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!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Senior Advisor Fundraising Campaigns, is a problem solver who works in a highly collaborative manner to support a global network of Support Office marketers by leveraging the learnings and best practices of top-performing Support Offices, ensuring strategic alignment across the Partnership

Through relationship-building and a well-honed ability to translate best practices into practical tools and guidance, the Senior Advisor effectively equips and supports an engaged Community of Practice that delivers innovative solutions, collaborates to share knowledge and experience, leverages proven best practices and provides expertise to build capabilities. Working directly with a wide range of stakeholders at global, regional, and national levels, the Senior Advisor enables Marketing and Digital teams to build, implement, scale, and optimise strategies, capacity, capabilities, and innovation to drive growth in Engagement, Fundraising and Campaigns.

Preferred locations: In the Americas

Major Responsibilities

Leverage the expertise and best practices of the Centre of Excellence to drive strategic initiatives and continuous improvement.

Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and ensure strategic alignment across the Partnership.

Lead the curation of high-impact content and resources, supported by strong knowledge management practices

Lead Community of Practice(s) (CoP) across committed SOs and TFOs across the Partnership.

Facilitate community and collaboration across senior SO leaders working in individual marketing or fundraising discipline. 

Catalyse and facilitate SO and TFO contextualisation enabling sharing best practices.  

Manage early adoption, then scale and implement across other SOs.

Provide marketing and fundraising subject matter expertise in Fundraising Campaigns to the Partnership

Deep understanding of campaign strategy and design, mechanics and processes that lead to donor acquisition and retention

Identify successful acquisition campaigns within SOs that could be replicable into other market and provide guidance and support for its contextualization.

Expertise in audience segmentation, donor motivations, giving patterns, and communication strategies that drive engagement and long-term loyalty

Proficiency in interpreting fundraising metrics (e.g., ROI, donor lifetime value, conversion rates) to guide decision-making and campaign optimization.

Expertise in content production that leads to higher levels of donor engagement, especially in digital channels

Strengthen SO capability-building and monitoring initiatives.

Lead ongoing training sessions, knowledge-sharing forums, and learning calls to build SO capabilities and equip frontline staff.

Collaborate with SOs and TFOs to monitor outcomes, enhance capacity and improve capabilities to maximise impact

Facilitate global and regional workshops focused on strengthen strategies, building capabilities and fostering innovation.

Ensure that senior leadership has needed information and support for strategic decision making

Collaborate as needed GMC and Support Office leaders to provide data, reports, impact stories, and other updates to support decision making, planning, strategy, and ongoing progress of developing marketing and fundraising capabilities

Required Education, experience, training, license, registration, and/or

Certification

Proven Subject Matter Expertise as describe in key responsibilities, particularly marketing campaign drivers and performance.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.

Advanced education, certification or equivalent experience in fundraising, ministry, partnership management, marketing, and/or business development/sales

7-10 years of proven success employing cross-functional partnerships to increase the effectiveness of marketing or fundraising campaigns.

7-10 years managing large-scale, complex projects variety of dependencies and stakeholders in international organisations.

5+ years marketing / fundraising in non-profit landscape.

Proven effectiveness building strong, collaborative relationships across departments and in cross-functional, cross-cultural, remote teams with a wide range of staff.

Proven ability to influence and manage expectations of a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Strong organisational, interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills with ability to communicate effectively across a variety of different audiences and mediums.

Excellent written and verbal English is required

Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or other Qualifications

10+ years of proven success employing cross-functional partnerships to increase effectiveness of marketing or fundraising campaigns with churches.

Knowledge of and experience working with World Vision Support Offices,

Knowledge of and experience working in Church Engagement for World Vision

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time

As expected for a standard office environment with the addition of frequent travel and the need to accommodate work across multiple time zones.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only