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The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries
Role Purpose:
The role holder will be responsible for designing, building, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) solutions within the organisation. This role will partner with business stakeholders in order to understand their requirements, and ensure effective delivery of analytical capabilities to meet their needs, utilising best practices and state of the art technologies. He will contribute to the definition of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics roadmap for SCI, leading measurable improvements in providing the stakeholders with timely and accurate information in order to effectively implement our strategy.
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure clear understanding and documentation of enterprise business intelligence and reporting requirements across the organization.
- Provide the organisation with accurate and timely BI solutions based on requirements gathered through business partnering activities
- Estimate and deliver BI project tasks to agreed prioritisation and timeframes
- Proactively identify any technical project risks/issues related to BI
- Maintain and support existing BI solutions
- Manage the architecture, design, development and delivery of major new elements and enhancements to the data warehouse and reporting capabilities inside SCI
- Provide technical leadership to the BI Development team based in an overseas Technical Hub
- Properly document existing and target architecture, processes and technological choices
- Proactively source new and innovative solutions that provide clear business value and construct ‘proof of concepts’ to demonstrate the new solutions
- Provide governance in line with regulatory requirements and charity policies.
Contract duration: 2 years
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Bachelor degree in computer Science, or Management information systems or equivalent experience.
- Proven experience in designing, building and deploying Data Warehouse and BI solutions in complex organisations.
- Extensive knowledge of data warehouse reference architectures.
- Experience in shaping large reporting and analytics programmes.
- Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft BI stack (SQL server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, PowerBI, Excel PowerPivot).
- Experience in leading Business Intelligence delivery teams.
- Ability to convert strategic priorities and goals into operational plans.
- Experience in providing self-service reporting tools such as KPIs and dashboards to a global audience.
- Experience of working closely with non-technical staff, demonstrating an ability to translate and negotiate non-technical requirements into a detailed technical specification.
- Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex technical ideas and problems clearly to non-experts,
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and strong problem solving skills
- Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally
Desirable
- Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
- Experience of working within an agile project delivery environment
- Experience of working in a global team with offshore project team members
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We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse. Employment is subject to our Child protection standards including background checks and adherence to our Child Safeguarding Policy.
Save the Children is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified talent.
Disclaimer:
Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted