Resourcing Manager
ROLE PURPOSE:
This role sits within the Transformation Delivery Portfolio
Management Office. The resource manager will take the lead in defining and
implementing a standard process supported by required tooling; guiding teams
from the Business as well as Projects including project managers and IT leads
with the planning and allocating of IT and BA resources needed to deliver on
requirements; determine the portfolio’s demand for resources and ensure its
capacity to meet staffing needs of projects; support the assignment of
resources to a project’s tasks; participate in the hiring process; ensure
alignment between resource forecasts and budget; and work closely with Finance
Business Partners in regular financial control of forecasted demand costs.
This will be a critical role to ensure we effectively manage
resource and anticipate resourcing issues ahead of these becoming a reality and
disrupting or delaying initiatives from progressing. This is also critical to
ensure that resources are allocated to the highest priority work where demand
exceeds capacity.
The role holder will need to be analytical and able to step into
the detail, have a good understanding of IT and BA resourcing to pressure test
resource estimates and engage Project, IT and Business Leadership to
effectively manage required communications and where necessary difficult
messages where work cannot be completed within the proposed timelines.
Qualifications
Essential
- Previous experience as a resource manager
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
efficiently
- Critical thinking, analytical and forecasting
skills, and the ability to relay outcome focused information to key senior
stakeholders to ensure informed decision making
- Ability to adopt a pro-active approach to problem
solving working closely with both the senior colleagues as required and
offering solutions as appropriate
- Flexibility and good decision-making skills
- Managerial and time-management skills
- Interpersonal interaction skills – effective
communication (written and oral English), negotiation, collaboration, the
ability to be diplomatic and stand one’s ground and the ability to present
to all levels of the organisation
- Understanding of project and portfolio level
planning
- Proficient demonstrable skills in managing and
reporting resource requirements across a portfolio and cross departments
- Understanding of budget management and the impact
resourcing has in this space
- Ability to resolve issues swiftly and decisively
whilst safeguarding standards and procedures
- Strong influencing abilities with the ability to
motivate and mobilise individuals outside their reporting line
- Managerial and time-management skills
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to
understand and define resourcing processes and associated requirements and
dive into the detail of complex resourcing scope
- Cultural awareness and experience of delivering
solutions internationally
- Self- motivated and ability to work autonomously
- Commitment to the mission, vision and values of Save
the Children
Desirable
- Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
- Knowledge of IT skillsets
- Second language from one of Save the Children’s core
languages (French, Spanish and Arabic)
How to Apply
