Advisor, Policy Management and Communications At World Vision

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organisation devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world. Our 34,000+ staff members in nearly 100 countries are united in 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.

Through our work, every 60 seconds… a family gets water… a hungry child is fed… a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

Here’s where you come in:

As the Advisor, Policy Management and Communications, you will:

• Work with People & Culture (P&C) leaders, internal P&C clients and other World Vision stakeholders to ensure P&C policy governance and management are aligned to organisational requirements. Advise P&C leaders in the development of new policy as needed.
• Analyse and facilitate the review, revision and retirement of P&C policies according to priority needs of P&C and according to Global Compliance requirements.
• Identify the roll-on effect of policy changes, and support next steps.
• Communicate cohesive, efficient and aligned P&C policies across multiple databases for various staff populations. Engage with P&C Operational Effectiveness to improve employee access to policy information that applies to them, and manager access to policy information that applies to those whom they supervise.

Requirements include:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, public policy, communications, or related client-services field, or equivalent work experience.
• Seven to ten years working in the policy field, preferably in a global and multi-cultural environment.
• Experience working with analysing, developing and administering policies.
• Skilled communicator and technical writer and editor.
• Ability to analyse the impact of policy revisions and identify connection points across a wide range of policies and staff populations in a changing organisational context.
• Ability to design and implement tracking tools for policy development and revision processes, and for policy inquiry/response processes.