The Opportunity

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Technical Excellence Manager (Maternity Cover) at London or any existing Save the Children International office location.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Technical Excellence team consists of one Senior Manager and two Managers focused on supporting country and regional offices and global thematic teams to identify, grow and engage country technical experts to apply our best, evidence-based work for children, especially Common Approaches.

The purpose of the Technical Excellence Manager role is:

• To lead on the pedagogical approach for the development and operation of Learning Programs for technical/thematic experts especially from country offices. The Learning Program courses currently being delivered include “Bronze” courses, which are 1-2 hour e-learning courses, and “Silver” courses that are 3 – 6 months long courses, primarily using remote learning, to build and strengthen the capability of technical experts to design, contextualize and support the delivery of 18 different evidence-based ‘Common Approaches’ to solving particular problems for children.
• To work with the Technical Expertise Transformation Project team and provide support in refreshing the Terms of Reference for Save the Children’s global technical Leadership structure (Technical Leadership Groups & Technical Working Groups).
• Support Save the Children's Global Expertise and Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP), to fulfil its mandate in providing country programmes with the technical expertise they need, when they need it; to meet the needs of our domestic and international programmes

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Significant job related experience in adult learning, including relevant experience in development and/or humanitarian contexts
• Understanding and ability to apply learning and capacity development strategies
• Experience working in at least one of the five global thematic areas (health & nutrition, education, child protection, child poverty and child rights governance) preferred
• Exceptional project management skills with the ability to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously
• Experience with web-based platforms and using information systems
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of SharePoint 2010 or 2013
• Demonstrated proficiency in the development and management of data bases and/or document catalogues
• Demonstrated proficiency in using Articulate 360 or similar platform to deliver learning
• Exceptional oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with the state of the art in communication technology, including the application of Workplace to accommodate business related needs
• Ability to work and communicate across cultures, as part of a geographically dispersed team and across organizations and stakeholders
• Ability to work with, and communicate with, program oriented IT professionals across the movement
• The ability to work in a second language would be a strong advantage, in particular, Arabic, French or Spanish.
• Adaptable working style and effective when working in situations that may appear ambiguous.
• Self- motivated and able to work with high degree of autonomy and without close supervision.

ROLE PURPOSE: 

The Coding, PRIME and PMM programme forms a major part of Save the Children International’s (SCI) High Performing Organisation (HPO) programme. The project has completed design and has moved into develop and deploy the global CAPP solution across 56 country and regional offices in SCI and to other SC Member organisations by 2022 - and to transform existing project management, monitoring and financial data management processes into standardised systems and solutions.

This is a great opportunity for someone with one year of experience in data analysis and data entry to develop an understanding of charity sector project management processes and interventions as well as an insight into results frameworks, monitoring and evaluation data we use to track our impact as an organisation. This role provides insight into Save the Children Alliance’s project portfolio and operational environment and would be ideal for someone looking to understand project management tools and methods used in development/charity projects.

The CAPP Data Gathering Specialist will be one of two people coordinating with the Country Offices to collect and support the transposition of Project & Award Data in preparation for office adoption of new systems and processes. They will be completing reviews to ensure that content is primed for the PRIME system accurately reflecting what has been agreed by Member and Donor organisations. The candidate must be a Spanish speaker with good English proficiency.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Highly proficient at MS Excel with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
• Proactive, pragmatic & analytical mindset
• Positive, collaborative, can-do attitude
• Appetite to understand more about Save the Children’s project and programme portfolio and monitoring and evaluation data.
• Spanish speaker with good English proficiency

Desirable:

• Experience or knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Experience within global, multicultural, matrix organisations.