Supply Chain Learning Senior Officer

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Learning Senior Officer to join our global team.

Team and Job Purpose
To provide guidance and support to country offices in supply chain planning, procurement, warehousing, distribution, and fleet management, enabling effective and efficient operations while ensuring compliance with regulatory and donor requirements. To deliver training and development opportunities in supply chain expertise for staff in country offices and partners, enhancing local capabilities and fostering supplier sustainability and CO2 emission reduction programs. To support country offices with international procurement, supplier registration, and emergency response management, strengthening overall supply chain resilience and performance.

The Supply Chain Learning Officer is responsible for championing talent development and learning for the Supply Chain function. This role aims to ensure all staff working in supply chain have consistent access to high quality learning opportunities, in turn building the capability of the function.  The role will also have a focus on supply chain learning for non-supply chain staff – ensuring the function is well understood across the organisation and that all staff know how to learn more about supply chain.

Job Title: Supply Chain Learning Senior Officer

Reports To: Global Head of Supply Chain Planning and Capability

Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available 

Contract Length: Permanent Contract 

Grade: P2

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 (that the role holder must be available to work in): Any

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: None

Budget Responsibility: TBA

People Management Responsibility: None

Principle Accountabilities

• Maintain the Supply Chain Learning Hub (SCLH) ensuring all courses, tools and guidance are relevant to the function and up to date
• Maintain the Supply Chain Competency Framework and supporting guidance/documentation.
• Engage with cross functional work on competency frameworks to ensure supply chain is effectively represented.
• Develop and deliver SCLH continuous improvement to ensure this key resources is the go to location for supply chain learning.
• Build and maintain external networks and engage with peer organizations to share best practice for supply chain learning
• Build and maintain internal networks and engage with learning  / capacity building staff in other functions to share best practice
• Engage closely with SCI L&D / Global talent team to ensure the Supply Chain learning offer is aligned to and supported by organizational approaches.
• Develop and maintain functional induction materials (both for supply chain staff and non-supply chain staff) for the supply chain function – ensuring these are accessible to all staff.
• Work with Supply Chain Business partners to support the co-ordination of talent management and succession planning across the function – maintaining appropriate records. 
• Co-ordinate Learning activities across the function to ensure communities of practice and other “live” trainings are timed at suitable schedules for all COs to engage. 
• Support eLearning development projects when required

Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Experience in delivering learning and development capability within global, multicultural organisations – commercial or not for profit sector.
2. Experience in designing and delivering a range of learning interventions, including remote, face to face and technology enabled learning
3. Excellent skills in developing learning content, using a variety of media that is accessible and user-friendly
4. Project management skills, a structured approach, and the ability to deliver results to a tight timescale

Desirable

1. Some experience or demonstrated interest in experimenting and learning with new technologies and adult education, skills and competency development within global organisations
2. Experience in all supply chain areas (Planning, Procurement, Warehousing, Distribution and Fleet)
3. Working proficiency in another language, such as French, Spanish, Arabic, Swahili

Education 

• A formal qualification in a relevant field, for example CIPD qualification
• Experience of working in a large complex operating environment and/or a matrix operating structure across multiple time zones
• Developed IT skills in online training platforms

Desirable

• Experience within the INGO sector 

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.