Accountability and Transparency Advisor At World Vision

World Vision International

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 over 34,000 staff members working 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 Accountability and Transparency Advisor, you will provide advice to, and help develop the capabilities of, World Vision offices in fulfilling its commitment to being accountable to the children and communities it serves, as well as transparency to external stakeholders including government donors and regulatory bodies. You will contribute expertise on accountability principles, mechanisms, tools, and training to World Vision Global Centre teams that develop programmatic guidance. You will also play an important role in supporting the WVI and SOs to fulfil commitments to transparency, notably through publishing figures to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) portals and participating the Accountability Report process.

Requirements include:

• Educated to Master’s degree level or with evidence of having completed advanced training in areas related to accountability or community engagement.
• At least seven years’ experience of working on accountability or related areas (including monitoring & evaluation, learning and community engagement) within the development sector.
• Experience of adapting accountability processes and tools to different contexts.
• Experience, and demonstrated commitment to, actively engaging in Communities of Practice or other forms of peer learning.
• Experience in managing data sets and drafting clear internal reports.
• Excellent English skills, French, Spanish, or Arabic an asset.
• The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.