Openings at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The PMO Manager is a key member of the Portfolio Management Office team. This team is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for portfolio management within the organisation, across 60 Country and Regional offices and 29 Member organisations.

The PMO Manager will be the PMO business partner for a sub-set of the projects and Business Units within the Transformation Portfolio and is responsible for:

• Driving development and adoption of good practice
• Coaching Project Managers and Project Leads in the application Transformation Delivery Lifecycle and PMO controls to their projects, including stage gate preparation
• Oversight of projects’ delivery status, risks and issues and plans, ensuring effective management of interdependencies, and escalation and intervention to senior leadership as required.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Knowledge of project, programme, and portfolio management practices, standards, and methodologies.
• A minimum of five years of PMO experience in a senior analyst/manager role
• Exceptional leadership abilities.
• Excellent communication abilities, both written and vocal, fluent in written and spoken English.
• Paying close attention to the smallest of details and intricacies.
• Interpersonal and multitasking abilities are essential.
• Demonstrated experience working with global stakeholders across different levels of the organisation from a broad range of contexts
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with high levels of change and quick turnaround times, whilst delivering to the highest standards
• Experience in the use of project and portfolio management tools such as Project Online.
• Experience of supporting tools and good practice adoption.
• A proactive and solutions-orientated approach; excellent problem solving skills, and the ability to identify and implement solutions.
• Able to build strong relationships within the organisation and influence others.
• Flexible and pragmatic attitude to work, happy to support others to achieve team goals.
• Ability to work at pace while maintaining high quality standards.
• Confident user of standard Microsoft applications, including MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.

Closing: 19 July 2022

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Role Purpose:

The Head of Global Insurance will be expected to take a leading role in building the culture and systems for managing insurance risk in Save the Children. Save the Children has agreed an ambitious new strategy for 2022-24, which requires us to take and manage an appropriate level of risk, often in complex environments, in order to improve the lives of the most marginalised children and communities.

The Chief Risk Officer leads a Risk Hub which includes the insurance function, ensuring the organisation has the right policies and procedures for managing risk, and supporting that with a comprehensive insurance programme that reflects the risk controls that are established.

Under the guidance of the Global Insurance Director and supported by the other Insurance team colleagues, the Head of Global Insurance will develop a Centre of Insurance Excellence for the Save the Children movement; driving administrative and financial efficiencies for Save the Children International (SCI) and Save the Children Member organisations, and promoting and delivering professional risk financing and required training. Supported by her/his insurance team, the Head of Global Insurance will be expected to work closely with other risk functions reporting to the Chief Risk Officer to develop a coherent and coordinated risk approach and appetite for the organisation.

The role-holder will be responsible for setting and managing global Insurance programmes (General or Employee Benefit insurances) on the most effective and efficient basis, and will provide shared insurance services to Save the Children Members, achieving improved risk coverage, consistency across the Movement and overall cost of risks savings.

The role-holder will have responsibility for managing insurance premiums across their portfolio of insurance programmes. Additionally, the role-holder will have responsibility for managing SCI’s brokers, consultants and service providers supporting these programmes and ensuring SCI’s spend on these is optimised.

Finally, the role-holder will have the responsibility of managing insurance claims, advocating SCI’s position in complex cases, to bring these to the best possible conclusion.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Substantial experience in an in-house insurance role with experience of complex global organisations.
• Required to demonstrate expertise from among Property and Casualty Insurance, Liability Insurance, Financial Lines, Employee Benefits insurance and Risk Financing Techniques, including the use of captives or similar vehicles.
• Prior experience at the senior/leadership level.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, with the gravitas to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience and capability to influence change and ensure the delivery of major projects.
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in.
• Able to communicate complex, technical information, in simple, clear terms to stakeholders who are not familiar with insurance language, rules or processes.
• A proven ability to think creatively and strategically, overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress.
• A demonstrable ability to maintain positive professionalism and productivity under occasional periods of intense work pressure.
• Ability to work in a culturally diverse setting.
• A positive “can do” attitude and someone who is deeply committed to Save the Children’s mission.
• Attention to detail and quality and sees things through to completion

Closing: 21 July 2022