[Hiring] Child & Community Impact Narrative & Data Specialist @World Vision

Role Description

As the Child & Community Impact Data Specialist, you will define and drive the strategic evolution of World Vision’s sponsorship impact intelligence ecosystem—shaping how child and community impact is translated into compelling, sponsor-facing engagement experiences globally.

• Lead the design and implementation of integrated impact intelligence frameworks that connect child sponsorship data, programme outcomes, and storytelling into scalable, AI-enabled engagement experiences across 30+ markets.
• Support sponsor engagement, acquisition, and retention by ensuring high-quality data, system readiness, and efficient, automated storytelling solutions.
• Strengthen the sponsorship experience by ensuring it is grounded in credible, connected evidence of change—capturing the story of both the child and their community.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to design, deliver, and continuously improve impact data frameworks that meet the needs of Support Offices, field teams, and sponsors worldwide.
• Advance the transition from static reporting to dynamic, data-driven storytelling.
• Enable children and their communities to share their stories, while empowering sponsors to better understand and connect with the impact they help create.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, International Development, or equivalent.
• 7+ years’ experience in data transformation and/or automation, or data science, statistics, engineering, or mathematics.
• Hands-on experience in developing end-to-end data pipelines or automating repetitive data tasks.
• Strategic systems thinking across marketing and data ecosystems.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data, digital transformation, or impact intelligence initiatives across complex global organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to define strategic frameworks and operationalize scalable global capabilities.
• Proven success influencing senior stakeholders across technical, marketing, product, and operational functions.
• Experience in prompt engineering for generative AI, AI output validation and risk mitigation, automated narrative systems, and business analytics.
• Proven experience applying AI/ML to real-world data products or content generation.
• Experience translating data into emotionally compelling narratives via content strategy or digital storytelling.
• Experience in working across cultures and within complex organizational structures.
• Analytical skills, catalyst for improvement and innovation, problem-solving involving multiple disciplines.
• High attention to detail, ability to work with technical experts and teams, as well as marketers, to achieve optimal results.
• Flexible and willing to travel per World Vision policy.
• Knowledge of Child Sponsorship and development programming, preferably with World Vision.

Requirements

• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities, with proven experience in executive reporting and updates.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement across cultures, time zones, and organisational levels.
• Highly proficient in Excel, Power BI, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Smartsheet.
• Desired: Any experience in Python, SQL, Bash/Shell scripting, Prefect, Luigi, dbt, or cloud services such as AWS.

Applicant Types Accepted

• Local Applicants Only