Technical Acquisition Manager – Fragility & Innovations
World Vision Australia is seeking a passionate and experienced Technical Acquisition Manager – Fragility & Innovations to help deliver lasting change for the world’s most vulnerable children and communities. In this pivotal role, you will lead a team to secure high-priority funding opportunities that drives innovative solutions and build resilience in fragile contexts. You’ll shape program designs, forge strong partnerships, and contribute to ambitious growth across World Vision’s humanitarian and development work.
Key Accountabilities Area:
- Drive Business Development: Lead the development and execution of funding strategies with institutional donors (e.g., Australian Government, multilateral and bilateral agencies), impact investors, and the private sector.
- Lead Proposal Development: Oversee the design and submission of high-quality proposals, tenders, grants, reports, and donor communications.
- Foster Innovation: Refine project models using lessons learned, emerging technologies, and global best practices.
- Strengthen Partnerships: Build collaboration with World Vision offices, INGOs, research organisations, and think tanks to enhance credibility and reach.
- Support Implementation: Provide technical oversight, mentoring, and capacity building across program design, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Align Strategy: Ensure programs reflect donor priorities and market trends through effective cross-functional coordination
Who we’re looking for
As the successful applicant, you will bring strong business development experience, with a proven track record of securing funds from both domestic and international investors and donors. Your can-do attitude and adaptability will be key in driving success in complex situations.
In addition to this
- Proven Business Development Expertise: Strong track record of securing funding from domestic and international donors and investors.
- Strategic Mindset: Deep understanding of humanitarian challenges, community-led development, and climate change.
- Program Innovation: Experience designing and implementing innovative programs in fragile or complex settings.
- Partnership Skills: Knowledge of emerging partnership models between NGOs, governments, and international organisations.
- Project Leadership: Skilled in project and contract management, including commercial negotiations.
- Communication Strength: Excellent written and verbal communication, with confidence to present, influence, and build relationships.
- Collaborative Approach: Ability to work across diverse teams, align stakeholders, and drive results.
The selection process
For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check.
We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, birthday leave, flexible working arrangements, free on-site parking and an onsite café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
