UK (Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London or Manchester) – Hybrid or Remote

Closing date 26 August 2025

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We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, experienced and impactful individual to join us as aSenior Learning Manager.

Please note:This is not a traditional L&D or teaching role — we're looking for a strategic leader to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of internal learning across teams.

In this role, you'll apply your extensive experience ofleading and designing continuous improvement, service design and other formal methodologies to drive an ongoing cycle of learning, improvement and problem-solving. Drawing on Human Learning Systems principles to shape your approach, you'll unlock a wide range of knowledge and expertise to help drive impact through our strategies, ultimately leading to positive change for families in each of our Nations. In doing so, you'll also help to develop our collective approach to change across the UK.

You'll build thecapacity of others to do the same, working across a highly complex context and diverse set of teams, places and cultures. Howyou do this is critically important. You'll adopt a user-centered approach through all your work, generating buy-in and commitment towards the value and impact of Learning as a strategy for change. You'll lead, but with a light hand, enabling your colleagues, our teams and the department to achieve our goals, at times through: listening, connecting, facilitating, developing, coaching, supporting, nudging and inspiring.

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.

In this role you will:

• Lead the design and delivery of learning and improvement projects across teams, functions, and external partners.
• Support country teams to embed continuous learning and improvement in their change strategies.
• Manage multi-disciplinary project teams with clear plans, timelines, and accountability for outcomes.
• Facilitate decision-making on learning and improvement priorities, ensuring diverse perspectives are heard and balanced.
• Apply service design, systems thinking, or continuous improvement methods to help teams analyse challenges and co-create solutions.
• Ensure learning is captured, shared, and embedded in key frameworks and strategies.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Proven experience leading or supporting learning, improvement, or problem-solving initiatives across teams.
• Skilled at navigating complex organisations and working with senior stakeholders to overcome challenges.
• Strong collaborator with excellent listening skills and the ability to guide group decision-making with buy-in.
• Solid understanding of continuous improvement, service design, or systems thinking approaches.
• Well-connected in relevant UKI Framework themes or in the wider learning/improvement community.
• Willingness to travel across the UK and Ireland (approx. 4–6 times per year with notice).

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefitshere.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing date:Midnight Tuesday 26th August

Interviews are expected to be 8th - 10th September

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