The Opportunity
Save the Children International has an exciting internal secondment opportunity for you to join the Resource Mobilisation, Communications & Engagement team in the Centre as the Global Director of Programme Funding & Institutional Partnerships. Open to Save the Children member office employees.
Role Purpose:
Save the Children has agreed an ambitious new global strategy for 2022-24, and has developed an accompanying Global Funding Framework (GFF) to inform and shift how the movement works together to drive greater funding impact for children. By 2024, our ambition is for Save the Children to be +$3bn organisation, with institutional funding constituting around 65-70% of this income globally. Growing, diversifying and optimising our institutional programme funding and income will therefore be critical to achieving this ambition, and success in this area will be dependent on changes to our behaviours and ways of working that mark and facilitate a shift to prioritise collective action, collaboration and embed mutual accountability.
The Global Director of Programme Funding and Institutional Partnerships provides the strategic leadership and direction to a core, globally-disbursed team at Save the Children International (SCI), which is working across the Save the Children Association (SCA) to optimise and align the movement’s global-to-country programme funding portfolio and to drive improvements to our institutional fundraising practices and partnerships in order to help deliver our global breakthroughs.
The role holder also leads on the team’s extensive collaboration across multiple functions in SCI centre, regional and country teams, as well as with key stakeholders in SCA member organisations to ensure appropriate senior-level engagement and support for all SCA/SCI programme funding initiatives. This includes working in close partnership with key member Global Program Directors (GPDs), with all member Global Institutional Partnerships leads (GIPG), as well as with a newly established network of Regional Resource Mobilisation Directors/leads (RRM) based in SCI’s 5x Regional Offices (ROs).
Additionally, this role informs, shapes and connects key strategic initiatives in pursuit of Save the Children Global Strategy and represents institutional programme funding perspective into such initiatives. The post holder is an active member of the Senior Management Teams of both the Resource Mobilisation, Communication & Engagement (RMCE), and International Programme (IP) Departments, is part of the broader SCI/SCA Extended Senior Leadership Team, and is an active participant representing global institutional funding interests in the SCA Funding Taskforce, into multiple Governance and Management Groups (MRGs), while also providing specific updates to the SCI/SCA CEO and the global board(s) as needed.
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
- Significant experience of leading an equivalent strategic programme and/or institutional resource mobilisation function in a major international organisation
- Extensive experience of influencing and delivering results cross-organisationally within a large, complex global organisation and ability to manage the tension between global strategic decisions and the operational reality at country and regional level
- Substantial institutional fundraising and/or award management experience, including working within a complex matrixed organisation (including the Save the Children movement).
- Demonstrable subject matter expertise across relevant international development issues, combined with significant experience in developing / managing strategic partnerships with the key institutional donor organisations relevant to SCA
- Exceptional leadership behaviours, including external orientation, situational agility and partner focus, with strong negotiation and influencing skills in relation to multiple stakeholder contexts and matrices
- Exceptional team & interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively and with impact
- Experience of leading and managing people, including providing guidance and oversight and empowering team members to deliver
- Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, including defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in
- Attention to detail and the ability to follow tasks and ideas through to completion
- A high degree of flexibility and adaptability in order to respond to changing needs
- Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save the Children.
Desirable
- Experience of working in / across other areas of SC’s operations and / or functions
- Experience of being involved in the implementation of a new / changed business processes and ways of working or transformation processes.
- Multilingual proficiency relevant to SCAs operations (eg French, Spanish, Arabic, other)
Within this 6-month internal secondment opportunity, we can offer flexible working arrangements or job shares, subject to approval.
This role can be based in the UK or any existing Save the Children International Regional or Country office location. We are also opening up the opportunity to SC member offices (upon approval).
The successful candidate will be required to provide eligibility to work from their preferred location and National T&C (including pay) will apply.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your salary expectations. A full copy of the role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.