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Summary

The Strategic Foundation Partnerships (SFP) team leads Save the Children’s engagement with US-based foundations, building strategic partnerships with many of the world’s leading foundation donors to accelerate our agency strategy and the impact of our global movement for children.

The Assistant, Strategic Foundation Partnerships provides primary administrative support to the Head of Impact Giving and Foundation Partnerships and senior team members (director-level and above) and secondary support to the remainder of the team. This includes budget tracking, support developing presentations, and performing all aspects of business administration, database updates, web projects, and special events/projects. You will work cross-functionally with many areas such as the Program teams, Marketing and Communications, Finance, and Legal.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

• Business Administration (65%)
  • Perform day-to-day business administration functions for Head and Director-level and above staff of Strategic Foundation Partnerships, including but not limited to:
    • Correspondence, photocopying, and phone support
    • Scheduling and agenda management
    • Ongoing database maintenance through (BBEC)
    • Preparing presentations for donor meetings and internal audiences
    • Assisting with recruitment: scheduling interviews and helping onboard new hires
    • All aspects of business travel arrangements, expense management and SFP travel budget tracking
  • Cross-functional liaison with other Associates within RD and beyond
  • Awareness of internal change processes (e.g. new software or systems rollout) and participation in trainings in order to serve as an informed internal lead for SFP

• SFP Team Support (20%)
  • Schedule meetings, secure room locations for unit-wide meetings, maintain agendas, and set up room for meetings
  • Purchase office supplies and process accounts payable invoices through Agresso
  • Internal staff schedule maintenance
  • Specific support as requested for special projects, such as preparation for donor meetings (food, room audio and visual equipment)
  • Agency-driven deadline reminders (e.g., performance evaluation and reporting, event list submission/management)
  • Compile weekly updates and department e-newsletter that are sent to the Head and the team
  • Maintenance of the shared drive
  • Coordinate the SFP section of the agency’s annual report
  • Plan agenda for bi-weekly team meetings

• Special Event and SFP Activity Support (15%)
  • Organize, plan and execute on special SFP events throughout the year, including unit retreats, workshops and other team gatherings.
  • Partner closely with Head and department team to organize, gather inputs, liaise with external speakers, and to document outcomes from special events
  • Update and maintain all information on SaveNet relevant to SFP activities and solicitations, information on OneNet for the relevant SFP sites (e.g. BMGF) and SFP’s page on the external website.
  • Represent SFP on cross-functional working groups as appropriate and interact with multiple departments, as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent, no additional years of experience required
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to work independently
• Ability to negotiate challenging situations to achieve goals and meet deadlines
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining and environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working for a non-profit

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 $40,800 – $45,600 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $37,400 – $41,800 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $34,000 – $38,000 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

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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.

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