Openings at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Save the Children is the world’s first, and largest, independent children’s rights organisation. Our founder, Eglantyne Jebb, wrote the first draft for the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1923, and we’ve worked to uphold it ever since. Generations later, her pioneering work is being influenced by children themselves. Today, we are still going strong, working in over 100 countries worldwide to build a world where every child can thrive, grow up healthy, educated and safe, and look forward to a future full of promise.

Our ambition for 2030 is to create a world in which all children:

• Survive: No child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday
• Learn: All children learn from a quality basic education
• Are Protected: Violence against children is no longer tolerated.

To deliver on these 2030 breakthroughs for children, Save the Children operates in three-year strategy cycles, and has developed an ambitious strategy for 2022-24, focused on transforming and amplifying impact for and with children.

In the last 12 months, the climate crisis has worsened, the conflict in Ukraine has displaced millions of people and children, and the ripple effects and aftermath of the pandemic have resulted in a cost of living crisis and worsening global hunger crisis at an unprecedented scale. Globally, 426 million children live in conflict zones in constant fear, their childhoods stolen. We are witnessing the worst child rights crisis in decades. The needs are greater than ever before and so is the urgency for us to scale our impact.

To continue to deliver impact in this challenging context, Save the Children is committed to becoming a more locally led movement. We believe this will strengthen our ability to adapt and respond to these changes, and ensure we remain relevant and impactful. We are taking steps across our organisation to be more locally led, including becoming more effective partners to local actors, increasing the participation of children, and looking at changes to our own culture and mind-sets. We will accelerate this shift in coming years.

Against this backdrop, Save the Children plans to undertake reforms necessary to ensure it is effectively positioned to deliver on our ambition for 2030, while remaining on a financially sustainable footing. These reforms include re-examining our delivery model, organisation structures, and allocation of resources, as well as ensuring that across the Save the Children Association we are cooperating to take advantage of scale and reduce total support costs where possible. Together these reforms will help make us a stronger, more locally led movement.

Working closely with the Chief Strategy Officer, Director of Strategic Initiatives and the Head of Internal Communications, the Global Change and Communications Lead is responsible for effective change management, facilitating stakeholder engagement and inspiring internal communications in support of the reform program.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to motivate, influence and negotiate both internally and externally
• Proven success in developing and implementing internal communications strategies especially around change
• Demonstrated success in delivering high-quality change communications, products or tools targeting a diverse range of audiences
• Demonstrates a high level of interpersonal and communication skills including influencing and negotiation
• Cultural sensitivity
• Experience in developing and managing communications content and tools and making best use of content
• Written communication skills in English, with a proven ability to distil large amounts of information for diverse audiences; skills in other languages would be an advantage
• Exceptional planning and organisational skills, with an ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple demands and competing priorities, while maintaining high quality standards
• Innovative thinker, enjoys developing and testing new ideas and ways of addressing issues or driving engagement
• Great ability to work as part of a team within a networked structure, and to maintain good working relationships with colleagues across functional and geographical boundaries
• Significant ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt work plans flexibly depending on external opportunities
• Demonstrated commitment to Save the Children’s mission and values

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Role Purpose:

The Economic Evaluation Advisor, as part of the Economic Evaluation team, will support Save the Children’s commitment to improve its evidence base to make a difference for children. Understanding the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our work and incorporating economic evidence into our programming, policy and advocacy is key to our 2022-24 strategic ambition to triple our impact without tripling income. This role will provide support to country offices and thematic teams by leading cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses, conducting trainings to regional and country office teams. It will also include ensuring our research and monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (REALM) and financial systems facilitate the collection and analysis of quality data that supports economic evaluation. You will work closely with other team members to develop and further improve guidance and tools for economic evaluation best practice. You will be expected to help foster a culture within Save the Children of constantly seeking to understand and improve VfM in our work.

You will work with a range of stakeholders in Save the Children offices and across multiple programmes and countries. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder may be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Essential:

• Curiosity, and a desire to use and promote evidence, feedback and learning to deliver improved outcomes.
• Strong analytical understanding of a range of mixed methods for research and impact assessment to generate evidence.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A proven ability to solve problems and make challenging decisions.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and maintain relationships with key individuals and groups within and external to the organization.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and maintain focus to achieve results.
• Verbal and written fluency in English.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Desirable:

• Experience and a track record of success in conducting economic evaluation, especially cost efficiency and effectiveness evaluations, in development and/or humanitarian aid programmes.
• Knowledge and experience in capacity building and enhancing competencies around economic evaluation, research and learning including design, data collection, data entry, analysis, and reporting, across different cultures and contexts
• Additional languages, particularly French, Spanish and/or Arabic.

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Role Purpose:

The new role of Information Security Architect will report directly to SCI’s Director of Information Security and Data Protection (Global CISO) and will be responsible for developing security architecture and technology solutions to address the growing cybersecurity and compliance requirements of the organisation.

Working alongside Security Operations and Information Assurance colleagues, as well as technical and business teams from across the wider organisation, you will be expected to review SCI’s existing information security architecture, identify design gaps and recommend appropriate enhancements.

This is a highly collaborative role that will require combining extensive technical knowledge with strong communication and facilitative skills.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Proven ability to design end-to-end architecture solutions with strong business analysis/client-facing skills to engage a diverse stakeholder population
• Security Architecture strategy and design and working effectively within application security, including secure application development (security in SDLC phases) and architecture
• Demonstrable experience of Operational Security controls and regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g., IS027000, COBIT, NIST CSF, etc.)
• Experience in developing solution architectures for Azure including Azure / Entra AD, Azure SQL and Service Fabric.
• Experience of securing of cloud services (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS)
• Experience of threat modelling and / or attack surface analysis
• Good knowledge of secure coding standards and best practices (CERT/OWASP/SANS/WASC/MITRE) and understand the most appropriate cryptographic techniques and how they should be used by enterprise organisations
• Familiarity or experience of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman
• Experience of configuration management / change management
• Clear understanding of web services (REST, SOAP), SOA, CQRS, Messaging (ESB) and distributed systems
• Possess a strong work ethic and take initiative and ownership to deliver business value
• Proven team leadership abilities with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside their reporting line
• Good communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and present both at a technical and non-technical level to stakeholders of all levels
• Ability to write high quality requirements / user stories when required

Desirable

• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally
• Experience in working on Enterprise/ Business Architecture strategies, roadmaps, business and technology capabilities and frameworks.
• Experience of working within an agile project delivery environment
• Understanding of application lifecycle management, the value of TDD and continuous integration

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Role Purpose:

The Information Security Risk and Compliance Officer will play a key role in ensuring SCI addresses information and cyber security risks in a timely and effective manner.

Reporting directly to the Director of Information Security and Data Protection, the Information Security Risk and Compliance Officer will work closely with colleagues in the cybersecurity operations and information assurance teams as well as teams across IT and the wider organisation to support risk and compliance activities.

The Information Security Risk and Compliance Officer will be responsible for keeping the IT Risk Register up to date and coordinate risk mitigation actions. The role is also responsible for the coordination of all information security compliance activities including Cyber Essentials, ISO27000 and NIST CSF.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimum of three years’ experience working in an information security function or related GRC role
• Strong knowledge of information security / cybersecurity management principles
• Working knowledge of at least one globally recognized information security framework such as ISO27000, NIST CSF or Cyber Essentials
• Experience of conducting information security risk assessments or reviews
• Demonstrable experience of advising stakeholders in relation to risk remediation
• Good knowledge of commonly applied technical and organizational information security controls
• Ability to work with a range of business stakeholders to understand and articulate their activities in line with defined standards
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated, with a proactive and collaborative approach, and a strong results orientation
• A commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save the Children

Desirable

• Knowledge of different information risk assessment methodologies (both qualitative and quantitative)
• Good understanding of Enterprise IT including cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS)
• Experience of working with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Change Managers and Project Management Offices

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Role Purpose:

The Cybersecurity Operations Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of SCI’s Cybersecurity Operations function, part of our growing Cybersecurity & Information Assurance team.

The Cybersecurity Operations Manager is responsible for a team of four (remote-based) information security analysts and will work closely with SCI Information Security Architect, colleagues in the Information Assurance team, the Global IT Operations team and other technical teams across IT. In this capacity, the role holder will act as a technical authority on cybersecurity management across SCI and provide expertise and guidance to senior stakeholders in Centre, Country Offices, Regional Offices and Save the Children Member organisations.

This vital role is responsible for identifying, analysing, monitoring, mitigating, and managing threats and vulnerabilities to all SCI’s IT systems and networks.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a cyber security / information security function within a complex and / or global organisation
• Experience of working within an enterprise IT environment with practical knowledge of cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), physical networking infrastructure and management of a large client device estate
• Experience of working with a range of cybersecurity tools, platforms and services
• Experience of procuring cybersecurity tools and services
• Working knowledge of common information security standards and frameworks such as Cyber Essentials, ISO27000, NIST CSF, CIS, etc
• Experience of writing and implementing technical procedures and standards
• Experience of carrying out technical risk assessments and sharing results and recommendations with stakeholders
• Experience of managing cybersecurity incidents, including triage, analysis and containment
• Experience of using an IT Service Management (ITSM) platform to manage cybersecurity events and incidents
• Strong knowledge of key cyber threat actors and different types of cyber attack (‘the cyber threat landscape’)
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity management principles
• Experience of working under pressure in a dynamic working environment
• Capacity to build and maintain excellent relations and to work effectively in a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment respecting diversity
• Strong personal, organisational and self-management skills
• Strong communication skills, in English
• Ability to explain complex, technical issues or challenges to technical and non-technical audiences
• Managing costs within an IT or Information Security function
• Commitment to Save the Children mission and values.

Desirable

• Good knowledge of the MITRE attack framework and the TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) used by cyber threat actors to compromise and disrupt systems
• Proficiency with at least one of the scripting language (e.g.: Perl, Python, PowerShell)
• Experience of ‘field operations and the IT Security-related issues associated with working in remote, inhospitable and insecure environments
• Strong understanding of/willingness to learn key trends in international and humanitarian development and how technology can and is being utilised to support these developments

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Role Purpose:

This role is an exciting opportunity for an engaging leader who will provide strong technical direction, inspire innovations and develop new partnerships enabling Save the Children and its partners to support children affected by humanitarian crises. The postholder will lead a team driving improved impact for children affected by emergencies through strengthening Save the Children’s humanitarian WASH response, approaches and learning and contributing to an improved humanitarian sector for children. In this leadership role, the post-holder will manage a team of technical experts, driving the future of humanitarian programming, ensuring that programs are more localized, driven by partners, diverse, inclusive and led by those affected by crises.

The post holder will lead the organization in driving program quality and impact in humanitarian WASH, within the overall sector strategy. Specifically, the post holder will be accountable for (1) developing, implementing, and overseeing the global humanitarian plan and sector strategy; (2) strategic portfolio management and resource mobilization; (3) people management, capacity strengthening and professional development; and (4) sector coordination and internal and external representation. 

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.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Senior leadership experience working in Save the Children with known ability to work across a network of international stakeholders to advance humanitarian programming
• Significant years of experience working directly in humanitarian responses including in complex contexts to design, implement and evaluate programs
• Significant years of management experience driving results and impact, while fostering a supportive and positive work environment
• Experience in creating and managing high-performing teams including building shared objectives, quality control, evaluation, motivation, performance and professional development
• Demonstrated experience in strategy development and strong strategic thinking skills, as well as ability to mobilize resources to drive strategy implementation
• Thorough knowledge and track record of influencing public and programme policy and advocacy agendas to promote principled humanitarian response.
• Knowledge of policy, research and evidence-based methodologies with regards to humanitarian WASH programming, and other relevant child focused programming.
• Proven experience delivering results and outputs with evidence of adapting based on context and needs analysis.
• Energy and drive to create change in a large complex organisation, while constantly adapting approaches and applying enterprise-driven thinking
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including influencing, negotiation and coaching – ability to work with all levels from CEO to junior staff and across all functions.
• Commitment to building and supporting a diverse and inclusive technical team.
• Fluent spoken and written English.

Desirable:

Additional languages, particularly French, Spanish and/or Arabic.