There’s something special about spending your days alongside like-minded people, just as committed to purposeful work as you. At Save the Children Australia, we attract bright and big-hearted people who are inspired to make a difference. Together, we are fearless in our pursuit of making lasting change for the children and communities who need it most.

Save the Children and 54 reasons: A place where your purpose matters.
It takes all types of personalities and talents to drive our organisation– yours included. We value a healthy work-life balance and ensure our people feel connected to each other and our impact. Learn from inspiring people and grow from a connection to our strong local and global networks. From our programs to our support services – this is the place to realise your purpose.

A place to make a difference:
Here you’re empowered to make a difference in children’ s lives by learning, sharing and collaborating to find new ways to solve problems. In this full-time, maximum term (12 months) role, you’ll work as a part of our Global Programs team from any location in Australia* to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Program Manager, Global Programs plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it’s managing a portfolio of development and humanitarian programs or liaising with our Business Development Unit to identify opportunities and secure funding for global programming, you’ll be contributing to our commitment to children around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Ensuring the efficient and effective management of all programs in the assigned portfolio, in line with agreed plans and budgets Building relationships across the Save the Children movement and supporting engagement with key donors.
• Ensuring donor and SCA policy compliance, throughout the project lifecycle.
• Participating in budgeting and financial management activities across the team.
• Supporting the Business Development team to secure funding to expand the global portfolio.

A place to feel valued:
Your deep expertise in project planning, monitoring and reporting is invaluable. We recognise your contribution and provide you the support to ensure you can bring your best, knowing here you have the space and opportunity to grow. Bringing your best every day, means:

• Having grant and / contract and award management experience.
• Having financial management experience, including management of budgets, instituting financial controls, and all aspects of grant management.
• Having well-developed relationship building, negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Being results oriented with a demonstrated ability to think strategically, analyse complex information and offer creative, practical solutions.
• Having initiative, flexibility and ability to work independently as well as in a team.
• Being culturally aware.
• Possessing resilience and personal circumstances to be able to travel within Australia and internationally as required.

A place to belong:
It takes all types of people to do the challenging work we do. We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
• Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
• A modern, up to date working space. Or the opportunity to work from home (WFH), or both!
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We’ve established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that’s what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Commitee).
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)
• Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?
We’d love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Applications close 4pm AEST, Friday 17th May 2024.

Position Description – Program Manager, Global Programs

For more information about a career at Save, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We’ve advertised this role as full-time, maximum term but if you’re looking for something different, please l et us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we’re providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it’s straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment – so if we didn’t quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at people.culture@savethechildren.org.au. We’re dedicated to ensuring Save the Children Australia is a place where everyone can feel supported – no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Save the Children Australia is a child -safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.

Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consist ent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact people.culture@savethechildren.org.au for further support.