Sponsorship Innovation Lead at Save the Children

Working in an agile/multi-disciplinary team environment, the Innovation Lead- Sponsorship will be a great collaborator, building strong relationships and cutting through boundaries, in a fast-moving and dynamic environment. The role will work closely with the Head of Evidence and Learning, Managing Director of Sponsorship and the Director of the Global Centre of Excellence for Innovation. Leveraging agile principles, you'll enable your team to flex and adapt - learning rapidly and responding to change, while keeping our supporters at the heart of everything you do. You will be the catalyst for innovation in our 20 country offices using a human centred design approach, providing on demand innovation advisory and monitoring support to Country Offices. You will lead a team of 8 innovation champions in Country Offices to scale innovation within the Sponsorship Program, and support the implementation of Knowledge management strategy for innovation with particular focus on capturing, curating and disseminating knowledge on innovations.

You will use your excellent relationship building skills to provide a critical link between Save the Children’s global and country level innovation work and external innovation sector, leveraging learnings of best practice. This role will lead the development of an innovation strategy, and strengthen both Sponsorship Program Quality Impact and Evidence and Learning technical offers to capture evidence on what works to end inequality and discrimination and tackle some of the biggest problems of today.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Passion and experience in social innovation and entrepreneurship
• Experience in innovation methodologies including human centred design, user experience, co-design, and lean/agile methods
• Proven experience and understanding of policy, advocacy, research, evaluation, business, and finance
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate, build, influence and maintain strong working relationships with individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives including programmatic, policy and advocacy technical experts that may have low capacity in business and finance acumen.
• Track record of storytelling, visualisation & prototyping of ideas successfully & efficiently
• Experience taking at least one innovation to scale
• Demonstrated ability to think critically/strategically, analyse complex information and offer creative, practical and effective solutions
• Ability to give professional support and direction to others
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and an ability to produce and disseminate products to a variety of audiences
• An individual who embraces change & welcomes challenge with an open, participative & transparent style
• Highly skilled at facilitation –working with groups to uncover their creativity & problem-solving ability
• High level of fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Willing and able to travel to COs to support field teams and lead particular pieces of work
• Proven ability to build strong collaborative networks and influence, externally and internally
• Strong remote-working abilities.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in Innovation or NPD in agency, consultancy, commercial and/or charity sector
• MBA or higher degree in relevant field
• Languages: French, Spanish, Arabic

Closing: 11 December, 2022