With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on 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.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)Job Description:

Provide strategic and operational leadership to the HR function, positioning it as a key business partner in Staffing and recruitment, Talent and Performance Management, Reward and employee Relations, Organizational Development, and Change Management.

This position will champion strategic initiatives related to People, Learning, and growth, aiming to attract, develop, and retain capable staff, strengthen staff care and resilience, and cultivate an accountable and agile organizational culture.

This position is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. The ExLT is expected to role model leadership behaviors that are aligned with organizational core values, set a positive tone for the organizational life and culture that are fit for purpose, and support the achievement of organizational vision, mission, and strategic objectives

Strategy & Leadership

• Provide guidance and input to the Executive Leadership Team in developing and executing the country strategy in alignment with the regional and global strategic priorities.
• Develop and implement the People and Culture (P&C) annual strategy implementation plans in support of and alignment with the country’s strategy.
• Lead/co-lead, plan, and implement initiatives to realize the organizational vision, mission, strategy, and annual implementation plans.
• Lead organizational design & implementation and structure alignment to the country’s strategy & programming needs.
• Provide strategic support on all people-related matters, providing leadership, advice, and solutions based on analysis of People and culture issues and challenges across the organization.

Funding Resource Development and/or management

• Contribute to resource development by providing the P&C related advice, such as project structure, staff required competency and number, personal salary and benefit budget, etc, to increase the quality of the proposal
• Ensure the expense of salary and benefits budget are in line with the policy and procedure

Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Establish key metrics to measure and reinforce high service levels and deliverables from the P&C function
• Lead the monitoring and reporting of people and culture metrics related to Staffing Recruitment and retention, Talent Development, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, and Organizational Leadership.
• Create the Best practices database and Proactively partner with the NO and RO P&C team to share it.

Technical support & quality assurance

• Ensure policies, systems, and procedures are well established for all P&C processes from acquisition to staff exit, aligning with local and WV policies.
• Continue reviewing the organization’s risk related to P&C and developing the mitigation risk to minimize the risk to the organization
• Ensure staff and partners know and adhere to the Safeguarding Policies, Conflict of Interest, and Code of Conduct.
• Ensure that conflict, grievance, disciplinary, child safeguarding, and harassment cases are effectively managed.
• Ensure ongoing reflections of WV Core Values in staff development and staff care, nurturing characters, behaviors, and culture that demonstrate the values.
• Ensure internal communications where all staff are informed about organizational change.
• Develop and implement a talent management strategy, including a succession plan and leadership development and renewal plan, as required for realizing the country’s strategy and prepositioning the workforce for the organization of the future.
• Develop and implement organizational learning and development strategy, including capacity building plan that supports organizational design.
• Develop and implement a total reward strategy that is appropriate and fits with the context

Capacity Building

• Ensure that the People & Culture (P&C) function has the required capacity, capability, systems, processes, policies, and guidelines to drive the transformation of mindsets and behaviours needed for strategy realization.
• Promote a customer-centric culture in the People & Culture (P&C) function, ensuring professionalism and accountability in delivering services to staff, leaders, and partners.
• Provide overall leadership and technical support to the P&C Team, coaching and mentoring them through individual and team meetings to support their professional growth and development.
• Build the capacity of the P&C team, including structure, people, funding, and systems, to deliver quality services.
• Develop and implement effective performance management of the P&C Team.
• Provide Christian leadership and support to enrich the organization’s life, faith, Christian commitments, and ministry to the most vulnerable children and communities we seek to serve.

Liaison and Networking

• Establish proactive linkages and strategic networks with key I/NGOs, donors, government, and other stakeholders at the national level for broader impact and to keep abreast of the ongoing changes in the external environment that affect the organization and its operations.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with HR leaders of partner organizations.
• Develop, manage, and sustain relationships with Regional and Global Centre P&C functional leads to proactively engage on matters pertaining to P&C and its implications.
• Consistently develop and maintain working relationships with the Executive Leadership Team, cross-departmental and with other leaders and managers

Required Skills

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in HR area, with minimum 3 years’ experience in HR leadership.
• Experience in any World Vision National Office is an advantage.
• Bachelor Degree or Master degree in Human Resources.
• Have HR Professional knowledge about theoretical concepts and principles in general HR area, normally associated with a professional or academic qualification or significant experience
• Experience in providing, leadership, advice and recommendation to all level in HR function.
• Have creative, innovative and critical thinking to improve current practice and find the solution
• Have ability to partner and collaborate, which include to lead or involve in the collaboration tasks
• Have ability to encourage and grow the people
• High level of cultural sensitivity and diplomatic skills and a demonstrated ability to manage cross-cultural dynamics
• Mature Christian with a commitment to World Vision Core Values and Mission Statement
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• Strong computer and knowledge management skills, including the ability to learn new platforms quickly

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA’s) Accepted