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Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Specialist, Capacity Building (Agile), (maternity cover) to join our global team.
Team and Job Purpose
Accelerating Delivery and Improvement (ADI) is a capacity-building initiative designed to enable Save the Children colleagues and teams to become more effective and efficient in delivering results. Through a structured change and capacity-building program, events and tailored business improvement support, the ADI Team’s goal is creating a culture of continuous improvement in our ways of working across the Save the Children movement. ADI support offers draw on proven approaches from continuous improvement, project management, change management and stakeholder engagement.
Role purpose
The Senior Specialist, Capacity Building role will play a central role in achieving the above goal. The successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in both the delivery and creation of change and capacity-building interventions. They will partner with senior management and their staff throughout all parts of the global- organization to increase capacity and capabilities, identify improvement areas, deliver measurable and sustainable change, and drive efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organization – all to embed a culture of change, delivery and improvement.
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Capacity Building (Agile), (Maternity cover)
Reports To: Senior Manager, ADI
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract for 8 months
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
Language Requirements: English
International Travel Requirements: up to 10%
Principal Accountabilities
Increase global capability in Accelerating Delivery & Improvement and make ADI a way of life at Save the Children through:
Supporting the embedding and rollout of Agile ways of working and our Agile framework
Experience and Skills
Essential
Desirable
Education and Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our recruitment process:
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.