Participation & Partnerships Operations Manager Part Time NEW

Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Save The Children
Ref: 7432

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children’s unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the Team

This role is based in the UK Impact department. This part of the organisation influences debates, opinion and policies in favour of children’s rights. We use powerful evidence and thought leadership to build advocacy strategies that ensure governments know about the problems we have identified and the solutions. We work with children, families, campaigners and partners across many organisations to secure change. We create and disseminate engaging media content about children’s lives to shape debates, put pressure on decisionmakers and build public support. Our vision is to make sure families have the money, services and power to end child poverty. It’s our mission to help build communities of people who care about children, listen to what’s important to them, and work together to make things better.

Save the Children Cymru operates bilingually in Wales and we are committed to offering staff the opportunity to learn Welsh in line with our accredited Welsh Language Offer.

As this role is based in Wales (with Cardiff as the working office) you will need to be based in Wales to be able to fulfil the role. There is an expectation to be in the office at least 1 day a week.

About the role

This is a key operational role at the heart of a portfolio of funded work designed to help end child poverty and reduce its impact on children and families in Wales. The two streams of work focus on poverty and money, and poverty and climate change and the environment.

You will make sure strategy translates into strong delivery bringing together people, plans, budgets, partnerships, risks and resources to keep complex work moving and ensure funding delivers meaningful impact.

Working closely with the Head of Participation & Partnerships, you will provide the portfolio-wide oversight, challenge and coordination needed to deliver well, spot issues early and make good decisions. You will have real scope to shape how the portfolio operates, while enabling colleagues to lead their own work with autonomy and accountability.

Skills and experience needed for this role:

• Relationship Building & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, build effective working relationships and bring people together to achieve shared goals.
• Analytical Thinking & Problem-Solving: A proactive and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to identify potential operational issues, assess risks and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Operational & Organisational Skills: Excellent organisational skills, with experience of developing, tracking and maintaining workplans to ensure activities, milestones and deliverables remain on schedule.
• Planning & Delivery: Confidence in working to deadlines and managing competing priorities, with an understanding of budgets, expenditure monitoring and risk management.

If you enjoy making complex things work, solving problems, bringing people together and turning plans into results and want your work to contribute to better outcomes for children and families this could be the right role for you.

This is a permanent role but 20% of this post is funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s Supporting Great Ideas programmebetween 2026 – 2029.

What we offer you

We promote flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, and wellbeing both at work and beyond, and offer a wide range of benefits designed to reward your hard work and inspire you to help improve the lives of children every day.

Some of the benefits you can expect include:

• Generous Annual Leave – Starting at 27 days per year (pro rata for part-time employees) increasing with service up to 32 days, plus public holidays and our annual ‘Save the Children Day’.
• Family Leave – Up to 39 weeks of maternity/adoption pay (including up to 21 weeks full pay) and paternity/adoption leave of 10 weeks full pay (plus statutory entitlement).
• Special Leave – Up to 10 days paid leave per year (pro rata) for urgent or exceptional personal circumstances, without using annual leave.
• Volunteer Leave – Up to 3 days paid leave per year to support volunteering and give back.
• Pension & Life Assurance – Helping you plan for the future with up to 7% employer pension contributions.
• Employee Discounts – Access thousands of deals across groceries, retail, tech, travel, fitness, and more.
• Health & Wellbeing Support – Including access to a 24/7 Virtual GP and Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling, eye care support, and seasonal flu vaccinations.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Location & Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but at times you will be required to come to your contracted office (usually between 2-4 days per month, depending on the needs of your role, team, or service). For many roles, this is likely to be the minimum required to deliver impact.

This will be discussed and agreed with your manager / team and we encourage candidates to discuss our ways of working in more detail at interview stage.

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense.

Flexible Working – We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce, and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where structural inequality is actively addressed, and all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can thrive.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and are especially interested in hearing from people with diverse and intersecting identities such as lived experience of poverty, people of faith, people of colour, people with disabilities, with experience of migration and/or refugee status, care-experienced people, the LGBTQIA+ community and individuals with experience living in diverse families.

We are not looking for just one type of person – we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. We know that different voices working together will enable us to do our work better, improving the lives of children around the world.

Amdanom Ni

Mae Achub y Plant y DU yn credu bod pob plentyn yn haeddu dyfodol. Yn y DU ac ar draws y byd, rydym yn gweithio bob dydd i roi dechrau iach mewn bywyd i blant, y cyfle i ddysgu, ac amddiffyniad rhag niwed. Pan fydd argyfyngau’n digwydd ac mae plant yn fwyaf agored i niwed, rydym ymhlith y cyntaf i ymateb a’r olaf i adael. Rydym yn sicrhau bod anghenion unigryw plant yn cael eu diwallu a bod eu lleisiau’n cael eu clywed. Rydym yn sicrhau canlyniadau parhaol i filiynau o blant, gan gynnwys y rhai anoddaf i’w cyrraedd.

Am y Tîm

Mae’r swydd hon wedi’i lleoli yn adran Effaith y DU. Mae’r rhan hon o’r sefydliad yn dylanwadu ar ddadleuon, barn a pholisïau o blaid hawliau plant. Rydym yn defnyddio tystiolaeth gadarn, ein harbenigedd a’n dylanwad i lunio strategaethau eiriolaeth sy’n sicrhau bod llywodraethau’n ymwybodol o’r problemau rydym wedi’u nodi a’r atebion sydd ar gael i’w datrys. Rydym yn gweithio gyda phlant, teuluoedd, ymgyrchwyr a phartneriaid ar draws nifer o sefydliadau i sicrhau newid. Rydym yn creu ac yn rhannu cynnwys deniadol yn y cyfryngau am fywydau plant i lywio trafodaethau, rhoi pwysau ar y rhai sy’n gwneud penderfyniadau a meithrin cefnogaeth gyhoeddus.

Ein gweledigaeth yw sicrhau bod gan deuluoedd yr incwm, y gwasanaethau a’r grym sydd eu hangen i roi diwedd ar dlodi plant. Ein cenhadaeth yw helpu i adeiladu cymunedau o bobl sy’n poeni am blant, yn gwrando ar yr hyn sy’n bwysig iddynt, ac yn cydweithio i wneud pethau’n well.

Mae Achub y Plant Cymru yn gweithredu’n ddwyieithog yng Nghymru ac rydym wedi ymrwymo i gynnig y cyfle i staff ddysgu Cymraeg yn unol â’n Cynnig Cymraeg achrededig.

Gan fod y swydd hon wedi’i lleoli yng Nghymru (gyda Chaerdydd fel y swyddfa waith), bydd angen i chi fod wedi’ch lleoli yng Nghymru er mwyn cyflawni’r rôl. Disgwylir i ddeiliad y swydd fod yn y swyddfa o leiaf un diwrnod yr wythnos.

Am y Swydd

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