Save the Children Colombia

Company Name: Save the Children Colombia
Job Title: Head, Transformation Portfolio Management
Job Description: Job Title: Head, Transformation Portfolio Management Role Summary Lead and manage the Transformation Portfolio Management and Reporting (PMO) team, ensuring the successful delivery, governance, and benefit realization of global transformation initiatives. Own portfolio-level reporting, stakeholder engagement, and decision‑support processes, while overseeing inter‑departmental interdependencies, change requests, and benefit metrics. Expectations - Drive high‑standard portfolio planning, analysis, and reporting for senior governance bodies. - Foster alignment across diverse initiatives, maintaining a clear view of risks, dependencies, and benefit outcomes. - Provide hands‑on support to portfolio staff and project sponsors, ensuring adherence to project management standards. - Manage a small leadership team (2+ staff) and collaborate with senior leaders across the organization. Key Responsibilities - Lead portfolio planning, monitoring, and reporting for the Transformation Directorate, ensuring timely delivery of templates and presentations to the Transformation Steering Group, Board, and CEO. - Own benefits definition, metric tracking, and benefit realization reporting, refreshing definitions to remain fit for purpose. - Oversee portfolio inter‑dependency management, aligning initiatives with the overall strategy and coordinating responses to audits and risk assessments. - Establish, refine, and maintain change‑request processes for cross‑departmental inputs, ensuring clear ownership and actions. - Prepare and deliver presentations to senior governance forums; translate portfolio insights into actionable decisions. - Mentor and develop a team of Portfolio Manager(s) and Officers, fostering continuous improvement in PMO practices. - Ensure compliance with governance frameworks, project management standards, and quality controls across all initiatives. Required Skills - Strong project and portfolio management expertise, with proven experience leading large, complex transformation initiatives. - Excellent analytical, reporting, and data‑driven decision‑making abilities. - Leadership and people‑management skills, comfortable managing a small team and influencing senior stakeholders. - Effective communication: clear written and verbal skills for board‑level reporting and stakeholder engagement. - Proficiency in PMO tools, portfolio dashboards, and benefit‑tracking systems. - Ability to manage dependencies, risks, and benefits across multiple concurrent projects. - Adaptability to a fast‑moving global environment and changing priorities. Required Education & Certifications - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience). - Advanced project‑management certification preferred (PMP®, PRINCE2®, PMI-ACP, or similar). - Portfolio management certification (PgMP®, PfM®, or comparable) highly desirable.

Morocco

Hybrid

04-11-2025

Company Name: Save the Children Colombia
Job Title: Head, FMS Transition Project
Job Description: **Job Title:** Head, FMS Transition Project **Role Summary:** Lead the end‑to‑end migration of Save the Children International’s on‑premises Financial Management System (FMS) to a SaaS solution. Oversee the decommissioning of the legacy system, ensure data integrity, governance, compliance with audit and data protection standards, and alignment with the larger FMS SaaS initiative. Manage a cross‑functional team (~10 staff), budget (~$2 m annually), and stakeholder engagement across global functions and Member organizations. **Expectations:** - Deliver the transition project on schedule and within budget, meeting defined Service Level Agreements. - Establish robust governance, risk, and benefits frameworks that satisfy senior leadership and audit requirements. - Foster effective collaboration with multiple global teams to manage dependencies and ensure seamless integration into the broader transformation portfolio. - Demonstrate proactive problem solving, escalating issues promptly and driving resolution with minimal impact on business operations. **Key Responsibilities:** - Directly and indirectly lead and mentor a multi‑disciplinary project team, reporting to the Director of Transformation Deployment. - Design and execute project governance structures, including executive steering groups and reference panels. - Develop detailed project plans, control schedules, budgets, risk registers, and benefits tracking aligned with recognised project management methodologies. - Coordinate with other transformation initiatives to identify, document, and manage inter‑dependencies, assigning clear owners and accountability. - Oversight of financial management, procurement, and contractual obligations related to the transition. - Define the future operating model, encompassing people, processes, data, and technology adjustments required for the new SaaS environment. - Provide timely, accurate reporting and communication to senior stakeholders and the Senior Leadership Team. - Resolve technical, organizational, and stakeholder issues through hands‑on analysis and solution design. **Required Skills:** - Proven experience leading large‑scale, global IT transformation and system migration programs. - In‑depth knowledge of project and programme management best practices (risk, benefits, financial, quality, and change management). - Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capabilities. - Excellent stakeholder engagement skills within complex, multi‑stakeholder environments. - Demonstrated team leadership, staff development, and cross‑functional collaboration. - Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, Jira, or equivalent). - Ability to communicate clearly in English and navigate cultural nuances in a global setting. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field. - Professional project management certification (PMP, Prince2, or equivalent) preferred. - Willingness to travel up to 10 % of the time.

Morocco

On site

05-11-2025

Company Name: Save the Children Colombia
Job Title: Senior Specialist, Enterprise Analytics
Job Description: **Job title:** Senior Specialist, Enterprise Analytics **Role Summary:** Lead the design, execution, and delivery of enterprise‑level quantitative analyses that support data‑driven decision‑making across the organization. Collaborate with transformation, IT, value‑for‑money, and program quality teams to analyze program costs, efficiencies, and impacts, building forward‑looking models that guide strategic investments and operational improvements. **Expectations:** - Provide rigorous, actionable insights from complex datasets. - Translate business requirements into analytical solutions that enhance program delivery and cost‑effectiveness. - Bridge functional gaps between projects, business units, and IT, ensuring alignment of data, models, and deliverables. - Document analysis methods, data sources, and assumptions in a version‑controlled, transparent manner. **Key Responsibilities:** 1. Analyze existing program, cost, and performance data to answer critical business questions (e.g., unit cost per child, cost‑efficiency, cost‑effectiveness). 2. Partner with stakeholders to gather, assess, and document data requirements and desired analytical outputs. 3. Develop and validate predictive and prescriptive models that forecast outcomes of potential business decisions. 4. Work within project teams to deliver incremental business value, prioritizing design requirements based on impact. 5. Identify and resolve conflicts, gaps, or dependencies among requirements and projects. 6. Maintain up‑to‑date, version‑controlled documentation and knowledge artifacts for stakeholders. 7. Present findings and recommendations through dashboards or reports, leveraging tools such as Power BI or similar. **Required Skills:** - Advanced quantitative analysis and statistical modeling. - Proficiency in data manipulation and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Python/R, Excel, Power BI). - Strong stakeholder management and communication; ability to translate technical results into business insights. - Strategic business judgment to build forward‑looking analytical models. - Collaborative mindset with cross‑functional teams (MEAL, IT, finance, program teams). - Attention to detail and commitment to data quality and documentation. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field (Master’s preferred). - Relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate, SQL, or analytics‑related credentials) are a plus but not mandatory.

Morocco

Hybrid

Senior

24-11-2025

Company Name: Save the Children Colombia
Job Title: Specialist, Resource Centre
Job Description: **Job title** Specialist, Resource Centre **Role Summary** Oversee the strategic management, curation, and continuous improvement of a global digital knowledge platform (Resource Centre). Ensure the platform is user‑friendly, secure, content‑rich, and aligned with organizational priorities. Serve as the primary point of contact for the platform’s technical and content operations, partnering with external developers, internal stakeholders, and content contributors. **Expectations** - Deliver a high‑quality, accessible platform that meets E&L standards and supports program quality improvement. - Manage platform performance, security, and GDPR compliance. - Curate and maintain multilingual content with accurate metadata and consistent quality. - Develop and execute a content strategy that drives engagement and supports advocacy and learning objectives. **Key Responsibilities** - Platform & Technical Oversight:  - Liaise with external vendor (Swace Digital AB) for hosting, security, bug fixes, and feature development on AWS/NextJS/WordPress. - Monitor performance, analytics, and site availability; coordinate maintenance schedules and API integrations. - Content Curation & Quality Assurance:  - Review, upload, and edit resources, ensuring metadata completeness and SEO optimization. - Enforce image and accessibility policies, maintain multilingual consistency (English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, Arabic). - Audit platform for broken links, outdated content, and metadata gaps. - Content Strategy & Engagement:  - Create and update editorial calendar, align with campaigns, awareness days, and stakeholder milestones. - Source and publish high‑quality resources, promote new content internally and externally. - Copyright & Governance:  - Manage copyright agreements, Creative Commons compliance, and content lifecycle. - Budgeting, Reporting & Coordination:  - Handle quarterly invoicing, budgeting, and usage reporting. - Produce analytics for leadership and support funding proposals. - Foster collaboration with IT, global communications, and thematic teams. **Required Skills** - Proven experience managing digital knowledge platforms or large content repositories. - Technical proficiency with CMS (WordPress), cloud hosting (AWS), APIs, and analytics tools (Google Analytics, HotJar). - Strong writing, editing, and cataloging abilities; familiarity with metadata standards and multilingual content. - Strategic mindset for content planning and audience engagement. - Project management skills: vendor management, budgeting, reporting cycles. - Analytical capability: data extraction, insight generation, and dashboards. - Excellent communication and stakeholder liaison skills. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Information Science, Library Science, or related field (preferred). - Certifications in CMS administration, project management or digital analytics are a plus. ---

Morocco

On site

24-11-2025

Save the Children Colombia

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