Innovation Lead

5 months ago

Belfast, United Kingdom Save the Children Full time

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for an enterprising individual with extensive project management experience to join us as our **Innovation Lead, **where you will lead us and a coalition of partners in establishing a Family Friendly Workplace Accreditation for the UK market.

**This is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract.**

**About Us**

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

**About the role**

As Innovation Lead, you will be at the forefront of an exciting approach to reduce child poverty. You will hold responsibility for leading a project to establish a Family Friendly Workplace Accreditation in the UK. This new venture aims to incentivise businesses to improve their workplace policies, and help parents know which workplaces will support them to work in a way that fits around family life.

Your role will be to oversee and lead the project until its launch, developing the accreditation and establishing it as a viable commercial venture. You'll collaborate closely with our delivery and testing partners, building the relationships and infrastructure needed for the accreditation's long-term success.

**In this role, you will**:

- Lead development of the venture, including developing a robust delivery plan, tracking progress, pivoting as needed and continually monitoring against the expected outcomes and benefits as expressed in the business case.
- Design and deliver a minimum viable product through lean and agile tests with our founding partners, strengthening our commercial model through iterative pivots and updates.
- Formalise our delivery partnerships, legal infrastructure, and resourcing requirements for the venture, ensuring dependencies and risks are identified and carefully managed.
- Liaise with partners and internal policy experts to develop the accreditation standards, iteratively testing these with corporates and securing their buy-in for the project.
- Manage resources effectively to deliver the project launch on time and budget, pursuing funding opportunities and other forms of investment.

**About you**

**To be successful, it is important that you have**:

- Experience of establishing or supporting new commercial ventures or innovation projects, demonstrating strong entrepreneurialism and a commercial mindset.
- Exceptional project management, organisational and administration skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work for self and others.
- Experience of developing and managing relationships at all levels - including external stakeholders like funders, partners, or decision-makers - and using these to build and leverage influence.
- Ability to identify key points from complex material or information, including budgets and data, with a high-level of analytical and numeracy skills.
- Ability to take initiative, effectively prioritise a complex workload and manage varied expectations as well as working at times to short deadlines..
- Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

**What we offer you**:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is - a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
- We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
- We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

**Closing date: Sunday 17**th** September**

**Please note**:
**Ways of Working**:
Remote First - The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site - There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

**Flexible Working - **We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview**.**

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:
We are especially interested in people whose childhood exp

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