Job Vacancies at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian non-profit organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood, and enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We believe in the power and potential of every child, but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Head of Engagement

Job Location: Nigeria
Grade: 18
Reports to: Chief Strategy and Engagement Officer
Functional Area: Gender Transformative Policy and Practice Team (GTPP)
Travel required: Occasional Global Travel
Type of role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available

The Opportunity

• In this new role, the Head of Engagement leads the “One Plan” approach in driving the Global Strategy through collective influencing, ensuring Plan International is seen as a global leader in girls rights and girls in crisis. 
• As part of the refreshed remit of the Strategy and Engagement department and in partnership with the Chief Strategy and Engagement Officer (also a new role) – there is increased focus and support on ensuring Plan International’s policy, advocacy, and influencing profile is more visible and effectively communicates the global impact we have – via our youth centred approach.
• Using the Global Strategy, Global Advocacy Strategy (GLAS), and Global Influencing Ambition (GIA) – Plan has outlined on average 6 global engagement opportunities per fiscal year – that leverage policy windows, enhance advocacy outcomes, fundraising opportunities, and partnership development.
• Our preparations for these engagement opportunities must be holistic “One Plan” and encompass many key departments within Global Hub, but also equally importantly across Regional Hubs, National Organisations, and Country Offices, whilst also ensuring Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Policy & Advocacy, and Girls and Youth Power and Action Hub (GYPA) colleagues can continue to lead on thematic and technical expertise while ensuring coordination is overseen by the Engagement Hub.
• The Head of Engagement will lead the overall Plan International Engagement Strategy – from structure, to priorities, to process – in partnership with the Head of Profession for Policy & Advocacy – and working closely with the GLAS Steering Committee, and other key internal and external stakeholders.

For FY24 the key engagement opportunities include:

• Women Deliver 2023 (July 2023) - Kigali
• United Nations General Assembly/Sustainable Development Goals Summit (September 2023) - NYC
• Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (October 2023) – virtual
• International Day of the Girl (October 2023) - virtual
• COP28 (November 2023)
• Davos, World Economic Forum (January 2024)
• Commission on the Status of Women (March 2024) – NYC

Further 2024 engagement opportunities to be defined collectively via the GLAS Steering Committee and the Chief Strategy and Engagement Officer

The Individual
The following requirements are essential:

• Proven commitment to and expertise in advancing Plan International’s Purpose to advance children’s rights and equality for girls (in all their diversity), gender equality, diversity and inclusion .
• Ability to think critically and to research and analyse complex information.
• Ability to assess risks, issues and opportunities with a high degree of coherence and clarity to solve complex problems and innovate.
• Experience of planning and prioritisation of external global engagement initiatives, projects and work programmes to achieve quality outcomes and benefits within agreed timelines.
• High degree of cultural sensitivity within a global context.
• Ability to communicate with clarity and effectiveness to different audiences, using a range of media.
• Experience of providing professional advice and guidance to leaders within an organisation of comparable complexity.
• Staff management and motivation skills.
• Business administration and/or project management qualifications
• Strong background in public affairs, advocacy, government relations or other similar field – expert understanding of and ability to navigate global political environment
• Strong project management skills and the ability to report and resolve risks, issues and dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and strength in forming relationships and supporting colleagues to deliver on their commitments within corporate policies, values and established good practice.
• Experience of working within a global organisation.

Application Closing Date: 20th October, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward a copy of their CV, along with any relevant documentation, to "Mr Thibault Robert" via: PI-HOE@sri-executive.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.

Note

• All information will be treated in the strictest confidence as we pride ourselves on our professional service.
• We will revert to you as soon as possible when we have reviewed your application.

 

 

2.) Head of Global Climate Hub

Job Location: Nigeria
Grade: 18
Reports to: Director of Gender Transformative Policy and Practice
Functional Area: Gender Transformative Policy and Practice Team (GTPP)
Travel required: Occasional Global Travel
Type of role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Role Purpose

• The Key deliverable of this role is to position Plan International as the go-to organization for girls and Climate
• It will need the incumbent to lead both advocacy and programming on Climate
• The role will significantly support resource mobilization in partnership with partner National and Country Offices
• The role will be accountable for the execution of the climate roadmap and key milestones agreed as part of the Global strategy
• Manage the Business Development Manager and Climate Network Coordinator as well as support and guide the Global Environmental Policy Specialist and Resilience and Climate Change Specialist.

Dimensions of the Role
Responsible for the strategic and managerial leadership of Plan International’s Climate Hub with accountability for delivering on the Climate roadmap as part of the Global strategy:

• Develop and socialize a clear organizational competency statement on climate with clarity on Plan's value add across humanitarian and development contexts.
• Support development, design, and testing in Bangladesh a new Climate Programme and Influence model, working across humanitarian and development
• Map and identify climate finance opportunities for Plan International and develop a resourcing strategy
• Include new roles, training, and approaches in proposals
• Improve knowledge management and learning approaches and systems, including regular well-organized network meetings
• Implementation of climate influencing plan and engagement in COP28 as per GIA and GLAS

Undertake robust policy analysis on climate change and girls’ rights and develop evidence-based positions, briefings and other policy materials on girls’ rights and climate change to underpin Plan International’s strategy, programmes and influencing:

• Lead the production of evidence-based policy positions, briefings and other policy materials to support and inform Plan International’s strategy, programmes and influencing. Priority thematic areas of expertise and focus on climate change and girls’ rights will include climate change and education; youth economic empowerment and the just transition and youth leadership.
• Work with other internal technical networks and staff leading programmes, particularly the Resilience and Climate Change specialist to ensure that policy positions are informed by robust evidence and programmatic experience.
• Maintain an understanding of global policy trends on climate change, ensuring positions are up-dated and colleagues are kept informed.
• Follow negotiations and implementation of the Paris Agreement and develop appropriate briefings.
• Identify priorities for research and develop new research with external and internal partners to address key policy and knowledge gaps related to advancing the rights of girls and young women in the context of a changing climate.
• Provide advice and input to policy and advocacy materials (e.g. submissions, thematic reports, briefings, recommendations) led by colleagues across the Plan International federation;
• Maintain up-to-date internal systems for the sharing of information across the organisation.

Lead Plan International’s global level influencing on climate change and girls’ rights, linking global to regional, national, and local level-influencing:

• Based on analysis, define strategic priorities, objectives and strategies for Plan International’s global influencing on climate change and girls’ rightsin the context of the International Advocacy Strategy and Plan International’s global campaign, Girls Get Equal.
• Drive consistent and well-coordinated influencing on girls’ rights and climate change from local to global levels. Act as the key global climate advocacy focal point within the relevant Plan International global technical networks and by supporting and advising on climate change influencing undertaken by Plan International offices across the federation;
• Build strategic external relationships with key coalitions and other NGOs, policy makers, UN and multilateral institutions, academics and other relevant stakeholders to further Plan International’s policy and advocacy ambitions on girls and climate change. Lead Plan International’s engagement in relevant networks, including the Children in a Changing Climate Coalition.
• Co-lead the internal Climate Change and Resilience Network along with the Resilience and Climate Change Specialist.
• Undertake external representation and speaking roles at external events and secure meaningful roles for other Plan International experts where strategic.
• Develop terms of reference and/or specifications as required for interns, consultants and other procurements and liaise with team administrator on consultancy agreements and service agreements.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other global and regional influencing colleagues, including youth influencing colleagues to ensure complementarity and alignment of influencing initiatives and approaches across thematic areas and across advocacy and campaigns.
• The Child Protection Policy (CPP) is fully embedded in accordance with the CPP Implementation standards as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under the CPP and Code of Conduct (CoC), its relevance to their area of work and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Accountabilities

• Identify and contribute to addressing gaps in Plan International’s policy analysis and positions, liaising with Plan International offices across the federation and with key external stakeholders
• The role will be accountable for the execution of the climate roadmap and key milestones agreed as part of the Global strategy
• Ensure consistency of positions in public statements, press releases etc. for use in the public arena.
• Manage multiple competing demands and priorities, meeting deadlines and ensuring delivery of agreed outputs and meeting both immediate and longer-term demands, to a high standard.
• Use judgment when dealing with requests from external partners and build relations for influence.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to need for contextualisation of policy positioning in different contexts 
• Thinking creativity to implement advocacy and campaign objectives
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young people and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

Key Relationships
Internal:
The position requires a high level of communication and working relationships with:

• Technical, program, and influencing staff leading on climate and resilience-related agendas in Plan International’s Country Offices, Regional Offices and National Offices; thematic experts; and International Programmes Department including research and disaster risk management colleagues
• With Business Development Colleagues in NOs and COs; in the Global Program Network, FundNet Directors and the Global Fundraising Hub
• Colleagues in the GTPP, Humanitarian, Logistics department, including policy, advocacy, communications, and partnerships, to ensure integrated planning and relationship management with external audiences and partners
• The post-holder will be required to work in a collaborative and inclusive way with colleagues across the whole federation to ensure that the development of policy and advocacy is informed by robust research, and sound programme evidence and experience
• Climate Hub Steering Group

External:

• The position requires a high level of communication and working relationships with: civil society and non-government partners, policymakers, UN and multilateral agencies, academics, and senior government officials.
• Representation of Plan International to senior external figures, confidently communicating Plan International’s work, policy thinking, and advocacy objectives
• Utilise strong written and verbal interpersonal and communication skills to build relationships, negotiate, and influence a wide range of audiences
• Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• An Undergraduate or Postgraduate Degree in Climate Change, International Development, Environment, Development or equivalent knowledge or experience gained in other ways
• Substantive experience of working on climate change, children’s rights and gender equality at the global level within an NGO, UN agency, government department, or other relevant institution. Experience of producing high quality evidence-based policy positions and briefings
• Substantive experience in resource mobilization for Climate
• Experience of policy analysis, policy development, providing policy advice and translating policy into clear recommendations and messages for advocacy and campaigning
• Experience of external representation and relationship-building at a high level with strategic stakeholders
• Experience of delivering advocacy strategies on climate change, children’s rights and/or gender equality in a national and/or international context using a variety of approaches

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the United Nations international human rights system and institutions (i.e. UN treaty monitoring bodies, Special Procedures) (desirable)
• Experience of working with multilateral and global climate funds

Skills:

• Excellent fluent oral and written communication skills in English for a variety of internal and external audiences (essential)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to manage multiple demands, meet deadlines and prioritize workload 
• Able to develop clear evidence-based messages and recommendations
• Facilitation and consultation skills, able to gather and integrate feedback into policy analysis, position papers, and advocacy planning
• Keen attention to detail 
• Excellent people skills, able to work in a collaborative and supportive way with colleagues in all regions where Plan International works, in a multi-cultural environment and across different time zones
• Able to build effective relationships for influence
• Skilled and confident user of office applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail and calendar applications
• Knowledge of French and/or Spanish (desirable)

Behaviors:

• Open, honest, transparent, and accountable
• Works effectively with others both inside and outside the organization
• Inclusive and empowering, respecting all people and challenging inequality in our programmes and our workplace
• Flexible, changing ways of working when needed
• Demonstrated commitment to children’s rights and gender equality
• Plan International’s Values in Practice

We are open and Accountable

• Promotes a culture of openness and transparency, including with sponsors and donors.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieve the highest standards of integrity.
• Open about mistakes and keen to learn from them.
• Consistent and fair in the treatment of people.
• Accountable for ensuring we are a safe organisation for all children, girls & young people

We strive for Lasting Impact:

• Articulates a clear purpose for staff and sets high expectations.
• Creates a climate of continuous improvement, open to challenge and new ideas.
• Focuses resources to drive change and maximise long-term impact, responsive to changed priorities or crises.
• Evidence-based and evaluates effectiveness.

We work well Together:

• Seeks constructive outcomes, listens to others, willing to compromise when appropriate.
• Builds constructive relationships across Plan International to support our shared goals.
• Develops trusting and ‘win-win’ relationships with funders, partners and communities.
• Engages and works well with others outside the organization to build a better world for girls and all children.

We are Inclusive and Empowering:

• We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential
• We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge equality in our programs and our workplace
• We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives.

Physical Environment

• office environment with occasional global travel
• Level of Contact with Children

Low contact:

• No contact or very low frequency of interaction

Salary

• We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that the salary and employment benefits will be set according to your location and therefore it is not possible to include full details here.

Application Closing Date: 15th October, 2023.

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3.) Deployment Manager

Job Location: Nigeria
Grade: 2
Reports to: Head of Performance - Insights, Planning & Reporting
Functional Area: Delivery, Performance & Accountability Group

Role Purpose

• Plan International is developing a more coordinated approach to how it provides short-term support to country offices, aiming to harness the knowledge, skills and experience of our global network in a more efficient and effective way. A new role of Deployment Manager has been created to co-ordinate this support, including managing the DRM roster for emergencies.
• The post holder will identify country office resource requirements, create a single resourcing plan and manage the implementation of the plan, including optimising staff utilisation, managing the recharging process and communicating the schedule to staff, so each team member knows exactly what they are working on and when.

Dimensions of the Role
Budget held:

• Number of direct reports: none
• Locations: anywhere where Plan has an office. Largely desk based but will require frequent interaction with individuals and teams from around the organisation.
• Expected to work outside standard office hours at short notice for business-critical needs, particularly in response to sudden onset emergencies
• Main challenges of the role
• Making the time to maintain good relationship with a diverse group of stakeholders
• Able to understand the complexity of Plan’s structure and decision-making processes and work effectively to deliver the results
• Being adaptable, flexible and able to respond quickly to changing needs
• To lead on embedding resource planning and use of resource management systems as a core organisational capability

Accountabilities

• Identifying demand: developing and implementing a simple process that enables country offices to request short term support. Working with clients to manage expectations and to ensure each CO’s resource demands are fully understood.
• Building a database: using HRIS information to build a database of deployable staff (both from Plan International and externally) and recording their specialty areas, knowledge, skills & expertise, together with the % of time they are available for deployment. This may include liaising with colleagues across all entities (NOs, COs, Regional and Global Hubs) to identify additional people who are available for deployment, if skills are not available within the current resourcing pool.
• Creating a resourcing plan: allocating resources when a project is confirmed or when the right resource against a project is identified, based on individuals’ expertise, skills, previous experience or availability.
• Resource analytics and modelling: modelling different demand scenarios in order to predict resource availability for future projects to ensure there is enough capacity to deliver upcoming projects and working with team leaders to identify additional staff, where required.
• Managing the plan:
  • Proactively monitoring the resourcing plan, by managing staff utilisation levels, identifying and resolving over-allocation on projects and ensuring an even spread of work allocation for all staff across the organisation for example by looking out for employee over- utilisation, uneven workload or additional hours being worked
  • Re-allocating resources as required - for example, by adjusting goals or requirements or assigning new people to the project or shuffling resources as new projects and opportunities arise.
  • Knowing the requirements of each project and making recommendations to hire new people or call on external resources, as needed.
• Managing recharging and pricing: working with HR and finance, ensure cost of resources allocated to COs are recharged where appropriate. This includes visibility on cost and liaising with finance and HR functions to ensure the recharge process is carried out.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures

Key Relationships:

• Regional and country directors and their deputies
• Global Hub heads of function, particularly Humanitarian Director
• HR and finance teams

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Experience of DRM roster management and / or resource management in a global organisation at management level, and of driving innovations or improvements
• Experience of statistical modelling and analysis, and of using analysis to derive insights and drive decisions and actions
• Experience of navigating organizational complexity, including structures and decision-making processes, and of influencing others to deliver results
• Strong project management experience
• Knowledge of the INGO environment, ideally in relation to both humanitarian and development contexts.
• Ideally, experience of working in the global south
• Be humble, appreciative and solutions-orientated.
• Models Plan International’s values, behaviours and feminist leadership principles
• Superb interpersonal skills - the ability to collaborate with teams both inside and outside the organisation and to build trust across different cultures and geographies.
• Strong financial understanding and budget management.
• Understanding of the use of IT systems in DRM roster management / resource management, and the ability to work with IT specialists on system development/ enhancements
• Strong rational and emotional intelligence, with resilience in the face of pushback and resistance to new ideas and ways of doing things.
• Ideally, proficient in a language or languages other than English – especially French, Spanish, Arabic.

Application Closing Date: 5th October 2023.

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4.) Deployment Coordinator

Job Location: Nigeria
Grade: 2
Reports to: Deployment Manager
Functional Area: Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

Role Purpose

• Plan International is currently responding in Poland, Romania and Moldova to the Ukraine Refugee Crisis. As new responses, Plan’s programme and staffing requires significant surge capacity. Along with this Plan International continues to provide surge support globally to a multitude of crises.
• This role will support in sourcing staffing and deployment needs in the Ukraine response, working closely with the Deployment Manager.

Dimensions of the Role

• Plan International has seen an increase in requests for humanitarian surge capacity in its operations globally. At the same time, we are currently in the process of scaling up our response to the evolving Ukraine crisis, and establishing partnerships with national organisations in Poland, Romania, and Moldova. This requires dedicated support to the Ukraine crisis, supporting deployment processes.
• This position will support the Deployment Manager in ensuring that surge support is identified quickly for the Ukraine response, and all paperwork and administrative processes are completed quickly and in line with Plan Internationals policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Manage the roster email account and record all requests for surge capacity support
• Support the deployment process for surge staff, with a particular focus on the Ukraine response.
• Provide all staff deploying with key induction material, ensuring mandatory trainings have been completed in advance of travel.
• Supporting the advertisement of the roster, and screening applications to ensure we have a strong pool of internal and external roster members.
• Maintain visibility of roster requests within the organisation and work with the deployment manager to identify appropriate staff who can deploy.
• Liaison with Plan Internationals travel agent, ensuring flights and hotels are booked quickly and in line with our policies and procedures. This may require out of hours work due to the urgency of travel for many positions.
• Maintaining a deployment tracker for all deployments to the Ukraine crisis.
• Developing regular deployment reports; analysing deployments by sex, technical area, location etc.
• Preparing all paperwork for staff deploying to the Ukraine crisis.
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures

Key Relationship
Internal:

• Deployment Manager
• People & Culture Team
• Humanitarian Department
• Roster members
• Roster leads
• Ukraine Crisis Support Hub

External:

• Consultants

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Demonstrated experience in administration
• Proven experience of working on HR processes
• Ability to solve problems
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft applications
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities with short deadlines

Desirable:

• Demonstrable knowledge of humanitarian ways of working

Application Closing Date: 5th October 2023.

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