Director, Performance & Investment Management

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 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Open in any country within North (USA and Canada) and Latin America (LACR), Europe, or Africa with World Vision International (WVI) registration. Applications are welcome from other countries with time zones that overlap with the USA's Eastern Time Zone [ET] globally, where WVI is registered to operate.

Please submit your CV in English.

JOB PURPOSE

This position has significant scope of impact and influence on our ability to deliver the revenue and funding mix necessary to achieve “Our Promise”, our global strategy. This is achieved by leading analysis and reporting of the fundraising performance and return on investment of all our global fundraising initiatives to achieve the Strategic Imperative #5: “Deliver high quality, sustainable funding”.

Importantly, this includes leading the data-based decision making and change management resulting from the return-on-investment analysis that is critical for World Vision International (WVI) and the Support Office’s (SO) senior management decisions impacting budget and operational planning to deliver the necessary revenue and funding to achieve “Our Promise”.  This scope of impact spans across all global fundraising priorities, including: global fundraising campaigns and acquisition lead generation/cultivation strategies, performance analysis of product lines (Child Sponsorship, Childhood Rescue), marketing channel mix and optimization, global product portfolio and pricing analysis.

SCOPE / DISTRUBUTION OF RESPONSABILITES

60 % - Investment and Performance Management:

Leadership of cross-functional (Finance and Marketing) team responsible for the analysis and reporting of the fundraising performance and return on investment of all our global fundraising initiatives to achieve Strategic Imperative 5, deliver high quality, sustainable funding. Importantly, this includes leading the data-based decision making and change management resulting from the return-on-investment analysis that is critical for WVI and SO senior management decisions impacting budget and operational planning to deliver the necessary revenue and funding to achieve “Our Promise”. 

This scope of impact spans across all global fundraising priorities, including: global fundraising campaigns and acquisition lead generation/cultivation strategies, performance analysis of product lines (Child Sponsorship, Childhood Rescue), marketing channel mix and optimization, global product portfolio and pricing analysis.

This is performed in close partnership with the chief marketing leaders of the largest SOs, and Global Marketing and Communication (GMC) core leaders.  

• Ensure core programming models and systems are in place and streamlined so that projects are managed on time and on budget in achieving the desired impact on Child Well-being (CWB).
• Ensure the highest standards of quality and accountability through compliance with World Vision policies and standards and international standards for emergency response, disaster mitigation, rehabilitation and development.
• Ensure that the field office functions in a contextualized, complementary, sensitive and cohesive manner.
• Ensure adequate compliance with country plans and their respective reporting through KPIs and current global systems.
• Ensure that systems are in place so that projects are managed on time and on budget to achieve the desired impact on the well-being of children.
• Ensure compliance with government regulations for NGOs.
• Lead the design and implementation of Impact-Influence-Sustainability models in Development, Advocacy, Humanitarian & Emergencies Affairs (HEA) & Public Engagement, for the fulfilment Child Well-being & Protection objectives.
• Lead the development and implementation of new and innovative program models to leverage Impact\, Sustainability and Influence.
• Lead the Advocacy strategy towards the protection of children and the promotion of their rights.
• Leading the response in emergency situations for the raising financial resources the proper management of it.
• Lead accountability and ministry quality assurance.

20% - Budgeting and Budget Management:

Lead function-wide budgeting and budget management across 100+ staff and a budget of $15M+. Key areas of leadership and o