Senior Manager, Global Change-SCUS FMS Transition in England

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

A robust Financial Management System (FMS) is essential for the efficient operation of any organization. Across SCI and several Members, we currently use an FMS originally designed for SCI and later extended to opt-in Members. Due to our vendor’s transition from an on-premises solution to a SaaS model, we initiated a tender process and selected Oracle FMS as the new global solution. This system will support across SCA, including all SCI entities, and multiple Members. SCUS has committed to migrating to this shared FMS, with go-live planned for 2027.

To deliver this change, a global project has been established to design and implement the solution across all participating entities. Given SCUS’s size and complexity, its local implementation must be managed effectively to minimize operational risk and maximize the value of this significant investment. The SCUS FMS Transition Project will work in close partnership with the Global FMS Project to ensure successful delivery of the global solution within SCUS. The approach will prioritize “off-the-shelf” functionality and global alignment wherever possible, while ensuring SCUS-specific requirements are understood and addressed.

The Global Change Manager will be accountable for understanding the context, identifying and incorporating stakeholders into the change plan, and ensuring its successful deployment across our Country Offices and Members. They will be responsible for assessing the impact of change resulting from the proposed CVA solution, and implementation options in terms of our people, processes, data, technology, policy & governance as well as our global legal requirements. They will work closely with the wider Digital Programming Team to agree priorities, develop robust change plans, and monitor progress against these plans.

There will be a need to consider the change implications and approach, not only directly on the stakeholders, but also on the wider organisation to manage the change successfully and embed new practices and ways of working. The role holder will be responsible for managing the Change Management deliverables as part of the defined Save the Children Project Lifecycle, including a Stakeholder Matrix, Change & Communications Plan, and Change Impact Assessment.

Core to this role will be ensuring effective alignment with wider transformation initiatives, as well as effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders and driving continuous improvements. Externally, the role may be required to work closely with third parties such as consultants and technology partners to understand and assess the impact of proposed ways of working, approaches and communications. In time, the role holder will be required to work alongside Regional Change Managers, within Member offices, embedding change at a global and collaboratively on a local level.

Principal Accountabilities

• 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.
• Define a change approach to ensure that the desired changes are delivered effectively and in a sustainable way.
• Develop detailed transition plans which capture all necessary activities at project and country level to manage the change process and deliver the solutions.
• Develop a stakeholder analysis and ensure that it feeds into the development of change and communications planning.
• Develop and manage the change and communications plan and the stakeholder engagement plan and ensure this factors in all key requirements.
• Develop communications and change management material to support the engagements – such as a Compelling Story, Current/Future State Analysis, and overall change impact assessments.
• Initiate various pathways of interactive communication that contribute to the acceptance, support and implementation success of the initiative.
• Define the approach, manage the workstream plan, and ensure effective delivery of the outcomes of this workstream.
• 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.
• 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 during absence.

Experience and Skills

• 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.
• Extensive experience working across multiple project phases to deliver change management oversight and interventions effectively.
• Familiarity with industry change management standards including evidence of completing formal training, with the ability to hold project teams accountable to those standards.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to define a clear way forward, resolve issues, and secure stakeholder buy-in.
• Demonstrable coaching skills to develop others' capabilities in change management.
• Experience working in a dynamic environment characterised by high levels of change and quick turnaround times while maintaining high standards of delivery.

Project Specific Experience:

• Experience leading change for a project focused on systems and behavioural change for a complex global stakeholder group where digital literacy is varied.
• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects).
• Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Understanding of a structured Change Management Methodology or accredited Change Management training.
• 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

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