Senior People & Organizational Capability Advisor

at  World Vision Per

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!
Key Responsibilities:
Applicants within Latin America (LACR) where World Vision International (WVI) is registered to operate or that can speak both English and Spanish with professional proficiency are highly preferred.
Please submit your CV in English.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, LICENSE, REGISTRATION, AND /OR CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor degree from a college or university and seven or more years of related human resources experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10 years of experience and deepening expertise in at least one of the key areas of POC - Talent Management, Leadership Development, L&D, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Culture Change, Succession Planning, Organizational Agility or Employee Analytics.
• Proven track record of implementing an organization-wide innovation in one of the key areas of POC (as above).
• At least basic-level proficiency and experience in the remaining POC areas as listed above.
• At least 5 years of experience of managing senior stakeholders’ expectations and a track record or making a significant impact on stakeholders.
• At least 5 years of consulting experience at a senior level - whether within HR or as part of a consulting firm, evidenced by clients’ or managers’ feedback.

Evidence of the following abilities:

• A strong customer focus, proactivity with customers, quickly builds trusted advisor relationships.
• Highly strategic, a strong conceptual thinker.
• Consulting mindset - able to quickly and effectively assess complex organisational issues, develop solutions, and provide relevant coaching and advice.
• Adaptability, comfort with ambiguity, can impose structure to chaos.
• A strong team player, highly collaborative, able to work effectively with people radically different from self, works well in remote teams, excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Cross-cultural experience and a good understanding of various work environments and organisational culture.
• Can-do mindset, self-starter, high level of self-organisation.
• Stays on top of thought leadership in one’s area of expertise.
• A fast and effective learner - identifies relevant gaps in knowledge, does research and masters a new skill/area of expertise quickly.
• The strengths-based mindset in personal development and teambuilding.
• Confidence with and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• A highly effective facilitator and trainer.
• Solid project management skills.

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or a PhD in social sciences; professional HR certifications related to key POC areas.

Language Requirements:

• High command/fluency in English both written and oral communication skills. Spanish will be an added advantage as it is highly preferred.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• Work will be principally homeworking/remote.
• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel nationally or internationally up to 20% of the time for business meetings and team or leadership meetings.

We appreciate your interest in putting your talents for the most vulnerable boys and girls!
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Onl

By 2026 World Vision aims to undergo a significant cultural transformation and become an agile organization to deliver on Our Promise. The People and Organization Capability (POC) team is a global center of expertise that will play a significant part in helping the organization achieve that goal. However, to become an effective catalyst for developing an agile people development ecosystem across the Partnership, the POC team must become an agile organization itself - focus on the customer, work in rapid cycles and embrace continuous improvement as an operating model.
For that purpose, we have created a new role - a Senior People Advisor. Each Advisor will “own” delivery of the POC’s expertise to one or more of the World Vision’s various entities (including VFI). It is a senior and critical customer-facing role that will provide consulting, co-creation, and contextualization of global solutions to those entities and rapid delivery and feedback. This leader will also play a crucial role in co-creating POC’s solutions. Therefore, a significant part of the role includes owning a strategic area of expertise and collaborating with others in agile teams on creating new solutions.