Job Specifications
Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Global Change – SCUS FMS Transition to join our global team
Team purpose
A robust Financial Management System (FMS) is essential for the efficient operation of any organization. Across SCI and several Members, we currently use an FMS originally designed for SCI and later extended to opt-in Members. Due to our vendor’s transition from an on-premises solution to a SaaS model, we initiated a tender process and selected Oracle FMS as the new global solution. This system will support across SCA, including all SCI entities, and multiple Members. SCUS has committed to migrating to this shared FMS, with go-live planned for 2027.
To deliver this change, a global project has been established to design and implement the solution across all participating entities. Given SCUS’s size and complexity, its local implementation must be managed effectively to minimize operational risk and maximize the value of this significant investment.
The SCUS FMS Transition Project will work in close partnership with the Global FMS Project to ensure successful delivery of the global solution within SCUS. The approach will prioritize “off-the-shelf” functionality and global alignment wherever possible, while ensuring SCUS-specific requirements are understood and addressed.
Role purpose
The Global Change Manager will be accountable for understanding the context, and identifying and incorporating stakeholders into the change plan and ensuring its successful deployment across our Country Offices and Members. They will be responsible for assessing the impact of change resulting from the proposed CVA solution, and implementation options in terms of our people, processes, data, technology, policy & governance as well as our global legal requirements. They will work closely with individual the wider Digital Programming Team to agree priorities, develop robust change plans, and monitor progress against these plans. There will be a need to consider the change implications and approach, not only directly on the stakeholders, but also on the wider organisation to manage the change successfully and embed new practices and ways of working.
The role holder will be responsible for managing the Change Management deliverables as part of the defined Save the Children Project Lifecycle, including e.g. a Stakeholder Matrix, Change & Communications Plan, and Change Impact Assessment etc. Core to this role will be ensuring effective alignment with wider transformation initiatives, as well as effectively managing relationships with key stakeholders and driving continuous improvements. Externally, the role may be required to work closely with third parties such as consultants and technology partners to understand and assess the impact of proposed ways of working, approaches and communications. In time, the role holder will be required to work alongside Regional Change Managers, within Member offices, embedding change at a global and collaboratively on a local level.
Job Title: Senior Manager, Global Change – SCUS FMS Transition
Reports To:Head, SCUS FMS Transition Project
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
Contract Length: FTC - 18 months
Grade: M3
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location.
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%
Principal Accountabilities
Develop detailed change impact analyses to identify the difference between current and future states across all workstreams in the initiative, and ensure that all people, process and system changes are documented, understood and effectively communicated.
Define a change approach to ensure that the desired changes are delivered effectively and in a sustainable way.
Develop detailed transition plans which capture all necessary activities at project and country level to manage the change process and deliver the solutions.
Develop a stakeholder analysis and ensure that it feeds into the development of change and comms planning.
Develop and manage the change and communications plan and the stakeholder engagement plan and ensure this factors in all key requirements.
Develop communications and change management material to support the engagements – such as a Compelling Story, Current/Future State Analysis, and overall change impact assessments.
Initiate various pathways of interactive communication that contribute to the acceptance, support and implementation success of the initiative.
Define the approach, manage the workstream plan, and ensure effective delivery of the outcomes of this workstream.
Develop and manage an ‘internal’ change and communications plan for the project team, reference groups and