Senior People & Organisational Capability Advisor

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

By 2026 World Vision aims to undergo a significant cultural transformation and become an agile organisation to deliver on Our Promise. The People and Organisation Capability team is a global centre of expertise that will play a significant part in helping the organisation achieve that goal. However, to become an effective catalyst for developing an agile people development ecosystem across the Partnership, the POC team must become an agile organisation itself - focus on the customer, work in rapid cycles and embrace continuous improvement as an operating model. For that purpose, we have created a new role - a Senior People Advisor. Each Advisor will "own" delivery of the POC's expertise to one or more of the World Vision's various entities (including VFI). It is a senior and critical customer-facing role that will provide consulting, co-creation, and contextualisation of global solutions to those entities and rapid delivery and feedback. This leader will also play a crucial role in co-creating POC's solutions. Therefore a significant part of the role includes owning a strategic area of expertise and collaborating with others in agile teams on creating new solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Deliver people and organisational capability (POC) consulting/ advisory to assigned WV customer/s:

• Act as a broker, negotiator, and senior Advisor between the POC team and the different regions pertaining to all the people and organisational capability areas.
• Lead co-creative efforts of POC initiatives between the Regional stakeholders and Global initiates.
• Build trusted relationships with local (i.e. regional and national) P&C practitioners, business leaders, and relevant stakeholders.
• Assess the needs in the WV entities and address them by providing POC solutions and beyond.
• Deliver expertise to your region across the entire spectrum of POC approaches, tools and methodologies in an integrated operating model.
• Work closely with subject matter experts to contextualise solutions to your client's specific requirements.
• Support, guide and coach your client with implementation when necessary.
• Work alongside Regional/Global business partners to support the POC approaches and methodologies pertaining to people and organisational capabilities areas.

Build capability in your segment of WV:

• Train local trainers in POC's programmes (i.e., in key management skills).
• Build local P&C capability across the required areas of POC (especially in leadership and management development, talent management, change management, Our Voice, and P4P).
• Support local P&C in building leadership and management capability, provide strategic advice, run training workshops as necessary.
• Support change management and cultural change efforts by guiding and leading change champions groups within the different regions.
• Create and support cross-regional platforms where leaders, P&C practitioners are sharing best practices, sharing learning and development, and exchange talent opportunities.
• Conduct assessments on various POC areas and close the feedback loop with the subject matter experts so that the customers' needs are met.

Develop POC's thought leadership:

• Bring deep subject matter expertise in one or more areas of POC, namely Talent Management, Leadership Development, L&D, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Culture Change, Succession Planning, Organisational Agility or Employee Analytics.
• Work as part of internal Agile Project Teams, developing POC tools and processes.
• If required, lead Agile Project Teams.
• Build capability of your team, always share your expertise.
• Partner with fellow advisors as they deliver to their customer, being ready to step in when necessary.
• Inform the POC thought leadership team on the customer's need of change, support and co-create with the SME's the best in class methodologies to serve the needs of the different stakeholders.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Experience:

• 10 years of experience and deepening expertise in at least one of the key areas of POC - Talent Management, Leadership Development, L&D, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Change Management, Culture Change, Succession Planning, Organisational Agility or Employee Analytics.
• Proven track record of implementing an organisation-wide innovation in one of the key areas of POC (as above).
• At least basic-level proficiency and experience in the remaining POC areas as listed above.
• At least 5 years of experience of managing senior stakeholders' expectations and a track record or making a significant impact on stakeholders.
• At least 5 years of consulting experience at a senior level - whether within HR or as part of a consulting firm, evidenced by clients' or managers' feedback.

Evidence of the following abilities:

• A strong customer focus, proactivity with customers, quickly builds trusted advisor relationships.
• Highly strategic, a strong conceptual thinker.
• Consulting mindset - able to quickly and effectively assess complex organisational issues, develop solutions, and provide relevant coaching and advice.
• Adaptability, comfort with ambiguity, can impose structure to chaos.
• A strong team player, highly collaborative, able to work effectively with people radically different from self, works well in remote teams, excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Cross-cultural experience and a good understanding of various work environments and organisational culture.
• Can-do mindset, self-starter, high level of self-organisation.
• Stays on top of thought leadership in one's area of expertise.
• A fast and effective learner - identifies relevant gaps in knowledge, does research and masters a new skill/area of expertise quickly.
• The strengths-based mindset in personal development and teambuilding.
• Confidence with and ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• A highly effective facilitator and trainer.
• Solid project management skills.

Education:

• Bachelor degree from a college or university and seven or more years of related human resources experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred:

• Master's degree or a PhD in social sciences; professional HR certifications related to key POC areas.

Work Environment/Travel:

• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time.