Manager, Transformation Project Management – Oracle HCM Roadmap

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Manager, Transformation Project Management – Oracle HCM Roadmap to join our global team.

Team and Role Purpose

Across all sectors, AI, Data, and Digital capabilities are now essential enablers that help organisations make better decisions, improve quality, and operate more efficiently. In the development and humanitarian sectors—where every dollar directly contributes to improving children’s lives—this becomes even more critical.

Our organisation relies on a wide range of systems and processes, including Oracle HCM, which underpins critical HR operations globally. To maximise the value of these platforms and ensure they operate effectively, we must take a deliberate, structured approach to continuous improvement—ensuring our systems are not only fit for purpose today but are actively enhanced to meet evolving organisational needs.

The HCM Roadmap initiative provides this structured approach. It brings together subject matter experts and business teams to identify, prioritise, and implement improvements to the Oracle HCM module, driving operational excellence, efficiency, and stronger delivery controls across the organisation.

By investing in a well-governed, continuously improving HCM platform, we enable better data, more efficient processes, and stronger controls—ultimately helping us deploy more resources where they matter most: delivering for children. There is a critical dependency with our FMS project and as part of this we need to ensure clarity on HCM improvements needed to enable the Oracle FMS implementation and ensure these receive the required level of prioritisation to avoid knock on delays to the FMS timeline.

Role purpose

The Manager, Transformation Project Management – Oracle HCM Roadmap will lead the definition and delivery of a structured improvement programme for the Oracle HCM module. Working across functional and technical teams, this role will act as project manager and facilitator—engaging business teams and subject matter experts to capture enhancement requirements, build and maintain a prioritised backlog, and drive the planning and delivery of the first wave of improvements.

Enhancements to the HCM module will serve three primary purposes: improving existing operational activities; driving efficiencies across HR processes; and putting in place controls that prevent poor delivery in the future. This is a fixed-term project role expected to last a minimum of two years. The role holder will need strong project management capability, structured requirements-gathering and prioritisation skills, and the ability to work through influence across a complex, multi-stakeholder, global environment.

• Job Title: Manager, Transformation Project Management – Oracle HCM Roadmap
• Reports To: Director, Transformation Development
• Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
• 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: SCI Careers
• Required Time Zone: Any
• Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract (2 years)
• Right to Work: The successful candidate must have the right to work in the country where the role is based, for the duration of employment.
• Language Requirements: English
• International Travel: up to 10%
• Budget Responsibility: Management of the project budget in support of the overseeing Director
• Remit: Global

Principal Accountabilities

• Engage with business teams and subject matter experts as well as Business Analysis resource, across the organisation to oversee the work to elicit, capture, and document requirements for Oracle HCM enhancements, covering operational improvements, efficiency gains, and delivery controls.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive backlog of HCM improvement items, ensuring each is clearly articulated, scoped, and linked to an identified business outcome.
• Lead the prioritisation of the backlog in collaboration with the Product Owner and senior stakeholders, applying structured frameworks to align effort with strategic value and business readiness.
• Develop a detailed implementation plan for the first wave of improvements, establishing clear timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, and success criteria. Ensure this is carefully aligned and incorporated into the FMS Project Plan where needed.
• Drive the project to a regular cadence: monitor progress against plan, manage risks and issues, and proactively escalate blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
• Put the full set of project controls in place (plan, risk/issue log, RAID, resource tracking, scope management) and use them to drive effective delivery and reporting.
• Provide regular, clear status reports to senior stakeholders and governance forums, supporting effective decision-making and ensuring timely escalation of issues requiring resolution.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business teams and SMEs to validate requirements, agree priorities, and align on implementation sequencing.
• Set up and maintain the project documentation repository across the full project lifecycle, ensuring all documentation serves a clear purpose in driving the project forward.
• Partner with IT and technical teams to ensure that proposed enhancements are technically feasible and aligned with Oracle HCM configuration and upgrade roadmaps.

Experience and Skills

Essential

1. Demonstrable experience of managing end-to-end requirements gathering, backlog definition, and prioritisation, ideally in an ERP or HRIS context
2. In-depth knowledge of programme and project management practices and standards, with proven experience working at a global level
3. A proven ability to deliver projects on time and on budget, using project management processes and tools including risk management, benefits management, financial management, and quality assurance
4. Strong facilitation skills with experience leading workshops and working sessions with diverse, cross-functional stakeholder groups
5. A proven ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills, and to work collaboratively to deliver effective solutions to project-related issues
6. Developed organisational awareness and ability to navigate a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, driving progress through influence rather than direct authority
7. Experience with Oracle HCM or a comparable HRIS/ERP platform is highly desirable
8. Excellent communication skills (written and oral English), including the ability to present clearly and with confidence to senior leaders
9. Able to demonstrate instances of initiative that have delivered tangible organisational benefits
10. Business process analysis skills and an ability to translate business requirements into clearly documented user stories or enhancement specifications

Desirable

• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions in an international or globally dispersed context
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Azure DevOps, Trello) and office suites (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Experience in change management activities including stakeholder engagement, impact assessment, and communications planning
• Non-profit sector knowledge or experience

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Understanding of a structured Project methodology (e.g. PRINCE2) or accredited Project Management training (APM or PMI)

Desirable

• Non-profit sector knowledge/experience (especially international development projects)
• Second language – French, Spanish, or Arabic

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 at SCI Careers. 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.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.

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.