Director, Performance & Investment Management at World Vision Kenya

JOB PURPOSE

This position has significant scope of impact and influence on our ability to deliver the revenue and funding mix necessary to achieve “Our Promise”, our global strategy. This is achieved by leading analysis and reporting of the fundraising performance and return on investment of all our global fundraising initiatives to achieve the Strategic Imperative #5: “Deliver high quality, sustainable funding”.

Importantly, this includes leading the data-based decision making and change management resulting from the return-on-investment analysis that is critical for World Vision International (WVI) and the Support Office’s (SO) senior management decisions impacting budget and operational planning to deliver the necessary revenue and funding to achieve “Our Promise”.  This scope of impact spans across all global fundraising priorities, including: global fundraising campaigns and acquisition lead generation/cultivation strategies, performance analysis of product lines (Child Sponsorship, Childhood Rescue), marketing channel mix and optimization, global product portfolio and pricing analysis.

SCOPE / DISTRUBUTION OF RESPONSABILITES

60 % - Investment and Performance Management:

Leadership of cross-functional (Finance and Marketing) team responsible for the analysis and reporting of the fundraising performance and return on investment of all our global fundraising initiatives to achieve Strategic Imperative 5, deliver high quality, sustainable funding. Importantly, this includes leading the data-based decision making and change management resulting from the return-on-investment analysis that is critical for WVI and SO senior management decisions impacting budget and operational planning to deliver the necessary revenue and funding to achieve “Our Promise”. 

This scope of impact spans across all global fundraising priorities, including: global fundraising campaigns and acquisition lead generation/cultivation strategies, performance analysis of product lines (Child Sponsorship, Childhood Rescue), marketing channel mix and optimization, global product portfolio and pricing analysis

This is performed in close partnership with the chief marketing leaders of the largest SOs, and Global Marketing and Communication (GMC) core leaders.  

• Ensure core programming models and systems are in place and streamlined so that projects are managed on time and on budget in achieving the desired impact on Child Well-being (CWB).
• Ensure the highest standards of quality and accountability through compliance with World Vision policies and standards and international standards for emergency response, disaster mitigation, rehabilitation and development.
• Ensure that the field office functions in a contextualized, complementary, sensitive and cohesive manner.
• Ensure adequate compliance with country plans and their respective reporting through KPIs and current global systems.
• Ensure that systems are in place so that projects are managed on time and on budget to achieve the desired impact on the well-being of children.
• Ensure compliance with government regulations for NGOs.
• Lead the design and implementation of Impact-Influence-Sustainability models in Development, Advocacy, Humanitarian & Emergencies Affairs (HEA) & Public Engagement, for the fulfilment Child Well-being & Protection objectives.
• Lead the development and implementation of new and innovative program models to leverage Impact\, Sustainability and Influence.
• Lead the Advocacy strategy towards the protection of children and the promotion of their rights.
• Leading the response in emergency situations for the raising financial resources the proper management of it.
• Lead accountability and ministry quality assurance.

20% - Budgeting and Budget Management:

Lead function-wide budgeting and budget management across 100+ staff and a budget of $15M+. Key areas of leadership and oversight include:

• Ensure GMC develops a budget in line with plans, within the resources allocated to GMC
• Oversee budgeting and budget management support to GMC leaders and project managers
• Ensure GMC leaders have clarity on their budget tracking, to execute as planned and within budget

10% - Strategic office engagement approach:

In partnership with key GMC leaders, develop and manage an approach of strategic engagement with key offices in order to drive the right investment decisions to achieve the private revenue goals in “Our Promise”. This includes:

• Partnering with GMC leaders to ensure Performance and Investment insights are leveraged strategically in existing forums with offices (i.e. Communities of Practice).
• Determining a fit-for-purpose Community of Practice approach for analytics leaders from around the Partnership to come together to learn and share analytics best practices and solve common analytics challenges.

10% - Integrate and elevate global performance insights: 

Remove siloes and improve cross-functional coordination and visibility of performance insights across GMC.  This includes;

• Identifying the analysis insights across GMC
• Leveraging GMC’s knowledge management approach, improve the connection and visibility of these disparate insights
• Equip GMC and offices to leverage cross-functional performance insights to deliver even more value and action orientation.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, TRAINING, LICENSE, REGISTRATION, AND /OR CERTIFICATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance
• 10 years+ experience as a finance or marketing analytics leader in a major, international marketing organisation (either for profit or non-profit).
• Significant background in financial and marketing analysis.
• Proven record of excellent communication and written skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate data in a clear, compelling manner to executive and board-level audiences.

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• MBA or advanced degree in Marketing, Finance, or Strategy

Language Requirements:

• High command/fluency in English both written and oral communication skills.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement:

• Work will be principally homeworking/remote.
• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel nationally or internationally up to 20% of the time for business meetings and team or leadership meetings.