Impact Partnerships Operations Lead

Save The Children; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Save the Children UK is recruiting for a permanent role in the Wales portfolio based in Wales with Cardiff as the working office. The role delivers two streams of work focused on poverty and climate/environment, ensuring strategy translates into effective delivery and funding impact.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to coordinate plans, budgets, risks and resources across the portfolio. The post requires being based in Wales with at least one in-office day per week.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate clearly, build effective working relationships and bring people together to achieve shared goals.
• A proactive and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to identify potential operational issues, assess risks and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Excellent organisational skills, with experience of developing, tracking and maintaining workplans to ensure activities, milestones and deliverables remain on schedule.
• Confidence in working to deadlines and managing competing priorities, with an understanding of budgets, expenditure monitoring and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Provide the portfolio-wide oversight, challenge and coordination needed to deliver well.
• Ensure strategy translates into strong delivery bringing together people, plans, budgets, partnerships, risks and resources.
• Work closely with the Head of Participation & Partnerships to shape and oversee the portfolio’s operations.
• Enable colleagues to lead their own work with autonomy and accountability.
• Support efforts to end child poverty and improve outcomes for children and families in Wales.

Skills

Relationship Building

Analytical Thinking

Operational Skills

Planning & Delivery

Job description

Save the Children UK is recruiting for a permanent role in the Wales portfolio based in Wales with Cardiff as the working office. The role delivers two streams of work focused on poverty and climate/environment, ensuring strategy translates into effective delivery and funding impact.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to coordinate plans, budgets, risks and resources across the portfolio. The post requires being based in Wales with at least one in-office day per week.