Sponsorship Portfolio Manager
At World Vision Australia (WVA), we’re driven by a shared mission — to create lasting change for children, families, and communities living in poverty. Through our child sponsorship programs, we empower communities around the world to build brighter futures.
We’re looking for an experienced and passionate individual to join our team as a Sponsorship Portfolio Manager on an initial 6-month maternity leave contract (with a possibility of extending). In this pivotal role, you will oversee a portfolio of WVA-funded child sponsorship programs across multiple World Vision Field Offices, ensuring they deliver real, measurable impact. You’ll build strong, collaborative partnerships to ensure compliance, accountability, and alignment with WVA’s strategic goals.
You will lead engagement with Field Offices throughout the full project lifecycle — from assessment and design through to implementation and close-out — ensuring that every program meets WVA’s high standards for impact, integrity, and child wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio Leadership
- Lead WVA engagement and oversight of Field Offices and implementation partners through all phases of Area Program delivery.
- Review and approve budgets, designs, and annual reports for WVA-funded programs within your portfolio.
- Ensure timely implementation of the WV Sponsorship Foundation Package and Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) processes.
- Monitor program risks, safeguarding, and compliance with DFAT and WVA policies.
- Represent WVA professionally across our general network and ensure adherence to regulatory standards and accreditation requirements.
Strategic Support and Collaboration
- Represent WVA interests in Field Office strategy development and implementation.
- Partner with other Support Offices to ensure effective coordination and compliance.
- Lead annual capacity assessments and provide technical input to strengthen Field Office performance.
Supporting WVA Strategic Objectives
- Collaborate closely with internal teams to ensure the timely delivery of registered children for sponsorship.
- Provide accurate and compelling field content and reports to support marketing and donor engagement.
- Support alignment between Field Office priorities and WVA’s strategic focus areas, including climate resilience, disability inclusion, and community development.
To be successful in this role you will have…
- Proven experience managing complex project portfolios, ideally in an international development or humanitarian context.
- A strong understanding of program design, monitoring, and evaluation in developing country settings.
- Excellent communication and report-writing skills, with the ability to distil complex information clearly.
- Sound budgeting and financial analysis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain constructive relationships across diverse teams and cultural contexts.
- Capacity-building and training experience.
- A proactive, collaborative approach with strong problem-solving and influencing skills.
- Be results-oriented and accountable
- Adaptable and open to change
- A strong relationship builder and collaborator
- Driven by continuous learning and innovation
- Passionate about creating real impact for children and communities
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process
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.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, flexible working arrangements, free on-site parking and an onsite café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us