Evidence to Influence Advisor

World Vision

3d•Remote

About The Position

The Evidence to Influence Advisor is a strategic role within Advocacy & External Engagement, responsible for advancing World Vision’s evidence-based policy influence agenda. The role curates and produces evidence products from in-house data systems, translates evidence into compelling influencing materials, gathers external intelligence to identify policy opportunities, and builds stakeholders’ capacity to participate effectively in advocacy and policy processes. Supporting World Vision’s Our Promise Phase Three and its locally led, context-driven approach, the Advisor helps regional and field offices embed unified, data-driven advocacy grounded in children’s voices into national strategies and integrated programming. The role supports National Offices in moving from dispersed advocacy efforts to intentional, results-driven policy and systems influence. It strengthens advocacy integration across strategies, programmes, and evidence systems, applying theories of change, political economy analysis, and data such as AIM and child-led insights. The Advisor also supports strategic partnerships and consistent advocacy monitoring and learning to help advance sustainable impact for children through policy, investment, and systems change. This is a remote/homeworking position within a globally distributed team spanning Nepal, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Kenya. It is open internationally, subject to the candidate residing in a country where World Vision International is registered and legally able to employ staff. Preferred locations are Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe Region, or Africa; candidates with reasonable working-hour overlap with Nepal are preferred. The role may require occasional flexibility in working hours and travel nationally and/or internationally up to 15% of the time, approximately two to three times per year, with trips typically lasting up to one week. Candidates should be able to work effectively across cultures, geographies, faith traditions, and time zones, and build respectful relationships with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders. Applicants must submit a CV in English.

Requirements

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 for generating 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.
Fluency or a high level of professional and technical spoken and written English.
Ability and willingness to travel nationally and/or internationally up to 15% of the time, approximately two to three times per year, with trips typically lasting up to one week.
Ability to work effectively across diverse cultures, geographies, faith traditions, and time zones, demonstrating emotional intelligence, cultural sensitivity, and adaptability.
Excellent relationship-building and influencing skills, including respectful engagement with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.
Submit a CV in English.
Final appointment is subject to residing in a country where World Vision International is registered and legally able to employ staff.

Nice To Haves

Fluency in another language, such as French, Spanish, Arabic, or Portuguese.
Location in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe Region, or Africa Region.
Location within a time zone that allows reasonable overlap with Nepal working hours.

Responsibilities

Curate, analyse, and produce evidence products using Advocacy Impact Measurement (AIM), Community Voice and Action (CVA), and programmatic monitoring data.
Synthesize field-level advocacy results into evidence narratives and analyse social accountability findings for policy-relevant insights.
Link programme outcomes to advocacy evidence packages.
Produce evidence briefs, dashboards, and synthesis reports for internal decision-makers and external policy audiences.
Transform evidence data into policy briefs, position papers, advocacy narratives, fact sheets, talking points, and visual or multimedia evidence packages tailored to policy audiences.
Collaborate with communications and external engagement teams to amplify evidence-based messaging.
Monitor legislative, regulatory, and policy developments relevant to child well-being at national, regional, and global levels.
Collaborate with the Policy team to identify decision-makers, policy forums, and advocacy windows, including UN processes, national budget cycles, and elections.
Analyse political economy and power dynamics to assess the feasibility and entry points for advocacy engagement.
Produce intelligence briefs and policy landscape scans to inform advocacy planning at Field, Regional, and Global levels.
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 advocacy stakeholders and develop targeted training and coaching plans.
Facilitate learning events, workshops, and peer exchange to strengthen advocacy and policy-influencing competencies.
Provide hands-on advisory support to regional and field offices and National Offices to integrate advocacy into strategies, programmes, and evidence systems.
Support the use of advocacy theories of change, political economy analysis, data, and evidence to strengthen strategic advocacy, monitoring, and learning.