The position
Make a lasting impact where it matters most.
Are you passionate about humanitarian response and disaster recovery? Do you thrive in complex, fast-paced environments where your leadership and coordination skills can make a real difference? Join our team as a Contract Manager – Disaster Management and help deliver life-changing programs to children and communities affected by crises around the world.
About the Role
As a Contract Manager, you will lead and manage disaster response and resilience projects, ensuring impactful support for communities in crisis. As a key leader, you will oversee the management and reporting of a portfolio of grant and privately funded humanitarian projects. You’ll work closely with World Vision Field Offices and internal stakeholders to ensure high-quality program implementation, compliance, and donor engagement. You’ll also contribute to emergency response activations and support fundraising and public awareness efforts during crisis.
Due to the nature of the role and the regular engagement with World Vision International Offices/Projects/Private Donors, out of hours work may be required in this position.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage WVA’s response to humanitarian emergencies
- Oversee contracts and ensure compliance with donor and internal requirements.
- Provide program and technical oversight to Field Offices and partners.
- Monitor project risks, safeguarding, and compliance with DFAT and WV policies.
- Contribute to grant acquisition and donor engagement strategies.
- Support emergency surge deployments (up to 6 weeks) as required.
- Collaborate across departments to align with WVA’s strategic goals.
- Provide content and insights for donor reports, marketing, and communications.
Who we’re looking for
As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities including the ability to see opportunities where others see obstacles and demonstrate a can-do attitude, creativity and a focus on solutions.
You will have:
- Understand and adherence to Humanitarian Principles, Red Cross Red Crescent Code of Conduct and other international Standards in Humanitarian operations
- Experience in managing humanitarian and/or resilience operations
- Knowledge of humanitarian principles, disaster management cycle and the project cycle.
- Understanding of humanitarian coordination mechanisms and the international humanitarian system and organisations
- Knowledge of financial and compliance management related to the international development sector in Australia
- Demonstrated expertise in a technical field related to Disaster Management, notably: Emergency Food and Livelihoods, Child Protection and MHPSS, WASH and nutrition (desirable)
- Understanding emerging models of partnering between NGOs and government/ international organisations (desirable) and knowledge of humanitarian donor landscape (desirable)
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
