Come join a team that’s driving climate action on a global scale

World Vision is driving a vision to help regenerate 1 billion hectares of degraded land by scaling up Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) – a simple solution capable of regenerating land and lives, all by harnessing a universe of underground roots.

The FMNR Global Engagement Lead will play a catalytic role in inspiring widespread, voluntary adoption of (FMNR) by external organisations, institutions, and networks. This role is about creating excitement and belief in FMNR as a ready-to-use solution to some of the world’s biggest challenges: land degradation, climate change, food insecurity, and rural poverty. By engaging and influencing organisations beyond World Vision, the role will inspire others to adopt FMNR at scale – within their own programming, delivery models, or policy agendas – thereby accelerating the restoration of large areas of degraded land globally.

Join the World Vision team and help the planet fight back and improve the lives of millions of children. 

Watch this short video below to see the generational change you can be part of.

Your areas of responsibility:

• Lead the strategic approach to catalysing others to restore millions of hectares of degraded land through scaling FMNR
• Build trusted relationships that lead to FMNR adoption, advocacy, and long-term collaboration and act as a credible, enthusiastic advocate for FMNR
• Create and deliver compelling narratives that excite stakeholders and demonstrate how FMNR can help them meet their goals for climate resilience, food security, and community development
• Identify and track a range of external organisations (NGOs, governments, networks, businesses) whose goals align with FMNR and have an ability to restore significant areas of degraded land
• Rapidly assess and map how external organisations operate – including their strategy, delivery models, and goals
• Provide clear, adaptable advice on how FMNR can be integrated into other organisations’ systems and practices
• Curate or adapt high-quality resources, toolkits, case studies, learning materials, training courses, reporting systems that help adopters to easily take up FMNR
• Share evidence, success stories, and field-level insights that show FMNR’s relevance and credibility with adopters

Who we’re looking for: 

We are looking for someone with highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills. You will be a great networker with a real can do attitude.

You will have:

Minimum 5 years in role that could include:

• Natural resource management, land restoration, climate-smart agriculture, or FMNR programs
• Working with or advising NGOs, governments, UN agencies, or multilateral programs
• Cross-sector engagement (e.g. public-private partnerships, research-to-policy, global-local scaling
• Demonstrated experience in external engagement, Influencing or advisory roles and Partnership management
• Strong understanding of FMNR principles and applications and climate-smart agriculture and nature-based solutions
• Agile and problem-solving mindset
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (Masters degree in environmental management, agroforestry, climate adaptation/mitigation, development studies)

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: 

For your information, the interviews will start immediately, and the role may be filled before the closing date.

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  

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