Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Transformation Project Management to join our global team.

Team and Role Purpose

The Transformation Development team drives Save the Children's organisational change agenda by delivering high-impact, global transformation initiatives that strengthen our ability to achieve more for children. The team works across a broad and evolving portfolio — spanning systems implementation, process reengineering, target operating model design, data, and artificial intelligence — adapting its focus in response to organisational priorities and emerging needs.

Members of the team are assigned to a specific project and are expected to dedicate their full effort to delivering it. However, as the portfolio evolves — whether a project concludes, priorities shift, or an urgent need arises elsewhere — team members may be redeployed to a different initiative. This flexibility is core to how the team operates, ensuring Save the Children can direct the right capability to the right priorities at the right time.

Role purpose

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for the end-to-end project management of a complex, global transformation initiative, ensuring delivery is planned, governed, and executed to the highest standards across the full Save the Children Project Lifecycle.

The role holder will take ownership of all core project management deliverables — including planning, scheduling, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, and status reporting — providing the rigour and visibility that enables the project team and senior stakeholders to make informed decisions. They will lead the production and maintenance of key project management deliverables, including the Project Assurance Plan, Project Brief, Project Plan and beyond, ensuring these are maintained throughout the life of the project.

Beyond operational project management, the Senior Project Manager will play an active role in shaping how the project is run, contributing to strategic planning, sequencing of workstreams, and the identification and resolution of cross-cutting risks and dependencies. They will work closely with the Project Lead to support governance, escalation, and decision-making, and will serve as a key point of integration across the project team.

The role requires close collaboration with the Business Analyst, Global Change Manager, and relevant Business Functions to ensure alignment between project plans and wider delivery activity. More broadly, the role holder will engage with a diverse range of stakeholders across the movement — including Country Offices and Members — ensuring their perspectives are heard and that they are fully equipped and prepared for implementation. This will be achieved in close partnership with the Global and Regional Change Managers working on the project.

Job Details

• Job Title: Senior Manager, Transformation Project Management
• Reports To: Head, Transformation Project
• 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: $1m (annually)
• Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Partner with the Project Lead to ensure the effective setup of the Project including recruitment of key roles, definition and setup of governance and ongoing meeting requirements
• Lead the comprehensive management of the project, ensuring that it is delivered successfully in alignment with agile and/or waterfall project frameworks, within the allocated budget, and on time. As part of this, develop and oversee a realistic and committed project plan, considering organisational deadlines, dependencies, necessary resources, and associated costs
• Ensure reference groups are established and maintained and continue to be used effectively to ensure the required input is received from functional SMEs from both SCI and Members (if relevant)
• Work with the Business Analyst to ensure any required analysis is defined and agreed. Support the BA to ensure effective development of the requirements and process maps to deliver the future state operating model
• Ensure project controls including risks, issues and dependencies are documented and reported in line with the Portfolio Management Office requirements and any critical issues are escalated quickly through the agreed channels and stage gates are effectively managed
• Lead the governance process including ensuring sufficient time is available for review and sign off from the relevant leaders that are agreed up front
• Lead engagement with stakeholders within SCI including engagements with senior stakeholders in coordination with the Project Lead and Global Change Manager
• Continue to monitor scope definition and implement change control in line with the PMO principles
• Implement best practices and procedures in project management within the project and contribute to the continuous improvement of the Project Lifecycle
• Input and Support Delivery of Change Impact and Interventions relating to the transformation design, resource impacts, comms and engagement etc.