Summary

Save the Children is a $1 billion NGO helping children in need in the US and overseas. To extend its US reach and impact, Save the Children launched its Mobile Programming Initiative in response to the challenges faced by children and families living in remote, rural areas of the United States in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through the Mobile Programming Initiative, Save the Children provided funding to community partners to procure mobile units (used school buses) and retrofit them for use in delivering essential services such as early learning programs and healthy feeding to remote communities facing barriers to access. As the organization moves beyond the pandemic, its objectives are to assess the implementation and impact of these mobile units, the potential for long-term sustainability, and the potential of the units to support Save the Children’s strategy of improving kindergarten readiness and grade level proficiency for children living in rural America.

Under the guidance of a designated point person at Save the Children and the continuing support of a longtime philanthropic donor, Save the Children Mobile Programming is looking for a fellow who will utilize quantitative data, insights from the Mobile Unit Lessons Learned Study, fundraising pipelines and proposals, and other relevant resources to accomplish the following tasks:

What You’ll be Doing (Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Impact)

• Determine operating and business costs and impact
  • Analyze the operating and business costs associated with the Mobile Units.
  • Assess the impact of Mobile Units on target communities in terms of access to services, educational outcomes, and nutritional status.
  • Develop a suitable metric to measure return on investment (ROI).

• Generate recommendations for successful implementation
  • Study the existing implementation strategies of Mobile Units in six communities across rural America.
  • Make recommendations to enhance the delivery and impact of Mobile Units, ensuring alignment with Save the Children's mission.

• Support strategic planning
  • Collaborate with the team to develop a strategic plan to set and meet the future goals and objectives of the Mobile Unit project.
  • Provide insights and recommendations for scaling the project to reach more communities effectively.
  • Ensure that strategic planning efforts are in line with Save the Children's overarching mission and values.
  • Determine sustainability plan and create a toolkit that supports communities in taking ownership of ongoing operating costs to keep their mobile units on the road.

Required Qualifications

• Must be an actively enrolled in an Associate, Bachelor, Master or other post high school education program, or have graduated within 6 months of fellow program start date
• Possess strong written skills, solid interpersonal skills and ability to work within a team
• Able to handle confidential and proprietary information appropriately and with discretion
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Currently eligible to work in the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in strategic planning and/or sustainability planning
• Experience in the development of return on investment (ROI) metrics

What’s In It for You

• Structured learning and development program
• Meaningful work under the direct supervision of an experienced Save the Children staff member
• Highly collaborative and innovative teams
• Networking program with managers across the organization
• Flexible schedule
• A family friendly work environment
• The knowledge that the work you are supporting is changing the lives of children all around the world

Classification: Paid Fellow

Compensation: $17 / hour

Hours: 40 hours per week

Dates: June 10, 2024 – August 16, 2024

About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

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. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)