Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Global Change Manager - FMS Transition to join our global team.
Team and Job Purpose
Our Financial Management System is critical to the operational running of our organisation but is currently built on premise and needs to be migrated to a SaaS solution to drive efficiencies and ensure the long term stability of the solution. In addition, our global budgets are currently managed via excel spreadsheets and this creates extensive manual work for global and country teams. This project will conduct a feasibility to determine options to automate our budgeting processes and how to best implement these changes alongside the wider FMS SaaS Migration.
The Global Change Manager is a critical role required to ensure the effective end user / stakeholder adoption of priority change initiatives. This role is critical to ensure the stakeholder impact is understood, documented and interventions are planned to ensure any impacts are effectively managed to enable the organisation to move from the as-is to the to-be state. This role is a peer to the Senior Project Manager and will need to ensure the change elements of the plan are effectively documented and monitored, providing ongoing updates and escalations to the PMO and project leadership as required. The GCM will also need to ensure effective alignment with the Transformation Deployment team and take a leading role in upskilling and ongoing support where the Regional Change team are accountable for wider scale up into the Countries
Job Title: Global Change Manager - FMS Transition NEW0000050
Reports To: Project Lead – FMS Transition
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
Contract Length: Permanent
Grade: M3
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: Yes, up to 10%
Budget Responsibility: None
People Management Responsibility: None
Principal Accountabilities
1. Develop detailed change impact analyses to identify the difference between current and future states across all workstreams in the initiative, and ensure that all people, process and system changes are documented, understood and effectively communicated
2. Define a change approach to ensure that the desired changes are delivered effectively and in a sustainable way
3. Develop detailed transition plans which capture all necessary activities at project and country level to manage the change process and deliver the solutions
4. Develop a stakeholder analysis and ensure that it feeds into the development of change and comms planning
5. Develop and manage the change and communications plan and the stakeholder engagement plan and ensure this factors in all key requirements
6. Develop communications and change management material to support the engagements – such as a Compelling Story, Current/Future State Analysis, and overall change impact assessments
7. Initiate various pathways of interactive communication that contribute to the acceptance, support and implementation success of the initiative
8. Define the approach, manage the workstream plan, and ensure effective delivery of the outcomes of this workstream
9. Develop and manage an ‘internal’ change and communications plan for the project team, reference groups and governance groups, to ensure they are kept abreast of plans, progress and changes and that their input is integrated into the initiative
10. Act as a key part of the Project Management team, supporting the Project Lead to ensure change is effectively managed for the project, acting as a stand in for the project lead in key governance forums etc. during absence
Experience and Skills
Essential
1. Considerable experience in leading the Change Management of large, global, transformation projects within Save the Children or 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 as well as a passion for achieving results and displaying proactivity
2. Extensive experience working across multiple project phases to deliver change management oversight and interventions effectively
3. Familiarity with industry change management standards including evidence of completing formal training, with the ability to hold project teams accountable to those standards
4. Demonstrated experience in engaging and collaborating with global stakeholders across various levels of the organisation including Senior Leaders, from diverse contexts. Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with team members, colleagues, members, and external partners
5. Demonstrable experience assessing change impact across complex system and non-system transformation including documenting as-is and to-be process and interventions to manage transition
6. Strong analytical skills with the ability to define a clear way forward, resolve issues, and secure stakeholder buy-in
7. Demonstrable coaching skills to develop others' capabilities in change management
8. Experience working in a dynamic environment characterised by high levels of change and quick turnaround times while maintaining high standards of delivery
9. Project Specific Experience: Experience leading change for a complex process and system transformation, ideally in the finance space
Desirable
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects)
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic
Education and Qualifications
Essential
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Understanding of a structured Change Management Methodology or accredited Change Management training
Desirable
• External Change Management Accreditation
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 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.
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.