Save the Children - US
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Summary
The Senior Advisor, Governance, Program Development leads Save the Children’s fundraising strategy to grow a portfolio of international programming in the area of accountability and effectiveness of governance to fulfill children’s rights and elevate children’s voices. With governance as a core thematic area, Save the Children aims to advance child rights through participatory governance, administrative reform, expanding civic space, child participation, monitoring and demanding children’s rights, and public investment in children. With a focus on US donor accounts, the Senior Advisor engages country teams and technical experts in intelligence gathering on upcoming opportunities; prepares for opportunities by building relationships with country teams and potential partner organizations to actively supporting positioning with donors in focus countries; participates in proposal teams during live proposal development; serves as proposal director and/or technical leader on major proposals; and supports the management of relationships with key partners.
The Senior Advisor collaborates with senior leaders in our Child Rights, Equality and Social Justice (CRESJ) global thematic team, Save the Children US’ International Programs group, and Country Offices. You will also participate in relevant working groups internal and external to Save the Children to ensure of state-of-the-art fundraising tools, processes and methods, including to meet Save the Children’s localization ambitions.
This role reports to the Head of Program Quality and Impact in Save the Children US (SCUS) and Save the Children International’s Head of Programmes Child Rights Governance (CRG).
What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Strategic and Market Positioning, and Knowledge Management (60%)
- Prepare annual fundraising strategies and subsequent new raise target plans, in collaboration with new business development and resource development teams, focused on US donor accounts.
- Evaluate the USAID Business Forecast and other sources of information about USG’s funding priorities to identify new key opportunities, and recommend actions to country teams and Child Rights Governance (CRG) technical staff to build a multi-year funding pipeline.
- Develop and conduct pre-positioning as well as capture work – including making decisions on consultants and partners needed, proposal teams’ travel – to provide accurate information for Go/No Go decisions.
- As the portfolio of governance awards grows, produce marketing materials that strengthen Save the Children’s brand as a lead in good governance and child rights.
- Engage with SCI business development technical leaders and goal teams to align with and influence global fundraising priorities.
Proposal Development (30%)
- Support specific major USG proposals and lead select proposal efforts for private donors and donors from non-US accounts. Work closely with new business development and resource development staff within SCUS, country teams, regional offices, and partners to produce proposals in line with donor requirements and Save the Children policies.
- Coordinate proposal development sub teams, including technical, costing and recruiting in both US and country offices, ensuring timely decisions and clear communications during proposal development.
- Provide up-to-date and accurate information to proposal development staff including capacity statements, past performance references, and appropriate levels of effort.
- Recommend potential partners, both international and local, to proposal team directors. Lead consensus and development of scopes of work when SC is the lead or partner on solicitations based on the department’s strategic priorities.
Technical Leadership (10%)
- As a member of the global CRESJ team, ensure alignment and synergies with colleagues working across Advocacy and Policy, Disability Inclusion, Gender Equality, and Research and Evidence.
- As agreed with line managers, provide technical inputs on key CRG tools and documents
- As a member of the Localization Working group, provide technical inputs to ensure Save the Children’s readiness for locally led development and shifting power to children, communities and local partners.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
- Proven experience pursuing USAID-funded democracy and governance activities and funding opportunities
- Demonstrated experience developing successful competitive proposals
- Proven technical understanding of governance and child rights sufficient to successfully design activities for governance programs or to incorporate governance activities into development programs in other technical areas.
- Proven project management skills and demonstrated ability to juggle multiple work streams with competing deadlines
- Demonstrated knowledge of governance and advocacy programming at the country level
- Proven ability to successfully adapt to a dynamic, changing work environment with a learning mindset
- Demonstrated cultural competencies and the ability to communicate and collaborate successfully with individuals and teams at all levels
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in one or more of the following areas preferred: civil society strengthening, political participation, human rights, gender equality, policy, political economy analysis, advocacy, transparency and social accountability.
- Experience working with country-offices, or country office-led technical design.
- Competency in French, Spanish or Arabic.
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: Target Salary for this position is $108,800 – $121,600 base salary
- Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $98,600 – $110,200 base salary
- Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $88,400 – $98,800 base salary
Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, 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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