Project Manager, Humanitarian Strategy & Transformation
ROLE PURPOSE:
This role sits within the Humanitarian
Strategy and Transformation Team. Project Managers are assigned from the team
to specific projects which support the implementation of our global
humanitarian ambition.
The projects this role will manage will shift
in line with changing organisational needs. At a minimum, the Project Manager
will be responsible for delivery of the following key projects:
- Delivery and continuous
improvement of our Save the Children Humanitarian Plan (SCHP): The Project
Manager will coordinate multiple work streams of activity to ensure that
Save the Children is able to clearly articulate global humanitarian needs
and priorities to internal and external audiences, and track progress
against the plan throughout the year.
- Compliance with cross-sector
commitments: Managing processes associated with key external commitments
including the CHS and Grand Bargain. Ensuring wider organisational
commitment and buy-in to these change agendas and ensuring clarity
regarding individual functions and teams responsibilities to meeting these
commitments.
Qualifications
- Experience of successfully
managing projects and following through to ensure progress within agreed
timeline, preferably in an international NGO environment.
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge
of programme and project practices and standards including standardised
Project Management Methodologies
- Ability to work with multiple
stakeholders, including senior level executives
- Ability to adopt a pro-active
approach to problem solving offering solutions as appropriate.
- Excellent interpersonal skills,
with the ability to mobilise and influence others.
- Strong written and oral
communication skills, including the ability to communicate and present to
all levels of the organisation
- Sound judgement and an ability to
effectively prioritise multiple tasks in a constantly changing environment
- The ability to liaise and
communicate effectively with a broad range of people at all levels, across
different cultures and to act with credibility, discretion, tact and
diplomacy.
- Knowledge of the global
humanitarian environment/context, and sector wide initiatives such as
Grand Bargain and Core Humanitarian Standards
- Self- motivated and ability to
work autonomously.
- Commitment to the mission, vision
and values of Save the Children.
How to Apply
