Principal Accountabilities
Project Leadership: Including direct and indirect management of team members and accountability to the CTO and SLT from impacted members on delivery of the Project
Governance and Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Define, implement and manage Governance and Engagement with wider Senior leaders as well as setting up and managing reference groups to ensure input from key individuals has a forum for the duration of the Project
Planning and Reporting: Including ensuing alignment with standard Project and Change Methodologies and associated Portfolio management requirements
Budget management: Define and monitor ongoing management of the Budget for the Project, ensuring compliance with required processes and any issues are escalated and managed effectively in a timely way
Future State Definition: Detailed Definition of the Future operating model and actions required to achieve the required Change Including all impacts on people (programme participants, partners and staff), processes, data and technology
Dependency management: Working effectively with wider initiatives and functions to ensure dependencies are understood and actively managed with clear owners and accountability ensured
Problem Solving: all projects face challenges along the way, and the Project Lead will need to take a hands on role to identify issues and ensure they are effectively managed through to resolution and any subsequent impacts are reported to Governance in a timely way
Experience and Skills
Essential
Considerable experience in the leadership, management and deployment of large, global, transformation projects within Save the Children and additional equivalent scale organisation across both system and non-system change. Demonstrates direct accountability for issue resolution and capacity building to empower others in problem-solving
Hands on experience of complex CRM deployments, in a Fundraising Capacity, from feasibility through to design, develop and deployment
Experience leading the setup of large-scale Global Transformation initiatives including recruitment of key roles, governance setup and functional alignment
Familiarity with industry project (agile and waterfall) and change management standards including evidence of completing formal training, with the ability to hold project teams accountable to those standards
Demonstrated experience leading engagement with Senior Leaders up to Board level and partnering with functional leaders across multiple functions
Ability to lead the resolution of complex project issues with a balanced approach of pragmatism and rigour including experience leading others to deliver the required interventions and managing associated governance
Line Management experience, including leading teams with multi layered hierarchies. As part of this, demonstrable coaching skills to develop others' capabilities in project management, change management, project feasibility, and initiation.
Proven ability to operate successfully within a matrix organisation structure, overseeing resource without direct line management accountability and being experienced working across multiple different functional areas
Operational expertise working with Digital technologies focused on transforming an organisation's ability to achieve data driven decision making
Desirable
Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic
Education and Qualifications
Essential
Educated to degree level of equivalent work experience
External Project and/or Change Management accreditation