Director, Humanitarian Analysis, Policy and Advocacy

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Director, Humanitarian Analysis, Policy and Advocacy to join our global team. 

Team and Job Purpose 
 

Team purpose

To partner with country offices and global stakeholders to prepare, scale-up, and execute effective humanitarian advocacy and policy initiatives that protect and support children in crisis, while adhering to humanitarian principles. The team exists to facilitate impactful policy development, build strategic partnerships, and provide forward-looking analysis that informs and anticipates global humanitarian action. By engaging in child-centered humanitarian foresight and diplomacy, we aim to influence duty-bearers and drive positive change for children affected by emergencies.

Role purpose

To provide leadership and strategic direction to Save the Children's humanitarian analysis, policy, and advocacy functions, ensuring robust analysis informs policy work, guides country office decisions, and shapes the broader strategic direction of humanitarian affairs. The role involves fostering collaborative relationships across the organisation and with external stakeholders to maximise the charity’s impact and influence. The Director will represent Save the Children in key international fora and ensure that internal and external humanitarian strategies remain aligned and focused on sustainable long-term impact for children.

Job Title: Director, Humanitarian Analysis, Policy and Advocacy

Reports To: Global Humanitarian Director

Work Pattern: Remote 

Contract Length: Permanent

Grade: M5

Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: Hiring Locations

Time-zone: Any (multiple timezones and locations required across team)

Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.

International Travel Requirements: up to 20%

Budget Responsibility: 3$ million team budget including award funding

People Management Responsibility: 

• Number of people managed in total: 20
• Manager of a team: Yes
• Team Manager (manager of multiple teams): Yes

Principal Accountabilities

• Drive strategic direction and management of humanitarian analysis to generate impactful evidence that informs Save the Children's policy and advocacy efforts.
• Lead the contextual analysis function to support country office operational decision-making and shape humanitarian policy by providing timely analysis of country office contexts, regional dynamics, and global trends.
• Represent Save the Children in key NGO, inter-governmental, and UN forums to advocate for policies and perspectives that uphold the rights and well-being of children, partners, and communities we serve.
• Oversee the preparation and briefing of Save the Children’s leadership for external humanitarian representation, ensuring coherent and unified messaging in line with Save the Children’s humanitarian strategy.
• Cultivate and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the humanitarian sector to enhance collective advocacy efforts, fostering an environment of trust, mutual respect, and shared objectives.
• Establish and lead a Community of Practice for Humanitarian Analysis, Policy, and Advocacy within Save the Children to leverage internal capacities, harmonise efforts, and drive a unified operational and advocacy agenda.

Experience and Skills

• Policy and Advocacy: Extensive knowledge and a strong track record of leading the development of effective, evidence-based advocacy strategies and policy positions on humanitarian issues with demonstrated impact. 
• Humanitarian Affairs: Significant experience in humanitarian affairs, including policy analysis and advocacy roles within complex emergency settings and in interactions with large humanitarian agencies and inter-agency policy settings.
• Partnerships & Community of Practice Development: Experience in establishing and managing both inter organisation and external Communities of Practice, to harness capacity and amplify impact.
• Analytical Skills for Decision-Making: Ability to drive and steer analysis and synthesis of complex humanitarian contextual information and translate these into actionable insights to inform advocacy strategies, policy position and operational decision-making.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Highly developed communication skills, both written and oral, with the ability to influence and negotiate at senior levels. Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholders internally and externally, including NGOs, inter-governmental and UN fora.
• People Management: Demonstrates exceptional people management experience, fostering a high-performing team that can deliver shared priorities. Cultivates a culture of continuous learning and agility, ensuring that global systems and procedures are informed by national-level response learnings.
• Leadership and Coordination: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and manage multi-functional and multi-cultural teams and to build strong collaborative relationships with peers at the leadership level internally and externally.
• Networking and Influence: Superior networking and influencing skills, capable of building and maintaining effective relationships with diverse stakeholders. Thrives in a highly matrixed environment, able to influence without direct authority. 
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Solid understanding of and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. Proven track record of ensuring these principles are integrated into team culture, organisational practices and in external engagements. 

Education and Qualifications 

Essential: 

Education: Advanced degree in Public Policy, International Relations, Human Rights or a related field.

Working at Save the Children International 

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. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities 

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. 

Application Information 

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes. 

 
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.

Our recruitment process: 

1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter 
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team 
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview 
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks 

We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities. 

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.