Technical Specialist, Well-being Capacity

With 75 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!

Here’s where you come in:

World Vision International is strengthening its global Staff Care & Well-being approach to ensure that staff are supported not only through formal services, but through cultures of shared responsibility, practical capability, and locally led ownership.

We are seeking a Technical Specialist, Well-being Capacity to strengthen the ability of national and regional teams to design, adapt, and sustain their own staff care and well-being initiatives in alignment with our global Staff Care & Well-being Strategy and Theory of Change.

This role focuses on building practical capability across the Partnership through co-created learning, contextualized tools, peer exchange, and leadership engagement. The position works closely with regional and national colleagues to ensure that well-being approaches are usable, culturally grounded, and embedded into everyday organizational practice.
This is not solely a technical or programmatic role. It requires relational intelligence, cultural humility, and the ability to translate strategy into practice alongside colleagues working in complex and high-pressure environments.

Location: Any country where WVI is registered to operate

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Capacity Building & Training Design

• Develop and deliver training modules and learning resources tailored to field teams
• Co-design leadership and peer supporter training with local focal points
• Build regional networks of practice to sustain learning and collaboration

Field Engagement & Partnership Development

• Collaborate with regional/national offices to contextualize global frameworks
• Support staff care integration into field strategies and emergency preparedness
• Strengthen local ownership via partnership with P&C and field leadership

Knowledge Sharing & Peer Learning

• Facilitate communities of practice across regions
• Document and share field-led innovations and lessons
• Promote South–South learning and cross-regional exchanges

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL)

• Track capacity-building efforts and uptake of staff care practices
• Collect feedback to refine approaches and materials
• Contribute data to Theory of Change indicators and organizational reporting
• Self-directed learning to maintain currency on industry trends, research, practices and key actors in training, communications, and staff well-being.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with SSR, Risk, and Emergency Management on field integration
• Engage Comms and HR on awareness materials and training rollouts

Requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree (or above) in: Employee Well-being, Psychology, Sociology, Training, Adult Learning, or significant work experience in these disciplines.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in organizational development, capacity building, or humanitarian staff care.
• Fluency in English, fluency in additional languages considered an advantage
• Up to 20%, dependent on Partnership Travel Guidelines.

How to apply

Is this job for you?

Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position here and apply online. The position is open until filled.

World Vision is dedicated to our team members’ development and their success. We aspire for all employees to be fulfilled through their work and their contributions to an organisation working to provide long-term sustainable solutions to the world’s most vulnerable people.

For more information on World Vision International, please visit our website: www.wvi.org.Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.