Programme Funding Analyst at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE:

Save the Children has agreed an ambitious new global strategy for 2022-24 and has developed an accompanying Global Funding Framework to inform and shift how SCA can work together as a movement to drive greater funding impact for children. By 2024, our ambition is for Save the Children to be a $3bn plus organisation, with institutional funding constituting around 60% of this income. Growing, diversifying and optimising our institutional income will be critical to achieving this ambition and success in this area will be dependent on changes to our behaviours and ways of working that mark and facilitate a shift to prioritise collective action, collaboration and embed mutual accountability.

The Institutional Funding Analyst role is part of the Save the Children International (SCI) Centre office’s Programme Funding and Institutional Partnerships (PFIP) team, which works across the global Save the Children Movement to optimise and align our programme funding portfolio in support of our ambition for children and to drive improvements to our ways of working with institutional partners.

Over the past three years, the PFIP team has worked to establish quality foundations and drive continuous improvement in the area of data and analytics in order to track and monitor our global funding portfolio. The role of the Institutional Funding Analyst will be to build on these foundations and support in steering the organisation from hindsight analytics towards insight and foresight in order to drive evidence based decision-making.

The role will support global initiatives across the Save the Children movement to enhance current programme funding analytics, insight and forethought that shapes and informs key decision making globally. The work will focus on driving a culture of collective insight-driven decision-making and actions, both strategically and operationally, working closely key stakeholders as well as functional experts and delivery teams to create global solutions.

This work will include close collaboration with the other parts of the PFIP team (Market Development; Portfolio Development; People Development; Governance and Strategy Development) and with other SCI Centre functions. It will rely on strong and productive relationships with analytics and institutional funding teams across the members and with relevant SCI teams, principally at the regional and member level.

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

• Minimum 3yrs experience in data analytics working with a wide range of complex data sources
• Substantial fundraising and or award management experience, including working within a complex matrixed organisation (including the Save the Children movement).
• Proven focus on Insight, understood as the next level after data analysis – the “so what?” factor
• Experience in developing dashboards and reports linked to databases using Microsoft Power BI
• Strong Excel skills (inc pivot tables, external data connections) & associated tools (PowerPivot)
• Ability to learn new web/collaborative systems and applications quickly
• Experience in solving complex issues through analysis, collaboration and ensuring buy-in.
• Excellent business partnering, communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to adopt a pro-active approach to problem solving, working with and coordinating input from multiple departments
• Clear interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and use initiative.
• Team player, with a full appreciation of the value of collaboration.
• 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.
• Experience of working with databases and database languages (e.g. SQL).

Closing date: 28 April 2022