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World Vision International Hiring for Senior Education Advisor Job at London, England Full Time
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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:
Salary: circa £36,994 – £41,346 per annum, depending on experience + good range of benefits
Contract: Permanent – 36.5 hours per week
Based: Flexible working. Milton Keynes office / London office or hybrid working
World Vision works with the most vulnerable children, so they’re empowered to overcome poverty and injustice, and experience fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we serve alongside children – of all faiths and none – through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy in almost 100 countries.
With over 70 years of experience, our work with communities, donors, partners, and governments transforms lives and creates opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children – even in the toughest places.
Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.
Job Purpose
This is an exciting and newly created role within World Vision UK.
The role will work with colleagues in the UK and around the world, and engage with partner organisations to development new projects in humanitarian, fragile and developing contexts. Providing high-quality educational technical support for the design of projects, and the related development of funding proposal, primarily grant proposals and commercial contract bids.
The role will also provide educational technical support to existing long and shorter-term education projects, including providing advice, reviewing of progress and travelling internationally to undertake project monitoring visits.
Proactively sharing evidence and learning from our educational projects, with peer organisations, donors, and across the wider World Vision partnership will also be a critical part of the role. This may include taking part in inter-agency groups, webinars, events, and conferences.
There will be opportunities to work with colleagues in the wider global World Vision partnership, as a member of the World Vision Education Network, to input into thinking on approaches and project models and share and gain new learning.
Utilising programmatic evidence and learning to contribute towards shaping of World Vision UK policy and advocacy positions on Education, will also be part of the role.
The key requirements of the role are
- Degree or post-graduate qualification in Education, or the equivalent.
- Experience of working in the education sector in developing or fragile or humanitarian contexts.
- Knowledge of gender, disability & social inclusion, safeguarding and child rights within formal or informal education, in developing, fragile or humanitarian contexts. With an appetite for continuous learning and improvement.
- Track record of providing quality Education technical support to projects and programmes, including project design and proposal writing.
- Ability to work well with teams in other countries and colleagues in other organisations.
- A self-starter, starter-finisher, able to deliver core work within deadlines, with strong prioritisation abilities.
As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.
In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).
Please upload your CV of full employment history explaining any gaps of employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied with a covering letter stating how you meet the essential criteria given in the Job Description.
**Please note that you MUST have the Right to work in the UK documentation as unfortunately this role is not sponsored and your application cannot be considered any further without it**
Closing Date for applications: 12 September 2022
Interview Dates: Week commencing 19 September 2022
Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.
As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.
World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see:
The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (misconduct-disclosure-scheme.org)
By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK – Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
No agencies please.
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only