Global Change Manager – Localisation Initiative at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

In order to achieve our global breakthroughs for children by 2030, the Save the Children movement has committed to significantly changing the way we work – a core component of which is to shift power to local and national actors. Our Localisation ambition – ‘Local to Global for Impact’ - is an ambitious, multi-year, transformational journey that will see us – and the wider sector - deliver more, better, and fairer impact through context-responsive, locally-designed, locally-led and locally–owned programs for children.

We will achieve this by addressing fundamental challenges in the way current aid is delivered to enable and facilitate local actors’ own access to global resources for maximum impact – and we will overcome blockers within our own organisation that currently prevents this from happening.

The Localisation Initiative was originally formed to define the strategic approach to Localisation and the high level roadmap for its realisation. We are now entering the next phase of the transformation – with the team accelerating the pace to meet the movement’s Localisation ambition. It consists of a small number of dedicated resources tasked with overcoming a number of blockers to Localisation that currently exist across the movement.

As the GCM for the Localisation initiative, you will be responsible for understanding the context and stakeholders, and for assessing the impact of the proposed options to move forwards in terms of our culture, people, processes, data and systems. You will work closely with the wider initiative team to agree priorities, develop a robust change plan, and monitor progress against this plan. You will also be accountable for the development and delivery of all required change interventions needed across the workstreams being delivered, as well as ensuring the relevant leadership alignment required to support subsequent phases of the transformation journey

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Demonstrated experience and capability in change management and supporting the delivery of major projects in regards to business processes and systems within a large and complex international organisation as well as changes to organisation structure and ways of working
• Experience of working across project phases to deliver change management oversight and interventions
• Demonstrable ability to challenge the user-friendliness of set up, requirements and design for implementation and regular usage
• Experience of solving issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward and ensuring buy in
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills. Engaging as well as assertive, influencing and negotiating
• Affinity, knowledge and experience of working within a standardised project/change methodology
• True passion for results, responsibility and proactivity
• Competent in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Able to effectively work and manage self in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment

Desirable

• Expertise and experience in managing change for target operating model transformations
• Expertise working in change
• Experience working in the INGO sector
• Ability to speak one of the additional Save the Children core languages including French, Spanish and Arabic