Global Director of Programme Funding & Institutional Partnership at Save the Children

The Global Director of Programme Funding and Institutional Partnerships provides the strategic leadership and direction to a core, globally-disbursed team at Save the Children International (SCI), which is working across the Save the Children Association (SCA) to optimise and align the movement’s global-to-country programme funding portfolio and to drive improvements to our institutional fundraising practices and partnerships in order to help deliver our global breakthroughs.

The role holder also leads on the team’s extensive collaboration across multiple functions in SCI centre, regional and country teams, as well as with key stakeholders in SCA member organisations to ensure appropriate senior-level engagement and support for all SCA/SCI programme funding initiatives. This includes working in close partnership with key member Global Program Directors (GPDs), with all member Global Institutional Partnerships leads (GIPG), as well as with a newly established network of Regional Resource Mobilisation Directors/leads (RRM) based in SCI’s 5x Regional Offices (ROs).

Additionally, this role informs, shapes and connects key strategic initiatives in pursuit of Save the Children Global Strategy and represents institutional programme funding perspective into such initiatives. The post holder is an active member of the Senior Management Teams of both the Resource Mobilisation, Communication & Engagement (RMCE), and International Programme (IP) Departments, is part of the broader SCI/SCA Extended Senior Leadership Team, and is an active participant representing global institutional funding interests in the SCA Funding Taskforce, into multiple Governance and Management Groups (MRGs), while also providing specific updates to the SCI/SCA CEO and the global board(s) as needed.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Significant experience of leading an equivalent strategic programme and/or institutional resource mobilisation function in a major international organisation
• Extensive experience of influencing and delivering results cross-organisationally within a large, complex global organisation and ability to manage the tension between global strategic decisions and the operational reality at country and regional level
• Substantial institutional fundraising and/or award management experience, including working within a complex matrixed organisation (including the Save the Children movement).
• Demonstrable subject matter expertise across relevant international development issues, combined with significant experience in developing / managing strategic partnerships with the key institutional donor organisations relevant to SCA
• Exceptional leadership behaviours, including external orientation, situational agility and partner focus, with strong negotiation and influencing skills in relation to multiple stakeholder contexts and matrices
• Exceptional team & interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively and with impact
• Experience of leading and managing people, including providing guidance and oversight and empowering team members to deliver
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, including defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in
• Attention to detail and the ability to follow tasks and ideas through to completion
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs
• Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save the Children.

Desirable

• Experience of working in / across other areas of SC’s operations and / or functions
• Experience of being involved in the implementation of a new / changed business processes and ways of working or transformation processes.
• Multilingual proficiency relevant to SCAs operations (eg French, Spanish, Arabic, other)