Save the Children US

Director

• Develop and lead U.S. global policy and advocacy strategy on countries and issues where Save the Children is providing major humanitarian and recovery assistance (55%)
• Lead Save the Children’s humanitarian policy agenda on our full portfolio of issues, including conflict, natural disaster, famine, complex emergencies, civilian-military relations, and other humanitarian responses.
• Manage and prioritize federal humanitarian policy portfolio, leading agenda setting, development, and implementation of issue-specific advocacy strategies
• Lead policy development and strategic planning for ongoing and emerging humanitarian crises, leveraging the full range of U.S. government policymaking tools, including legislation, appropriations, executive actions, regulatory authorities, and internal agency policies.
• Advance Save the Children’s humanitarian priorities through strategic engagement with Congress, the Executive Branch, and multilateral institutions, with a strong emphasis on bipartisan outreach.
• Represent Save the Children in humanitarian policy coalitions, fostering bipartisan collaboration and leading or managing coalition efforts when appropriate.
• Monitor and develop subject-matter expertise on emerging humanitarian crises beyond the core portfolio, ensuring organizational readiness and strategic response.
• Brief Chief Policy Officer, Head of Policy, and senior colleagues on emerging developments, risks, and opportunities, and lead Save the Children’s outreach to policymakers on new and evolving humanitarian situations.
• Oversee the development of policy products, including reports, briefs, and external-facing materials, to support advocacy and public engagement.
• Identify and promote opportunities for bipartisan engagement with policymakers and stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication and coordination with the Head of Policy on progress toward goals, challenges, and emerging priorities.
• Provide strategic leadership during critical legislative or administrative developments, responding rapidly to evolving policy environments.
• Manage the Humanitarian Policy Team and serve on the Government Relations Senior Management Team. (20%)
• Supervise a team of policy and advocacy professionals focused on humanitarian issues.
• Hire, train, and manage humanitarian policy staff. Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise humanitarian policy team staff, clearly communicating organization, division, and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission and supports Save the Children values.
• Oversee performance management, goal setting, and professional development, including mid-year and annual performance reviews.
• Participate in the Government Relations Senior Management Team and align strategies across policy areas and teams to achieve strategic and campaign goals.
• Improve the reach and scope of Save the Children International’s (SCI) humanitarian advocacy through collaboration with wider SCI membership. (15%)
• Represent Save the Children US in global Save the Children humanitarian policy and advocacy teams.
• Prepare, contribute to, and review reports and other written materials related to humanitarian policy and advocacy, as well as key crises and conflicts.
• Develop relationships with peers in other Save the Children member, regional, and country offices, as well as Save the Children International and Save the Children representative offices for international organizations. Monitoring, accountability, and administrative. (10%)
• Track progress toward objectives and grant deliverables, including contributing to reporting and administration.
• Assist with the completion of Save the Children quarterly and yearly reporting.
• Contribute to department strategy, annual work planning, budgeting, and fundraising.

Managing Director, Humanitarian Policy

Human Resources

• Lead the design and execution of talent management programs and projects that align with organizational objectives, with a strong focus on performance, leadership development, employee engagement, succession planning, and career progression.
• Develop and monitor strategies to attract, retain, and nurture high-potential talent, creating a sustainable succession pipeline for critical roles and future leaders.
• Implement performance management systems and succession planning programs that ensure consistent development, feedback, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Build talent enablement initiatives in partnership with the Learning & Development team and HR Business Partners to enhance leadership skill capabilities and program adoption across the organization, including creating initiatives to identify and support high-potential candidates, foster career development, and cultivate future leaders.
• Lead initiatives to improve organizational performance by optimizing business processes, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring strategic alignment between talent management and organizational goals.
• Drive the design and implementation of strategies to enhance organizational structure, processes, and practices that align with the company’s objectives.
• Use data-driven insights to assess team dynamics, organizational workflows, and overall business needs, designing solutions that enhance efficiency and performance.
• Champion the organization's adaptation to changing work environments (hybrid/remote work), using data-driven approaches to optimize workforce planning and development.
• Lead change management and transformation initiatives, ensuring the successful adoption of tools and practices designed to enhance the organizational culture and improve overall performance.

Senior Advisor, Organizational Effectiveness – Employee Experience

Business Development Rep

• Capture and Proposal Development (40%): Supports capture efforts for prioritized small opportunities in partnership with Save the Children country offices and US technical staff, including bid and competitiveness analysis, teaming strategy and partner selection, and proposal planning.
• Gather and analyze donor intelligence and market research to position Save the Children as a partner of choice and a strong competitor.
• Lead in proposal team management for small strategic public institutional proposals or subrecipient proposals, including for domestic opportunities or private funding opportunities as needed.
• Oversee technical, operational, and cost contributions to proposals from thematic, country office, and partner staff; write, review, and edit proposal sections; and lead in proposal production and quality control.
• Coordinate proposal pricing, recruitment, technical, and management leads, guiding and supporting the development of coherent, responsive submissions that reflect best practices in business development.
• Lead on proposal production, ensuring submitted proposals are compliant with donor requirements and reflect Save the Children’s quality expectations.
• Portfolio Management and Pipeline Development (40%): Serve as the New Business Development point of contact for select country offices, assisting them with positioning and donor, partner, and government engagement efforts to develop a pipeline of public institutional funding opportunities.
• Convene country offices and technical colleagues to prepare rationale and supporting data for pursuit of small strategic opportunities, including analysis of win probability and partnership options.
• Strengthen the capacity of staff to respond to strategic opportunities through delivery of information training and tools, including: country and regional trainings, and/or one-on-one interaction with HQ and field based staff on proposal teams.
• Support leads to carry out strategic account management duties.
• Knowledge Management and Team Support (20%): Maintain appropriate systems, procedures, policies, and materials to support the identification, selection, and response to strategic opportunities.
• Assist in organizing and employing department tools, templates, and capacity strengthening resources in support of proposal development.
• Assist in revising business development resources, tools, and templates or creation of new resources; Assist in maintaining team management, knowledge management, and reporting platforms; Support other New Business Development staff as needed, such as in desk research, pulling/analyzing reports, etc.

Lead Associate, New Business Development

Data Analyst

• Conduct regular quality assurance checks on both master and transactional data to ensure data elements are established and used correctly
• Connect with field owners and/or business users to make corrections when required
• Update and maintain Financial Architecture & Innovation documentation (QA statistics/trends, risk log) in relation to data schema and process changes
• Maintain customer relationships as Financial Architecture & Innovation Department’s point person to Finance and extended Finance users fielding questions on the setup and usage of the management accounting structure
• Develop dashboards to track delivery of FinTech workstream’s system and process enhancements
• Collaborate with finance partners to develop and track against strategic divisional KPIs
• Maintain statistics on financial coding helpdesk requests by type, requestor, level of effort, and response time
• Provide ad-hoc reporting as needed to support Finance division strategic goals
• Assist with creating and configuring financial attributes and relationships to support the management accounting structure
• Triage and respond to helpdesk tickets on the Jira Service Management ticketing system monitoring for timely response and closure
• Follow written policies and procedures related to creation, maintenance, and closure of financial attributes and relations
• Propose changes for improved efficiency/clarity
• Support analysis of data feeds from the financial system of record (Unit4 ERP aka Agresso) to other systems as needed

Managing Director, Humanitarian Policy

Senior Advisor, Organizational Effectiveness – Employee Experience

Lead Associate, New Business Development

Lead Associate, Data Analyst – Financial Architecture & Innovation