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# Senior Advisor, Community Lifecycle & Impact Implementation (P4)

- **Company:** Save The Children Federation, Inc.
- **Location:** Fairfield, CT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $119,425.0 - $133,475.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Business Process Modeling, Microsoft Office, Performance Monitor
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18805680/Senior-Advisor-Community-Lifecycle-Impact-Implementation-P4-Connecticut-Fairfield

## About the Role

* Minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 7 years of relevant experience
 * Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully with individuals and teams at all levels
 * Demonstrated success working across the full cycle of project/award management and implementation
 * Demonstrated ability to multi-task and work under competing priorities and deadlines

 * Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
 * Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred qualifications for the role

 * Professional proficiency in spoken and written Spanish
 * Experience in early childhood, primary education, and/or place-based coalitions in the United States
 * Experience in state-level policy and advocacy
 * Experience in delivering results and impact at scale

## Description

As the Senior Advisor, Community Lifecycle & Impact Implementation, you'll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will provide strategic leadership and oversight across the Collective Impact project portfolio throughout the grant lifecycle, ensuring effective implementation, achievement of organizational objectives, strong donor stewardship, and continuous improvement of impact delivery. You are accountable for meeting project targets, delivering on key metrics, and capturing best practices that strengthen future work. You will also lead the evolution and implementation of the Community Lifecycle & State Scale approach, collaborating with colleagues across the Impact & Evidence division to define, map, and deliver programs and services at scale across Save the Children's domestic portfolio., * Lead the development, implementation and continuous refinement of the Community Lifecycle and State Growth & Scale plans, in collaboration with colleagues across Impact & Evidence.

 * Advise state teams on business planning, performance management, and strategic implementation priorities, identifying opportunities to strengthen outcomes and accelerate impact.
 * Analyze performance trends, identify risks and implementation challenges, and develop recommendations to improve program performance and achievement of key objectives.
 * Uplift and communicate the progress and accomplishments of the Community Lifecycle Approach and State Growth & Scale Strategy across the agency.

Community Impact Project Management (50%)

 * Efficiently manage portfolio from start up to closeout in accordance with Save the Children and donor guidelines.
 * Serve as the strategic lead for assigned initiatives and portfolio activities, coordinating with donor and internal stakeholders and resolving escalated issues as needed.
 * Oversee award monitoring to ensure highquality implementation, timely reporting, compliance, and consistent application of best practices.
 * Lead crossfunctional collaboration and proactively manage portfolio risks by liaising with Impact & Evidence, Finance, and Marketing & Growth colleagues, escalating as necessary.
 * Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and tracking tools to support proactive management and timely delivery.
 * Ensure highquality donor deliverables by coordinating inputs, validating data, and maintaining consistency across reports.
 * Monitor performance against targets and metrics, identifying coursecorrections and recommending improvements to strengthen impact.
 * Document lessons learned and contribute to afteraction reviews to strengthen future programming.
 * Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance tools, and strengthen project management practices.
 * Provide regular status updates that support effective decisionmaking, including clear escalation pathways and documented decisions.