Key Responsibilities:
Job Purpose
Our Promise calls us to “Stewardship that results in a bias for
action, Continuous Improvement and Innovation towards future challenges.” The
Senior Director of Field Innovation will provide leadership to the Strategic
Topic: Field Innovation: Discover, Scale, Harvest and into the area of
Continuous Improvement, promoting and equipping staff across the Partnership
with the tools and understanding to systematically improve how they and their
teams organise and implement their work.
Key
Responsibilities
Provide leadership to promote innovation across the organisation and demonstrate focused commitment to field / child-centred innovation in alignment with Our Promise by designing and testing a process to bring promising ideas to scale:
- Refining
the framework for field / child-centred innovation including definition,
principles and approach, ensuring field empowerment.
- Leverage
existing processes to evaluate and scale a simple innovation approach,
with a clear pathway and resources to identify, fund and scale
field/child-centred innovation.
Provide strategic leadership and thought leadership in the area
of Continuous Improvement within World Vision, including the integration of
Continuous Improvement and Innovation for mutual reinforcement.
Supervise and support the Field Innovation and Continuous
Improvement Advisor to:
- Engage
with Field Offices, Support Offices and Global Centre, working with
leaders, teams and individual contributors to provide mentoring, guidance,
coaching, consulting and training for Continuous Improvement.
- Manage,
improve and expand day-to-day services linked to certification programmes
including White Belt, Yellow Belt, Green Belt and Black Belt
programmes.
- Create
and develop reporting systems to measure and track the progress and
effectiveness of Continuous Improvement efforts and progress on
development of Continuous Improvement capacities across the Partnership.
- Manage,
sustain, improve and expand the Continuous Improvement knowledge
infrastructure available through multiple channels such as team sites,
eCampus training content, wvcentral, etc., to ensure optimal use of the
tools, content, training courses, etc. across the partnership.
- Project
manage programmes designed to foster a culture of Continuous Improvement,
increase awareness, and help individuals and leaders develop and
strengthen organisational core competencies for staff and leaders, e.g.,
agile organisation, and improve and innovate.
Maintain up to date knowledge of the internal and external
environment and current best practice in the fields of innovation and
Continuous Improvement for self and others in the team.
Build knowledge management, learning and communication of ideas
and results, for internal and external audiences, including an innovation
registry (of good practices from the field) tagged by context, need or sector
that the field can easily access and learn from each other.
Provide guidelines on how an innovation becomes a best practice
or gets mainstreamed into a project approach, model or standard.
Required
Knowledge & Qualifications
- At
least 10 years senior experience in field-facing ministry (field office
and/or regional office), ideally including both development and
humanitarian response settings.
- Track
record of involvement in innovation, preferably in a leading role.
- Track
record of successful implementation of Continuous Improvement.
- Bachelor’s
degree in Development, Business Administration, Engineering, Quality, or
related subject.
- Certified
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt.
- Working
from home the norm. Travel domestically and internationally up to 33% of
time.
- Fluent
spoken and written English.
Preferred Knowledge and
Qualifications
- Master’s
or higher degree in a relevant subject.
- Formal
training in leading innovation.
- Understanding
of: Organisational Development; Change Management; Knowledge Management
- Spanish,
French or other language(s) in use in WV are an advantage.
How to Apply
