Senior Director, Humanitarian Policy, Advocacy & External Engagement

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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

** Job Purpose
** The humanitarian sector is undergoing significant change, driven by conflict, climate-related shocks, displacement, funding constraints and ongoing humanitarian system reform. As a leading faith-based humanitarian organisation, World Vision is committed to protecting vulnerable children and advancing principled, locally led humanitarian action. Within this rapidly changing humanitarian landscape, the organisation seeks to strengthen its influence, partnerships and contribution to humanitarian policy, practice and decision-making at global, regional and field levels.  

To provide strategic leadership for World Vision's humanitarian policy, advocacy and external engagement agenda, ensuring that the World Vision Partnership is well represented, influential and connected within global humanitarian decision-making processes. The role leads a globally distributed team of humanitarian policy and advocacy professionals and provides strategic direction in identifying the priorities, stakeholders, forums and key moments where World Vision's engagement can achieve the greatest influence and impact.  

Serving as World Vision's senior humanitarian representative in New York, with selected representational responsibilities in other global capitals as required, the role acts as a critical bridge between Disaster Management and Advocacy & External Engagement. It ensures that humanitarian advocacy and external engagement priorities are aligned across the two functions and translated into a coherent approach for Regional Offices, Support Offices and Field Offices.

The role connects global policy and influencing efforts with operational realities, evidence and priorities from across the Partnership, while advising senior leaders on emerging humanitarian trends, risks, opportunities and strategic positioning. It ensures that senior leaders are well equipped to engage effectively in humanitarian policy, diplomatic and external processes.
** KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
**** Humanitarian Representation, External Engagement & Partnerships*
* ** 35%
** Provide senior-level representation of World Vision within the United Nations system and broader humanitarian architecture. Lead humanitarian engagement with UN Headquarters, Permanent Missions, Member States, UN agencies, intergovernmental processes, humanitarian networks and strategic partners, primarily in New York and in other global capitals as required. Provide strategic leadership in identifying and prioritising the issues, stakeholders, forums and key moments where World Vision’s engagement can achieve the greatest influence and impact**.
** Ensure World Vision is visible, credible and influential in key humanitarian policy, coordination and decision-making forums, while identifying opportunities to strengthen strategic partnerships, collaboration and influence.
** End Results
** World Vision successfully influences critical global humanitarian discussions and decision-making processes and is recognised as a trusted and influential humanitarian actor. Strategic relationships with the UN system, Member States, humanitarian agencies and key partners are strengthened, enabling greater organisational influence and impact
** Leadership of Humanitarian Policy & Advocacy Team 25%
** Lead a globally dispersed team of humanitarian policy and advocacy professionals. Provide strategic direction, prioritisation and oversight for the humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda, ensuring coherence across New York, Geneva, Rome and other global engagement hubs. Work closely with the Advocacy & External Engagement Senior Leadership Team to create and sustain strong links between the Humanitarian Policy, Advocacy and External Engagement Team and the wider Advocacy & External Engagement function, ensuring that humanitarian priorities, evidence and field realities are consistently reflected in Partnership-wide influencing strategies, external engagement and organisational positioning.

Foster a high-performing, collaborative and values-driven culture, while strengthening capability, talent development, staff well-being and…