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The job of a Save the Children’s UK Finance Business Partner is varied and fulfilling.

• Are you a qualified accountant?

• Do you have a good knowledge of external audit processes and standards?

• Do you have experience using financial modelling to inform financial decisions?

• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn’t just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once avacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Senior Finance Business Partner, the Finance Business Partner will be responsible for maximising impact for children through the delivery of effective and efficient financial performance for the assigned area.

The Finance Business Partner key duties will include supporting financial planning and reporting, providing financial analysis and commercial insight, and informing strategic decision making for their assigned business area to maximise financial contribution and/or optimise impact.

The Finance Business Partner will also be tasked with providing high quality ROI analysis, driving best value for money from investment and supporting successful implementation of our new target operating models and strategy.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. The role holder will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Finance Business Partner key duties will be to:  

• Provide strategic and financial decision support to support strong financial and commercial performance as a valued partner

• Provide effective reporting and profitability analysis underpinning regular reviews of business performance

• Input to consolidated departmental analysis and reporting - covering both historic performance and strategic financial planning - for feeding into senior management, Finance Committee and Board papers

• Use complex business modelling (e.g. profitability analysis) to help with financial planning (in-year forecasting, budgeting and longer-term financial planning), investment decision-making and writing business cases

• Support successful delivery of financial planning and reporting processes

• Provide direction, challenge and review of budgets and forecasts for the relevant business areas. Produce analytical inputs and presentation outputs for Directors

• Partner with and support the business areas in developing their strategy. Appraise business cases for investment spend, provide financial and commercial insight and challenging to ensure best value for money

• Support work with our external suppliers, other areas of Save the Children UK, across the Save the Children movement and with other charities to benchmark performance and optimise utilisation of MI and to work on common challenges

• Be a valued member of project steering groups by providing financial and commercial insight including responsibility for providing financial updates to give direction

• Work with Central Finance to ensure operation of an effective internal control framework to ensure statutory accounting, tax, and legal requirements are fulfilled

• Lead development of the financial acumen of budget holders through continuous constructive dialogue and discussion

• Manage period and year end closing

Person Profile

Experience

• Qualified accountant

• Technically proficient with knowledge of external audit processes and standards

• Experience of complex financial planning processes and producing consolidated financial modelling, reporting and analysis for senior stakeholders

• Experience using financial modelling to inform investment decisions, financial forecasting, budgeting and long term strategic financial planning

• Business modelling skills (e.g. familiarity with building and using product and/ or marketing channel profitability models to derive comparative ROI metrics such as NPV, IRR and payback periods)

• Experience of and ability to understand interrelationships between different IT systems, complex processes running across multiple teams and the end-to-end production of management accounts

• Strong Microsoft Office skills and must be an advanced Excel user

Abilities

• Ability to analyse and problem solve to identify and successfully resolve financial issues as they arise

• Ability to understand the broader commercial issues facing the sector and to understand the wider competitive and market environment

• Ability to effectively communicate difficult messages, to challenge constructively and influence outcomes

• Ability to manage and to take responsibility for producing a significant volume of complex deliverables though effective workload planning and prioritisation

• Ability to use own initiative to identify and drive improvements to systems and processes

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds

The job of a Save the Children UK's Government Partnership Manager  is strategic and rewarding

• Do you have extensive experience in partnership development and a strong existing external network/working relationships with key, and particularly senior staff within our partners - preferably UK Government?
• Do you have a strong record of accomplishment in strategic relationship management and partnership building, brokering relationships with partners and engagement at a senior level?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us 

We are Save the Children. For a century, we have stood up for children and made sure their voices are heard and we've been upholding their rights every day since. We stand side by side with children in the toughest places to be a child and we do whatever it takes to make sure they survive, get protection when they're in danger, and have the chance to learn. We are constantly finding new ways to reach children who need us most, no matter where they're growing up.

The Role

The UK Government Partnership Manager leads our programme partnerships with UK Government including Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). You will drive forward Save the Children's partnership strategy by working with teams across the global organisation and with external networks.  We are in the first year of a three-year strategy period and have ambitious plans to build our portfolio with UK Government, to be a partner in development leadership and evidence sharing and to be both an ally and an influencer.  You will track our interactions with UK Government across the organisation and Save the Children movement and has line management responsibility for the UK Government Account Manager. As a senior member of the Partnership Development Team and a people manager, the you will also be relied on to review the strategy at the mid-point, develop staff, share knowledge and information widely around the organisation and build networks of collaboration.

Job Purpose

As the UK Government Partnership Manager you will direct and develop organisation-wide relationships between Save the Children and UK Government departments, representing the global breadth and depth of our work. You  will influence and manage a global network of internal and external stakeholders (including at the most senior levels) to optimise our engagement with our partners, whether through our policy and advocacy, technical or programme work. You'll also oversee the programme of work between Save the Children and the FCDO and other UK Govt agencies

 Main Accountabilities

The UK Government Partnership Manager's key duties will be to:

Provide vision and strategic direction within SCUK, and wider movement influencing a complex global network of stakeholders, particularly those at the most senior levels, to optimise our engagement with UK Government, including:

• Liaise with wider organisation and movement key stakeholders, providing evidence, advice and leadership on key partnership opportunities
• Continuously develop and pro-actively drive both Save the Children's overall UK Government Partnership strategy, which includes the FCDO and several Government Departments.
• Drive Save the Children's strategic positioning in partnership opportunities and our response to market trends with an aim to expand strategic collaboration and maximise funding and influence opportunities.
• Provide leadership in maximising synergies and leveraging expertise across all appropriate Save the Children divisions, members and ensuring effective participation in existing/new networks.
• Monitor the performance of the UK Government programme portfolio against set targets, forecast and explain/escalate variances.
• Secure support and buy-in of stakeholders such as our leadership and specialist teams from across the organisation to contribute to our engagement with UK Government

External engagement and positioning of Save the Children as a key partner with UK Government, including:

• Provide current analysis, insight, intelligence and direction on UK Government ODA and on the general market, including trends, strategies, peers/competitors, key contacts and inter-relationships between donors.
• Hold oversight and leadership of SCUK's overall engagement strategies and key moments across the portfolio and actively promote and represent Save the Children externally.
• Personally, hold external relationships and networks within the sector (UK Government departments and key peer agencies) with both technical and managerial staff at senior levels.
• Ensure Save the Children's ‘offer' in the market adds value beyond delivering programmes – leveraging impact through co-creation, evidence generation, convening and influencing.
• Identify and develop ‘partnership making' and ‘relationship building' opportunities with new and existing contacts within UK Government

Influence a complex global network of stakeholders, particularly those at the most senior level, to optimise our engagement. This includes:

• Liaison with key stakeholders across the global organisation, providing evidence, advice and leadership on key partnership opportunities.
• Developing and pro-actively driving Save the Children's relationships with UK Government, and strategies for each partnership.
• Providing leadership in 1) maximising synergies and leveraging expertise across all appropriate Save the Children divisions and SC members; and 2) ensuring effective participation in existing/new co-ordination mechanisms across SCUK's full suite of thematic areas.
• Securing support and buy-in of other teams from across the organisation to contribute to our quality engagement with the Partner.

Person Profile

Experience

• Extensive experience in partnership development - knowledge of Aid agencies and ODA flows preferred.
• Strong existing external network/working relationships with key, and particularly senior staff within our partners - preferably UK Government – in global, regional and local contexts.
• Strong record of accomplishment in strategic relationship management.
• Proven and demonstrable record of accomplishment in partnership building, brokering relationships with partners and engagement at a senior level.
• Experience of influencing and delivering results cross organisationally within a large and complex organisation.
• In depth experience and knowledge of current thinking and future trends and thorough understanding of contemporary development and child rights issues.
• Strong and demonstrated team leadership skills
• Leadership skills, with an external orientation, adaptability, strategic vision, and commitment to delivering results.
• Strategic planning skills, in relation to positioning with donors, and in prioritising engagement focus.

 Abilities

• Excellent relationship building skills with the ability to network with, and influence, senior people both internally and externally to achieve a pre-defined outcome.
• Insightful and analytic, with the ability to communicate clearly to both internal and external audiences.
• Entrepreneurial, with the ability to identify opportunities and execute them strongly, using novel approaches or techniques as appropriate.
• Self-driven, with the ability to take a pro-active approach, work on own initiative, solve problems and think creatively in fluid or less structured environments.

 Aptitude

• A proven team player - someone who is open, ambitious, and who is able and willing to deliver beyond their personal brief.
• Commitment to Save the Children's mission, values and approach (includes child focus and equal opportunities).

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website.

The job of a Save the Children UK's Finance and Awards Manager (DEC Funding) is busy and varied.

• Do you have experience of managing award and financial aspects on large, complex donor awards and a strong understanding of the award (grant/contract) management processes from institutional donors?
• Are you experienced in partnerships management for Direct Spend awards, including proposal and budget development with partner agencies?
• Are you experienced of creating financial plans, budgets and reports with an understanding and experience of audit readiness/processes?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

 The number of children requiring humanitarian assistance is rising as the climate crisis, entrenched conflict, and fragility, forced migration and infectious diseases all lead to an increase in the frequency, duration, and severity of catastrophic events. With needs continuing to grow and rapidly outpacing available resources, humanitarians around the world are once more forced to do more with less. Recognising the changing humanitarian risk landscape, the need to stay relevant, and to step up for greater impact, Save the Children has adopted a bold vision for the future of its humanitarian work and as part of this, there is an important role for SCUK to play in identifying and supporting next-generation collaborative initiatives that will ultimately deliver impact for disaster-affected children and their families.

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) as part of SCUK's humanitarian department provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector, as part of our shifting the power agenda. The HLA's mission, as a team within the humanitarian department, is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities.

The HLA's approach spans from focused needs-based learning in countries hit by crises to the huge international reach of our learning platform, Kaya.  They are a global team that has a full suite of in-house skills to provide and develop the offer; technical and learning experts, platform specialists, a digital and design studio, communications support and more.  The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond. 

As part of Save the Children's regional response for Ukraine, HLA is leading SCUK's “Engine 2” response, funded through the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). 

Job Purpose

The role will sit within the Operations team within the HLA, which is responsible for ensuring operational excellence and high performance.  The Finance & Awards Manager will work closely with the Head of Operations, Operations Lead and HLA Finance Business Partner with finance and awards management responsibilities as part of SCUK's DEC funded response to the Ukraine crisis.

The purpose of this role is to ensure both financial and awards management compliance for HLA's DEC funding alongside the rapid implementation of our Engine 2 programming – which includes supporting delivery of quality programme implementation in accordance with the agreed donor budget, knowledge management and maintenance of all documentation audit trails, and oversight staff costs recovery.  

The Finance and Awards Manager will ensure that SCUK standards and processes are followed across the teams and acting as the focal point for the finance and awards management and compliance activities of the team.  You will also liaise regularly and consistently with HLA's Operations Lead and Finance Business Partner, keeping up-to-date on all SCUK finance and awards management processes.

Main Accountabilities

The Finance and Awards Manager's key duties will be to:

General and Award Management

• Lead on financial and award management for HLA's Engine 2 DEC funding – throughout the project cycle ensuring at all stages that the control framework of the funding is consistent with the situation.
• Ensure robust award management systems are in place for the DEC award funding (e.g. procurement, contract amendments, income processing, and reporting) and that all donor compliance and SCUK quality requirements are met fully.
• Provide advice on donor relations strategy with the DEC, leveraging on funding opportunities, and managing donor expectations.
• Manage and process monthly HLA DEC staff salary recharges and maintain current recharge information on HLA's recharge tracker.
• Ensure that awards management information systems are up-to-date and global and internal processes are followed.
• Ensuring that award risk assessments are completed and periodically reviewed, taking timely actions to mitigate risk when needed
• HLA DEC lead for both internal and external audits.
• Periodically run award reviews to ensure that audit documentation is being adequately maintained and that all awards are compliant in case of audit.
• Liaise with HLA's Operations Lead to address complex or systemic issues, coordinate communications to DEC stakeholders, and ensure needs and are effectively prioritised.

Finance

• Consolidate financial data across multiple HLA and SCUK stakeholders, plus external partners to deliver timely and accurate reporting to the DEC.
• Manage highly attentive and detailed monitoring of the DEC funding's budget vs. actuals (BVA) data, including thoroughly explaining variances to the Finance Business Partner for the purposes of financial month-end commentary to the senior leadership team, and flagging all key issues in a timely fashion as they arise.
• Partner with the relevant HLA DEC programme managers (PMs), to provide consistent BVA information and spending planning
• Work with the HLA Finance Business Partner and HLA team to ensure that the DEC budget is effectively re-phased as needed at the time of the quarterly organisational (re)forecasting process
• Develop HLA and partner SCUK teams proposal budgets for future DEC programme funding.
• Provide high quality donor financial reports, and respond to donor financial report queries.
• Consolidate financial data from with various stakeholders across HLA, SCUK and external partners to deliver timely and accurate reporting to the DEC.
• Work closely with the HLA Finance Business Partner to ensure that the DEC funding is correctly processed at SCUK financial year-end.

Person Profile

Experience and Skills

• Experience of working with aid agencies'(such as the Disasters Emergency Committee) projects and funding
• Experience of managing award and financial aspects on £10m+ donor awards with multiple departments, stakeholders, and sub-grantees / financially managing a consortium of multiple partners
• Demonstrated partnerships management for Direct Spend awards, including proposal and budget development with partner agencies, compiling and reviewing Sub-grant Agreements, monitoring partners' activities and creating donor financial reports.
• Demonstrated competency with financial plans, budgets and reporting including construction and monitoring of budgets.
• Project management experience and skills, with a knowledge of governance tools and techniques and experience of managing complex cross-organisational projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent understanding of audit readiness and experience of the audit process.
• Experience of managing award and financial aspects on a large donor award with multiple stakeholders

Abilities 

• Highly numerate with the ability to monitor and manage financial information.
• Excellent organisation and administration skills with the ability to plan and prioritise work for self and others.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify key points from complex material or information.
• Professional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to communicate to wide range of people at all levels of seniority from a variety of countries and backgrounds, partner organisations, donors and other external contacts.

Aptitude

• Strong understanding of the award (grant/contract) management including but not limited to institutional donors.
• Highly computer literate and confident with MS Office

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website. 

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The job of a Save the Children UK’s DevOps Engineer is varied and busy.

• Are you a strong DevOps Engineer?
• Are you passionate about web, open source development and for helping organisations to build a quality best of breed digital presence?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world – and of inspiring and leading others to do the same?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Senior Network Support Engineer, you will be part of a small team whose primary functions will be to enable, accelerate and support the developers and testers working on a US/UK multi-tenancy Adobe AEM platform.

This will include supporting on AWS and GCP as well as implementing new Cloud solutions such as Azure where necessary

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The DevOps Engineer’s key duties will be to:

• Provide System Admin support to Save the Children UK with a particular focus on system performance and tuning and supporting User Acceptance testing of its AEM platform.
• Managing, maintaining and patching our cloud infrastructure and availability of services through container-orchestration.
• Ensure that sufficient documentation is in place for all hardware systems in the Integration and Staging environments to enable existing and new team members to support Save the Children UK infrastructure.
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Save the Children resources in order to keep costs low and ensure safety in the workplace. Pro-actively pursue opportunities continuously to reduce costs and increase efficiency of the server support function.
• Ensure a globally robust and highly scalable approach to development to support our growing number of global users and services.
• Work alongside other members of the infrastructure team to ensure that all cloud systems and support are aligned with technical and business requirements.
• Manage the provisioning/building/configuring/maintenance of environments using automation where possible
• Keep abreast of new developments in the provisioning / configuration / deployment / monitoring of environments to help shape our DevOps roadmap
• Other duties as required in line with skills, experience and role.

Person Profile

You must have good hands-on knowledge and experience in all of the areas below:

• AWS
• GCP
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Git, GitHub or Bitbucket
• Red Hat sysadmin skills
• Debian sysadmin skills
• CLI and Bash scripting skills

You must have abilities in all of the areas below:

• Ability to work in a team, in a fast-paced environment
• Independent and able to put forward new ideas, innovate and drive the team forward.
• Strong attention to detail, astute diagnostic skills
• Ability to solve issues with clear methods while knowing when to take intuitive leaps
• Strategic and forward planning thought process
• Able to guide technical discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for web, open source development and for helping Save the Children to continue to build a quality best of breed digital presence.

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment

• A commitment to Save the Children UK’s aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

The job of a Save the Children UK's Senior Programme Manager is impactful and varied.

• Do you have extensive experience in project cycle and grant/contract management, with knowledge of institutional donor compliance requirements?
• Do you have extensive experience working with institutional donors such as FCDO, UN and multilateral agencies particularly on proposal development and report writing
• Do you have significant experience of working in the international aid sector, including in overseas roles, with practical experience and understanding of related contextual and operational issues?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

The Senior Programme Manager's(SPM) primary focus is to oversee the quality management of programmes and related awards (grants & contracts) that are part of a portfolio covering several COs or donors. The portfolio under the SPM's overall responsibility is a sub-set within a wider portfolio covering a geographical region (‘regional portfolio') or programmes funded by particular corporate and philanthropy donors (‘partnerships portfolio'). The composition of the portfolio under the SPM's remit will vary over time, in line with changes and demands in SCUK's overall international programmes funding portfolio.

This role involves both direct management of programmes and related awards implemented in specific country programmes or supported by particular corporate & philanthropy donor(s); and providing direction, support and technical advice to Programme Managers (PMs) working in the same portfolio sub-set. The SPM works with wide autonomy and decision-making capacity, both within their directly management portfolio as well as the portfolio sub-set, with regards to portfolio's risks, issues, and workload management.

Being responsible for several COs or corporate & philanthropy donor(s), the SPM plays a key role, and works very closely with the Programme Management Lead in the effective development and implementation of regional and partnership strategies; in identifying and addressing systemic risks and issues; in improving and creating new internal processes; and in ensuring the capacity building and professional development of PMs.

Please Note:  There are 3 x Senior Programme Manager roles available (1 x 18 months, 1 for 12 months and 1 for 11 months)

Main Accountabilities

The Senior Programme Manager's key duties will be to:

Support to quality programming in Country Offices

• Drive the COAC (Country Offices as Agent of Change) agenda across relevant teams in SCUK, by making the COs' priorities, analysis and decision-making the centre of SCUK support to Save the Children programming.
• Develop strong a knowledge of in-country context and current issues, as well as of Save the Children's key programmatic themes and priorities, for the countries or programmes under their directly managed portfolio. Provide input to the Programme Management Lead and influencing SCUK funding strategies for the countries or programmes under their portfolio.
• Act as the focal point within SCUK for any matter or question regarding the countries or programmes under their responsibility.
• Contribute to the growth of Country Office's funding portfolio and facilitate this is in line with their Country Strategic Plans (CSPs), Strengthen and build capacities of CO staff, particularly around quality programming and funding management and donor compliance.
• Develop a strong knowledge of donor's priorities and interests in the country(ies) under their responsibility.
• Develop and maintain relevant donor relationships, serving as the focal point for HQ-level donor staff, for the countries or programmes under their directly managed portfolio.
• Travel to Country Office's as required, in order to provide higher level strategic support.

Lead business development, award management and donor compliance assurance

• Monitor and oversight of all SCUK-supported programmes for the countries or programmes under their directly managed portfolio, including identifying related risks and managing issues.
• Grant and contract management, from point of contract negotiation and signature, to quality assurance during implementation, and working with other SCUK departments to support reporting. Ensure awards in the portfolio are compliant with donor requirements and SC quality standards
• Provide support to COs in meeting key programme deliverables, as well as other donor expectations.
• Act as key liaison point between programmes in their portfolio and Programme Management Team and PP senior management, ensuring they are fully briefed in order to make key major strategic decisions.
• Ensure relevant quality assurance processes are completed so that programmes are running effectively and on time.
• Identify new funding opportunities, as follow-on from existing awards and/or as part of the day-to-day interaction with donors. Provide input in or lead on bid management for SCUK institutional and non-institutional proposals

Funding portfolio sub-set oversight

• Provide oversight, support and prioritisation for the management of the portfolio sub-set under their responsibility, acting as first point of senior advice and decision-making on complex issues, involving medium to low risk, brought forward by the PMs working in the same portfolio sub-set.
• Monitor risks and issues developments within the portfolio sub-set, making sure that the Programme Management Lead and PP senior management are aware and fully briefed of issues requiring major strategic decisions.
• Approve and sign-off opportunities and documents, as per delegated authority, within the portfolio sub-set.
• Provide input to the Programme Management Lead and ROs in resource mobilisation strategies for COs and donors within the portfolio sub-set, making sure that agreed priorities are implemented by PMs, as well as other teams, working in the portfolio sub-set.
• Monitor KPIs and other data related to programme and funding management, providing analysis to relevant stakeholders based on information extracted from the databases and information systems managed by the team
• Ensure that input into risk management tools provide sufficient and accurate information to drive evidence-based and effective decision-making by senior leadership.
• Lead on monitoring internal processes and procedures, identifying areas of improvement and recommending changes

People management

• Provide effective support and manage workload for PMs working in the portfolio sub-set under the SPM's responsibility (‘work management'), as part of matrix management with the Programme Management
• Train, coach and strengthen the capacities and competencies of Programme Management Team members
• Ensure there is learning and sharing of experiences within the portfolio sub-set, as well as across the Programme Management Team

 Other accountabilities

• Deputise for the Programme Management Lead as necessary
• To carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Save the Children's commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy.
• A commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, values and approach.

Person Profile

Experience and Knowledge

• Extensive experience in project and grant/contract management, with knowledge of institutional donor compliance requirements
• Extensive experience working with institutional donors such as FCDO, UN and multilateral agencies (e.g. UNICEF, OCHA, World Bank), particularly on proposal development and report writing
• Significant experience of working in the international aid sector, including in overseas roles, with practical experience and understanding of related contextual and operational issues. Good working knowledge of one or more countries supported by SCUK
• Strong working knowledge of international development/humanitarian issues.
• Significant financial processes and reporting skills
• Experience of establishing strong working relationships with colleagues from different organisations, functions, and cultures, often remotely.

 Abilities

• A commitment to safeguarding, anti-racism, eradicating inequality and child rights in all aspects of your work.
• Ability to manage a complex and varied workload, in order to organise and prioritise multiple tasks efficiently, manage reactive and proactive work, and deliver tasks to tight deadlines.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify and implement effective processes for achieving outcomes.
• A high degree of flexibility and adaptability to respond to changing needs and effectively address issueProven attention for detail and ability to effectively manage a high volume of data and information.
• Very strong team skills, with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships and collaborate both within and outside the team
• Strong communication skills, with good written and spoken English
• Willingness to travel

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly  working from home,  we may require you to come to your contracted office up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter (Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team) This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are mot looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To see our full statement please visit our website.

The job of a Save the Children UK's Operations Officer is busy and varied.

• Do you have strong organisation and administration skills with the ability to plan and prioritise a varied workload?
• Do you have strong numeracy skills with experience and the ability to monitor and manage financial information and monitoring budgets?

• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

The number of children requiring humanitarian assistance is rising as the climate crisis, entrenched conflict, and fragility, forced migration and infectious diseases all lead to an increase in the frequency, duration, and severity of catastrophic events. With needs continuing to grow and rapidly outpacing available resources, humanitarians around the world are once more forced to do more with less. Recognising the changing humanitarian risk landscape, the need to stay relevant, and to step up for greater impact, Save the Children has adopted a bold vision for the future of its humanitarian work and as part of this, there is an important role for SCUK to play in identifying and supporting next-generation collaborative initiatives that will ultimately deliver impact for disaster-affected children and their families.

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) as part of SCUK’s humanitarian department provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector, as part of our shifting the power agenda. The HLA’s mission, as a team within the humanitarian department, is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. The HLA’s approach spans from focused needs-based learning in countries hit by crises to the huge international reach of our learning platform, Kaya.  They are a global team that has a full suite of in-house skills to provide and develop the offer; technical and learning experts, platform specialists, a digital and design studio, communications support and more.  The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond. 

Job Purpose

As the Operations Officer you will enable high levels of operational efficiency with regards to contract and award management, excellent financial management, effective decision making and responsiveness to stakeholder needs. You will work across all areas of the HLA covering commercial and charitable activities balancing the needs of different funding streams as well as the growing revenue from commercial activities. 

Main Accountabilities

The Operations Officer’s key duties will be to:

Cross team coordination

• Implement effective processes and systems for financial and operational insight and decision making
• Introduce effective processes and systems for customer relationship management (inc. account management).
• Contribute to supporting strong ways of working across the new team, as well as taking individual responsibility for building an inclusive and supportive team culture.

Financial Management

• Claim and record HLA’s income
• Monitor and follow up regarding outstanding income
• Support the categorisation of HLA-E deferred income for SCUK audit purposes
• Monitor HLA’s debt reports
• Support maintenance of the HLA monthly staff salary recharge tracker
• Process requisitions and purchase orders via Agresso Web
• Raise sundry invoices via Agresso Web
• Create SOF DEAs as required by SCUK Finance
• Process cost transaction recode requests and new supplier forms
• Support HLA’s interaction with SCUK’s AFIHUB Team (Finance), including processing: New Sources of Funds (SOFs) and income schedules; Donor income claim requests; Report validation requests; SOF close outs

Contract and Award Management

• Update and maintain HLA’s Award Management System (AMS) records
• Support the Operations Lead in managing HLA donor contracting activities
• Conduct Due Diligence compliance checks as required by SCUK Legal
• Support procurement activities
• Responsible for team documentation management (storage & management of contracts / awards / finance information)

Performance management

• Support effective arrangements for internal and external reporting, tracking monthly progress against financial modelling, plans, budgets, and key performance indicators

Change management

• Support strategic change initiatives for the HLA’s operating model and operations

Person Profile

The ideal candidate will demonstrate appropriate judgment in balancing the need for maintaining to a high standard, necessary operations day-to-day tasks (e.g. generating new contracts, recoding finance transactions, etc.), with supporting operations to update our current operating model.  You must be able to manage a high number of competing priorities for time critical operations activities, whilst keeping perspective of how we may achieve higher efficiency and effectiveness across our financial and operational processes and systems. 

Experience and Skills

• Numerate with experience and the ability to monitor and manage financial information.
• Familiarity with funding budgets, financial reporting including construction and monitoring of budgets.
• Highly computer literate and confident with MS Office, especially Excel.
• Proven analytical skills with the ability to identify key points from complex material or information.
• Proven attention for detail and ability to effectively manage a high volume of data and

information

• Excellent organisation and administration skills with the ability to plan and prioritise work.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written), with an ability to work with people from a range of backgrounds and cultures
• Strong team skills, with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships and collaborate both within and outside the team.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with ability to propose solutions for translating a variety of funding information into Save the Children system formats.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly  working from home,  we may require you to come to your contracted office up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter (Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team) This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are mot looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

The job of a Save the Children UK's Business Development Manager is high profile and rewarding.

• Are you excited by the opportunity to work some of the largest and most complex funding opportunities within the charities sector?
• Do you have a strong track record in securing large and/or complex tenders or grants for FCDO, World Bank or other major bilateral or multi-lateral donors?
• Are you experienced in negotiating business and management arrangements for bids with partner organisations?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once avacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach, 

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Green Climate Fund Team Lead, Business Development, you will be responsible for developing and gaining funder approval for the high-priority and complex Green Climate Fund project designs. This will enable Save the Children UK to secure $150M in long-term climate change funding which will deliver impact at scale for children.

Other key duties will include providing leadership on our largest/most complex/strategically important proposals, with a particular focus on the Green Climate Fund; leading bid teams comprising technical, operational and finance experts to ensure high quality design underpinned by robust commercial strategy and managing concurrent large proposals at different stages of development. The Senior Business Development Manager will act as a lead for these complex proposals.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will also support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

 The Business Development Manager's key duties will be to:

• Work in close collaboration with the Green Climate Fund Multi-Disciplinary Matrix Team Lead, manage complex, multi-million-pound GCF proposals
• Lead the project design process in conjunction with the relevant technical advisors
• Lead the bid/commercial strategy and budgeting process, including development of Finance Committee Approval papers
• Support Country Offices through the complex Green Climate Fund design processes ensuring compliant proposals
• Ensure effective Go/No-Go decision-making processes are followed through the Bid Development cycle
• Lead and respond to queries from the Go/No Go (senior management approval) process, and ensure the opportunity is correctly recorded on the Award Management System (AMS)
• Conduct financial modelling/cashflow forecasts and develop finance papers for Board approval and conduct and present financial risk assessments
• Lead the design process for multiple Green Climate Fund proposals
• Manage requests from the Partnership Development team, Business Programmes Hub and Partnerships and Philanthropy to ensure they are supported to pitch for co-financing for the Green Climate Fund projects from their relevant partners and funders
• To carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects Save the Children's commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy
• A commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, values and approach

Person Profile

You must have knowledge and skills in all of the following:

• Track record in securing large and/or complex tenders or grants, for FCDO, World Bank or other major bilateral or multi-lateral funders.
• Track record of developing complex consortium and/or multi-country proposals
• Experience of dealing with complex internal stakeholder management and/or consortium development and management.
• Experienced in negotiating business and management arrangements for bids with partner organisations.
• Track record in leading the commercial strategy for major opportunities and overseeing the budget development process (grants and commercial budgets), ensuring compliance with an organisation's internal finance policies and client requirements.
• Understanding of key technical areas, relevant to SCUK's work such as climate, health, education, child protection, gender, livelihoods or resilience.
• Extensive understanding of funder procurement and management processes.
• Strong understanding of the principles of value for money in programme planning

Aptitude

• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website. 

• Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling role, that exudes creativity and purpose?

• Are you passionate about making a difference and having an impact on our climate through sustainable shopping?

• Are you ready to be part of a modern, contemporary, urbanised street store, unlike any other traditional charity shop you have ever seen?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you! 

Our charity shops are shaking up the sector. We are tearing up the rule book, it is time we started to approach things differently and bring the wonders of charity shops back to our high-street and we need driven and passionate people to get us there.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

Our Shop Managers are leaders in their stores, driving retail excellence with their flair for second-hand clothing and our new goods, which have a focus on sustainable and ethical suppliers. They are essential to their local community, knowing what a Save the Children supporter wants from their local charity shop. They promote and share the work Save the Children do, to their customers as well as driving donations and inspiring volunteers. You are the link between our cause and our supporters, you will showcase your determined spirit as you lead sales, merchandising and operations.

We need someone to craft an extraordinary shopping experience as you build a network of Save the Children supporters to help deliver retail excellence. Our goal is to deliver a customer store experience that is inspiring, engaging and informative.

Our Clapham shop will be joining our urban collection later this year, creating an environment that complements the great pre-loved product. With sustainability at the forefront of our designs, we reuse and repurpose furniture and fittings, celebrating the link between old and new. Our greenroom structure plays on the idea of a shop within a shop and will house our latest range of new goods, including candles, soaps and gifting.

Our new Clapham Shop Manager will support the evolution of the shop, leading on bringing the volunteer team and community along with us. We're looking for someone who has an interest in sustainable fashion, understands the importance of community, and loves working with and supporting people to enjoy and exercise similar passions through volunteering.  You will bring your innovative energy to help create a vibrant atmosphere in shop, and you won't be phased by a busy productive retail setting. You will be someone with a can-do attitude, able to approach challenges in a positive way, knowing when to reach out for support and guidance when you need it. You will be motivated by driving income in the shop, also motivating those around you through regular communication and engagement.

If this sounds like you and you want to make a step change in your career, we'd love to hear from you.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website.

Save the Children are recruiting for a Partnership Lead in Northern Ireland to take forward an exciting programme of work that will impact positively on children's early foundations for learning.

• Do you have experience in and knowledge of the early years and children's sector?
• Do you have an understanding of early child development and learning?
• Have you got experience with building and maintaining relationships and partnerships with individuals and organisations for strategic and operational objectives?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world – and of inspiring and leading others to do the same?

This role is based in Northern Ireland for a 12-month period with the potential for extension.  We envisage interviews to take place week commencing 5th September 2022.

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

Job Purpose

In the UK we work to reduce the level of child poverty and its impact on children's early learning and development. We work closely with the communities we aim to support. We recognise their diversity and strengths as well as the challenges they face, and we aim to reflect their diversity and experiences in our UK staff team.

Reporting directly to the Senior Partnership & Practice Manager, you will be responsible for working with local communities and partners to generate the learning and evidence required to fulfil the national change strategy, through delivery, development and testing of effective and evidence-informed practice approaches that better support children and families living in poverty.

As a rights-based organisation, we are committed to anti-racism and actively opposed systemic oppression of any form. You will support our commitment to celebrate diversity, challenge inequality, and build an inclusive environment for every one of our employees so we can better represent the children we protect.

Main Accountabilities

The Partnership Lead's key duties will be to:

• To support the development of partnership / local area strategies, based on the needs and opportunities in partnerships / local areas and the national change strategy
• To build and maintain strategic and operational relationships with delivery partners and collaborators and engage them in all our work
• To provide coordination and management to local partnerships, including working from and as part of the local partnership
• To be responsible for the delivery of our early years and child poverty work, and Save the Children's programmes as part of this, working with local partners to do this, including programme and project management, development of delivery networks, training delivery (programme and other quality improvement training), coaching, support for high impact implementation and strong implementation practice, alignment to Save the Children's or local quality framework, strategic support and advice, convening groups and capacity building.
• Developing plans and ensuring that work undertaken generates the learning and evidence required, drawing on the expertise of the Early Years team and working as part of (virtual) teams
• To support work on innovation and practice development, helping facilitate partner engagement in this work
• To carry out data, research and evaluation tasks to support the generation of the evidence and learning required to fulfil the national change strategy, including responsibility for the high-quality implementation of agreed monitoring and evaluation activity
• To build strong relationships with children and families, engaging them in the development and delivery of local partnerships as well as identifying opportunities to contribute to national campaigns and policy development, ensuring that our work promotes and reflects their voices and experiences
• To support influencing for local and national change, and sharing of our learning, including supporting the creation of resources, organising events and developing case studies
• To support fundraising and our relationships with donors, including through the collection of case studies and organising and leading or supporting the delivery of high quality visits.
• To ensure work is delivered in line with agreed quality standards
• To manage relevant awards and donor reporting as required.

The post-holder must carry out the responsibilities of the role in a way which reflects:

• Save the Children's commitment to safeguarding children in accordance with the Child Safeguarding Policy;
• A commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, values and approach
• A commitment to effective management of risk, by operating within the Charity's code of conduct, policies, procedures and controls and by carrying out the risk management and assurance responsibilities of the role as set out in the Risk Policy and Procedures.

Person Profile

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge of the early years and children's sector and experience of working within it
• Understanding of early child development and broad knowledge of the evidence about effective approaches
• Experience of building and sustaining relationships and partnerships with individuals and organisations for strategic and operational objectives
• Strong programme management and project management skills
• Experience of supporting partners to develop and deliver programme approaches
• Experience of training delivery – programmatic and broader improvement work.
• Experience in engaging children and families and supporting them to share their experiences, and of codeveloping approaches with practitioners, children and families
• Experience of developing or supporting monitoring and evaluation activity
• Understanding of systems change theory and approaches
• Understanding of the impact of poverty on children, families and neighbourhoods and the barriers that communities face in seeking to bring about positive change

Personal Skills:

• Able to bring a learning, innovation and systems thinking mindset to all your work
• Solutions-focused with a creative problem-solving approach
• A strong team player with an empowering and collaborative working style and excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to manage multiple activities at once and to resolve conflicting priorities
• Positive, resilient and committed to improving the lives of young children and families
• Able to work from local partnership location and SCUK office location and to travel within the country

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website. 

The job of a Save the Children's UK Programme Development Manager is creative and varied

• Do you have experience of working in programming and a solid understanding of programme design and programme management?
• Do you have exceptional proposal writing skills with a proven track record of producing high-quality written concept notes and proposals for business and/or philanthropy partners?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

 If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

Please Note: This is initially for a 6 month contract but with likely extension 

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

The Programme Development Manager role sits within our Business Programmes Hub within our Programme Partnerships department and is comprised of programme development, innovation, and MEAL professionals responsible for developing new shared valued partnerships which speaks to interests of the business community and philanthropic stakeholders.

The Programme Development Manager will lead the development of impactful high-quality programmes in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. The postholder will ensure new programmes incorporate creativity and innovation to capture the interest of corporate partners and philanthropists.

Role Summary

As Programme Development Manager, your role will be to oversee the development and writing of high quality, bespoke pitch decks, concept notes, and proposals for business and philanthropic partners. You will project manage the opportunity development process to ensure we are designing programmes that truly leverage the unique assets and capabilities of the private sector – beyond philanthropic funding – to create transformational change for children. This includes designing innovative, sector leading partnerships that emerge through a process of co-design which you will facilitate in partnership with colleagues across the organisation in the UK Impact, Global Programmes, and Fundraising and Marketing Departments.

Key Accountabilities:

• Identify and develop innovative partnership opportunities that leverage the unique resources and capabilities of prospective business and philanthropy partners, working closely with the UK Impact, Global Programmes, and Partnerships & Philanthropy departments to ensure alignment between partner and Save the Children priorities
• Work with Partnerships & Philanthropy to proactively steer new opportunities and enquiries with business and philanthropic partners towards Save the Children's strategic objectives and priorities
• Lead on writing high quality, bespoke and engaging pitch decks, concept notes, and proposals for business and philanthropy partners, as well as cross-sectoral proposals that bring together partners across business, philanthropy, and government.
• Project manage the proposal development process, including ensuring quality assurance of the programme design, including theories of change and budgets.
• Build excellent working relationships with colleagues in the UK Impact, Global Programmes, and Philanthropy & Partnerships teams to ensure our business development materials are compelling for potential partners whilst driven by Save the Children priorities and needs
• Maintain updated systems and databases that track our funding and grant management activities

Person Profile

• Exceptional proposal writing skills – a proven track record of producing high-quality written concept notes and proposals for business and/or philanthropy partners
• Deep understanding of corporate engagement with society and business motivations for societal engagement, including corporate philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and shared value creation
• Proven ability to conduct analytical research on business to identify corporate opportunities to contribute to development outcomes through core business investments
• Keen ability to tailor your work into persuasive and visually appealing materials for different audiences, including business, philanthropy, and government partners
• Outstanding project management and coordination skills, including an ability to manage high workloads and meet deadlines
• Experience of working in programming and a solid understanding of programme design and programme management
• Ability to understand financial information and produce budgets
• A strong team player with an empowering and collaborative working style and excellent interpersonal skills
• Solutions-focused with a creative problem-solving approach
• Able to prioritise and manage a varied workload, taking the initiative, and meeting deadlines
• Ability to travel up to 20% in the UK and across Save the Children's international country offices

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

To see our full statement please visit our website.

The job of a Save the Children's UK Learning Platforms and Products Lead is creative and varied

• Are you a strategic thinker with previous digital project or product management experience?
• Are you familiar with product-led growth, particularly in a start-up environment and preferably relating to platform marketplaces and/or B2B SaaS learning products?
• Are you experienced in managing a learning management system (LMS) as well as have experience of managing teams that are responsible for the effective maintenance, support and growth of digital learning platforms and/or products?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive, but thrives, and can go on to change the world?

 If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you!

About Us

The Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA) as part of SCUK's humanitarian department provides high-quality humanitarian capacity strengthening for the movement, as well as the wider sector, as part of our shifting the power agenda.

The HLA's mission, as a team within the humanitarian department, is to enable people around the world to prepare for and respond to crises in their own countries, by providing quality learning opportunities. The HLA's approach spans from focused needs-based learning in countries hit by crises to the huge international reach of our learning platform, Kaya. They are a global team that has a full suite of in-house skills to provide and develop the offer; technical and learning experts, platform specialists, a digital and design studio, communications support and more. 

The HLA enables SCUK to offer the most effective and impactful humanitarian capacity strengthening resource for both the Save the Children movement, the wider humanitarian sector and beyond. 

Job Purpose

The HLA's platforms have been established and as of 2022 reach over 500k individual learners, with over 50 partners utilising an existing product. Individual learners benefit from hundreds of free, online and blended courses, while the existing products provide a low-cost but highly flexible and adaptable learning management system (LMS) to partner organisations. The next step in this journey will be for this new function to further scale the platforms and products, as well as launch new, commercially viable platform products for existing and expanded audiences.

The HLA's Platforms & Products function are responsible for developing, managing and supporting the HLA's flagship digital platforms, Kaya and HPass, and the portfolio of paid-for products that they enable. It consists of a team of technical specialists whose responsibilities span UX/UI development, feature delivery, the set-up and maintenance of the platform infrastructure and hosting arrangements, and individual user support; as well as end-to-end management of the platform products throughout their lifecycle, from ideation, through build and launch, to growth and ongoing technical support to the partners that utilise them in fulfilment of Service Level Agreements (SLA).

The Platforms & Products Lead will be key to achieving this. The purpose of the role will be to manage, maintain and improve the existing platforms and products of the HLA and ensure their effective functioning, as well as any new products that have been launched and established within an expanded portfolio. You will be the function's technical expert, and will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring a very high-quality user and partner experience of the platforms and products; line-managing a team of specialists to this end. 

Key Accountabilities: 

The Platforms and Products Lead's key duties will include:

• Responsible for managing, maintaining and improving the existing learning/accreditation platforms and products of the HLA, and any future platforms, products or supplementary digital systems that are established.
• Own the platform roadmaps and translate into manageable, prioritised backlogs.
• Scope, build, test and deploy core features and functionalities, architecture upgrades, integrations, API/SSO configurations, app releases and bug fixes.
• Oversee the work of the external development team, leading designers, front/backend developers and QA testers using an agile method. Ensure that any new developments meet acceptance criteria and can be deployed from Staging to Production.
• Responsible for the stability, security and scalability of the platforms, including the procurement of independent security assessments and the validation/solving of potential vulnerabilities.
• Responsible for ensuring robust data protection and governance policies and mechanisms are in place for the platforms.
• Administer the supplementary digital systems, including the data platform, BI tools, and App stores (iOS and Android).
• Work closely with Product Development Lead to coordinate the development, integration and testing of new products on the platforms.
• Accountable for the user and partner experience of the platforms and products, guided by the data through the utilisation of qualitative and quant methods in the prioritisation of developments and improvements.
• Responsible for procurement and contracting in the function, including managing the tender process for the host, maintenance and support service providers of the platforms.
• Line management of the User Experience Specialist, Partner Experience Specialist and Technical Support Officers.

Person Profile

The ideal candidate will be someone who has experience in managing teams that are responsible for the effective maintenance, support and growth of digital learning platforms and/or products.

You will be familiar with product-led growth, particularly in a start-up environment and preferably relating to platform marketplaces and/or B2B SaaS learning products. You will be analytical in your thinking, using data and insights to inform decisions, but also comfortable dealing with ambiguity. You will be keen to actively listen to, empathise with and ultimately develop a deep understanding of the HLA's users and partners, and will manage an empowered team of platform/product specialists who they trust to deliver complex technical solutions to meet these stakeholders' needs 

Experience

• A strategic thinker with previous digital project/product management experience.
• Experience administering a learning management system (LMS), preferably Moodle and/or Totara Learn.
• Familiarity with LMS/platform architecture and hosting arrangements.
• Familiarity with a range of online/blended learning methodologies, standards and formats that can be set up, managed and maintained using an LMS, and preferably learning accreditation and digital credentials such as open badges.
• Proven experience in eliciting, documenting and prioritising stakeholder requirements, including writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience in contracting, commissioning and procurement, including tender processes.

Abilities

• Strong digital literacy skills and the ability to quickly adopt new technologies and approaches.
• Ability to build effective trust-based relationships and networks, with strong partnership development and management skills.
• Ability to contribute to a high performing team and work effectively across different functions to ensure maximum effectiveness and impact.
• Strong representational and communication skills; able to articulate a vision, strategy, or idea clearly and concisely and to work with multiple, cross-sector stakeholders.

Aptitude 

• Passion and energy to work in pursuit of transforming humanitarian response globally.
• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and their practical application and integration in the work environment
• A commitment to Save the Children UK's aims and core values of accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity, and integrity

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

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Save the Children has an exciting opportunity for a highly collaborative and organised individual to join us as a Prospect Development Executive

• Do you a strong eye for detail, with the ability to negotiate and influence?
• Are you a pro-active self-starter, who has excellent relationship building skills?
• Have you helped develop and maintain a prospect management system that drove fundraising performance for an organization?
• Are you motivated by our vision of creating a world where every child doesn't just survive but thrives and can go on to change the world?

If the answers to these questions are yes, we would love to hear from you.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and worldwide, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. When crisis strikes and children are most vulnerable, we are always the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met, and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

 Job Purpose:

As a prospect development executive, you will contribute and maximise the value of our relationship fundraising income streams, by identifying and researching prospects and donors for the Philanthropy and Partnerships and Regional Engagement Departments, which will enable them to approach and develop new business opportunities in order to increase income and impact for Save the Children.

Working in an environment of agile, multi-disciplinary teams, you will be a great collaborator, building strong relationships and cutting through boundaries, in a fast-moving and dynamic environment. Leveraging agile principles, you will flex and adapt - learning rapidly and responding to change, while keeping our supporters at the heart of everything you do.

Key accountabilities:

• Prioritise and respond to research requests producing both concise and, on request, detailed, accurate profiles, and briefings on current and prospective donors (individuals, trusts & foundations, and corporate donors)
• Develop and maintain relationships with our relationship fundraising teams (Philanthropy & Partnerships, Regional Engagement); being their point of contact;
• Use, promote and maintain CARE (relationship management database) with up-to-date, accurate data, to manipulate and extract data to support the team's prospecting activities
• Support the Senior Prospect Development Manager to develop and deliver a prospect management system that helps drive fundraising performance
• Support with other research requests as required, including due diligence research to support the Donation Acceptance process for assessments up to Executive Director/ Trustee level
• Track current supporters, looking at movements of wealth, mergers & acquisitions etc, through the press and other sources, disseminating this information to relevant staff members in group and individual communications
• Manage specific projects from inception to completion as instructed by the Senior Prospect Development Manager

Person Profile

Essential Technical Skills:

• Prospect Development experience in a charity, university or consultancy environment and ability to demonstrate an excellent knowledge of UK philanthropic sector and role of Prospect Development in major gift fundraising
• Experience of condensing large quantities of information into concise and readable formats.
• Excellent analytical and research skills; strong track record of producing high quality research on individuals, trusts, and companies, including information on donor motivations; retrieving information quickly and accurately using a variety of sources
• Experience of using a relationship management database, such as CARE or Raisers Edge
• Excellent written communications skills; excellent eye for detail and experience of producing accurate written documents in a timely manner
• A solid understanding of Data Protection legislation and how this impacts Prospect Development

   Personal Skills:

• A self-starter who is flexible and able to make judgements as to when to take the initiative, actively contributes to the team and can make valued recommendations
• Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to develop relationships at all levels of the organisations, from fundraiser to Director to Trustee, and identify cross team opportunities
• Excellent organisational and time management skills; able to work on own initiative with minimal supervision and to prioritise own workload, often responding to conflicting deadlines
• Commitment to Save the Children's work and values

Remote Working:

The majority of SCUK employees are currently working remotely within the UK in line with UK Government guidance. Commencing July 2021 we will transition to flexible and hybrid ways of working (i.e. a mixture of remote/home and office-based working) as social distancing restrictions ease.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds.