With 75 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 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Key Responsibilities:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- All CVs should be submitted in English.
- This position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.
JOB PURPOSE
This role provides strategic support to enhance the impact of Child Sponsorship by strengthening trust, learning, and organizational effectiveness—ensuring the full value of sponsorship is realized for children, families, communities, and sponsors.
The position drives accountability and quality through the development, continuous improvement, and reporting of Child Sponsorship safeguarding standards and practices.
- Manage the design, implementation, and refinement of sponsorship safeguarding standards—ensuring visibility and accountability across the Partnership.
- Strengthen overall safeguarding and child-protection integration into sponsorship programming, initiatives and related work.
- Manage the global rollout and uptake of safeguarding standards and tools, coordinating with Field and Support Offices to embed them into operational practice and reporting systems.
- Manage sponsorship accountability reporting processes, ensuring clear tracking of implementation, results, and opportunities for improvement across offices.
- Strengthen capacity and engagement through targeted support, learning resources, and collaborative learning moments with Field and Support Offices.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement by sharing best practices, surfacing field insights, and driving meaningful engagement around sponsorship safeguarding.
The position reports to the Technical Director, Accountability, Knowledge Management & Communications.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Safeguarding Standards & Tools
- Manage the design, update, and rollout of sponsorship safeguarding standards and supporting tools.
- Coordinate consultations and working groups across with teams to ensure relevance, alignment, and ownership.
- Ensure integration of child protection in all standards and tools and engage leaders for various touchpoints across strategic initiative work and ongoing business-as-usual work.
Socialization & Communications
- Develop and implement a socialization plan to roll out standards and tools across Field, Support, and Global teams.
- Create user-friendly communication materials—such as summaries, FAQs, explainer decks, videos, and one-pagers.
- Coordinate virtual briefings, webinars, and Q&A sessions tailored to different audiences and roles.
- Collect and respond to feedback through surveys, discussion forums, and learning moments to strengthen engagement and clarify gaps.
Capacity & Accountability
- Facilitate training, onboarding, and user engagement to build staff confidence and capability in applying standards.
- Monitor implementation and feedback loops, using insights to continuously improve guidance and usability.
- Collaborate with other relevant teams to embed standards in planning, reporting, and quality assurance processes.
Engagement, Learning & Other Support
- Build trusted partnerships across departments to promote the importance of standards and consistent guidance.
- Coordinate to key standards and guidance are part of onboarding and learning for all staff involved in sponsorship.
- Stay informed of best practices, emerging insights/innovations and engagement with key internal/external networks
- Perform other various duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or
Certification
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in International Development, Child Rights or related field, or field/practical experience working with situations of safeguarding and child protection, or equivalent related work experience of 7+ years.
Required Professional Experience
- Minimum 7+ years in global roles, including experience in safeguarding with a focus on protecting children from harm.
- Broad understanding of safeguarding and child sponsorship, preferably within World Vision.
- Expertise in programme standards, with experience developing, managing and socializing to support programme quality and accountability.
- Strong ability to build authentic relationships across cultures, roles, and levels of leadership. Excellent communication skills – able to craft and guide clear, engaging communications for a global audience.
- Strong project management experience. Strong copywriting, editing and design skills. Strong training design and learning capabilities.
- Highly self-motivated and driven to succeed in a fast-paced working environment.
- Cross-cultural sensitivity, knowledge of and ability to work with diverse backgrounds and comfortable in a global work environment.
- A broad understanding of non-profit operations and commitment to World Vision´s objectives, ethos, core ministries, Mission Statement and Core Values is mandatory.
Required Language(s)
- Fluent and effective in written and verbal communication in English.
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
- Up to 20%
Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications
- Strong organizational, problem solving, creative and collaborative skills.
- Knowledge of instructional design or designing engaging e-learning courses.
- Experience using or implementing online collaboration and engagement tools.
- Comfort working in complex, fast-paced environments, balancing relational and delivery-oriented priorities.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
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