Skills

Monitoring Decision-making Project Management

Job Specifications

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Head, Transformation Portfolio Management to join our global team.

Team And Job Purpose

The Transformation Portfolio Management and Reporting (PMO) team plays a critical role in overseeing and supporting the successful delivery of the entire portfolio of Transformation initiatives. This includes ensuring a clear understanding of how projects interconnect including, managing resourcing, managing governance frameworks, and implementing controls that facilitate effective decision-making. The team manages key portfolio-level governance forums, as well as owns and maintains project management standards, guidance, and tooling, ensuring consistency and quality across all initiatives. At the project level, team monitors the progress of ongoing Transformation projects and provides assurance that they adhere to established project management methodologies. Aat the portfolio level, the PMO conducts portfolio-level analysis to identify dependencies, assess risks, and evaluate and support the overall health and trajectory of the Transformation plan.

Role purpose

This role will oversee a team of a Portfolio Manager and Officers working directly with Transformation projects to ensure they are able to meet their portfolio management commitments effectively. Key accountabilities include managing dependencies, overseeing portfolio benefits, overseeing engagement with projects to understand priorities and progress and stepping into provide hands on support where needed as well as oversight of ongoing monitoring of benefits and associated metrics.

This role will be accountable for and oversee all elements of portfolio level reporting and will need to ensure effective engagement with key governance groups, ensuring effective engagement with individual teams to ensure these governance meetings are effectively prepared and managed.

This will be a critical role to ensure the effective scoping and delivery of the Transformation portfolio, and the role holder will be required to work across a broad set of initiatives and activities to ensure the portfolio is setup for success and is enabled to deliver real value for children. Given the significance of the role, prior experience managing either a portfolio of projects or leading a large global and complex transformation initiative is essential.

Job Title: Head, Transformation Portfolio Management

Reports To: Director, Transformation Project Portfolio Management & Reporting

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: Indirectly supports budget of ~$10-15m

People Management Responsibility: Number of people managed in total: 2+

Manager of a team: Yes

Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): No

Principal Accountabilities

TDIT Formal Governance: Planning and preparation for all TDIT level governance including the Transformation Steering Group (delegated authority for Transformation oversight from the Management Committee) which includes senior leader representation from across the movement.
Portfolio Planning and Reporting: Lead the Transformation Portfolio Management team to effectively engage with transformation projects and ensure plans and associated reporting are delivered on time and to a high standard in line with agreed standard templates and processes. Where issues are identified ensure, these are made visible to the TDIT Management Team and there is a clear plan of action to move forwards
Benefits and Associated Reporting including Board Level Reporting: This role will drive transformation benefits reporting to Board, CEOs and TSG. As part of this they will take the lead in defining the benefits and associated metrics essential to manage the portfolio of transformation initiatives managed by TDIT. This includes ongoing refresh to ensure they continue to be fit for purpose and ensuring the timely and quality delivery of required benefits reporting
Portfolio Level Interdependencies Management: This role will oversee the cross-department interdependencies, ensuring initiatives are aligned with the overall portfolio strategy in terms of planning and ensure active management of responses required including being accountable for supporting responses to transformation related audits
Management of Change Requests: Establishing / refining / maintaining the process for receiving and managing change requests that come from across the organisation, ensuri