Vacancies at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE

The role will be instrumental in driving the increased availability, scope and capability of the automation tools and capabilities and thereby increasing the depth and efficiency of the testing function whilst reducing overhead. The jobholder will work within an agile environment to continuously test and deliver working software to customers within SCA (SCI and members).

The role will be responsible for implementation SCI's strategic vision of moving testing and QA towards automation within a DevOps environment. This will involve exploring, assessing, and procuring the best-fit automation tools that support continuous integration/development and you will promote continuous quality and testability of code throughout the software development lifecycle with a focus on API and Data Warehouse testing in an integrated environment of multiple applications.

The role will also hold the technical expertise for the automation tools, their configuration and operation and training rest of the test/development team.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Understanding and experience of using a variety of test automation tools within a DevOps environment
• Expertise in setting up automation testing framework and tools from scratch in an integrated environment of multiple applications
• Develop robust automated regression packs for SCI applications and ensure they are regularly updated to reflect latest releases
• Expertise in setting up API automation testing and tools from scratch in an integrated environment of multiple applications
• Analysis of testing results to provide approval of release quality enabling the release to Live operation
• Responsible for reviewing the automation test results, flag any issues, perform root cause analysis and recommend improvements
• Understanding and experience of using a variety of test automation tools within a DevOps environment
• Expertise in setting up automation testing framework and tools from scratch in an integrated environment of multiple applications
• Develop robust automated regression packs for SCI applications and ensure they are regularly updated to reflect latest releases
• Expertise in setting up API automation testing and tools from scratch in an integrated environment of multiple applications
• Analysis of testing results to provide approval of release quality enabling the release to Live operation
• Responsible for reviewing the automation test results, flag any issues, perform root cause analysis and recommend improvement

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Computing degree - BSc, BA or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of Automation Test Framework and Tools
• Understanding of DevOps model and Agile
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Automation Testing and working with different test tools.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience of working in/with Dev Ops environment and tools such as Robotic Process Automation, Github etc.
• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in Micro services and API automation working in/with Dev Ops environment and tools such as PostMan, Rest Assured etc
• Strong previous experience as a Automation Test Engineer writing and executing test plans in manual and automated test environments
• Ability to generate API documentation directly from the API testing tool
• Implementing test approaches for integration testing, Continuous Integration and Continuous Release within an Agile environment
• Experience in working with test automation tools and frameworks for functional and non-functional testing - such as REST Assured, Jmeter, Selenium, Team City, Load Runner etc.
• Experience of working with performance NFRs (non-functional requirements) and carry out load and concurrency testing at application and integration level.
• Proficient in use of SQL scripting and other data technologies
• Ability to write and maintain automated regression packs for live applications
• Demonstrate high level of technical awareness and understanding of software architecture
• Experience of testing front (e.g. websites) and back end systems (e.g. database checking)
• Experience of managing issue tracking databases and prioritising issues for future release
• Adept in using JIRA and/or other tools for test and defect management
• Have a flair for learning systems working in an integrated environment
• A demonstrable an eye for detail, problem analysis and resolution skills
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills in English - must be able to communicate at both a technical and non-technical level
• The ability to work independently and well under pressure
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally
• Commitment to Save the Children's aims, values and principles including willingness to abide by and enforce the Child Safeguarding policy.

Desirable

• ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level Certification qualification or similar
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Azure would all be of benefit
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
• Experience with testing applications hosted in cloud, particularly Microsoft Azure
• The ability to speak/write in languages other than English

Closing: July 7, 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

This role is an exciting opportunity for an engaging leader who will provide strong technical direction, inspire innovations and develop new partnerships enabling Save the Children and its partners to support children affected by humanitarian crises. The postholder will lead a team driving improved impact for children affected by emergencies through strengthening Save the Children’s Gender response, approaches and learning and contributing to an improved humanitarian sector for children. In this leadership role, the post-holder will manage a team of technical experts, driving the future of humanitarian programming, ensuring that programs are more localized, driven by partners, diverse, inclusive and led by those affected by crises.

The post holder will lead the organization in driving program quality and impact in humanitarian gender programming, within the overall sector strategy. Specifically, the post holder will be accountable for (1) developing, implementing, and overseeing the global humanitarian plan and sector strategy; (2) strategic portfolio management and resource mobilization; (3) people management, capacity strengthening and professional developmenl; and (4) sector coordination and internal and exernal representation.

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

• Senior leadershipexperience working in Save the Children with known ability to work across a network of international stakeholders to advance humanitarian programming
• Significant experience working directly in humanitarian responses including in complex contexts to design, implement and evaluate programs
• Solid experience in management experience driving results and impact, while fostering a supportive and positive work environment
• Experience in creating and managing high-performing teams including building shared objectives, quality control, evaluation, motivation, performance and professional development
• Demonstrated experience in strategy development and strong strategic thinking skills, as well as ability to mobilize resources to drive strategy implementation
• Thorough knowledge and track record of influencing public and programme policy and advocacy agendas to promote principled humanitarian response.
• Knowledge of policy, research and evidence-based methodologies with regards to nutrition programming, and other relevant child focused programming.
• Proven experience delivering results and outputs with evidence of adapting based on context and needs analysis.
• Energy and drive to create change in a large complex organisation, while constantly adapting approaches and applying enterprise-driven thinking
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching – ability to work with all levels from CEO to junior staff and across all functions.
• Commitment to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive technical team.
• Fluent spoken and written English

Closing Date : Jun 30, 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE:

• To work closely with the GCCU and Technical Support Manager.
• Manage content uploaded to Content hub daily. Ensure required metadata is submitted with assets. Managing the folder structure in the back end of Content Hub and help curate content.
• Supporting COs and members with Content Hub access and use. Continue the Monthly global trainings.
• 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

• Proven experience of working with creative content
• An understanding of content gathering 
• Knowledge of copyright laws
• Must be a fast learner with organisational skills and attention to detail 
• High level of computer literacy 
• Knowledge in or strong interest in managing archives/rich media
• Enjoy working with a wide range of people, investing time in helping colleagues improve their skills with Content Hub.
• Ability to priorities competing demands on your time while under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PC applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook).
• Personal drive and commitment for wanting to affect positive change. 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Cultural sensitivity, with highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team within a networked structure, and to maintain good working relationships with colleagues across functional and geographical boundaries
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt work plans flexibly depending on external opportunities
• This position requires fluency in English, second language skills a plus. 
• A commitment to Save the Children’s mission and values

Closing Date : July 6, 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

As a member of the global IT team and reporting into the Global HRIS Team Lead, the post-holder will be one of a team of System Administrators who will develop deep understanding of end-to-end system functionality of a new global Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud solution, including Taleo. The post holder will work as part of a team providing level 3 support to end users and HR super users around Oracle HCM Cloud and Taleo. He/she will also configure and validate system localizations for Save the Children Association within the applications, by gathering localisations.

Owner of the problem management process, ensuring reduction in recurring issue goals are achieved, the role holder will be the first point of contact for all technical queries relating to the systems interfacing with Oracle: ProSave (Procurement System), Agresso (Financial Management System), Data Ware House, LMS, PRIME and will be responsible for the initial diagnostic and triage to the appropriate business teams.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Proficient in Oracle HCM Modules and concepts like Core HR, Absence Management, Oracle recruitment Cloud,Fast Formulas, HCM Extracts,HDL .
• Good Knowlededge of Oracle Taleo end to end Implementation and Integration between Taleo.
• Experience in SOAP and REST web services calls to Fusion and Taleo
• Experience in building and maintaing integrations using Oracle Integration Cloud (ICS)
• Good knowledge of creating Fusion BI reports and OTBI Reports
• Experience in using secured views across all BI reports to extract data based on the logged in user roles.
• Excellent experience using Oracle on Demand development tools such as SQL ,Complex Analytical Query writing skills ,Packages, Procedures, Functions and triggers.)
• Flexible and versatile to adapt new modules.
• Ability to learn new technologies and can implement.
• Strong customer/client service skills and ability to communicate (written and verbal) with all levels of the organisation, both internal and external
• Anticipate problems (and escalates when appropriate), demonstrates strong prioritization and organisation skills, is analytical, detailed, and takes actions to complete tasks accurately on time.
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Ability to work in a geoghraphically dispered team

Closing Date : July 6, 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE:

This role is an exciting opportunity for an engaging leader who will provide strong technical direction, inspire innovations and develop new partnerships enabling Save the Children and its partners to support children affected by humanitarian crises. The postholder will lead a team driving improved impact for children affected by emergencies through strengthening Save the Children’s FSL response, approaches and learning and contributing to an improved humanitarian sector for children. In this leadership role, the post-holder will manage a team of technical experts, driving the future of humanitarian programming, ensuring that programs are more localized, driven by partners, diverse, inclusive and led by those affected by crises.

The post holder will lead the organization in driving program quality and impact in humanitarian FSL, within the overall sector strategy. Specifically, the post holder will be accountable for (1) developing, implementing, and overseeing the global humanitarian plan and sector strategy; (2) strategic portfolio management and resource mobilization; (3) people management, capacity strengthening and professional developmenl; and (4) sector coordination and internal and exernal representation.

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

• Senior leadership experience working in Save the Children with known ability to work across a network of international stakeholders to advance humanitarian programming
• Minimum of 10 years experience working directly in humanitarian responses including in complex contexts to design, implement and evaluate programs
• Minimum of 5 years senior management experience driving results and impact, while fostering a supportive and positive work environment
• Experience in creating and managing high-performing teams including building shared objectives, quality control, evaluation, motivation, performance and professional development
• Demonstrated experience in strategy development and strong strategic thinking skills, as well as ability to mobilize resources to drive strategy implementation
• Thorough knowledge and track record of influencing public and programme policy and advocacy agendas to promote principled humanitarian response.
• Knowledge of policy, research and evidence-based methodologies with regards to FSL programming, and other relevant child focused programming.
• Proven experience delivering results and outputs with evidence of adapting based on context and needs analysis.
• Energy and drive to create change in a large complex organisation, while constantly adapting approaches and applying enterprise-driven thinking
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching – ability to work with all levels from CEO to junior staff and across all functions.
• Commitment to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive technical team.
• Fluent spoken and written English

Closing Date : June 29 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

This role is responsible for the planning, preparation and deployment of Shared Operations and its associated business processes into the Save the Children Association. The Shared Operations project is investigating the viability of sharing resources across SCA. This is a key initiative for SCA and will be key to drive greater efficiencies. 

Upon joining, this role will be required to assess the current and future state and required plan to deliver the project including the project approach to knowledge transfer. This role will also be responsible for managing the end-to-end change and deployment deliverables specific to the project including regular communication to stakeholders to inform, engage and motivate the impacted functions ensuring acceptance and necessary buy in as well as completion of the required preparatory steps. The role will also be required to work closely with the Business Analyst and Member Project and Change team.

The role holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the required project and portfolio management reporting including risk and issues logs, dependencies, status updates etc. In addition, they will manage the Project and Change Management deliverables as part of the defined Save the Children Project Lifecycle examples including the Project Plan, stakeholder matrix, Change and Comms Plan, Change Impact Assessment etc. Core to this role will be ensuring effectively alignment with wider transformation initiatives as well as effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders and driving continuous improvements.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential: 

• A strong track record of successfully managing medium to large complex projects and/or programmes
• Proven experience of using and leading change management activities including change impact assessment, stakeholder analysis, managing resistance, building change capacity, designing and defining roles and responsibilities
• Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project practices and standards 
• Prior experience in managing and reporting on projects within a Portfolio Office/PMO structure
• 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 
• Good management and influencing skills with experience of working with senior level executives
• A proven ability to resolve issues swiftly and decisively whilst safeguarding standards and procedures
• Strong team leadership abilities with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals within or outside their reporting line
• Strong business requirements collection, and process/workflow analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and present to all levels of the organisation
• Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally

Closing Date : July 10 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Save the Children is evolving its organisational structure in order to stay true to its mission, vision and values, whilst being able to withstand external pressures. Shared Operations is a trend in the world to provide centralised services to different entities of an organisation. We need to define what this means for our movement, the options we have to explore and the functional and ultimately transformation activities that would need to be undertaken to achieve the required outcomes.

Shared Operations feasibility started in 2021; initial feasibility and a pilot project have started. Our intention is to deliver the initial pilot and transition it to business as usual in 2022; following this transition, we will complete a feasibility assessment to understand the broader required end state (other areas where Shared Operations would add value), impact and options to move forwards.

The Business Analyst will work in partnership with the Project and Change Manager to deliver the feasibility study with the objective to further explore Shared Operations within the movement, to define the options available to operationalise it and ultimately to enable decision making on whether and how this will move forwards. The Business Analyst will be accountable for delivering the business analysis work in support of the feasibility study, including process mapping and requirements gathering and will work on the entire project life cycle for the areas move into execution. It will be essential that this aligns with the standard Business Analysis and Architecture methodology and is based on relevant materials already created through other projects / initiatives.

The Business Analyst will also play a key role in supporting the Project and Change Manager to manage the governance process to enable sign off the feasibility study providing additional analysis and outcomes as required.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate with technical, non-technical, internal and external stakeholders across different seniority levels.
• Strong requirements elicitation skills and the ability to translate loose business needs into tangible outcomes including technical specifications.
• Comfortable with Agile solutions delivery approach including familiarity with User Stories, Product Backlog Management and Sprint cycles.
• Proven business process engineering and continuous improvement skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate/mediate; to facilitate the resolution of conflicting business requirements.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent understanding of business complexity of both internal and external project interdependencies.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas.
• Proven experience in facilitating productive workshops, preferably in multi-cultural, multi-national contexts.
• Estimates and supports prioritisation of ‘work packages’, able to negotiate and agree priorities with the Project Manager and Project Leads.
• Experience working with standardised Business Analysis methodology and associated processes and tools.
• A strong work ethic and able to take the initiative and ownership to deliver value to the business.
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally.

Desirable:

• Shared Operations experience (creating centralised functions, e.g. Finance, IT, HR offshore)
• IBM Blueworks experience is a bonus
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development or Humanitarian projects)
• Second language – ideally French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic

Closing Date : July 10 2022

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ROLE PURPOSE: 

Save the Children is undergoing significant transformation across a number of core business procedures, systems, and structures, through the implementation of a number of organisational change projects.

One programme is CAPP (Coding, Agresso, PPM PRIME) which has the following objectives:

• Deploys a new global financial data model (Coding) across the organisation
• Introduces a new finance system (Agresso) to our Member offices
• Introduces a new project management methodology (PMM) to improve the quality of our programming for children
• Deliver a technology solution (PRIME) that enables the new project management methodology and helps us capture MEAL data for our programmes
• Ensures that our award management system (AMS) is used to manage all of our donor awards

Deploying each of these solutions has a specific benefit of improving the quality and efficiency of financial and project management across Save the Children. The larger aim of the programme is also to achieve further standardisation of our systems and processes, to become a more efficient and effective organisation and focus more of our time and effort on better outcomes for children.

The project delivers this solution across Save the Children International (80+ offices) and the Save the Children Membership (20+ offices). This role will be focused on working with Save the Children Members.

We have deployed the full solution to 4 of our Members offices now (Sweden, Denmark, India and Netherlands) and have taken lessons learned from these deployment to create a standardised plan for the roll-out of these solutions in Members. We are now embarking on the second round of Member offices, which includes working with our offices in the US, Spain, Canada and further in the future Norway, Australia and UK.

In order to be able to execute the next round of deployments in an efficient and standardised manner, we are now recruiting and additional senior project manager into the team to oversee the deployment to one or multiple Member offices. The senior project manager will work with the Comms and Change Manager to manage the relationship with the Member offices and work with an international team of IT staff and subject matter experts to drive the deployment forward.

The Senior Project Manager sits within the Project and Change Management team that is part of the Transformation Delivery Department within Save the Children International. This role is accountable for the successful deployment of the CAPP solution in their allocated Member office(s).

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Experience working with a standardised project management methodology and associated processes and tools
• Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to negotiate/mediate; to facilitate the resolution of conflicting business requirements
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas
• Ability to effectively prioritise work and agree and communicate priorities within the team
• Demonstrates a strong work ethic and able to take the initiative and ownership to deliver value to the business
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Engaging as well as assertive, influencing and negotiating
• Experience leading teams
• True passion for results, responsibility and proactivity
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English
• Competent in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Willingness and ability to travel

Closing Date : July 10 2022