With over 70 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:

Hay Grade: 21

As a People & Culture (P&C) function, our vision is to enable a vibrant Christ-centred culture where staff thrive, fulfill their potential, and live out their calling to deliver on Our Promise to the world’s most vulnerable children in nearly 100 countries.

As World Vision International’s Senior Director of Total Rewards, you will provide strategic leadership, and technical subject matter expertise to deliver competitive, equitable, and timely rewards to support the organisation in hiring, engaging, and retaining a diverse, mission-driven, and high-performing global workforce. As a member of the P&C Senior Leadership Team, you will lead and support the development and well-being of employees, managing four functions including compensation, benefits, mobility and payroll. Your total rewards team will develop and deliver programs through close partnership with the P&C Operational Effectiveness team as well as Global Business Partners and Talent Acquisition, along with Regional P&C Directors and VisionFund International P&C leaders. Key programs include benefits, remuneration, executive compensation, job architecture and evaluation processes, salary structures, global mobility opportunities, and US and global mobility payroll.

MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategic Leadership, Planning & Execution

• Lead the strategy, implementation, and ongoing management of the Total Rewards function
• Provide leadership on the global strategic priorities, establish operational plans and execution to ensure strategic alignment, clarity, decision rights and focus in Total Rewards.
• Develop the Total Rewards Centre of Expertise using proactive and innovative approaches to ensure that our various rewards programs are competitive, support business results, are aligned with our culture, provide efficient delivery including self-service processes, and are understood and valued by our employees.
• Evolve WV's comprehensive strategy for Total Rewards using compelling and equitable compensation and benefits programs aimed at attracting and retaining 'best in class' talent in a competitive not-for-profit environment and across multiple markets and extremely diverse locations.
• Provide strategic direction, planning, and requirements to execute the design, implementation, communication, and efficient administration of WV's various programs.

Stewardship, Leadership & Management

• Lead, manage and develop a highly proficient global Total Rewards (TR) team of subject matter experts in global compensation, benefits, mobility, and payroll.
• Develop a local culture aligned with our core values, mindsets and behaviours
• Identify, hire, retain and grow talent within the TR Team
• Drive professional development, build TR professional capability, capacity and connection with customers and key stakeholders
• Manage the Total Rewards budget, both at a functional level, as well as at a Partnership level for global remits. Ensure good stewardship, planning, reforecasting and budget process. Build and foster a positive relationship with Finance Business Partners, and Procurement

Lead, guide, and support managing the unique issues that develop across the Global Mobility and Payroll landscapes.

• Maintain competitiveness while considering internal equity perceptions and realities, especially as the world moves towards more remote working environments mixed with increased financial volatility, conflict, and hardship situations.
• Maximise ROI, employee engagement, well-being and development, talent attraction and retention, and WV strategic outcomes.
• Ensure that total rewards for our international staff are aligned with the markets in which we operate and recognise the various rewards demands and challenges of rare specialist talent, and top-tier leadership amidst regular employees facing similar local environment challenges.
• Ensure alignment with competitive markets and stay abreast of changes in global employment practices in designing tiered international assignee programs including expatriation, relocation, short-term secondments, repatriation, and local hiring of third-country nationals.
• Maintain on-time and globally compliant delivery of payroll to all US and International Assignee emp