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 Advisor, Strategic Alliances, you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will play a critical role in advancing Save the Children’s mission by strengthening high‑impact partnerships that expand our ability to serve children and families. Working closely with senior leadership and cross‑functional teams, you will support the development, execution, and stewardship of strategic alliances that drive impact, sustainability, and growth. Through strong project management, relationship management, and knowledge systems, this role helps ensure partnerships are well aligned, effectively governed, and translated into meaningful outcomes for children.
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
Partnership Relationship Management (30%)
- Engaging in partnership outreach to connect with and build relationships with organizations that complement our mission and objectives.
- Serve as a primary liaison for designated strategic partnerships, maintaining structured communication workflows, and monitoring overall relationship health.
- Coordinate internal stakeholder discussions to evaluate partnership viability, ensuring timely, accurate, and consistent information flow across teams.
- Facilitate communication between partnership leads, fundraising teams, and program divisions so partnership insights inform funding strategies and engagement plans.
- Support leadership engagement by maintaining a clear understanding of partner priorities, risks, and opportunities.
Project Management & Partnership Execution (30%)
- Provide analytical and strategic support to the Head of Strategic Alliances in developing and executing partnership and acquisition strategies.
- Support partnership due diligence and integration planning by compiling data, synthesizing insights, and tracking cross functional deliverables and timelines.
- Manage discrete partnership related projects from concept through execution, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and internal processes.
- Track action items, decisions, and follow-up activities to ensure momentum and accountability across partnership initiatives.
Knowledge Management & CRM Enablement (30%)
- Manage and improve tools and processes that support partnership tracking, including competitive analysis, financial sustainability assessments, and risk evaluations.
- Support the development, maintenance, and effective use of a CRM or partnership tracking system to improve visibility into partnership pipelines, status, and history.
- Ensure that partnership data, insights, and documentation are accurate, current, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
- Synthesize partnership data and trends to support strategic planning, portfolio reviews, and leadership decision making.
General & Executive Support (10%)
- Prepare high-quality materials—including partner profiles, strategy briefs, talking points, and external facing documents—for leadership and donor engagement.
- Provide ad hoc executive and operational support related to strategic alliance activities, including meeting preparation and follow-up.
- Contribute to cross team coordination, continuous improvement efforts, and other duties as needed to advance strategic alliance objectives.
Required qualifications for the role
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience supporting strategic partnerships or cross-sector relationships, serving as a primary point of contact, coordinating internal stakeholders and supporting senior leader engagement
- Proven project management and analytical skills, with ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, track risks and deliverables, and ensure alignment with organizational strategy and timelines
- Demonstrated experience with knowledge management producing insights for leadership decision-making, and improving processes that enhance visibility, accountability, and impact across partnership portfolios
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
- Willing and able to travel domestically and internationally up to 10% of the time
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 $91,800 – $102,600 base salary
- Geo 2 – Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $83,725 – $93,575 base salary
- Geo 3 – Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $74,800 – $83,600 base salary
The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).
About Us
We are looking to build an inclusive team at Save the Children. We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this goal:
- Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays and hybrid working opportunities
- Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
- Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
- Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
- Wellness: 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days), mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
- Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
- Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships
Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.
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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