About World Vision

We're a global Christian humanitarian organization. We partner with children, families, and their communities to empower them as they reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. For nearly 70 years, World Vision has followed Jesus' example to show unconditional love to the poor and oppressed. We serve every child regardless of faith.

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The Job

World Vision is looking for a Senior Director to:

• Uncover and crystallize strong donor and partner insights that help identify growth opportunities.
• Develop, quantify, and steward a multi-year innovation pipeline.  
• Promote innovation best practices, tools, and approaches to build a culture of innovation across the organization.
• Lead select upstream innovation projects (pilots/testing)
• Help carry out our Christian mission, vision, and strategies.‍

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Your Responsibilities Will Include:

• Be and be seen as a thought leader in developing and advancing a robust innovation agenda for World Vision, particular focus on developing and acting on strong donor and partner insights that help create opportunities for growth (innovation) and help inform strategies and plans across the organization.  

• Collaborate with teams and divisions across World Vision in service of strengthening staff’s capabilities for developing and qualifying impactful innovation (includes workshop sessions, 1:1 consults, training sessions etc.).    

• Drive Innovation Culture in part through leading the Innovation Community of Practice and active role in presenting to the Innovation Council.  

• End-to-end ownership and delivery of key innovation pilots that you helped to define and win support/resourcing from the Innovation Council.  Includes developing well-reasoned, compelling business case, designing strong learning/test plans, and defining critical success criteria.  

• Steward the Innovation Pipeline. This includes helping to develop and expand the multi-year pipeline, updating projects based on priorities, strategies, financials, and ensuring leadership is regularly updated on the status of the pipeline identifying any key issues and recommended actions.

Christian Leadership

• Lead the team in prayer and keep Christ central in individual and corporate life.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, devotions, chapel, prayer, worship)
• Incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within the scope of the role.
• Develop and grow your team.  ‍

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You Bring These Skills:

• Innovative Thinking and Able to Foster a Culture of Innovation
• Analytical Thinking
• Ability to Balance Multiple Priorities
• Strong Change Management Skills
• Effective Decision-Maker
• Able to Influence and Persuade
• Orientated Towards Results
• Able to Coach and Lead Direct Reports
• Strategic Visionary Leadership
• Brings a Knowledge of Marketing and Branding
• Understands Fundraising Marketing and Donor Engagement

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field. MBA highly preferred.
• In addition to education or education equivalent, requires 10 years of progressive professional experience in marketing, product development, consumer insights or related field (s).
• Previous responsibility for building and executing a defined market strategy, strongly preferred.

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Salary Range & Benefits

• WVUS Pay Grade Level: 229
• The full range for this position is $107,412.56 - $178,259.84
• The estimated hiring range is $120,000 - $150,000
• This range applies to locations with a market similar to our Washington D.C. office. A different range may apply based on your work location.
• Job offers are based on relevant qualifications and pay equity.
• Please indicate your salary expectations in the application.
• In addition, we have a robust and comprehensive benefits package to round our total compensation package.
• Merit, auto allowance, and relocation may be available to eligible to some employees based on the role.‍

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Location

USA (remote). Some domestic and international travel required, approximately 10%.

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‍Where This Job Could Take Your Career:

This role opens up a host of career opportunities given the nature of the position is to help deliver growth (the lifeblood of any organization) both directly and via influencing the organization. A successful tenure in this role could lead to a current business role, for example leading our core Child Sponsorship business, or a role Internationally and eventually becoming the VP of Innovation here in the US or elsewhere if innovation is your passion.

You’ll be part of World Vision USA as well as part of the larger World Vision International Partnership. Globally, we have over 40,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries (~1,000 staff with World Vision US). ‍

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What Happens Next?

Applications are reviewed weekly. Short-listed candidates will be contacted for an initial phone conversation with a recruiter. If questions arise on our end about your application, we will message you to learn more. We encourage you to submit a PDF resume and a cover letter! Our goal is to fill this vacancy with the right person in the shortest amount of time.