The purpose of this role is to ensure that the organisation leverages evidence and analysis on children’s rights to influence changes in policy and support the delivery of consistent high-quality advocacy in humanitarian crises.
In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work and be available at short notice and beyond the normal working hours.
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
SCOPE OF ROLE:
- Reports to: Director Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy
- Staff reporting to this post: 6 direct reports. In addition, the role will be required to coordinate activity across a range of offices, functions and members
Budget Responsibilities: Identify and action opportunities to leverage further funding. This will include cost recovery options and working with members to embed priority areas within resource mobilisation efforts.
Representation
- Prepare the SCI CEO, SCA Humanitarian Sponsor, SCA Grand Bargain Sherpa and SCI HD in their humanitarian representation and external relations with senior UN Representatives, other NGO leaders and boards
Humanitarian advocacy and policy development
- Working collaboratively across the movement help shape the organisation’s future strategic direction on humanitarian policy and advocacy in order to maximize Save the Children’s impact and influence on governments and inter-agency humanitarian policy and practice, ensuring that long term sustainable impact for children is the guiding principle
- Build collaborative relationships with other stakeholders in the humanitarian and human rights sector, fostering trust and effective working relations for collective advocacy and influencing
- Manage the Community of Practice for Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy to harness capacity from across the movement and collaborate on a shared humanitarian policy and advocacy agenda
- Oversee the development of Save the Children’s advocacy strategies on crisis-specific and thematic issues and develop policy positions to support Save the Children’s advocacy engagement
- Oversee the development of research and analysis on relevant topics in line with the strategy
Contribute to the strategic priorities of the organisation
- Working collaboratively across the movement, oversee the development of advocacy positions, papers and strategies on topics in line with the strategy
- Build strong relationships with prioritised responses, to ensure that our advocacy, policy and analytical work is grounded in Save the Children’s own experiences
- Ensure Save the Children’s humanitarian responses and rapid response teams are supported and backstopped and that linkages are provided to other departments, such as the CEO Office, International Programmes, Fund Raising, Advocacy and Media
Leadership and People Management
- Deputise for the Director Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy as required
- Ensure effective line management and development of the Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy sub-Team, in line with Save the Children best practice
- Prepare the work-plan of the Humanitarian Advocacy and Policy sub-Team, determining priorities and allocating resources for the completion of tasks and their timely delivery and undertake the administrative and management tasks necessary for the functioning of the team including performance development and coaching of staff under her/his line management.
- Ensure that the outputs produced by the team maintain high-quality standards
- Ensure the roll out of a comprehensive training and development strategy for humanitarian advocacy staff and build a pipeline of talent
- Create an environment of continuous learning, where global level systems and procedures are informed by learnings captured through national level humanitarian response
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
- Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
Compensation
Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:
- Geo 1- NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Up to $155,000/ year
- Geo 2-Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Up to $141,000/ year
- Geo 3-Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Up to $127,000/year
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.
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About Save the Children
No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.
You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
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