Regional Leader, South Asia & Pacific (SAP)
| Organisation Name | World Vision International |
| Location | Remote in South Asia UK- time zone compatible location: Philippines, Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka |
| Date Posted | 2025-12-19 |
| Job Type | Full-Time |
| Job Number | 1407586 |
- Deliver whole mission impact for vulnerable children across ten SAP countries
- Suits humanitarian/international development regional operations leaders
- South Asia-based, local work rights required, operations/governance focus
The Organisation
World Vision International (WVI) is a global Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. With its origins in the 1950’s, WVI has more than 2.5 million supporters, thousands of partners, including faith-based organisations, hundreds of corporations, and governments in nearly 100 countries.
WVI’s 37,000 staff assist impoverished communities through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development, and promotion of justice, with their work touching approximately one hundred million people regardless of religion, ethnic background, or gender.
The South Asia and Pacific (SAP) region provides oversight to ten countries where the focus is program implementation and/or fundraising activities, including India, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
Benefits & Culture
The Role
Reporting to the Chief Field Operations Officer, you will direct regional operations, provide leadership to ten national directors and a senior operations director, and ensure effective management of ministry in alignment with WVI's vision, mission, core values, and global strategic directions. You’ll manage the regional operations budget, oversee governance, delivery of WVI’s partnership promise and stewardship strategies, develop the skills and spiritual growth of the leadership team, and ensure accountability of the national offices.
Other key responsibilities are to:
Skills Required
You are a senior, engaging, hands-on regional operations leader, aligned with WVI’s values and mission, and able to work effectively within the ethos of a Christian organisation. You bring significant senior organizational, operational and governance leadership experience within the humanitarian or related sectors and your work demonstrates successful regional delivery of global operational strategies. You can navigate large matrix organizations and have the skill and maturity to provide spiritual leadership and development to a highly experienced executive team. Your work includes effective leadership across diverse counties, programs, and teams in Asia and you have a good understanding of the geopolitical context of the region. Your other skills and experience include:
If you are a regional operations leader with Asia regional humanitarian or international development programming experience, and WVI’s mission and vision resonates with you, please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the skills required above quoting #1407586. Alternatively, call Judith Marks in Brisbane on +61 (07) 5530 8066 for a confidential discussion, or to request a full information package please email: officeadministrator@ngorecruitment.com (no applications here please).
Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.
World Vision International (WVI) is a global Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. With its origins in the 1950’s, WVI has more than 2.5 million supporters, thousands of partners, including faith-based organisations, hundreds of corporations, and governments in nearly 100 countries.
WVI’s 37,000 staff assist impoverished communities through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development, and promotion of justice, with their work touching approximately one hundred million people regardless of religion, ethnic background, or gender.
The South Asia and Pacific (SAP) region provides oversight to ten countries where the focus is program implementation and/or fundraising activities, including India, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.
Benefits & Culture
- Highly visible senior leadership role driving regional operations transformation.
- Provide spiritual leadership and development to senior leadership team.
- Based in one of WVI’s South Asia countries (except India and Nepal) with frequent regional and international travel.
- Competitive local salary and benefits package.
- Local work rights required, visas and expat packages are not provided.
The Role
Reporting to the Chief Field Operations Officer, you will direct regional operations, provide leadership to ten national directors and a senior operations director, and ensure effective management of ministry in alignment with WVI's vision, mission, core values, and global strategic directions. You’ll manage the regional operations budget, oversee governance, delivery of WVI’s partnership promise and stewardship strategies, develop the skills and spiritual growth of the leadership team, and ensure accountability of the national offices.
Other key responsibilities are to:
- Deliver WVI’s mission through national offices in alignment with global strategy.
- Successfully drive continuous operational improvement across national offices.
- Oversee operations and partnership policies to maximize quality of ministry.
- Support organizational change and conflict resolution processes.
- Engage with WVI’s boards and represent the WVI President on national boards.
Skills Required
You are a senior, engaging, hands-on regional operations leader, aligned with WVI’s values and mission, and able to work effectively within the ethos of a Christian organisation. You bring significant senior organizational, operational and governance leadership experience within the humanitarian or related sectors and your work demonstrates successful regional delivery of global operational strategies. You can navigate large matrix organizations and have the skill and maturity to provide spiritual leadership and development to a highly experienced executive team. Your work includes effective leadership across diverse counties, programs, and teams in Asia and you have a good understanding of the geopolitical context of the region. Your other skills and experience include:
- Deep experience managing multi-cultural leadership teams.
- Leading successfully in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
- Effective communication, presentation, and board liaison skills.
- Financial operations management including budget (USD 100M min).
- Ability to deal decisively with complex situations and lead organizational change.
If you are a regional operations leader with Asia regional humanitarian or international development programming experience, and WVI’s mission and vision resonates with you, please submit your CV and cover letter addressing the skills required above quoting #1407586. Alternatively, call Judith Marks in Brisbane on +61 (07) 5530 8066 for a confidential discussion, or to request a full information package please email: officeadministrator@ngorecruitment.com (no applications here please).
Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.
Please be advised you can upload two attachments, including your resume and covering letter when submitting your application.