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:

World Vision is looking for a passionate, organized and motivated humanitarian team player to join our high capacity, mission driven and talented global Humanitarian Policy & Advocacy team. In this exciting job opportunity, you will influence the broader humanitarian system at the global level, while maintaining strong links to humanitarian field work. This role brings together strong technical expertise in the areas of climate and environmental crises, disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action with external representation, policy advocacy and influence, and deployment opportunities.

As a newly established position within World Vision’s Disaster Management Policy and Advocacy team, you will provide strategic leadership and technical expertise at the intersection of climate change, environmental degradation, and humanitarian response. This role is pivotal in shaping and advancing World Vision’s global engagement on climate and environmental crises, with a strong focus on disaster risk reduction and anticipatory action. You will serve as a key representative in external policy spaces, drive internal capacity and innovation, and support operational deployments to ensure that climate and environmental considerations are fully integrated into humanitarian response. The role will also serve as Environmental Stewardship and Climate Action focal point for Disaster Management.

Requirements include:

• Master’s degree in related field (or undergraduate degree with 2-3 years of additional experience).

• 8-10 years of experience, including 2-3 year of field work experience in humanitarian assistance, anticipatory action and/or disaster risk reduction.

• Strong understanding of humanitarian response operations, disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction activities.

• Understanding of the international humanitarian system, principles and key standards (Sphere, CHS).

• Strong skills in negotiation, coordination, project management, communication, and reporting.

• Experience in Environmental stewardship and programming.

• Experience leading diverse teams in emergency response settings.

• Excellent written and spoken English; French and Spanish could be assets.

• Required travel up to 30% travel and ability to deploy internationally to insecure environments or disaster sites, possibly on a short notice.

How to apply

Is this the job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and apply online. The application will be open until filled.

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.