Lead, Organisation Effectiveness at Save the Children

Lead, Organisation Effectiveness at Save the Children – Save the Children Kenya Job Details

About the Role

Save the Children is recruiting a Lead, Organisation Effectiveness to join its team in Kenya. This full-time position focuses on transforming how the organization plans, designs, and manages its workforce across multiple country offices. The Lead, Organisation Effectiveness at Save the Children will drive strategic initiatives that connect people planning, organizational design, and change management—ensuring the NGO in Kenya operates with maximum efficiency and employee engagement. This is a senior-level opportunity to shape organizational culture and capability across humanitarian and development contexts.

In this role, you will become the strategic architect behind workforce optimization and organizational restructuring. Your expertise in talent acquisition frameworks, workforce demand forecasting, and organizational development will directly influence how Save the Children builds capability across its global teams. You’ll work closely with senior leadership, People Partners, and country directors to embed best practices in change management and organizational design. NGO jobs in Kenya at this level demand someone who can translate complex people data into actionable strategies—and that’s exactly what this position requires.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver comprehensive workforce planning tools, frameworks, and annual cycles that enable leaders to anticipate future skills gaps, define critical roles, and allocate capacity effectively across country offices.
• Coordinate the global people planning process by aligning workforce forecasts with broader organizational strategy, building HR capability in predictive planning, and monitoring progress against agreed milestones.
• Develop visual communication materials and dashboards that track workforce planning outcomes, making complex data accessible to leadership teams and country offices across Save the Children’s operations.
• Provide evidence-based organizational design consultation to country and global teams, offering multiple options with clear trade-offs so leaders can make informed structural decisions aligned with strategic priorities.
• Create and implement a restructuring toolkit that guides People Partners and country offices through all phases of organizational change—from design concept through full implementation—with consistency and quality control.
• Lead major restructuring initiatives with significant workforce impact, taking ownership of design, stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and successful execution across multiple regions.
• Build HR team capability in change management, organization development, and implementation by embedding proven frameworks, coaching leaders through transitions, and creating sustainable practice standards.
• Maintain knowledge of employment legislation and labor regulations across the countries where Save the Children operates, ensuring all restructuring and workforce planning activities remain compliant and legally sound.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in strategic workforce planning with a proven track record of translating organizational strategy into concrete demand/supply analyses, building practical playbooks for senior executives, and creating tools that drive decision-making.
• Deep knowledge of workforce analytics, talent demand forecasting, and scenario planning across humanitarian, international development, and NGO contexts with experience in multi-country operating environments.
• Advanced analytical capability to interpret workforce data, identify trends, and convert insights into actionable workforce strategies that senior leaders can implement immediately.
• Substantial experience in organizational design—structuring departments, defining roles, establishing reporting relationships, and optimizing decision-making processes—with evidence of delivering successful organizational redesigns.
• Proven leadership through multiple large-scale restructuring projects affecting significant employee populations across different countries, regions, or organizations; strong stakeholder management and change communication skills required.
• Solid grounding in change management methodology with hands-on experience embedding change frameworks into organizational practice, coaching teams through transitions, and building confidence during uncertain periods.
• Knowledge of employment law, labor regulations, and HR compliance requirements in multiple international jurisdictions relevant to organizational restructuring and workforce management.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to synthesize complex information into clear options and trade-offs for board-level and senior management audiences.

What You Will Gain

• Leadership of a strategic function that directly shapes organizational culture, employee capability, and operational efficiency across a major international NGO.
• Exposure to complex, multi-country organizational challenges in the humanitarian and development sector—building your expertise in leading change in high-impact organizations.
• Opportunity to develop HR and organizational leadership across multiple teams, establishing yourself as a thought leader in workforce planning and organizational design best practices.
• Collaborative environment where your insights influence senior executive decision-making and help drive organizational strategy in an NGO in Kenya committed to child welfare and community impact.
• This Lead, Organisation Effectiveness at Save the Children job in Kenya is open to qualified candidates with the expertise and passion to transform how organizations operate—click Apply below to submit your application.