Career Openings at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Drawing on unique knowledge as a people professional, partner with designated Senior Leadership Team members and their leadership teams to help build organizational and people capabilities through delivering learning and development interventions, effective talent management, driving continuous improvement within the P&O function and being the reward and employee relations contact point and recruitment escalation point for your teams. The role is pivotal in driving high employee engagement ensuring employee voices are central to everything we do. The role holder needs to be able to influence at the highest level whilst also getting involved in the detail to problem solve and deliver a great HR service.

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Good organisational planning skills and a proven ability to work with a large degree of independence, managing own workload and priorities and identifying opportunities to add value to the business.
• Proven record of accomplishment of change management within a multi-disciplinary and multi-site organisation.
• Adaptable and flexible and be able to manage changing priorities.
• Supporting and influencing others, enabling effective working as a member of a team and in collaboration with staff and volunteers with full commitment to organisational goals.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, collaborative style and approach, and ability to work effectively across cultures.
• Proven experience of managing a wide range of employee relation’s casework and operating successfully in an advisory capacity with a generalist approach.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen, ensuring that HR policy or development activity addresses the business needs, providing consistent, business relevant advice to senior line managers and other HR staff.
• Proactive with plenty of initiative.
• Knowledge and good understanding of diversity issues including some understanding of issues around gender, age, cultural sensitivity and a commitment to SCI’s values and principles of equal opportunities.
• Experience in a generalist HR role within a large, complex global organisation.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice across the full spectrum of HR activity.

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Role Purpose:

Provide technical and administrative support to the health informatics team to ensure that Save the Children’s health information system, IMPACT (DHIS2), and other systems and processes are well-functioning and able to provide timely guidance for programming and decision-making across the movement. Liase with Global Technical Advisors, Global Monitoring, Evidence and Learning team, and Country Office Technical Advisors to ensure timely support and guidance.

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Qualification or equivalent experience in public health or health information systems
• Proficiency in use and maintenance of DHIS2
• Excellent computer literacy, including advanced Microsoft Office with advanced Excel skills
• Ability to solve problems, work under own initiative and see tasks through to completion
• Proven organisational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
• Experience organising and delivering training to colleagues in person and remotely
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Understanding of and commitment to humanitarian work

Desirable:

• Formal qualification in DHIS2
• Formal training in or experience of data protection regulations (including GDPR) and their application to digital information systems
• Formal training or equivalent experience, in public health
• Formal training or equivalent experience of SharePoint
• Experience using web content management systems and or with HTML5
• Fluency in written and spoken French, Arabic or Spanish

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Role Purpose:

• This is an exciting opportunity for a Safety and Security Senior Advisor to join the Global Safety and Security team within Save The Children International. Reporting into the Director of Global Safety and Security, and providing support to SC UK and other members, especially with respect to crisis management protocols and global operational planning, and risk management.
• The successful candidate will develop a security function for SCUK within SCI that is responsive to current security resourcing and arrangements, which will make better use of limited resources and that will recognise that a lot of our risk is mitigated in practice by ensuring a strong movement-wide approach.   
• As the Safety and Security Senior Advisor you will apply the principles of being proportionate, leverage existing resources where possible; reduce costs; support the continued development of a strong global system. Utilise the SCI ISO accreditation in relation to safety and security; travel risk management (ISO 31030).
• In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.
• In order to be successful, you will bring/have

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Significant international safety and security experience, ideally within a humanitarian context
• Crisis management experience
• Risk management experience, including risk assessment of sites and interaction with other risk management activities within organizations.
• Ability to establish collaborative and productive relationships with people at all levels of Save the Children International
• Be flexible, proactive and people focused.
• Excellent writing, editing and analytical skills, and ability to formulate well-targeted policy recommendations.
• Experienced in providing insight to senior stakeholders using story-telling narratives, supported by the use of graphs/chart/maps when necessary.
• Written and spoken fluency in English, proficiency in a second or third language preferred.
• Ability to work in a matrix management environment. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including good public presentation skills, and a very strong capacity for effective teamwork. 
• Experience in using internal systems (finance, award management, etc.) to extract relevant data to use on wider GSS analysis.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and often demanding environment.
• Commitment to Save the Children values.
• A good level of use of MS office suite.