Senior Managing Director, Humanitarian Portfolio (M4)

Role Overview

No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

Essential Duties

• Lead the team ensuring high quality projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with organizational standards and policies.
• Lead partner-led program/project implementation.
• Ensure program interventions are aligned with technical best practices, humanitarian standards, and emerging national and local policies, as well as country and global strategic priorities.
• Lead and implement rapid, effective responses to emergencies affecting children, including building relationships with key humanitarian and development stakeholders and partners in-country.
• Maintain operational and programmatic adjustments in response to the evolving humanitarian, economic, and security context, including displacement dynamics and access constraints.
• Ensure that effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems are implemented in line with organizational policies and guidelines and program learning is effectively captured, documented, and shared.
• Maintain programs and services to ensure excellence, adapt services to community needs, provide effective training and technical assistance, and improve program quality and data management, including KPIs.
• Inspire and promote innovation across the team and with partners.
• Collaborate with SCUS leaders, technical colleagues (including SCI) to standardize and continuously improve processes, and strengthen strategic linkages and interdependencies between technical colleagues, program implementation, portfolio managers, and account managers.
• Set direction for operational design/modality as well as organizational structure for USG PHFFA funded proposals/projects with proposal design/development teams.

Program Results, Compliance, Risk Management and Accountability

• Accountable for achieving project deliverables, annual goals, and long-term strategic objectives, including development and emergency response in the recovery phase.
• Hold team accountable for executing with excellence and meeting high standards.
• Identify and mitigate internal and external risks to program implementation, ensuring teams' operations are risk-aware and nimble.
• Reinforce the advancement of risk management and compliance priorities as identified through internal reviews and global assurance processes.
• Ensure compliance with all host authority requirements in relation to registration, taxation, labor law, auditing, fraud prevention, and related areas.
• Oversee engagement with SCUS and SCI technical teams to ensure adequate and appropriate technical support for program delivery.

High-Performing Team

• Collaborate closely with the Head of Program Implementation, stepping in to manage senior responsibilities when necessary.
• Deliver clear, timely, and constructive feedback to support managerial excellence and team performance.
• Promote the professional development and career growth of direct and indirect reports through targeted coaching and skill-building initiatives.
• Ensure robust Child Safeguarding measures are in place to protect children across all activities, promoting awareness and prevention.
• Train, develop, coach, lead, and supervise staff, clearly communicating organization, division and department priorities, and how their work contributes to our mission and supports Save the Children values.
• Proactively budget for and in partnership with the People and Culture team, recruit permanent and temporary staff, and consultants to meet workforce and professional development needs.
• Actively lead new hire onboarding, as well as retention, leadership development, succession planning to meet strategic goals.
• Model and uphold a team culture of knowledge management and sharing.

Financial and Administrative Management

• Ensure effective financial budgeting, management systems, processes, and controls are in place and compliant with organizational standards and local legal requirements.
• Ensure effective, compliant procurement and asset management systems are established and maintained.
• Ensure that partner organizations are assessed against financial management and governance standards and are supported to address capacity gaps.