Manager for Technical Content & Standards at Save the Children

  The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries

Technical Excellence & Capability:

• Contribute to broader programme quality and impact initiatives as appropriate e.g., working with global ACCM, MEAL, Ops and Breakthrough teams to understand barriers to program quality across functions with country colleagues, and proposing and communicating clear actions to be taken at CO level.
• Coordinate across PIIHA stakeholders to uplift programme quality & impact standards through annual QSSA and regular review of technical standards (e.g. Competency Framework, policies, procedures)
• Support TE&C work to upskill TE, PDQs, and ACCM Directors to lead on programme quality & impact standards during programme design and delivery
• Lead the overall Common Approaches strategy and planning oversight, including integration into Global Strategy, Country Strategic Plan and Global Results Framework processes
• Agree priorities and implement continuous improvement, including in the Common Approaches Procedure as part of the SCI Quality Framework review.
• Ensure Common Approaches are integrated into all relevant systems and act as the point of contact for all systems and systems enhancements. 

Common Approaches Development & Continuous Improvement:

• Facilitate decisions on the Common Approaches pipeline and lead the Common Approaches endorsement process with global thematic (Breakthrough and Advocacy) teams.
• Guide thematic teams through the 4-year Common Approaches review/ update process (review of evidence) based on the Common Approaches Evidence Framework, or more frequent smaller reviews e.g., periodic evidence digests if more feasible. 
• Work with Breakthrough teams and MEAL teams to ensure key evidence gaps are visible and promote evidence generation to address these gaps, e.g. cost effectiveness, and ensure new evidence is synthesised and shared

 Common Approaches Uptake:

• Monitor and contribute to KPI quarterly reporting (via dashboard) for Common Approaches and ensure PRIME data is used by relevant stakeholders to take corrective action to support quality implementation e.g., global thematic teams, country offices TE etc, providing support on solutions and data-related requests
• Accountable for building awareness of Common Approaches and ensuring they are easily accessible to all users; including oversight of material production / updates, the staff induction process for Common Approaches, spotlighting country work and learnings e.g., case studies and webinars, supporting NBD teams to include Common Approaches in programme design, supporting the CA Learning Programme, and other various knowledge management initiatives 
• Work with country offices and thematic teams to facilitate discussion groups among different offices to address challenges associated with the quality uptake of Common Approaches and promote learning from each other

Common Approaches as a localisation initiative:

• Lead a feasibility study to better determine how to localize Common Approaches, developing an organisational stance on how to do this in line with the localisation agenda, and the extent to which Common Approaches should be a public good. Work with country colleagues and global teams on how to pilot and roll out this initiative

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