Field Innovation & Continuous Improvement Advisor

Organization: World Vision
Location: Remote-based in one of the following countries: Kenya, Costa Rica, Honduras, Senegal, Zambia, or other approved World Vision national offices
Contract Type: Full-time
Application Deadline: 18 July 2025

About World Vision

World Vision is a global Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. With 75 years of impact and over 33,000 staff in nearly 100 countries, World Vision is driven by a commitment to the most vulnerable.

Role Overview

The Field Innovation & Continuous Improvement Advisor plays a pivotal role in bridging World Vision’s global innovation frameworks with real-world implementation at the field level. With hands-on experience leading and scaling local innovations in development or humanitarian settings, you will drive the organization’s innovation culture and continuous improvement efforts. The role involves mentoring field teams, embedding lean innovation practices, and supporting the scale-up of impactful, community-rooted solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Field-Led Innovation: Identify, document, and promote grassroots innovations. Lead design thinking and co-creation workshops to enhance scalability of field-driven solutions.

• Continuous Improvement: Guide and expand World Vision’s Kaizen Belt Program for field practitioners. Support teams with lean process improvement initiatives.

• Technical Support: Provide coaching and advisory services to field and regional leaders in innovation strategy, learning, and system improvement.

• Knowledge Sharing: Curate and share successful innovations through internal knowledge platforms. Support capacity building in global and regional knowledge management teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in International Development, Innovation, Public Administration, or a related field

• Lean Six Sigma or equivalent continuous improvement certification

• Proven experience leading innovation in low-resource or complex field environments

• Expertise in design thinking, adaptive learning, and systems change

• Ability to lead and embed continuous improvement processes

• Strong interpersonal, coaching, and facilitation skills

• Fluent in English

• Willing to travel internationally up to 25%

• Comfortable working in resource-constrained field environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling community-led innovations

• Ability to translate global innovation frameworks into field-level tools

• Recognized for contributions to innovation and improvement in the humanitarian/development space

• Proficiency in French or Spanish highly desirable

Working Conditions

• This is a remote-based position open to candidates residing in approved World Vision national offices (Kenya, Costa Rica, Honduras, Senegal, Zambia, etc.)

• Travel: up to 25%

• Only local applicants in eligible countries will be considered

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Bring your passion for frontline innovation to a global stage. Join World Vision and help scale the ideas that drive change in the world’s most vulnerable communities.