Head of Program Excellence - Mississauga, Canada - World Vision Canada

World Vision Canada

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too.

Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world:
Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children.

Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position:
Head of Program Excellence & Impact Delivery

Reports To:
VP, Programs and Policy

Position Term:
Full Time Permanent

Primary Location:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Workplace Type:
Remote (Within Canada)

At World Vision Canada, we are making the world better. Join us

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to lead our organization's international programs with a focus on delivering digitally enhanced, evidence-based, innovative, gender-transformative and impactful programming in an increasingly fragile world.

Your understanding of the complex ways that women and girls continue to shoulder disproportionate burdens of poverty, injustice and inequality will drive you to seek out new and innovative ways that champion their agency across all sectors and diverse contexts.

In partnership with others in the organization, you will champion the use of technology and data in this digital age to ensure impact is delivered through our programs and communicated well to our donors and partners.

Leading a team of development experts, you will seek to multiply talent and expertise to ensure that the team is creating maximum value for our field partners and our partners in Canada.

Are you a 'next generation' international development practitioner that gets excited about technology and how it is changing the field of programming and impact delivery in a digital world?

Do you love working with data and discovering how it can be leveraged in new ways to communicate life changing, gender transformative stories of impact?

Do you like finding new ways of doing things and solving problems in a large organization where bureaucracy can create barriers?

Do you excel at leading teams of experts and seeking to multiply their talent and experience, while leading them towards a common vision? Do you have a heart for ensuring ownership and leadership remains with our field partners, while pushing all of us to the next level of program quality & impact delivery?

If this sounds like you, we can't wait to hear from you

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the VP of Programs & Policy (P&P) the Head of Program Excellence & Impact Delivery is part of the P&P Leadership Team and works closely with our private and public sector fundraisers, including supporting the development and implementation of strategies for resource acquisition, championing new product development, and thought leadership through engaging externally with donors, partners and the public to represent programs as required.

As Head of Program Excellence & Impact Delivery you will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic plans, overseeing all World Vision Canada field funding, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality programs that create a measurable, gender transformative impact in the communities we serve.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop and implement strategic plans for the organization's international programs team with a focus on driving innovation, program quality and impact in new ways through the integration of gender equality and the use of technology in a digital world.
Provide oversight to field funding at the enterprise level ensuring that program expenses are within budgetary limits and program goals are achieved.
Provide leadership to a team of program managers, grant managers, functional leads and other staff, seeking to multiply their talents and expertise to ensure program objectives are met.
Collaborate with the business development team to support diversified and growing income from the Public Sector including oversight to flagship grant funded programs and membership in advisory bodies.
Together with others in the organization champion the vision for, and continually seek new ways of delivering program quality and impact, through leveraging technology and data.
Champion gender equality as a critical component of program excellence and impact
Provide strategic support from a programmatic perspective to private revenue resource acquisition in World Vision Canada including mass marketing and philanthropy with a focus on gender integration, digital innovation and customer centricity.
In partnership with other stakeholders, identify ways to effectively leverage digital technology to enhance operations, create efficiencies and maximize team output.
Optimize key features of digitization to promote process efficien