Senior Advisor - Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI)

À propos

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

As Senior Advisor - Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI), you will provide strategic and technical leadership to advance gender equality, disability inclusion, and social inclusion across the East Asia region. You will develop and deliver a regional GEDSI roadmap, strengthen organizational practices and staff and partner capabilities, embed GEDSI across strategy, programme and proposal design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning, and position World Vision with donors, governments, UN agencies, civil society, and representative organizations.

Core Areas of Focus

You will develop and execute an East Asia regional GEDSI strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational policies and child well-being priorities. You will lead GEDSI mainstreaming and quality assurance across regional and national office programming, grants, and organizational systems. You will strengthen the capabilities of GEDSI focal points, technical teams, leaders, partners, and representative organizations. You will generate evidence, learning, and innovation and strengthen World Vision’s external positioning on GEDSI across development, humanitarian, and fragile contexts. You will also manage and coordinate GEDSI-related consultancies, technical assistance engagements, and partnerships, including developing scopes of work, providing procurement inputs, ensuring quality assurance, overseeing delivery, and disseminating outputs aligned with global and regional priorities and standards. Lead regional GEDSI strategy, policy implementation and organizational change. You will develop and monitor a regional GEDSI strategy and roadmap aligned with organizational priorities and policies. You will engage regional and national leadership, People & Culture, operations, programmes, grants, advocacy, and communications teams to embed GEDSI in programming, organizational practices, advocacy, external engagement, and communications in accordance with World Vision’s GEDSI Policy. You will guide organizational GEDSI self-assessments and action plans, promote inclusive language, accessible workplaces, non-discrimination, and reasonable accommodation, and ensure GEDSI is reflected in organizational priorities, programme strategies and design, key messages, and resource allocation. Lead GEDSI mainstreaming in programs, implementation and proposals across funding streams. You will provide technical leadership for GEDSI-responsive and transformative programme and proposal design across sectors and contexts. You will ensure designs are informed by GEDSI analysis, including gender and disability analysis, barriers, disparities, harmful norms, root causes, and intersectional risks. You will advise teams on GEDSI objectives, theories of change, indicators, budgets, risk mitigation, Do No Harm, safeguarding, and donor requirements. You will contextualize and promote GEDSI tools, approaches, minimum standards, domains of change, the continuum, and markers. You will strengthen the identification and use of disaggregated data, including the appropriate use of Washington Group Questions or other approved tools, to inform programme and project design. You will coach teams to monitor emerging barriers and adapt implementation to improve equitable access, participation, decision-making, systems, and well-being. You will promote rights-based and social-model approaches that address attitudinal, environmental, communication, and institutional barriers. You will also develop, manage, and monitor the Disability Consultant’s workplan and project deliverables, communicate progress, and ensure alignment with EAS GEDSI priorities and agreed objectives. Build GEDSI capability, networks and communities of practice. You will assess competency and capacity gaps and develop regional capacity-strengthening plans for staff, focal points, partners, and leaders. You will deliver and coordinate contextualized training, coaching, mentoring, and peer learning on gender equality, disability inclusion, social inclusion, and related frameworks. You will equip GEDSI focal points and technical teams with tools, models, resources, and quality-assurance support. You will also strengthen regional collaboration networks and communities of practice, including linkages with gender equality and disability inclusion leadership networks. Lead evidence, learning, innovation and knowledge management. You will develop and implement a regional GEDSI learning agenda linked to child well-being outcomes. You will initiate and oversee research, pilots, and testing of new or adapted GEDSI approaches and programming models. You will support the analysis and use of data, evaluations, learning reviews, impact stories, case studies, and promising practices. You will facilitate knowledge sharing across national offices, the wider World Vision Partnership, and external audiences. Build strategic partnerships, external positioning and thought leadership. You will represent and position World Vision with governments, donors, UN agencies, clusters, working groups, NGOs, faith actors, academia, and regional networks. You will build or strengthen the capacity to establish strategic and equitable partnerships with women-led organizations, organizations of persons with disabilities, and minority groups as part of social inclusion, including children, to ensure their meaningful participation in assessment, design, implementation, monitoring, learning, and advocacy. You will identify opportunities for shared learning, advocacy, policy influence, resource mobilization, and thought leadership. You will also support communications and external engagement colleagues in using inclusive, rights-based, and evidence-informed GEDSI language and narratives.

Requirements include

• A bachelor’s degree with substantial relevant experience may be considered
• Master’s degree or equivalent in gender studies, disability studies, social or political sciences, social work, international development, economics, public policy, programme management or a related field highly preferred
• Relevant professional development in gender equality, disability inclusion, social inclusion, safeguarding, programme design, MEAL or humanitarian programming
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience providing strategic and technical leadership on gender equality, disability inclusion and social inclusion in international development and/or humanitarian programming
• Experience supporting GEDSI-responsive and transformative designs, mainstreaming strategies and activities across multiple sectors and funding streams
• Experience leading GEDSI analysis, including gender and disability analysis, and integrating findings into design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning
• Strong facilitation, coaching, relationship-building, partnership, influencing, writing and presentation skills
• Experience working in or across the East Asia region and adapting global approaches to diverse national and local contexts
• Substantial experience in disability-inclusive programming, accessibility, disability-disaggregated data, partnership with organisations of persons with disabilities, and rights-based approaches
• Experience in organisational change, policy implementation, advocacy, research, knowledge management, external engagement and donor positioning
• Experience leading or supporting organisational GEDSI self-assessments, audits or action plans and building the capability of staff and partners
• Experience applying Do No Harm, safeguarding and ethical approaches to gender-based violence and other GEDSI-related risks

Required Language(s)

• English, both written and verbal

Required travel and/or work environment accommodations

• The position requires approximately 20% travel, subject to field office needs
• The successful candidate will be based in their home country and will work remotely, with travel to field locations, regional offices, and partner meetings as required

How to apply

Is this the job for you? Find the full responsibilities and requirements for this position and by the closing date October 28, 2026. 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: Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.