Senior Advisor, Strategic Growth Initiatives (P4)

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

As the Senior Advisor, Strategic Growth Initiatives, you will help Mass Market Fundraising & Supporter Engagement (MMF) translate strategic priorities into measurable results. You will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that improve fundraising performance, supporter experience, and operational effectiveness, while identifying technology, automation, and AI-enabled opportunities that strengthen decision-making and efficiency.

You will bring strong project management, change leadership, and analytical problem-solving to help teams clarify decisions, improve processes, resolve data and planning issues, and deliver sustainable outcomes. Working across MMF and its partners, you will help leadership focus resources on the highest-value opportunities and move priority work forward.

By partnering across Mass Market Fundraising, Marketing & Growth Operations, Finance, Business Technology Solutions, Communications, Advocacy, other fundraising teams, Save the Children International, and external partners, you will strengthen the full supporter lifecycle and build scalable capabilities for both mass market and the broader enterprise.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)*
*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Strategic Initiative & Portfolio Leadership – 45%

• Lead a portfolio of priority initiatives that advance Mass Market Fundraising & Supporter Engagement strategy, fundraising growth, supporter experience, and operational effectiveness.
• Translate priorities into clear project plans, including scope, outcomes, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, decision points, and measures of success.
• Help MMF leadership prioritize initiatives based on expected value, capacity, cost, timing, dependencies, and risk.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams, clarify roles and decision rights, and maintain accountability for agreed deliverables.
• Provide concise updates and recommendations to leadership, escalating risks, barriers, and decisions requiring action.
• Monitor implementation, adoption, and results, and recommend adjustments when initiatives are not delivering their intended value.
• Lead initiatives such as platform migrations, audience-led implementation, fundraising reviews, process improvements, and other emerging growth priorities.

Process Improvement, Automation and Operational Effectiveness – 30%

• Identify and assess opportunities to improve fundraising effectiveness, speed, quality, scalability, and supporter experience.
• Lead process reviews that clarify the current state, identify root causes, define future state, and establish practical implementation plans.
• Partner with functional teams and Marketing & Growth Operations to clarify ownership, improve handoffs, reduce duplication, and simplify ways of working.
• Identify, evaluate, and advance opportunities to leverage technology, automation, and AI to improve efficiency, quality, decision-making, scalability, and supporter experience, partnering with appropriate technology, data, and governance teams.
• Develop reusable tools, processes, and approaches that improve consistency and create value across MMF.

Strategic Planning & Decision Support – 25%

• Lead operational aspects of MMF forecasting, budgeting, investment planning, and performance- processes in partnership with MMF leadership, Finance, Marketing & Growth Operations, and agency partners.
• Coordinate assumptions, inputs, documentation, timelines, and review cycles so forecasts and budgets are transparent and decision-ready.
• Lead reconciliation and root-cause analysis when fundraising forecasts, financial reporting, agency projections, internal reports, or source systems do not align.
• Work with accountable teams to clarify data definitions, ownership, controls, and resolution paths.
• Connect investment assumptions, donor trends, channel performance, revenue reporting, and long-term supporter value to support leadership decisions.
• Prepare analysis, recommendations, briefing materials, and decision support for MMF and divisional leadership.
• Provide strategic analysis, coordination, and project support for emerging MMF priorities and other initiatives assigned by MMF leadership.
• Monitor emerging fundraising, technology, analytics, and AI trends, assessing potential opportunities to advance MMF priorities and organizational performance.

Required qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience in project or program management, fundraising or marketing operations, strategy, consulting, business transformation, process improvement or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from definition through implementation and adoption.
• Strong project management, facilitation, change management and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including experience improving business processes, evaluating technology or automation opportunities, investigating data discrepancies, and translating insights into action.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting or investment-planning processes.
• Ability to connect strategic objectives to practical workplans, measurable outcomes and clear executive communications.
• Experience leveraging technology, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled tools to improve operational effectiveness, decision-making, or business outcomes.
• Professional proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Preferred qualifications for the role

• Project management, change management, Lean/Six Sigma or related certification or demonstrated equivalent experience.
• Experience in nonprofit fundraising, direct response, supporter engagement, performance marketing, customer experience or revenue-generating environments.
• Experience with digital platform implementation (CMS migration a plus), product implementation, vendor transition, CRM, marketing technology or analytics initiatives.
• Experience identifying and implementing workflow automation or responsible AI-enabled process improvements.
• Experience working with Finance, agency partners and technology teams in a complex, matrixed organization.

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $119,425 - $133,475 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $107,525 - $120,175 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $96,050 - $107,350 base salary

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).

About Us

We are looking to build an inclusive team at Save the Children. We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this goal:

• Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays and hybrid working opportunities
• Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
• Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
• Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
• Wellness: 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days), mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
• Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
• Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to applicantsupport@savechildren.org.