Manager, Transformation Project Management – Global Reporting

Save the Children is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting children's rights, providing relief, and supporting children in developing countries.

The Project Manager for Global Reporting is responsible for overseeing project management across the Global Reporting Project, which operates independently but alongside the FMS SaaS Project. Reporting directly to the Head, Transformation Development, this role ensures the project receives necessary focus and attention. The manager collaborates closely with finance and other functional workstream leads, the Business Analyst, and the IT team. Key duties include ensuring compliance with the Project Lifecycle and broader design, setting up and maintaining the reporting plan, supporting the facilitation of relevant governance forums, completing required status updates, coordinating key engagements with technical and business stakeholders, and partnering with workstreams to manage data and system dependencies. The role requires solid project management experience in a technical or systems delivery context, comfort working across business and IT teams, and the ability to drive delivery through influence rather than direct line accountability.

1. Project manage Global Reporting workstreams using the SCI Project Management toolkit to ensure timely, in-scope, and quality delivery.
2. Collaborate with FMS project and functional leadership to define, document, and maintain the reporting scope, including report inventory and data sources across SCI systems, ensuring agreement with relevant stakeholders.
3. Develop and manage an ambitious yet achievable plan for reporting workstreams, considering technical dependencies, vendor schedules, testing cycles, and go-live timelines.
4. Coordinate with functional workstream leads, the Global FMS (Oracle) Project team, and the IT team to accurately capture reporting requirements, agree on report and data specifications, and effectively sequence build and test activities.
5. Drive Project Management accountabilities, monitoring build, test, and deployment phases, ensuring plan adherence, and resolving delivery obstacles.
6. Adhere to and manage required project controls (plan, risks/issues, dependencies, scope management) to drive delivery, proactively identifying and mitigating technical and programme risks.
7. Contribute to regular status reports for effective decision-making within the Global Reporting Project and Management Review Group, escalating risks, issues, and required decisions.
8. Set up and maintain a documentation repository for each project lifecycle stage, ensuring documentation supports project progression.
9. Implement project management best practices and procedures within the project and contribute to continuous improvement of the project management toolkit.
10. Work with the Global Change Manager to integrate related change activities (adoption, training, communications) into the plan, and provide broader project management support as capacity allows.

1. Extensive project management experience, including delivery of reporting, data, or large-scale systems implementation in a complex global organization.
2. Demonstrable experience and in-depth knowledge of programme and project management practices and standards.
3. Proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget, utilizing project management processes and tools such as risk management, financial management, and quality assurance, with experience managing vendor relationships in systems delivery.
4. Working understanding of reporting and data concepts (data sources, data mapping, report specifications, testing approaches) sufficient to manage delivery and hold technical teams/vendors accountable.
5. Proven experience in using and leading change management activities, including impact assessment, stakeholder management, resistance management, capacity building, and role definition.
6. Proven ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills and collaborate effectively to deliver solutions to project issues.
7. Developed organizational awareness and ability to understand sensitivities within complex multi-stakeholder structures, thinking creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles.
8. Team leadership abilities with the capacity to motivate and mobilize individuals outside direct reporting lines.
9. Business requirements collection and process/workflow analysis skills.
10. Excellent written and oral English communication skills, including the ability to communicate and influence at all organizational levels.
11. Ability to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered organizational benefits.
12. Cultural awareness and experience delivering solutions internationally.
13. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
14. Understanding of a structured Project methodology (e.g., PRINCE2) or accredited Project Management training (APM or PMI).
15. (Desirable) Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello) and office suites (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
16. (Desirable) Non-profit sector knowledge/experience.
17. (Desirable) Proficiency in a second core language of Save the Children (French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Arabic).
18. (Desirable) Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects).
19. (Desirable) Second language – French, Spanish or Arabic.