Senior Advisor, Global Partnerships

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Spearhead World Vision International’s advocacy efforts with faith-based investors, business professionals, and ESG/sustainability networks.

• Foster strategic alliances with private sector players, impact investors, and innovative finance stakeholders.

• Create organizational positioning and influencing strategies, engagement plans, environmental scans, and stakeholder power maps.

• Ensure alignment of influencing initiatives with private and blended finance audiences alongside global fundraising objectives.

• Share information and insights with Grants Acquisition and Management teams.

• Ensure the quality of content for private and blended finance audiences in collaboration with the Global Policy and Influence team.

• Act as the relationship manager for 1–2 key global coalitions or networks.

• Negotiate and implement strategic plans while facilitating opportunities to elevate children’s voices.

• Enable the engagement of senior leadership and staff across partner organizations.

• Build trust, showcase WVI’s capabilities, and position WVI for greater influence and funding.

• Capture lessons learned from partnerships and coalition involvement and convert insights into actionable guidance.

• Identify chances to leverage coalitions to sway global financing agendas impacting children.

• Provide thought leadership throughout the Advocacy and External Engagement ministry and WVI.

• Monitor influencing landscapes where Field Offices and Support Offices are active.

• Collaborate with team members managing similar relationships across various teams and offices.

• Contribute to enhancing organizational capacity for private-sector and innovative finance engagement.

• Coordinate with relationship managers to generate and disseminate content relevant to the portfolio.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s or Doctoral Degree, MBA or equivalent, in Business, Finance, International Development, International Relations, Public Policy, Economics, or a related discipline.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in partnership management, private sector engagement, or business development.

• Proven expertise in private finance, faith-based investment, ESG/sustainability, or impact finance environments.

• Knowledge of innovative finance modalities and relevant stakeholders, including blended finance, social impact bonds, or microfinance.

• Experience working with or directly engaging private companies, investors, or financial institutions.

• Comprehensive understanding of the operations and decision-making processes of private companies, investors, and financial institutions.

• Experience in lobbying, policy influence, and private finance engagement.

• Ability to differentiate influence-oriented partnerships from programmatic delivery partnerships.

• Proven success in establishing and managing high-level external relationships with senior executives, investors, and multi-stakeholder coalitions.

• Demonstrated capability to influence without formal authority and create compelling business cases for senior leadership.

• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building, and communication skills.

• Proficient in written and spoken English.

• Experience in coordinating across complex, matrixed organizations.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with uncertainty.

• Experience in developing partnership strategies that connect influence and income objectives across intricate stakeholder environments.

• Demonstrated experience engaging senior executives from corporations, financial institutions, or investors.

• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams, and OneDrive.

• Familiarity with AI tools like Copilot and Claude.

• Ability to participate in lengthy virtual meetings.

• Willingness to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 30% of the time.

• The successful candidate must affirm World Vision’s core documents, uphold behavior consistent with Christian principles, maintain high professional ethics, and act in alignment with cultural sensitivities.

• Fluency in spoken and written English at a high professional and technical level.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote working position.

• Opportunity to participate in extended virtual meetings.

• Chance to lead global advocacy, external engagement, and strategic partnerships.

• Opportunity to shape private-sector and innovative finance engagement for child wellbeing.

• Opportunities for international and/or national travel up to 30% of the time.