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About the Role

The Senior Advisor, Child Health provides technical and strategic support in their thematic area to enhance the quality and impact of Save the Children’s work across all contexts. Working within the Survive Breakthrough team, the postholder delivers timely country-driven technical assistance, and contributes to the development of tools, guidance, and evidence. The role also plays a key part in capacity strengthening, knowledge exchange, and external engagement, and ensuring work is inclusive, context-responsive, and aligned with global and country priorities.

Responsibilities

Provide specialized technical guidance and advice to Country Office teams, ensuring high standards in health systems strengthening programme implementation, with a focus on specialized support in sub thematic area.
Conduct regular reviews and analyses of relevant awards to ensure compliance with donor requirements and organisational policies, identifying areas for improvement.
Apply specialised donor and sub thematic area technical knowledge to support the development and implementation of high-quality proposals and strategic plans in collaboration with country teams, ensuring alignment with Save the Children's mission and values.
Oversee the design and quality assurance of capacity building and training initiatives for national and local partners to ensure sustainable and effective health systems strengthening interventions.
Lead on the strategic development and coordination of partnership strategies with local actors, local authorities and peer agencies to advance health systems strengthening work.
Play a leadership role in external and internal working groups to continually learn and adapt best practices and institutionalize key learning.
Ensure internal systems are in place to support and learn from country office colleagues implementing health systems strengthening programs.
Manage global and multi-country projects and initiatives to strengthen specific programme guidance, tools, evidence, etc.
Deploy to priority countries as needed for emergency response and provide in-person technical support and guidance (up to 40%).
Promote a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion within all programmes, ensuring all interventions are accessible and effective for all community members, regardless of background or identity.

Requirements

Deep understanding of child health specific principles and practices, including experience in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs and interventions.
Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional development and staying updated with the latest trends and best practices.
Strong ability to analyse complex data, review programme performance metrics and translate findings into actionable improvements.
Considerable experience in building capacity, delivering training, and mentoring staff and local partners on sector specific practices and broader technical approaches.
Proven experience in developing high-quality proposals and strategic plans.
A track record of writing successful proposals for donor-funded projects is essential.
Proficient experience in reviewing and assuring compliance of awards with donor requirements and organisational policies.
Demonstrated ability to identify and implement areas of improvement.
High proficiency in communication, including experience in negotiation, influencing, and coaching.
Must demonstrate the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with diverse teams and stakeholders.
Ability to travel and work independently, occasionally in challenging environments and with short notice (up to 40%).
The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.

Skills

Child health specific principles and practices
Designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs and interventions
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
Capacity Building and Mentoring
Proposal and Strategic Plan Development
Compliance and Quality Assurance
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Negotiation
Influencing
Coaching
Ability to Operate in High-Pressure Environments

Location

Any approved Save the Children International office location

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Advanced degree in Public Health, Global Health, Health Policy & Management, International Development, or a related field.
Extensive professional experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree.

About the Company

Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff.
We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential.
Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.
We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding.
At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected.
Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.

Equal Opportunity

DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy.
Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion.
We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.