Project Specialist, Global Properties

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Dominican Republic.

📋 Description

• Assist the Global Properties team in optimizing the organization’s real estate portfolio.

• Discover opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, streamline processes, and contribute to cost-saving initiatives.

• Aid in coordinating, administering, and executing real estate projects.

• Collaborate with Global Lease and Project Management and Design, Construction & Workplace Solutions managers on project execution and strategic initiatives.

• Engage with country offices and internal stakeholders to gather, validate, and maintain global property portfolio data.

• Oversee project implementation, milestones, action items, and deliverables.

• Create and maintain dashboards, portfolio trackers, project reports, executive summaries, and presentations.

• Ensure centralized project documentation, reporting frameworks, governance records, and workflow processes are maintained.

• Identify process inefficiencies, reporting gaps, implementation risks, and workflow challenges; provide recommendations to management.

• Support process enhancements, reporting standards, and workflow improvements.

• Partner with Procurement and country offices to identify, source, and manage qualified external service providers.

• Assist in maintaining the approved vendor and consultant catalog.

• Recommend qualified and approved brokers, consultants, contractors, and other real estate service providers.

• Facilitate introductions and communication between country offices and external service providers.

• Maintain a global network of approved brokers, consultants, and vendors.

• Update the WV central page and regional pages regularly.

• Coordinate newsletters, communication emails, and announcements for stakeholders and the wider partnership.

⛳️ Requirements

• Please submit your CV in English.

• Open to all Latin American (LACR) countries where World Vision International is registered to operate.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Project Management, Business Administration, Real Estate, Facilities Management, Operations Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of progressively responsible experience in real estate, facilities, project coordination, operations administration, portfolio management, financial coordination, or related operational functions within a multi-country or global environment.

• Professional training or certification in project management, real estate management, operations administration, business analysis, reporting, process improvement, or related disciplines is considered an asset.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills for sharing priorities, requirements, and project updates with diverse stakeholders across multiple countries, cultures, and organizational levels.

• Demonstrated relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills within geographically dispersed and multicultural teams.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and operational coordination abilities.

• Capability to accurately monitor project activities, implementation timelines, deliverables, reporting requirements, and departmental workflows.

• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities, projects, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced global environment.

• Experience in coordinating cross-functional initiatives and supporting project implementation, operational processes, reporting, and stakeholder communications.

• Excellent writing, editing, and document management skills, including preparing, reviewing, and proofreading reports, presentations, operational summaries, and business communications.

• Ability to operate effectively within a global and multicultural environment across multiple countries and time zones.

• Basic knowledge of project management practices, including planning, implementation tracking, workflow coordination, and risk identification.

• Experience in an INGO/NGO or global organization is preferred.

• Familiarity with operational reporting, budget administration, and process coordination within a global or matrixed environment is preferred.

• Basic understanding of property portfolio administration, lease management processes, and operational compliance practices is preferred.

• Fluency or a high level of professional and technical spoken and written English.

• Fluency in French, Spanish, Arabic, or Portuguese is preferred but not required.

• Flexibility to attend meetings outside standard local working hours.

• Willingness and ability to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 10% of the time.

• Local Applicants Only.

🏝️ Benefits

• Homeworking/remote position.

• Opportunity to work in a highly collaborative global environment.

• Travel opportunity of up to 10% nationally and/or internationally.

• Work with a global Christian humanitarian organization.

• Regular team and office devotions, chapel, and prayer gatherings in line with host-location policies.