Skills

Leadership Problem Solving Risk Management Quality Assurance Problem-solving Team Leadership Project Management

Job Specifications

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Head, FMS Transition Project to join our global team.

Team And Job Purpose

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.

Role purpose

The Head, FMS Transition Project will be a critical role to lead the transition to a new SaaS solution for SCI and Members. Following successful completion of the selection of a FMS SaaS solution in 2025, this role will be accountable for initiating the required project to transition to the new solution. This will include determining resource requirements, setting up the team, putting in place the required governance, controls and reporting and kicking off the initiative. The Head will need to ensure effective alignment with wider projects and functions to effectively manage dependencies and will need to actively manage the plan and budgets, ensuring hands on problem solving where issues arise and escalation for support where needed.

It is essential that the candidate that takes on this role has experience dealing with large scale, global complex IT Transformation initiatives given the scale of this change that needs to be undertaken.

Job Title: Head, FMS Transition Project

Reports To: Director of Transformation Deployment

Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: M4

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

Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

Language Requirements: English

International Travel Requirements: up to 10%

Budget Responsibility: ~$2m annually

People Management Responsibility: Number of people managed in total: ~10

Manager of a team: Yes

Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): Yes

Principal Accountabilities

Project Leadership: Including direct and indirect management of team members and accountability to the CTO and SLT from impacted Members on delivery of the project
Governance and Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Define, implement and manage governance and engagement with wider senior leaders as well as setting up and managing reference groups to ensure input from key individuals has a forum for the duration of the project
Planning and Reporting: Including ensuring alignment with standard Project and Change Methodologies and associated Portfolio Management requirements
Budget Management: Define and monitor ongoing management of the budget for the project, ensuring compliance with required processes and any issues are escalated and managed effectively in a timely way
Future State Definition: Detailed definition of the future operating model and actions required to achieve the required change including all impacts on people, processes, data and technology
Dependency Management: Working effectively with wider initiatives and functions to ensure dependencies are understood and actively managed with clear owners and accountability ensured
Problem Solving: All projects face challenges along the way and the Project Lead will need to take a hands on role to identify issues and ensure they are effectively managed through to resolution and any subsequent impacts are reported to governance in a timely way

Essential

Experience and Skills

An extensive track record of successfully managing large and complex projects and programmes that include significant system transformation managed alongside process change
Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project practices and standards
A proven ability to deliver projects on time / on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management and quality assurance
A proven ability to apply excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver of effective solutions to project related issues. This will include taking on hands on analysis activities to support the wider team as required
Highly 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
Strong team leadership abilities with the ability to