Lead, Organisation Effectiveness

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Lead, Organisation Effectiveness to join our global team.

 

Team and Role Purpose

The role sits in the People and Organisation Effectiveness team who align people strategy with delivery - integrating workforce planning, total reward, HR transformation, engagement and wellbeing and employee relations - to create a fair, high‑performing, and future‑ready organisation. 

This role will be a senior individual contributor, convening several stakeholders, project management and wider team support to deliver their purpose. They will lead strategic workforce planning and organisational change to ensure the organisation has the right people, skills, and structures to deliver its global strategy. Design and embed best-practice tools and frameworks for workforce planning, organisational design, and restructuring, while building HR capability in implementation and change management. Partner with People teams and leaders to enable effective planning, evidence-based decisions, and sustainable change. 

 

• Job Title: Lead, Organisation Effectiveness

• Reports To: Director, People & Organisation Effectiveness

• Work Pattern: Hybrid or remote with flexible working options available (e.g. 0.8 FTE)

• 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 

• Contract Length: Permanent

• 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

• Remit: Global

 

Principal Accountabilities

Strategic Workforce Planning

• Design and deliver strategic workforce planning tools and cycles, enabling People Partners and Leaders to plan for future skills, roles, and capacity.

• Lead and deliver the annual global people planning process ensuring coordination with the wider organisational planning process whilst building HR capability in planning and performance. 
• Lead the continual monitoring and action tracking against agreed milestones and the development of visuals and materials to support the communication and delivery of the plan across Country Offices and Global teams.

Organisational Design & Restructuring

• Provide expert advice and options to Country Office and Global teams to ensure organisational design decisions are evidence-based and aligned with strategic goals.

• Develop and implement a best-practice restructuring toolkit to support People Partners and Country Offices through design and delivery of all restructuring activities.

• For organisational changes with large scale people impact, lead the design, development and implementation as needed

Capability Building

• Build HR capability in organisational change, including organisation development, design, change management, and implementation.

• Embed consistent frameworks and tools that enable teams to deliver change effectively and sustainably.

 

Experience and Skills 

Essential

• Proven Strategic Workforce Planning expertise, translating strategy into demand/supply views and scenarios, creating practical tools, frameworks and usable playbooks for senior leaders.  

• Deep understanding of Strategic Workforce Planning principles and ability to apply these to a variety of contexts across humanitarian and international development settings 

• Strong analytical skills to interpret workforce data and translate insights into actionable plans. 

• Expertise in organisational design shaping structures, roles, spans/layers and decision paths with clear options and trade-offs, aligned to workforce insights. 

• Substantial experience in leading and guiding restructuring processes with large scale people impact across multiple countries in which SCI operates  

• Proven ability to apply evidence-based approaches and present clear options and trade-offs to senior stakeholders. 

• Strong knowledge of change management methodologies and experience embedding them in organisational practice. 

• Ability to coach leaders and teams through change, building confidence and capability. 

• Knowledge of and familiarity with employment legislation in multiple countries in which SCI operates relevant to organisational change and restructuring  

 

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.