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Head of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption (Programmes)

Save the Children works in over 120 countries, we’re saving children’s lives, fighting for their rights and helping them reach their potential.

We are an organisation which is growing radically in impact and visibility and the next three years are critical time in the organisations growth trajectory.

Over the next three years we want to have dramatically scaled up and improved the quality of our programmes, saving millions more children’s lives and helping them fulfil their potential at home and abroad.

We will be globally known for a number of world class programmes, and we will spread innovation and best practice through evidence based research to impact hundreds of millions of children. We will be the major player in the world saving and protecting children in emergencies. We will partner with other major players to increase our reach, influence and to raise significantly more funds. The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) & Climate Change Adaption (CCA) Team is integral to realising this vision.

To achieve this vision, Save the Children needs to scale up and further improve the quality of its work across all technical areas by harnessing innovation and ensuring maximum impact.

We’ve created this new role in our Programme Policy and Quality department to lead the way in ensuring we have the creativity, drive and strategic vision to develop an ambitious portfolio that enhances countries and local communities’ capacity to better integrate disaster resilience and climate change adaption thinking and practice into their planning.

We are looking for a strategic thinker with highly developed influencing skills to ensure that the way we design, deliver and evaluate our programmes enhances our ability to pioneer, replicate and leverage our work to impact tens of millions of children’s lives’ across the globe.

This post will enable you to bring your expertise in DRR and/or CCA to enhance our programme policy and practice. It will also allow you to apply your extensive experience of working with non-traditional partners, including those from academic and research institutions and the private sector to ensure we have the agility to lead the way in an ever-changing global environment.

In return we offer a great salary and the opportunity to develop your skills with leaders in the sector.

Closing date: Midnight 8th Jan First round interviews are planned for week of the 23rd Jan, however there is some flexibility around this.