Evidence to Influence Advisor

World Vision; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

World Vision is seeking an Evidence to Influence Advisor to drive policy impact by curating and translating AIM/CVA data into briefs, dashboards, and influencing packages for decision-makers.

You will monitor external policy developments, identify advocacy opportunities, and build capacity with National Offices and partners to embed data‑driven advocacy into national strategies and programming across diverse regions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field is required.
• 3–5 years of experience producing policy briefs and influencing products.
• Strong proficiency in AIM, CVA dashboards, and similar data systems.
• Experience in capacity building and facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Curate and produce evidence products from AIM/CVA data for internal and external audiences.
• Translate evidence into policy briefs, talking points, and multimedia packages.
• Monitor external policy environments and identify advocacy opportunities.
• Design and deliver capacity-building programs for national offices and partners.

Education

Master’s degree in Public Policy, International Development, Political Science, Research Methods, or related field

Policy briefs, evidence reports, influencing products (3–5 years)

Data systems proficiency (AIM, CVA dashboards)

Stakeholder capacity building & training design

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.

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. 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