Director, Sponsorship Digital Transformation

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!

Here’s where you come in:

As the Director of Sponsorship Digital Transformation, you will set the strategic agenda and lead digital transformation to enable the Child Sponsorship experience. This will assist a rich and inspirational experience being delivered to sponsorship prospects and to the 2.5 million existing World Vision sponsorships globally.

Through global influence and in close collaboration with our 30 fundraising offices and global teams, you will be responsible for the design, development and scaling of a future-proof, end-to-end ecosystem, including, people, processes and platforms. This ecosystem will transform the current paper-first experience to a re-imagined, digital-first experience that will enrich the lives of prospects, sponsors, sponsored children and their families.

The ideal candidate is an influential global leader with a sound technical background and customer-centric mindset and who willingly collaborates with a variety of stakeholders. They will effectively operate at the intersection of marketing and technology in a complex, global organisation and will have a track record of successfully leading digital transformation internationally.

Requirements include:

• 10 years leading digital transformation at the intersection of technology and marketing, including 5 years at a senior management level with demonstrable success in achieving committed results

• Significant experience leading change in a complex, international environment.

• Strategic, visionary thinker who thinks holistically and embraces innovation. Drawing from external trends, case studies and insights is able to think out of the box and connects the dots for seamless delivery. Proven ability to develop and maintain trusted, influential and effective relationships within an international organization

• Able to understand and synthesize complex concepts and variety of views into simple and actionable visions, roadmaps and plans

• Master’s degree or equivalent in technology, engineering, logistics or digital Agile/scrum master training/certification