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About the Role

This role leads movement-wide coordination and alignment on priority policy and advocacy issues, ensuring consistent approaches and facilitating high-level engagement to maximize Save the Children’s influence and impact. The role supports senior leadership in external representation and strategic influencing, including developing policy positions and briefings, and identifying opportunities for high-level engagement. It also anticipates emerging trends and challenges to future-proof global child rights advocacy and supports the Global Policy and Engagement Council (GPEC).

Responsibilities

Develop prioritised policy positions in line with the wider strategic policy agenda.
Act as an expert on key policy issues, providing technical expertise.
Support with and directly produce high-quality global policy and advocacy guidance materials.
Ensure that the Global Policy and Engagement Council and relevant advocacy coordination groups have annual plans with SMART objectives.
Monitor and identify emerging risks and policy issues that impact Save the Children’s policy agenda.
Support senior advocacy leaders to make strategic decisions around resourcing, external positioning, and prioritization.
Oversee and support movement-wide coordination to ensure coherence and alignment across advocacy initiatives.
Support senior leaders with strategic planning across departments to maximize impact of influencing work.
Support external and strategic engagement for high level advocacy through cross department coordination.
Develop talking points and work with colleagues across the movement to identify influencing opportunities.

Requirements

Significant experience of progressively responsibility in policy and advocacy and/or international affairs.
Significant experience in policy development, advocacy, strategic influencing, or public affairs within an international NGO, multilateral organisation, government institution, think tank, or similar environment.
Demonstrated ability to conduct policy analysis, synthesise complex information, and produce clear, evidence-based recommendations for senior decision-makers.
Experience supporting the design and implementation of advocacy and influencing strategies, including stakeholder mapping, power analysis, and political economy analysis.
Strong understanding of how policy and political change occurs at the global level.
Experience supporting engagement with governments, multilateral organisations, civil society, and other external stakeholders.
Proven ability to coordinate across multiple teams and functions, build consensus, and foster collaboration within complex, matrixed organisations.
Excellent research, analytical, and written communication skills.
Experience producing high-quality policy briefs, reports, executive briefings, talking points, and other influencing products.
Strong interpersonal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
Ability to communicate complex issues clearly and build effective relationships across diverse cultures and stakeholders.
Excellent organisational and project management skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, coordinate competing workstreams, and deliver high-quality outputs under pressure.
Demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging policy developments, identify strategic risks and opportunities, and translate them into practical influencing priorities and recommendations.
Ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures.
Demonstrated leadership in designing inclusive practices for policy analysis and development, ensuring that diverse voices and perspectives are integrated into advocacy efforts.
The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.

Skills

Policy Development
Strategic Influencing
Advocacy
Policy Analysis
Stakeholder Mapping
Power Analysis
Political Economy Analysis
Research
Analytical Skills
Written Communication
Interpersonal Skills
Presentation Skills
Facilitation Skills
Organisational Skills
Project Management
Cultural Competency

Location

Any approved Save the Children International office location

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote
Flexible working options available

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree in International Relations, Humanitarian Affairs & Development Studies, or a related field
Advanced degree in International Relations, Humanitarian Affairs & Development Studies, or a related field is desirable.

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 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.