Save the Children International
Manager, Transformation Project Management – FMS SaaS
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Manager, Transformation Project Management – FMS SaaS
Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Transformation Project Management – FMS SaaS to join our global team.
Team Purpose
Across all sectors, AI, Data, and Digital capabilities are now essential enablers that help organisations make better decisions, improve quality, and operate more efficiently. In the development and humanitarian sectors—where every dollar directly contributes to improving children’s lives—this becomes even more critical.
Our Financial Management System is critical to the operational running of our organisation but is currently built on premise and needs to be migrated to a SaaS solution to drive efficiencies and ensure the long-term stability of the solution. To effectively implement the new FMS solution, we must decommission our existing system, ensuring transition of all processes and data and ensuring we adhere to global audit and data protection / maintenance requirements. This is a critical initiative that will work in partnership with the FMS SaaS initiative.
By embedding consistent project management practices and robust delivery disciplines across all FMS SaaS workstreams, we enable better prioritisation, stronger accountability, and more effective execution—ultimately helping us deliver greater impact for children.
Role purpose
The Project Manager for FMS SaaS will be accountable for the project management across key workstreams including integrations and broader design, working to support the Senior Project Manager and Project Lead.
The Project Manager will sit within the broader FMS SaaS Project team, and will work closely with the functional workstream leads, the Global Change Manager, the SaaS vendor, IT team, and beyond. In this role, the Project Manager will be accountable for ensuring adherence to the Project Lifecycle for the integrations workstream and broader design, including setup and maintenance of the integrations plan, supporting with facilitation of relevant governance forums, completing required status updates, coordinating key engagements with technical and business stakeholders, and partnering with workstreams to manage integration dependencies and beyond. It will be essential that the role holder has solid project management experience in a technical or systems delivery context, is comfortable working across business and IT teams, and can drive delivery through influence rather than direct line accountability.
Job Details
- Job Title: Manager, Transformation Project Management – FMS SaaS
- Reports To: Director, Transformation Development
- Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
- Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
- Required Time Zone: Any
- Contract Length: Permanent
- Right to Work: The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.
- Language Requirements: English
- International Travel: up to 10%
- Budget Responsibility: Provide support to management of the budget in support of the Project Lead
- Remit: Global
Principal Accountabilities
- Project manage the FMS SaaS Integrations workstream, using the SCI Project Management toolkit, ensuring integrations are delivered on time, to scope, and to the required quality standard
- Support the Project Lead to define, document, and maintain the integrations scope, including the full inventory of integrations (APIs and data flows) between FMS SaaS and other SCI systems, ensuring this is agreed with the FMS SaaS Project Director and relevant technical and business stakeholders
- Manage an ambitious but achievable plan for the integrations workstream, taking into account technical dependencies, vendor delivery schedules, testing cycles, and go-live timelines
- Coordinate with functional workstream leads and the IT team to ensure integration requirements are captured accurately, interface specifications are agreed, and build and test activities are sequenced effectively
- Drive areas of Project Management accountability, ensuring they run to a regular beat: monitor activity across build, test, and deployment phases, manage adherence to plan, and resolve obstacles to delivery. Work closely with broader team members to ensure delivery remains on track
- Adhere to and manage required project controls for areas of Project Management accountability (plan, risks/issues, dependencies, scope management) and use them to drive delivery, proactively identifying and managing technical and programme risks and issues and driving actions to mitigate or resolve
- Provide input to regular status reports that support effective decision making within the FMS SaaS Project, at the Management Review Group (MRG) or equivalent, with clear escalation of risks, issues, and decisions required
- Set up and maintain the repository of documentation for each stage of project lifecycle, ensuring that all documentation has a clear purpose in driving the project forward.
- Implement best practices and procedures in project management within the project and contribute to the continuous improvement of the project management toolkit
- Work with the Global Change Manager assigned to the FMS SaaS Project to ensure related change activities (including cutover, training, and communications for impacted teams) are incorporated into the plan. As capacity allows, provide broader project management support to the FMS SaaS Project, including cross-workstream coordination, governance support, and plan management.
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Experience and Skills
Essential
- Extensive project management experience, including delivery of SaaS, or large-scale systems implementation in a complex global organisation
- Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project management practices and standards
- A proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, financial management, and quality assurance; with demonstrable experience managing vendor relationships in a systems delivery context
- A working understanding of technical integration concepts (APIs, data mapping, interface specifications, and testing approaches) sufficient to manage delivery and hold technical teams and vendors to account on quality and schedule
- Proven experience of using and leading change management activities including change impact assessment, stakeholder management, managing resistance, building change capacity, designing and defining roles and responsibilities
- A proven ability to apply analytical and problem solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver effective solutions to project related issues
- Developed organisational awareness and ability to understand any sensitivities within a complex multi-stakeholder structure; and think creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress
- Team leadership abilities with the ability to motivate and mobilise individuals outside their reporting line
- Business requirements collection, and process/workflow analysis skills
- Excellent communication skills (written & oral English), including the ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organisation
- Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organisational benefits
- Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally
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Desirable
- Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello) and office suites (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
- Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic)
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Understanding of a structured Project methodology (e.g. PRINCE2) or accredited Project Management training (APM or PMI)
Desirable
- Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects)
- Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children [https://www.savethechildren.net/] 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
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found at SCI Careers [http://www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply]. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the
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