Are you committed to achieving impact for the world's most vulnerable children through change management and communication strategy? Save the Children Australia has a diverse portfolio of businesses supported by a range of shared services. You will be leading strategically important initiatives such as our Share Services Transformation, working with and being an integral member of our agile delivery team. We need your help to lead and develop our change management approach, coordinating communications across different areas of Save the Children Australia.

Save the Children is no ordinary not-for-profit.

We're ambitious, creative and outspoken. We stand up for children's rights. We want all children to be educated, healthy and live a life free from violence. We run programs in Australia and overseas and, if there's a disaster - like an earthquake, drought or conflict - we are there on the ground.

Where you come in:

In this full-time permanent position, based in Carlton, you will be a core contributor to the change and communications strategy and management for projects within the portfolio. The portfolio is central to driving strategic change and innovation. It incorporates a variety of small and large-scale projects delivering everything from system implementations and process improvement through to business model diversification and M&A. You will be part of our Finance and Support Services team and report to our Director of Strategy and Transformation.

You will make an impact by:

• Plan, lead and co-ordinate Save the Children Australia's change management strategy, developing an overarching plan and key messaging and enabling the effective deployment of comprehensive stakeholder engagement maps and plans
• Act as change and communications business partner to a number of key strategic change programmes, working in partnership with the project lead and internal communications managers to develop impactful change management and communications solutions
• For key complex, strategically important initiatives perform the initiative's change manager role. Apply agile change management practices supporting delivery teams as they respond to rapidly changing business needs through iteratively identifying and reducing organisational change and people risks

Does this sound like you?

You have a proven track record in owning the change and communications strategy across an organisation. You will have deep technical expertise in change and communications that enables you to excel in the role as the change and communications manager in key complex projects. You are an adaptable, highly organised all-rounder, with a high level of attention to detail and a collaborative and can-do manner.

This role requires:

• 5 years experience as a Change and Communications manager for projects
• 3 years experience as Change and Communications manager across an organisation
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated interpersonal, analytical, and documentation skills

Working at Save the Children is more than just a job.

It's the feeling of knowing that your work is contributing to making the world a better place for children and working with others who feel the same. In addition to a connection to social causes, you will have access to:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects alongside business as usual
• Individual learning plans to assist in your career development
• Internal employment and development opportunities
• Friendly and flexible work environment
• Agile work environment including working from home
• Pet and child friendly work environment
• Full salary packaging benefits
• Additional annual leave options available

For more information regarding our employee benefits, please follow this link.

Sound interesting?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume by clicking on the 'Apply' section below.

Position Description - Head of Change and Communications

At Save the Children, we seek a workforce that is as diverse as our society - in race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability, cultures and beliefs - and reflects the communities we work in. We believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and core values and we demonstrate this commitment through all our employment practices. Our inclusive workplace culture contributes to making Save the Children a great place to work. We encourage people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds to apply.

Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check (where necessary), and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct.

Save the Children Australia supports the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. If you are successful in your application, we will request consent to access HR held information pertaining to your last 5 years of employment. You can read about the Scheme and our commitment to Safeguarding here.