Vacancies at Save the Children

Role Purpose:

Global Assurance (GA) supports the Boards of various Save the Children entities [including, but not limited to, Save the Children International (SCI), Save the Children Fund (SCUK) and Save the Children Federation Inc (SCUS)] and other SC entities the management of these organisations by evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the governance, risk management, control and oversight systems in place.

The role holder will support the pursuit of GA’s broader strategic aims and will primarily be focused on the development and maintenance of GA’s professional practices, including its quality assurance and improvement program, methodology, and learning and development activities. They will be expected to work closely with the Global Assurance Management Team (GAMT) to ensure a quality, professional internal audit service.

Reporting to the Chief Assurance Officer, the Professional Practices Assistant Manager is responsible for: (i) managing GA’s professional practices and quality assurance improvement programme; (ii) operational planning and performance monitoring; and (iii) coordinating GA’s learning and professional development activities.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Internal audit experience with an understanding of the strategic and operational risks faced by large and complex organizations.
• Experience leading and conducting risk-based audits and reviews of systems and processes (with a good understanding of the three lines model), identifying weaknesses and areas of improvements with minimum supervision and support.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and/or contributing to improvements in internal audit methodology and other professional practices, such as quality assurance activities, performance monitoring, etc.
• Experience developing and delivering training that supports the delivery of assurance and advisory work, and to build and maintain professional and business acumen.
• Experience using audit management software to support the delivery of internal audits. 
• Highly accurate, detail-orientated, and able to plan and complete multiple projects with conflicting priorities on time and within budget.
• Strong interpersonal skills including influencing, negotiation, coaching and relationship building in a wide range of cultural environments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to tactfully and confidently deliver challenging messages, coupled with an equal proficiency in actively listening and incorporating suggestions for improvement.
• Have a strong cultural awareness and be able to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, able to demonstrate standards of ethics and integrity and committed to Save the Children values.

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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 Education 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 education, 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
• Minimum 10 years progressive experience in designing, implementing, managing and/or evaluating humanitarian food security and livelihoods programmes.
• Minimum of 5 years 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 Education 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.