Are you a Strategy Change Practitioner with experience in making complex change happen? World Vision Australia is seeking to drive change and innovation for the Australian First Nations and the world’s most vulnerable children impacted by Climate Change. We are looking for an experienced change practitioner who shares our passion for making a difference in the world, to assist our senior leaders in managing and navigating the change inherent in these two strategic initiatives.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced, dynamic, and outcome-oriented change practitioner to work for Australia’s largest international NGO.

This is a permanent full time opportunity based at our Burwood East office.

Reporting to the Strategy Change Lead, your key responsibilities include:

• Work collaboratively with senior leaders to shape the change and innovation agenda for the Australian First Nation and Climate Change initiatives
• Work with and influence a broad spectrum of internal and external stakeholders to ensure successful navigation of change
• Design effective change intervention strategies to create and model the change we want to see happen within the organisation
• Help promote and create an organisational culture that embraces innovation and taking of calculated risks
• Project manage Australia First Nations and Climate Change initiatives to build momentum and progress.

Your skills and experience will include:

• Demonstrated experience in leading complex strategic change, leveraging key stakeholders to drive change in line with vision, strategy, and culture
• Experience in managing multitude of stakeholders, facilitating constructive engagements to gain commitment and buy-in towards a shared vision, approach, and outcomes
• Experience in assisting key decision makers navigate through a range of risks and issues
• Effective planning and project management skills with strong ability to adapt the plan to changing priorities and circumstances
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with strong emphasis on active listening and persuasive influencing.

Working for World Vision means you are making the world better 

It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward. 

The selection process 

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo a criminal record and Working with Children check prior to employment. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector. 

Who we are

World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development, and advocacy work.

We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, flexible work arrangements, free-onsite parking and an onsite café.

For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website.