Jobs at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Drawing on unique knowledge as people professionals, work closely with managers to help build organizational and people capabilities, ensuring we are legally compliant and supporting the implementation of the People and Organization Strategy.

Understand SCI’s strategy, direction of travel and employee needs in order to deliver people solutions, which help to achieve SCI’s objectives and enable employee happiness and growth.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 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: 

Given the size and complexity of the transformation portfolio at Save the Children, we often identify dependencies that need to be addressed through the creation of sub-projects or come across roadblocks that ultimately could impact the successful delivery of our projects. These if not dealt with result in costly delays and the capacity within the existing management structure is not sufficient to cope with this demand on top of overseeing the team resources and overseeing the projects. Adding to this the fact we have no transformation resource bench often the solution to avoid delays is either adding additional burden to resources already at capacity or bringing in external consultants to plug the gap which are costly and require significant onboarding time before they are fully effective.

The Transformation Interventions Manager sits within the Transformation Delivery department and is responsible for addressing business critical risks and issues across the portfolio. This could be supporting the team to avoid issues becoming significant through targeted interventions relating to design, development or implementation of projects or directly intervening where a critical issue is already impact project delivery. In addition, where capacity allows this role will support the Transformation Development team to develop proposals and initiation documents for potential new projects to ensure they are effectively scoped, sized and reviewed prior to being progressed to the required governance bodies. Once agreed this role as part of the Transformation Development Team will support the effective setup of agreed new projects.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

• Experience with the successful management and deployment of large, transformation projects within Save the Children including direct accountability for resolving issues and building capacity of others to resolve similar issues in the future
• Experience of working on IT and Business focused projects
• Experience of industry project and management standards and holding project teams accountable to those standards
• Experience working with global stakeholders across different levels of the organisation
• Demonstrable experience of acting as a ‘business partner’ to functional areas e.g. Supply Chain, Finance etc.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with high levels of change and quick turnaround times, whilst delivering to the highest standards
• Demonstrable coaching skills to help build the capabilities of others in the area of Project and Change Management
• The ability to operate successfully in a ‘matrix’ organisation
• Ability to resolve complex project issues, with a balance of pragmatism and rigour
• Commitment to Save the Children values

Desirable:

• Prior experience in challenging geographies that include less developed areas in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
• Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic