Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Social Transformation Hub to join our global team.
Team and Role Purpose
The Locally led Delivery and Partnerships team leads the development and embedding of locally-led programming principles and practices within country programmes, promoting community ownership and sustainability, whilst ensuring alignment with Save the Children International's values of accountability and integrity. This team empowers communities, fostering their autonomy and participation in initiatives tailored to their unique needs. By doing so, we play a critical role in achieving the organisation's goal of creating lasting change for children through inclusive, community-focused initiatives.
The Head of Social Transformation Hub plays an essential leadership role in ensuring our programming funded by Sponsorship delivers and communicates measurable results for children. Working closely with the Country Office PDQ/PQI Directors and their Sponsorship teams, and drawing on a pool of global technical experts, the Head will ensure that Sponsorship is used to support evidence-based programs that align with Save the Children’s global strategy and are optimized by Sponsorship Offices to realize their Country Strategic Plan and localization ambition. The Head of Social Transformation Hub combines strong program technical knowledge with exceptional project management skills and the ability to lead by influence. S/he ensures optimal use of resources for technical expertise and technical assistance on the program, including for research, evaluation and learning. This role is engaged in change management and ensuring alignment with other program priorities within Save the Children, while also coordinating with Operations, Impact & Influencing and Fundraising colleagues on Sponsorship and the social transformation strategy during Sponsorship’s wind down and visioning for future programming. The Head of Social Transformation is part of the annual planning process for all Sponsorship activities, ensuring accurate reporting of program outcomes, innovations and learning. S/he promotes a locally-led agenda, working closely with children, communities and local actors to advance localization and inclusion of all children. Success in the role includes elaborating the evidence base for social transformation and creating a learning path for Save the Children programming to focus on ending inequality and discrimination.
Job Title: Head of Social Transformation Hub
Reports To: Director of Locally-led Delivery and Partnerships
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
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
Required Time Zone: 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
International Travel: up to 20%
People Management: Number of people managed in total: 5
Manager of a team: Yes
Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): No
Remit: Global
Principal Accountabilities
* Operationalize Sponsorship’s strategic priorities (45%)
* Manage Sponsorship’s annual technical planning to ensure quality programs for children (10%)
* Build a social transformation thought leadership hub and long-term vision for funding and implementation in country programs (10%)
* Oversee Sponsorship’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) and evidence and learning systems, to ensure program and child impact are effectively documented and communicated (15%)
* Oversee a Sponsorship Knowledge Management and Learning plan to ensure knowledge management is Best in Class and an example for all of SCI (10%)
* Manage a global team of expertise to ensure high quality delivery of programming in Sponsorship (10%)
Experience and Skills
* Significant experience in area of expertise (international development, project management, social change, public policy and advocacy, and/or child rights)
* Professional level of technical or managerial knowledge, skills, and experience to manage the operational activities of a unit or team, or provide the technical and management support related to various size programs, grants or projects.
* Strong experience as a manager of people and projects, especially change management to improve program impact
* Experience measuring impact and results across a portfolio of projects
* Ability to motivate a learning agenda and development of tools, guidance and other capacity strengthening products
* Strong communication skills in written and verbal English
* Experience with data management and web-based platforms (i.e., SharePoint, Microsoft-suite: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word)
* Experience with Save the Children’s Sponsorship program
* Familiarity with SCA structures and working across multiple country office is a plus
Education and Qualifications
* Masters degree in international relations, research methods, evaluation or other relevant area.
* Specialized training in social change and locally-led programming or partnerships
* Written language skills in French, Spanish or Arabic
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, and reach every last child.
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 at SCI Careers. 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
* Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
* Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
* Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
* If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks
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.
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