinanceGlobal FundraisingMulti-Stakeholder CoalitionsCultural Sensitivity
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead World Vision International’s advocacy engagement with faith-based investors, business actors and ESG/sustainability networks
- Cultivate strategic partnerships with private sector actors, impact investors and innovative finance players
- Develop organizational positioning and influencing strategies, engagement plans, environment scans and stakeholder power maps
- Align influencing work with private and blended finance audiences with global fundraising plans
- Exchange information and analysis with Grants Acquisition and Management teams
- Quality assure content for private and blended finance audiences with the Global Policy and Influence team
- Serve as relationship manager for 1–2 strategic global coalitions or networks
- Negotiate and operationalize strategic plans and broker opportunities to amplify children’s voices
- Facilitate engagement of senior leaders and staff across partner entities
- Build trust, demonstrate WVI’s capabilities and position WVI for influence and income
- Capture learning from partnerships and coalition engagement and translate insights into practical guidance
- Identify opportunities to leverage coalitions to influence global financing agendas affecting children
- Provide thought leadership across the Advocacy and External Engagement ministry and WVI
- Scan influencing spaces where Field Offices and Support Offices are active
- Collaborate with staff managing similar relationships across teams and offices
- Contribute to organizational capacity building for private-sector and innovative-finance engagement
- Coordinate with relationship managers to produce and share portfolio-relevant content
Requirements
What you’ll need- Master’s or Doctoral Degree, MBA or equivalent, in Business, Finance, International Development, International Relations, Public Policy, Economics or a related field
- At least 10 years of experience in partnership management, private sector engagement, or business development
- Demonstrable expertise in private finance, faith-based investment, ESG/sustainability or impact finance contexts
- Familiarity with innovative finance modalities and relevant stakeholders, including blended finance, social impact bonds or microfinance
- Experience working with or directly engaging private companies, investors or financial institutions
- Strong understanding of how private companies, investors and financial institutions operate and make decisions
- Experience in lobbying, policy influence and private finance engagement
- Ability to distinguish influence-oriented partnerships from programmatic delivery partnerships
- Proven track record of building and managing high-level external relationships with senior executives, investors and multi-stakeholder coalitions
- Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and build compelling business cases for senior leadership
- Outstanding interpersonal, relationship-building and communications skills
- Strong written and spoken English
- Experience coordinating across complex, matrixed organisations
- Entrepreneurial spirit and comfort with ambiguity
- Experience developing partnership strategies connecting influence and income objectives across complex stakeholder environments
- Demonstrated experience engaging senior executives from corporations, financial institutions or investors
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams and OneDrive
- Familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot and Claude
- Capability to participate in extended virtual meetings
- Ability and willingness to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 30% of the time
- Successful applicant must affirm World Vision’s core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, maintain high professional ethics, and act in accordance with cultural sensitivities
- Fluency/high level of professional and technical spoken and written English
Benefits
Comp & perks- Homeworking position
- Ability to participate in extended virtual meetings
- Opportunity to lead global advocacy, external engagement, and strategic partnerships
- Opportunity to shape private-sector and innovative-finance engagement for child wellbeing
- International and/or national travel opportunities up to 30% of the time