[Hiring] Associate Creative Director @World Vision, Inc.

Role Description

World Vision is hiring an Associate Creative Director to serve in the Marketing Division.

Lead creative development, storytelling, and brand expression within World Vision’s internal advertising agency. Partner with senior leadership to translate fundraising and audience strategies into integrated, multichannel campaigns, with an emphasis on writing and messaging. Guide assigned team members, set priorities, and oversee quality and delivery to strengthen brand awareness and produce measurable results. Carry out World Vision’s Christian mission, vision, and strategies, witnessing to Christ and ministering to others through life, deed, word and sign.

Responsibilities

• Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization.
• Lead assigned brand and fundraising campaigns from strategic brief through final delivery.
• Serve as the lead creative and conceptual partner for assigned work.
• Establish project-level creative direction, goals, priorities, and quality expectations.
• Review work in progress and final deliverables for strategic alignment and quality.
• Partner with peers and cross-functional partners to clarify briefs and align expectations.
• Present creative concepts and rationale to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Supervise assigned professional employees and creative personnel.
• Support a client-centric in-house agency model.
• Use performance data, audience feedback, testing results, and emerging tools to improve work.
• Maintain awareness of corporate goals, objectives, and organizational policies.

Qualifications

• Creative thinking, storytelling, concept development, and strong oral and written communication.
• Advanced marketing and branding knowledge and graphic design fundamentals.
• Strategic orientation and planning.
• Implementation and project management skills.
• Team building, people management, collaboration, and relationship building.
• Customer-focused solution design, initiative, adaptability, and quality orientation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (8 years).
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible creative experience.
• Experience in an advertising agency or a high-performing in-house creative team.
• Prior people-management experience is preferred.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong creative thinking, concept development, and campaign effectiveness is required.
• Experience with digital-first marketing, direct response, testing and optimization, and responsible use of AI-enabled creative tools is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• WVUS Pay Grade Level: 228
• Estimated hiring range: 104,200 - 151,590
• The posted hiring salary range reflects pay for U.S. locations and is determined using market data and internal compensation guidelines.

Company Description

We're a global Christian humanitarian organization. We partner with children, families, and their communities to empower them as they reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.