Senior Lead, Programme Funding Growth Acceleration at Save the Children

Principal Accountabilities

• Lead delivery of Horizon B Programme Funding growth initiatives: Own the coordination and delivery of a defined set of Horizon B Programme Funding growth initiatives, ensuring they translate strategic intent into time-bound, decision-ready outputs that unlock portfolio growth across priority funding channels and markets.
• Provide strategic support to priority markets and accounts: Provide targeted, hands-on strategic support to selected priority markets and accounts to enable step-change growth, working in close collaboration with the Member Market Development Senior Specialist, and in partnership with the Global Head of Programme Funding Market Development, Members, and Country Offices to diagnose binding constraints, shape market-specific responses, and unblock delivery.
• Translate integrated programme funding strategy into operating reality: Translate agreed integrated programme funding ambitions into practical operating models, planning tools, and ways of working, ensuring alignment across institutional & private funding, finance, and programme teams.
• Drive executive-level alignment and decision-making: Prepare, structure, and broker senior-level discussions and decisions on Programme Funding growth, including both member and movement leadership, synthesising evidence, surfacing trade-offs, and presenting options and recommendations.
• Build and mobilise cross-movement Programme Funding capability: Strengthen Programme Funding capability across the movement by supporting initiatives, including acceleration workshops, timebound working groups, talent and capability assessments, and the development of shared tools and models that enable more consistent, higher-quality programme funding practice.
• Leave behind durable assets and learning: Ensure that Horizon B Programme Funding initiatives result in durable assets, including frameworks, tools, guidance, and documented learning, that can be embedded within the global Programme Funding team and sustained beyond the life of the role

Experience and Skills
Essential

• Proven leadership at a senior international level, in a multi-cultural context, and ability to work in a networked organisation, influencing others through ‘soft power’. 
• Track record of developing and implementing ambitious and complex global initiatives / projects; a demonstrated ability to identify the necessary steps to deliver to ambitious goals and significantly increase growth in income for global organizations.
• Must have experience working in more than one market, ideally as Snr Programme Funding lead, Head of or Director equivalent, in a networked international global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior leadership and funding / fundraisers at a national level providing strategic inputs to help them drive growth all areas of income.
• Demonstrable experience in the areas of strategy development and implementation, budgeting and investment. Highly developed data analysis and budgeting skills, with the ability to interrogate data to make strategic decisions and develop long term business plans. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, with the gravitas to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders. Demonstrated experience and capability of leading, facilitating and influencing change and the delivery of major projects. 
• Able to think creatively and strategically, overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress.
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, defining a clear way forward & ensuring buy-in.
• Ability to work in a culturally diverse setting.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s values and ways of working.

Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Education: Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience - in international development, business administration, business/marketing, social sciences or a related discipline and relevant work experience at the professional management level, with institutional and private sector funding / fundraising experience in a not-for-profit organisation, or an international organisation, or an international development consultancy firm at an international level. 
• Multi-Language Proficiency: While English is essential, some proficiency in other languages commonly used in SCI/A programme funding operations, such as French, Spanish or Arabic, is desirable. Other languages relevant to the movement would also be a distinct advantage.

Desirable: 

• Professional certification or training in international development, programme management, programme funding or relationships management. Accredited membership of relevant professional bodies will also be considered an advantage (eg MCIF, MCIPR, MCAPM, etc)