Manager, Change and Engagement – FMS Transition

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Change and Engagement – FMS Transition to join our global team.

Team and Role 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. To effectively implement the new FMS solution, we must decommission our existing system, ensuring transition of all processes and data and ensuring we adhere to global audit and data protection / maintenance requirements. This is a critical initiative that will work in partnership with the FMS SaaS initiative.

Role purpose

The Change and Engagement Manager is a key role 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 will work with the project team to understand key change and engagement interventions required to support the delivery of the initiative, agree the approach, develop the required materials and support the effective implementation. 

For 2026, this role will focus on providing change management support to the first member going live with FMS SaaS – SC Netherlands. 

Job Title: Manager, Change and Engagement – FMS Transition

Reports To: Head, FMS Transition

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

Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

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: up to 10% 

Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Manage and deliver change management activities and associated deliverables to ensure effective change implementation of behavioural, process and system change
• Conduct detailed change and impact analysis to identify the differences between current and future operational states, facilitating smooth transitions 
• Identify training and engagement needs in order to ensure stakeholders are aware of and adopt the changes
• Create and manage a deployment toolkit to ensure the successful embedding of changes across various functions and geographical locations. 
• Oversee stakeholder analysis and engagement to ensure comprehensive, inclusive, and effective change and engagement planning that addresses all key change requirements

Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Change Management Capability: Significant experience and capability in managing change initiatives effectively for multiple processes and systems at a Global Scale for a complex change 
2. Project Lifecycle Expertise: Experience working on changes across various phases  
3. Methodological Affinity: Affinity, knowledge, and experience of working within a standardised project/change methodology. 
4. Analytical and Problem-solving Skills: Experience in solving issues through analysis, defining a clear way forward, and ensuring buy-in from stakeholders. 
5. Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Ability to articulate ideas clearly and build strong working relationships across multiple functions or locations. 
6. Passion for Results and Proactivity: Genuine passion for achieving results, taking responsibility, and being proactive. 
7. Multifunctional Collaboration: Experience in working effectively across multiple functions or geographic locations to achieve common goals, especially IT and including Senior Leaders across a Global organisation 
8. Advanced MS Office Proficiency: Competent in using Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis and presentations. 

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 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

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. 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.