Senior Director,Humanitarian Policy,Advocacy & External Engagement Job New York New York USA,Non-Profit & Social Impact

Location: New York

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!

Here’s where you come in:

As Senior Director, Humanitarian Policy, Advocacy & External Engagement, you will lead 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.

You will lead a globally distributed team of humanitarian policy and advocacy professionals and provide 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, you will act as a critical bridge between Disaster Management and Advocacy & External Engagement. You will ensure 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.

You will connect 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. You will ensure that senior leaders are well equipped to engage effectively in humanitarian policy, diplomatic, and external processes.

Requirements include:

Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience in humanitarian action, policy, advocacy, partnerships or related fields, including significant experience in senior management roles.
Substantial field-based humanitarian experience, including exposure to large-scale emergencies and humanitarian coordination mechanisms.
Postgraduate degree in international relations, international development, humanitarian affairs, public policy, law, political science or a related field.
In-depth understanding of the global humanitarian system, including humanitarian coordination architecture, reform processes, humanitarian principles, International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and relevant frameworks and standards.
Strong knowledge of humanitarian diplomacy, multilateral processes and policy influencing, including engagement with the United Nations system, Member States and intergovernmental bodies.
Demonstrated experience shaping humanitarian policy and advocacy strategies, building strategic partnerships, and representing organisations in high-level external and multilateral forums.
Deep understanding of the global humanitarian system, including United Nations (UN), Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), Member State and inter-agency coordination mechanisms, and how these influence humanitarian policy and decision-making.
Demonstrated experience influencing humanitarian policy, advocacy and partnership agendas through engagement with UN agencies, donor governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), humanitarian networks and other key stakeholders.
Proven ability to analyse complex humanitarian, political and policy issues and translate evidence into clear, persuasive and actionable recommendations for senior leaders and external stakeholders.
Exceptional communication and representation skills, including experience engaging senior UN officials, Member States, donors and humanitarian…