Head of Planning and Delivery (6762)

We are recruiting internally for a Head Planning and Delivery to join our Strategy Insight and Innovation team. This is a permanent position. It is possible that we might also be recruiting for a fixed term cover (same position). Therefore, please express an interest if you are interested in either or both options. Please note that the length of the FTC contract will depend on the outcome of the perm contract recruitment. Job Purpose: To drive, evolve and facilitate operational planning across Fundraising and Marketing to ensure achievement of our collective goals. Build accountability and integration through our planning approaches, and ensure we are responsive to learning and external change. Working in an environment of agile, multi-disciplinary teams, you'll be a great collaborator, building strong relationships and cutting through boundaries, in a fast-moving and dynamic environment. Leveraging agile principles, you'll enable your team to flex and adapt - learning rapidly and responding to change, while keeping our supporters at the heart of everything you do. Some key accountabilities: Lead on the development and evolution of planning and review approaches across F+M and with PAC that translates our strategy into delivery, builds accountability and alignment behind our overall goals. Ensure this approach integrates plans in an effective way and drives action on strategic learning across departments as well as the external environment. Lead planning and review cycles (including annual, quarterly planning and other check-ins as needed) across F+M, so that we are identifying and addressing opportunities to achieve more, spotting dependencies across teams plans and clarifying accountability where needed, so that we meet or exceed our collective targets. Work with PAC and F+M teams to agree joint objectives, scope and principles for the work F+M do with and for PAC. Work with PAC and F+M teams to plan how this will be delivered in team. Ensure plans, planning decisions and learning are communicated and visible to the right people across F+M and beyond. Ensure operational alignment with specialist support teams to ensure our plans are realistic, resourced and achievable. To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description or ask Sarah Potter (hiring manager) for a chat. Close date: July 1, 2024 Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications. Ways of Working: The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview . Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunityto change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committedto developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. We are especially interestedin people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with(or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know thatdifferent voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based. Pre-employment Checks : Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date: a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable) receipt of satisfactory references proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here. For anything else you can email us on: ##### Full time (flexible working options available) Create an alert subscription based on this vacancy #J-18808-Ljbffr