Senior Lead, Programme Funding Growth Acceleration

The Senior Lead, Programme Funding Growth Acceleration leads strategic projects to accelerate global growth of Integrated Programme Funding across institutional and private funders. The role requires strategic, financial, and project coordination skills, managing stakeholders at executive levels, and collaborating across the Save the Children movement.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Horizon B Programme Funding growth initiatives, translating strategic intent into time-bound, decision-ready outputs to unlock portfolio growth.
• Provide strategic support to priority markets and accounts to enable step-change growth, collaborating with Member Market Development Senior Specialist and other stakeholders.
• Translate integrated programme funding strategy into practical operating models, planning tools, and ways of working ensuring alignment across institutional & private funding, finance, and programme teams.
• Drive executive-level alignment and decision-making by preparing, structuring, and brokering senior-level discussions and decisions on Programme Funding growth.
• Build and mobilise cross-movement Programme Funding capability through supporting initiatives like workshops, working groups, talent and capability assessments, and development of shared tools and models.
• Ensure Horizon B Programme Funding initiatives result in durable assets including frameworks, tools, guidance, and documented learning that can be embedded and sustained beyond the role.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience in international development, business administration, business/marketing, social sciences or a related discipline.
• Relevant work experience at the professional management level with institutional and private sector funding/fundraising experience in a not-for-profit organisation, international organisation, or international development consultancy firm at an international level.
• Proven leadership at a senior international level in a multi-cultural context and ability to work in a networked organisation, influencing others through ‘soft power’.
• Track record of developing and implementing ambitious and complex global initiatives/projects.
• Experience working in more than one market, ideally as Senior Programme Funding lead, Head of or Director equivalent in a networked international global organization.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior leadership and funding/fundraisers at a national level providing strategic inputs to help drive growth in all areas of income.
• Experience in strategy development and implementation, budgeting and investment.
• Highly developed data analysis and budgeting skills, with ability to interrogate data to make strategic decisions and develop long term business plans.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, with gravitas to inspire and influence a wide range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience and capability of leading, facilitating and influencing change and delivery of major projects.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically, overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress.
• Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, defining a clear way forward and ensuring buy-in.
• Ability to work in a culturally diverse setting.
• Commitment to Save the Children’s values and ways of working.
• English language proficiency is essential.
• Proficiency in other languages such as French, Spanish or Arabic is desirable.
• Professional certification or training in international development, programme management, programme funding or relationships management is desirable.
• Accredited membership of relevant professional bodies (e.g., MCIF, MCIPR, MCAPM) is an advantage.

Skills

• Institutional Fundraising
• Private Sector Fundraising
• International Development
• Programme Funding Strategy
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Budgeting
• Data Analysis
• Business Planning
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leadership in Multi-cultural Context
• Change Management
• Global Initiative Implementation
• Senior Management Engagement
• Finance Management
• Programme Management
• Relationship Management
• Strategic Communications
• Intercultural Collaboration

Languages

English