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Summary

Save the Children (SC) is currently exploring different operating models to ensure we are able to maximize our responsiveness and ability to adapt to changing circumstances in the NGO landscape, including changes in donor requirements and geopolitical changes. One of those models is that Save the Children US (SCUS) would manage and operate some programs independently from Save the Children International (SCI), a UK registered charity, that currently implements most of SC’s international programming.

In this role, you will lead will play a critical role in developing the details of how the operations of SCUS direct programming will function and be organized, facilitating effective coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders in the development of those details, and laying the groundwork for the rollout of direct implementation. You will work in close collaboration with the Flexible Operating Model Project Lead in SCUS and the Flexible Operating Model overall team.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Lead the cross-agency and cross-Save the Children movement efforts to identify, develop, and document the specific requirements for SCUS’s direct implementation of international programs (SCUS International operations or SCUSI). This includes requirements for SCUS headquarters and in-country implementation units.
• Develop/adapt operational policies, procedures, and systems to ensure the effective and efficient delivery, quality, and compliance of SCUS’s direct implementation of programs. This to be done in coordination and liaison with other SCUS unit or department heads.
• In collaboration with project team members, specify the detailed requirements for effective oversight and management of SCUSI operational functions including finance, human resources, supply chain, administration, and program delivery under the SCUSI model and the appropriate ways of working across departments and divisions within SCUS. This includes identifying accountabilities and responsibilities for specific roles in each division with a focus on inter-departmental/divisional collaboration.
• Specify the requirements for SCUS direct implementation offices at country level, including different models for large or small offices.
• Help define the oversight requirements and ways of working to foster continuous improvement of operational processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of the SCUSI implementation model.
• In partnership with agency and movement change management staff, contribute to and support any required change management processes.
• Identify required cross-functional coordination, collaboration, and accountabilities for key decision-making processes related to SCUSI model, including International Programs and SCUS branch office requirements and protocols for crisis management and contingency planning.
• Detail processes, systems, and reporting for regular communication and information sharing across divisions, such as weekly or monthly updates, cross-functional project teams, or cross-functional task forces to support oversight and track performance of SCUSI programming.
• Make recommendations and document approaches for effective coordinated and collaborative ways of working with SCI and members related to SCUSI operations and programming to achieve organizational objectives.
• Identify priority considerations for setting up and closing down SCUS branch offices or country-level operations.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, non-profit management, or a related field or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience in operations management.
• Proven teamwork and leadership skills, including the ability to work with diverse teams, build consensus, and resolve conflicts.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Proven project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of best practices in non-profit operations, including legal and regulatory requirements.
• Able and willing to travel internationally up to 10% of the time.
• Demonstrated commitment to the mission and values of Save the Children.
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• Experience with and understanding of international non-governmental organizations.
• Experience with developing organizational structures or reorganizing units within larger organizations.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.