Evidence to Influence Advisor

World Vision; Kansas; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

World Vision seeks an Evidence to Influence Advisor to drive evidence-based policy influence for child well-being. The role curates data, creates policy briefs, and develops influencing products for national and international audiences.

The position supports World Vision’s global advocacy efforts, translating data into compelling policy messages and coordinating with regional and global teams for strategic impact.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in public policy, international development, political science, research methods, or related field.
• 3–5 years of demonstrable experience producing policy briefs and evidence products for policy audiences.
• Strong proficiency with AIM/CVA data systems or similar monitoring platforms.
• Experience in stakeholder capacity building, training design and facilitation.
• Strong political economy analysis skills and familiarity with policy influencing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Curate, analyse, and produce structured evidence products from in-house data systems (AIM, CVA, and programme data).
• Translate evidence into policy briefs, position papers, talking points, and visual evidence packages for decision-makers.
• Monitor external policy developments and identify opportunities for advocacy and influence.
• Build capacity of National Office staff, partners, and community advocates in evidence-based advocacy.

Skills

Policy briefs

Evidence reports

Influencing products

Data systems

Capacity building

Policy analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Education

Master's degree in Public Policy or related field

Job description

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 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Homeworking position. Please submit your CV in English.

Preferred locations: Asia Region, the Middle East, Eastern Europe Region (MEER), or Africa Region. This is a remote/homeworking opportunity open to candidates internationally. Given the highly collaborative nature of the role and the team's global footprint, candidates located within a time zone that allows reasonable overlap with Nepal working hours will be preferred. We nevertheless encourage qualified candidates from all eligible locations to apply. Final appointment will be subject to the selected candidate residing in a country where World Vision International (WVI) is registered and legally able to employ staff.

Job Purpose

The Evidence to Influence Advisor is a strategic role within Advocacy & External Engagement, established to drive World Vision's evidence-based policy influence agenda. This position is responsible for curating and producing evidence products from in-house data systems such as AIM (Advocacy Impact Measurement) and CVA (Community Voice and Action), translating evidence into compelling influencing products, gathering external intelligence to identify policy influencing opportunities, and building the capacity of identified stakeholders to engage effectively in advocacy and policy processes. Collaborating and Advocating for Broader Impact as a core imperative of Our Promise Phase Three – Bold Hope for Children. In response to the call to address the root causes of challenges facing children through context-driven and locally led approaches, this position plays a critical role in translating Shift 3 ambitions into action. It supports regional and field offices to embed unified, data-driven advocacy—grounded in children’s voices—into national strategies and integrated programming frameworks. The role ensures that advocacy is not fragmented or ad hoc, but prioritised, intentional, and aligned with a clear set of partnership-wide advocacy child results that drive accountability, coherence, and influence.

Through hands-on advisory support, the position strengthens the integration of advocacy across strategies, programmes, and evidence systems, enabling National Offices to move from dispersed efforts to high-impact, results-driven policy and systems influence at scale. It promotes stronger strategic discipline through the application of advocacy theories of change, other analytical tools political economy analysis, and effective use of data and evidence, including AIM and child-led insights. By fostering strategic partnerships and improving the consistency of advocacy monitoring and learning, the role contributes to positioning World Vision as a leading, trusted Christian, child-focused humanitarian organisation—recognized for achieving sustainable impact for children through influencing policy, investment, and systems change from local to global levels, including in fragile and protracted contexts.

Major Responsibilities

Evidence Product Development Using In-House Data:

Curate, analyse, and produce structured evidence products from World Vision's in-house data systems, including:

• Advocacy Impact Measurement (AIM) data – synthesising field-level advocacy results into evidence narratives.
• Community Voice and Action (CVA) data – analysing social accountability findings for policy-relevant insights.
• Programmatic monitoring data – linking programme outcomes to advocacy evidence packages.
• Produce regular evidence briefs, dashboards, and synthesis reports that package in-house data into actionable formats for internal decision-makers and external policy audiences.

Translation of Evidence into Influencing Products

Transform evidence data into compelling advocacy and influencing products for targeted policy audiences:

• Policy briefs and position papers drawing on AIM, CVA and programme data
• Advocacy narratives, fact sheets and talking points tailored to specific decision-maker audiences.
• Visual and multimedia evidence packages for public campaigns and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaboration with communications and external engagement teams to amplify evidence-based messaging.

Gathering Intelligence to Identify External Influencing Opportunities

Proactively monitor the external policy environment to identify and prioritise opportunities for World Vision to influence policy outcomes:

• Track legislative, regulatory, and policy developments at national, regional, and global levels relevant to child well-being.
• Understand and collaborate with Policy team to identify the decision-makers, policy forums, and advocacy windows (e.g. UN processes, national budget cycles, elections).
• Analyse political economy and power dynamics to assess feasibility and entry points for WV advocacy engagement.
• Produce regular intelligence briefs and policy landscape scans to inform advocacy planning at Field, Regional, and Global levels.

Capacity Building of Identified Stakeholders

• Design and deliver capacity building programmes for National Office staff, partners, and community advocates on evidence-based advocacy, use of AIM/CVA data, and policy engagement skills.
• Identify capacity gaps among key advocacy stakeholders and develop targeted training and coaching plans
• Facilitate learning events, workshops, and peer exchange to strengthen advocacy and policy influencing competencies.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Experience The Role

• Master's degree in Public Policy, International Development, Political Science, Research Methods, or a related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of demonstrable experience producing policy briefs, evidence reports, and influencing products for policy audiences
• Strong proficiency in data systems such as AIM, CVA dashboards, or similar monitoring platforms to generate evidence.
• Experience in stakeholder capacity building, training design, and facilitation.
• Strong political economy analysis skills and familiarity with policy influencing strategies at national and international levels.

Language Requirements

• Fluency/high level of professional and technical spoken and written English. Fluency in another language (French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese) is an added advantage.

Travel And/Or Work Environment Requirement

• This is a remote/homeworking position within a globally distributed team spanning Nepal, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Kenya.
• The role may occasionally require flexibility in working hours to accommodate meetings and collaboration across multiple global time zones.
• The role requires the ability to work effectively across diverse cultures, geographies, faith traditions, and time zones, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity, and adaptability in a global environment.
• The successful candidate will possess excellent relationship-building and influencing skills, with the ability to engage respectfully and effectively with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders from diverse cultural and contextual backgrounds.
• The position requires the ability and willingness to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 15% of the time, approximately 2-3 times per year, with trips typically lasting up to one week.

Applicant Types Accepted

Local Applicants Only