Why You’ll Love This Opportunity
- Lead with purpose – Shape how World Vision Australia understands and strengthens its impact, driving evidence‑based decisions that improve outcomes for vulnerable children.
- Strategic influence & team leadership – Guide the organisation’s evidence and learning agenda while leading a high‑performing specialist team in a collaborative, mission‑driven environment.
- Full‑time, permanent stability with flexibility – Enjoy hybrid working and a modern Burwood East workplace with onsite facilities including a café and gym.
About the Role
The Evidence & Learning Manager leads WVA’s evidence and learning agenda, ensuring we generate credible evidence of impact and translate it into actionable insight. You’ll steward methodological integrity, embed learning across the organisation, and guide high‑quality decision‑making — without owning program delivery or data systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the organisation’s evidence and learning strategy.
- Set standards for evidence generation, synthesis, and use.
- Prioritise learning questions that inform program quality and strategic choices.
- Oversee impact reporting and evidence translation for internal and external audiences.
- Partner with Technical Program Quality, Acquisitions, Data & Analytics, and field teams.
- Lead and develop a high‑performing Evidence & Learning team.
- Model ethical, service‑oriented leadership and ensure compliance with people practices.
What You Bring
- Qualifications in international development, evaluation, or related fields.
- Strong understanding of evidence, impact, donor expectations, and M&E approaches.
- Experience leading teams in a similar field would be an advantage
- Ability to commission, interpret, and apply research and evaluation.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across sectors.
- Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex evidence clearly.
- Skilled in developing proposals, grants, tenders, and high‑level reporting.
- Strong leadership, collaboration, and organisational agility.
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. For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
Apply now and be part of something bigger!
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
