Manager, Transformation Project Management – Global Reporting at Save the Children

Role purpose

• The Project Manager for Global Reporting will be accountable for the project management across the Global Reporting Project. The project is separate from the FMS SaaS Project and will work alongside it, reporting directly to the Head, Transformation Development, to ensure this gets the required focus and attention. 
• The Project Manager work closely with the functional workstream leads in Finance (initially) and more broadly in the future, the Business Analyst, IT team, and beyond. In this role, the Project Manager will be accountable for ensuring adherence to the Project Lifecycle  and broader design, including setup and maintenance of the reporting plan, supporting with facilitation of relevant governance forums, completing required status updates, coordinating key engagements with technical and business stakeholders, and partnering with workstreams to manage data and system dependencies and beyond. It will be essential that the role holder has solid project management experience in a technical or systems delivery context, is comfortable working across business and IT teams, and can drive delivery through influence rather than direct line accountability

Principal Accountabilities

• Project manage the Global Reporting workstreams, using the SCI Project Management toolkit, ensuring reporting is delivered on time, to scope, and to the required quality standard
• Partner with the FMS project and functional leadership to define, document, and maintain the reporting scope, including the full inventory of reports and the data sources they draw on across SCI systems (initially Finance), ensuring this is agreed with the Head, Transformation Development and relevant technical and business stakeholders 
• Manage an ambitious but achievable plan for the reporting workstreams, taking into account technical dependencies, vendor delivery schedules, testing cycles, and go-live timelines
• Coordinate with functional workstream leads, the Global FMS (Oracle) Project team and the IT team to ensure reporting requirements are captured accurately, report and data specifications are agreed, and build and test activities are sequenced effectively
• Drive areas of Project Management accountability, ensuring they run to a regular beat: monitor activity across build, test, and deployment phases, manage adherence to plan, and resolve obstacles to delivery. Work closely with broader team members to ensure delivery remains on track
• Adhere to and manage required project controls for areas of Project Management accountability (plan, risks/issues, dependencies, scope management) and use them to drive delivery, proactively identifying and managing technical and programme risks and issues and driving actions to mitigate or resolve
• Provide input to regular status reports that support effective decision making within the Global Reporting Project, at the Management Review Group (MRG) or equivalent, with clear escalation of risks, issues, and decisions required
• Set up and maintain the repository of documentation for each stage of project lifecycle, ensuring that all documentation has a clear purpose in driving the project forward.
• Implement best practices and procedures in project management within the project and contribute to the continuous improvement of the project management toolkit
• Work with the Global Change Manager assigned to the Global Reporting Project to ensure related change activities (including adoption, training, and communications for report users) are incorporated into the plan. As capacity allows, provide broader project management support to the Global Reporting Project, including cross-workstream coordination, governance support, and plan management.   

Experience and Skills

Essential

• Extensive project management experience, including delivery of reporting, data or large-scale systems implementation in a complex global organisation
• Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project management practices and standards 
• A proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, financial management, and quality assurance; with demonstrable experience managing vendor relationships in a systems delivery context 
• A working understanding of reporting and data concepts (data sources, data mapping, report specifications, and testing approaches) sufficient to manage delivery and hold technical teams and vendors to account on quality and schedule  Proven experience of using and leading change management activities including change impact assessment, stakeholder management, managing resistance, building change capacity, designing and defining roles and responsibilities. 
• A proven ability to apply analytical and problem solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver of effective solutions to project related issues 
• Developed organisational awareness and ability to understand any sensitivities within a complex multi-stakeholder structure; and think creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress
• Team leadership abilities with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside their reporting line
• Business requirements collection, and process/workflow analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation
• Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally

Desirable

• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello) and office suites (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
• Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic)

Education and Qualifications 

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Understanding of a structured Project methodology (e.g. PRINCE2) or accredited Project Management training (APM or PMI)

Desirable

• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic