Technical Expertise Officer at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Save the Children’s 2022-24 Global Strategy is about disrupting the negative trend and challenging the status quo to accelerate and amplify impact with children. We must think and act differently, together with children and partners, to protect their rights now and for future generations. Strengthening the technical expertise in our implementing offices is a key enabler to collaborate with and shift power to children, communities and local partners.

As a result, Save the Children has recently completed a 5-year transformation programme to strengthen the technical expertise capacity and capability in Save the Children International’s 51 implementing offices, leading to a ~40% increase in the number of senior technical experts working closer to children. This was enabled by an investment of approximately $10m every year since 2019, as well as improved attraction, retention, professional development and financial management of high calibre technical experts in each office.

The two Technical Expertise Officer roles will be key in enabling the sustainability of these improvements by ensuring appropriate reporting, data analysis, knowledge management and support to regions who are accountable for ensuring implementing offices are supported to deliver technical quality.

Where performance issues with technical capability or capacity in an implementing office arise, the role holder(s) will support with diagnosis and course correction under the leadership and direction of the relevant Regional Programme Development and Quality Director.

In order to be successful you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Demonstrated experience supporting continuous improvement initiatives
• Excellent data management and analysis skills
• Strong communication skills (written and oral English), including the ability to communicate with stakeholders across different seniority levels.
• Ability to analyse and present data in a clear and compelling way and tailoring content to different audiences
• Highly organised, with good attention to detail and developed ability to prioritise multiple tasks to meet tight deadlines and organise work
• Ability to adopt a pro-active approach to problem-solving working closely with both the senior colleagues as required and offering solutions as appropriate.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work and communicate across cultures, as part of a geographically dispersed team and across organizations and stakeholders.
• A strong work ethic and able to take the initiative and ownership to deliver value to the business.
• Competent in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• True passion for results, responsibility and proactivity
• Understands and believes in Save the Children’s mission and vision; commits to its objectives and willing to adopt Save the Children’s methodology and framework.

Desirable

• Familiarity with Save the Children
• Fluency in additional SCI language (French, Arabic or Spanish)