Senior Advisor, Strategic Initiatives; P4

Position: 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 work streams, 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%
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