Senior Officer, Award and Project Management Functional Excellence

About the role

Save the Children International is seeking a Senior Officer to strengthen its Award Management Functional Excellence team. You will ensure award and project management processes are up‑to‑date, fit for purpose, and support country offices in delivering high‑quality, compliant programmes.

Key responsibilities

• Provide operational support for information management and compliance across award and project management systems.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve documents, learning materials, procedures and tools aligned with the Quality Framework, donor requirements, OneNet and LMS.
• Manage learning content on the intranet and contribute to cross‑functional strategic projects.
• Collaborate with Business Partnering, Donor Compliance and other functions to resolve queries and meet Service Level Agreements.
• Support data quality, analytics and risk‑management activities to enable effective portfolio management.

Required profile

• Proven experience in award or project management within an international or nonprofit environment.
• Strong understanding of policy development, compliance and continuous improvement processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functions and geographies, with flexible availability to align with GMT+2 meeting times.
• Unrestricted right to work in the chosen location and fluency in English.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.

Required skills

What we offer

• Hybrid/remote working with flexible options.
• Opportunity to influence global award management practices.
• Engagement with a leading international humanitarian organization.