With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Salary:                 circa £36,000 per annum, depending on experience + good range of benefits

Contract:           Permanent – 36.5 hours per week

Based:                 Hybrid working (UK Based only).

Must travel to the Milton Keynes office twice per month.

About you:

• Do you have a passion for taking an idea from inception to fruition?
• Are you a skilled communicator, able to adapt your style depending upon the audience?
• Can you manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines?
• Do you have experience securing high-value donations due to writing compelling proposals?

About World Vision:

World Vision works with the most vulnerable children, so they’re empowered to overcome poverty and injustice and experience the fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we serve alongside children of all faiths and none through long-term development projects, emergency responses and advocacy in almost 100 countries.

Work for World Vision UK and you will be part of a truly global Partnership, building brighter futures for vulnerable children.

Job Purpose

As the Business Development & Acquisition Manager, you will lead the acquisition processes and strengthen World Vision UK’s ability to apply for trusts, foundations and corporate funding opportunities.  You will lead the process of proposal development and acquisition while aligning our portfolio with strategic opportunities helping us serve the world’s most vulnerable children.

We are keen to find a candidate with the following qualities, experience and education:

• A graduate with experience in submitting successful proposals to trusts, foundations and corporate donors. It is desired you have institutional or consortium management experience too.
• You will be a highly organised person, able to manage expectations and prioritise competing demands.
• Proactive and tenacious in identifying and pursuing new funding opportunities, you know what it means to be financially astute and risk aware, with keen risk management skills, you have been proven to possess a thorough understanding of risk mitigation and management.
• You will have experience in reviewing and meeting donor technical, financial and reporting requirements and a familiarity and confidence in navigating stakeholder relationships.

• Strong relational and outstanding interpersonal skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills.

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.

The role will require you to:

• Work collaboratively across several key stakeholders and their respective teams within World Vision UK and the wider World Vision Global Partnership (Field Offices, Regional Offices and World Vision International (WVI)).
• Assess World Vision UK’s capability and capacity to engage in selected portfolios and manage opportunities simultaneously.
• Effectively execute pre-proposal, decision-making, concept note, proposal and project design processes in order to pursue relevant and strategically aligned funding opportunities.
• Enable World Vision UK’s Strategic Partnerships Department to proudly apply for competitive and non-competitive funding opportunities with new and existing Trusts, Foundations and Corporate partners.
• To brief, review and provide feedback to Field Office and Regional Office colleagues on their input and design during the application process.

As an active Christian, this role offers you the opportunity to integrate your Christian faith and be sensitive to its various expressions across cultures and denominations.

In addition to the salary offered, we offer good benefits including pension, generous holiday entitlement and free parking (MK only).

** We reserve the right to interview candidates and close the ad ahead of the closing date should a strong candidate be identified **
**Please note that you MUST have the Right to work in the UK documentation as unfortunately this role is not sponsored, and your application cannot be considered any further without it**

Closing Date for applications:    26 May 2023
Interview Dates:                               TBC

Please upload your CV of entire employment history explaining any gaps in employment and reasons for leaving your previous employer. This must be accompanied by a cover letter stating how you meet the essential criteria in the Job Description.

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere is at the heart of our Christian organisation. We promote diversity of thought, culture and background, which connects the entire World Vision family. As such, World Vision is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented sections of the community. World Vision UK also operates flexible working policies and practices.

As a child focused organisation, World Vision UK is committed to the safeguarding of children, therefore any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of applicable background checks, including a criminal records check.

World Vision UK is a registered organisation operating the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) and we shall check with your previous employers about your behaviour and conduct. We will be requesting they complete a form known as a Statement of Conduct. For more information see:

The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (misconduct-disclosure-scheme.org)

By submitting your application, you understand and accept that World Vision UK will process the data you provide for the purposes of your application and in accordance with the World Vision UK – Job Applicant Privacy Notice (click here).

No agencies please.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local Applicants Only