Jobs at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

In order to achieve our global breakthroughs for children by 2030, the Save the Children movement has committed to significantly changing the way we work – a core component of which is to shift power to local and national actors. Our Localisation ambition – ‘Local to Global for Impact’ - is an ambitious, multi-year, transformational journey that will see us – and the wider sector - deliver more, better, and fairer impact through context-responsive, locally-designed, locally-led and locally–owned programs for children. We will achieve this by addressing fundamental challenges in the way current aid is delivered to enable and facilitate local actors’ own access to global resources for maximum impact – and we will overcome blockers within our own organization that currently prevents this from happening.

The Localisation Initiative was originally formed to define the strategic approach to Localisation and the high level roadmap for its realization. We are now entering the next phase of the transformation – with the team being given a mandate to accelerate the pace at which we will be able to meet the movement’s Localisation ambition. It consists of a small number of dedicated resources tasked with overcoming a number of blockers to Localisation that currently exist across the movement.

The Localisation Initiative Lead will be accountable for ensuring the timely and quality delivery of key outcomes across prioritised workstreams, as well as to ensure meaningful engagement and buy-in from key stakeholders across the movement. The 3 priority areas of focus in 2023 will be - Culture and Organisation, Funding and Compliance. This role requires both high-level engagement with Member CEOs and Senior Leadership Teams at country, regional and global levels to generate strategic buy-in, as well as hands-on project management skills to ensure the delivery of tangible results in terms of removing the current blockers to Save the Children meeting our Localisation ambition.

The immediate focus will be to establish and mobilise the initiative team and setup the required governance to deliver the priorities. The Localisation Initiative Lead will ensure that identified key stakeholders at all levels understand requirements and expectations on them to fully engage in delivering 2023 localisation work packages. S/he will ensure leadership alignment and understanding on the global ambition, strategic direction, and roadmap to mobilise organisational-wide resources and support for this multi-year transformation. S/he will be responsible for project management by ensuring resources are well-planned and managed; initiative plan is regularly reviewed; initiative team members are well supported to deliver their tasks; risks and issues are identified and addressed; and key outputs and outcomes are delivered according to plan.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Experience leading a project focused on making changes to operating structures and procedures for an organisation across multiple geographic locations including those with complex labour laws. It is essential this includes experience managing the associated legal, staffing and system requirements
• Experience leading the rollout of a global standardised process and solution in Save the Children or equivalent type of organisation
• A track record of successfully managing projects in terms of core Project Management activities as well as managing the associated change
• Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project practices and standards
• A proven ability to deliver projects on time / on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance
• Proven experience of using and leading change management activities including change impact
• A proven ability to apply excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver of effective solutions to project related issues. This will include taking on hands on analysis activities to support the wider (small) team as required
• Highly developed organisational awareness and ability to understand sensitivities within a complex multi-stakeholder structure; and think creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress
• Team leadership capabilities to support and guide team members and ensure they are clear on their responsibilities and are held to account for their delivery
• Strong business requirements collection, and process/workflow analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally 

Desirables:

• Experience of working on Organisation Design projects
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
• Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic)

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Role Purpose:

Save the Children has agreed a new ambitious Global Partnerships & Philanthropy (P&P) strategy for 2022-24, with an annual target of $500M USD and partnerships with companies, foundations and philanthropists have been identified as increasingly crucial and strategic across the whole organisation to reach this ambition.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Technical

• A proven track record in leading and securing complex, international corporate partnerships within an international development organisation or similar
• Experienced in managing an opportunity/sales pipeline delivering successful outcomes
• Demonstrable experience of winning partnerships with companies of $1M and above
• A demonstrable and sophisticated understanding of the complexities of international development programming partnerships and associated challenges and solutions
• Strategic thinker – able to influence and bring others on a journey to inspire and deliver new partnerships
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to include face-to-face and on the phone, effective proposal writing and correspondence to internal and external audiences
• Confident networking with, and influencing, senior people both internally and externally in order to achieve pre-defined outcomes
• Ability to think creatively and to develop tailor made proposals to meet corporate and Save the Children objectives
• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied workload in a pressured and complex environment

Personal

• A strong commercial understanding
• A highly proactive approach to researching and initiating new business opportunities
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to persuade, motivate, network and negotiate effectively both internally and externally
• Proactive about self-development, using feedback and insight to improve performance
• Sees beyond immediate sphere of influence and is aligned to Save the Children’s overall objectives
• Acts without guidance on a frequent basis, limited oversight required
• An established leader with personal gravitas and ability to work with senior executives.
• A proven team player. Someone who is open and who is able and willing to deliver beyond his or her personal brief.

Additional Information:

• High fluency in written and spoken English is essential and second language of Member country ideally.
• A willingness to travel up to approximately 20% of work time as and when required (COVID-19 permitting).
• A willingness and ability to work outside of standard workhours to accommodate working across time zones.
• Demonstrable experience of securing large gifts ($1M and above) from foundations and philanthropists will be considered as an additional asset

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The Global Drupal Product Owner will help create and own the vision and roadmap for the Core Drupal CMS Product. You will have a comprehensive understanding of Member user requirements; The role holder manages and aligns both users and stakeholders on this vision; ensures the system design aligns with accounting policies; prioritises developments and works with the Project Team and IT to deliver the features to achieve this vision.

This role will be the ultimate owner of the Drupal CMS Product and any other enabling technology. The role holder will be responsible for the adoption and compliance of Global CMS across the movement ensuring the system is fit for purpose and that it will achieve the strategic goals.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Strong experience in Drupal CMS
• Experience of Drupal CMS implementation projects throughout the full lifecycle including experience in the deployment of CMS globally and remotely 
• Experience within complex, global, multicultural organisations – whether in the public, private or charity sector.
• Commercially astute with the gravitas, communication, confidence and interpersonal skills to be able to work closely with senior internal and international stakeholders
• Track record of managing senior stakeholders, differing priorities, and successfully driving alignment on joint objectives
• Excellent understanding of Drupal CMS principles and systems knowledge
• Excellent CMS knowledge for a global organisation including multiple legal entities
• Experience in managing user experience
• Change Management experience; Emotional Intelligence
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; Confident delivering presentations and demonstrations
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams
• Collaborative and proactive personal style. Ability to influence others, on all levels of seniority
• Excellent Strategic and Creative Thinking, Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong results orientation, with ability to deliver on time and in full, to find solutions and implement improvements
• Strong attention to detail.  

Desirables:

• Product Management with experience in minimum viable product (MVP) definition.
• Product owner (Agile) experience