Job Openings at Plan International

The Opportunity

The Deployable Finance Business Partner will partner with colleagues in country and regional offices to provide broad and varied financial skills and capability in support of Plan International’s work in countries both during emergencies and where additional finance skills and capability are required.

The Finance Business Partner will be deployed, often at short notice, to support Country Offices respond either to a particular emergency or when additional financial skills are required. As a finance professional, the Finance Business Partner will provide technical skills and knowledge involved in all aspects of finances for an emergency and/or provide specific financial skills to supplement a Country Office finance department They will ensure that the crisis response is appropriately funded and resources are effectively managed, allocated and protected, effectively balancing the requirements for agility and control. This will require an innovative, solutions focussed approach and strong teamwork.

The Requirements

• Experience in leading financial teams in Emergency Responses.
• Qualified accountant or part-qualified accountant.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including sufficient political credibility to work across all layers of the organisation, including senior leadership
• Extensive experience in Finance (accounting; reporting; grants finance; financial planning and analysis) in an INGO at Programme Unit and Country Office level.
• Demonstrable understanding of the humanitarian sector and ways of working.
• Knowledge of internal controls in financial management.
• Strong financial systems expertise. Fluency with complex financial systems including multi-currency accounting packages / Emergency Response Fund (internal Plan emergency funds)
• Experience in developing Standard Operating Procedures and guidance notes
• Communicates clearly, effectively and as appropriate to the audience.
• Able to build networks and relationships under challenging conditions to promote high performance.
• Experience with, and well-developed skills in, staff management, supervision and capacity building.
• Values working in a team and being willing to take on more responsibilities and support team members.
• Comfortable in challenging at all levels.
• Resilient under long-term pressure; thrives in dynamic fluid environments: adaptable and proactive.
• Solution focused; able to prioritise, deliver on time and cope with ambiguity.
• Sensitivity to a wide range of cultures, contexts and varying levels of financial capability.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.
• Good understanding of humanitarian values, principles, the Humanitarian Charter and Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

The Deployable Supply Chain Specialist provides leadership and technical support to the Supply Chain function of Plan International’s country offices and partners during our response to humanitarian crises. 

The Deployable Supply Chain Specialist is a key role to enable Plan International to respond quickly, effectively and at a significant scale to the core humanitarian needs of children and their families during disasters and conflict as part of a collective response.

The Requirements

• Significant experience working in a range of humanitarian crises.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of humanitarian supply chain management.
• Experience in emergency response start-up and establishing emergency logistics and supply chain processes.
• Demonstrable experience in incorporating gender and inclusion into logistics and supply chain work.
• Significant experience in managing and implementing donor grant projects.  Demonstrable knowledge of donor rules and regulations for a broad range of humanitarian donors (e.g. ECHO, BHA, amongst others) across humanitarian supply chain functions, including experience with proposals, implementation, technical advice and reporting.
• Proven experience of technical background across all aspects of logistics and supply chain management, including procurement, warehousing, fleet management and humanitarian distributions.
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills to achieve operational outcomes.
• Good people management & interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to work and provide effective leadership in complex and stressful situations, equally comfortable working in leadership, management and hands-on roles in rapidly changing contexts.
• Effective communication skills in a multicultural work environment.
• Project management and organisational skills, results-oriented and comfortable making decisions and taking appropriate risks.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working internal and external relationships and represent Plan in a professional manner.
• Positive, constructive and solutions-focused, comfortable working with high energy and positivity even in the face of challenging situations.
• Knowledge and experience in risk and fraud identification and management, including short-term mitigation strategies.
• Demonstrable understanding of, and commitment to humanitarian principles, humanitarian response work and child protection standards.
• Demonstrable understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, gender and diversity.
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

The Deployable People & Culture (P&C) Manager will deploy to Plan International’s humanitarian programmes to manage all aspects of the response concerning people management practices – with a focus on responsive and efficient operations and targeted excellence during the deployment. They will facilitate/contribute to the further enhancement of people management-related practices for emergencies in coordination with the Plan International Inc P&C and Global Humanitarian teams.

You will drive the One P&C approach through consistent execution of the P&C Strategic Framework with appropriate contextualization to the emergency context to enhance response performance through our people and culture.

This includes establishing, setting up and improving systems, processes and guidance and providing people management guidance to response managers and staff on all aspects of the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to onboarding, performance management, development, wellbeing, rewards, retention, equity, diversity and inclusion and talent management.

When not deployed to emergency responses, the role may develop and support global preparedness frameworks and capability-building activities such as developing/ revising policies and tools, training and briefings, self-learning/development and supporting/ advising on the humanitarian aspects of P&C projects and initiatives, etc.

This role will actively promote the invitation/involvement of internal high potentials to the roster, and the communication, induction, and training of staff in the roster.

The Requirements

• Strong generalist and technical expertise in employee relations/ case management, talent acquisition/ management, staff care and wellbeing, and leadership development, performance management, development.
• Significant experience in working on humanitarian crises in a range of different contexts.
• Capability to analyse the local labour law and its practical application in the workplace.
• Demonstrable awareness of the Core Humanitarian Standard and its use in a P&C function.
• Proven experience in field-level representation with key stakeholders and coordination with peer NGOs and UN actors. 
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

As a Deployable Gender in Emergencies Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country Offices (COs) to ensure that gender is mainstreamed in the preparedness, analysis (including the Rapid Gender Analysis), design, implementation, M&E and initiatives in our humanitarian responses. This includes supporting on capacity strengthening for Plan International staff and strengthening Plan’s representation in GBV and Gender-related working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation processes as well as policy and influencing in relation to gender in emergencies, aiming to address more specifically the needs of girls and the barriers they face.

The Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts.
• Demonstrable experience in mainstreaming gender in the design, management, monitoring and evaluation of emergency programmes in line with SPHERE and IASC standards.
• Demonstrable experience as a gender specialist on emergency assessment teams, assisting emergency teams to design and conduct Rapid Gender Analyses using the data and findings to design and initiate emergency response programmes which appropriately address gender considerations and promote the protection and empowerment of women and girls
• Experience in building and strengthening technical expertise on gender in emergencies in humanitarian work.
• Knowledge of relevant international code of conduct and humanitarian standards, such as the IASC Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action, GBV Guidelines, Core Humanitarian Standard, PSEA in humanitarian response and the Sphere Standards
• Ability to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies and local organizations.
• Experience to establish child and girl-friendly spaces and conduct Rapid Needs Assessments and focus groups with girls and boys.
• Good working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID, ECW, GPE, DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.
• Proven representational and coordination skills.
• Sound grasp of intersectionality & feminism, and a passion for dismantling patriarchy.
• Proven knowledge to conduct gender analysis in humanitarian contexts and ensure that humanitarian projects are at least gender aware.
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills.
• Fluency in English and in French
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

Plan International implements food security, nutrition and livelihoods programmes in over 30 countries, supported by multiple donors and governments. The main focus is on emergency lifesaving interventions, with an increasing emphasis on recovery and capacity-strengthening interventions with a climate change adaptation lens. In response to the ongoing global food crisis, Plan International has been scaling up responses in food security, nutrition and livelihoods reaching the most affected communities. Integrated food security and nutrition is a key component of Plan International’s humanitarian work.

As a Deployable Nutrition Specialist, you will provide technical leadership and support to the Country Offices (COs) primarily on the nutrition analysis, design and implementation of integrated nutrition and food security initiatives in our humanitarian responses, support on capacity strengthening for  Plan international staff, lead review of impacts of the nutrition interventions, and support the strengthening of Plan’s representation at the food security and nutrition working groups and clusters. You will also support reporting and documentation processes and policy influencing in relation to food security and nutrition at Plan International.

The Requirements

• Demonstrable experience working in a broad range of humanitarian crises in a number of different contexts.
• Demonstrable experience in the design, implementation and evaluation of integrated food security and nutrition projects.
• Experience in building and strengthening technical expertise on food security and nutrition in humanitarian work
• Knowledge of relevant international humanitarian standards, approaches (especially integrated approaches), and codes of conduct.
• Proven experience working in food security and livelihoods programming, especially from a girls’ rights perspective in a variety of contexts including acute & chronic food insecurity crisis
• Ability to network effectively and build good working relationships with colleagues both within Plan International as well as in peer agencies.
• Good working knowledge of key humanitarian donors, for example, WFP, USAID, DFAT, GAC, FCDO, and DGECHO amongst others.
• Knowledge of major humanitarian, recovery and development challenges and issues, specifically strategies for hunger and malnutrition reduction.
• Proven representational and coordination skills
• Strong analytical and report-writing skills
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

We recognise that our staff and associates may work in or travel to hostile and complex environments that present unique safety and security risks, and we are proactive in identifying and mitigating these risks. We understand that security management should be an enabler rather than a barrier. Plan International is committed to fulfilling its duty of care to our staff and providing a safe and secure environment so that we can better fulfil our purpose and objectives.  

The Deployable Humanitarian Security Advisor works with both the Plan International Global Safety and Security Team and the Global Humanitarian Team. They will deploy to Country Offices and provide operational advice and technical support to the country management team. Deployments will be to locations responding to humanitarian crises, including high-risk locations such as disaster areas and fragile or conflict-affected states. They will be prepared to deploy at short notice and support country management and staff in managing safety and security risks while rapidly scaling up humanitarian operations

The Requirements

• Significant experience overseeing security planning and operations in humanitarian or high-risk contexts.
• Experience in conducting security risk assessments.
• Experience providing technical support and oversight to security programmes.
• Experience in security capacity building in a variety of contexts.
• Proven experience in field-level representation with key stakeholders and coordination with peer NGOs and UN actors. 
• Experience in Humanitarian access negotiation/strategy.
• Clear understanding of humanitarian principles and International Humanitarian Law
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
• Excellent negotiation and representation skills and the ability to work comfortably with a diverse staff in a very sensitive environment.
• Good attention to detail. 
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure. 
• Strong communication (written and spoken) skills in English. 
• Committed to actively upholding Plan International's vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th March

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The Opportunity

As the Global Media Manager (Disasters) you will be responsible for co-ordinating global media engagement and positioning Plan International as a leading humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation. You will lead global media responses during disasters and emergencies, providing strategic direction to the organisation’s communications, including international deployment when required. As well as dealing directly with media, the Global Media Manager creates compelling content and messaging for use by Plan International’s network of communicators, which will require being able to work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple offices, backgrounds and functions.

In this role you will be expected up to 25% of the time, sometimes at short notice, to join emergency responses.  When on deployment, work is demanding, involving long days, travel and subsistence in often challenging circumstances.

About you

• Substantial experience working in journalism, media relations or PR at an international level
• Proven experience of managing media during humanitarian emergencies
• Track record of developing and delivering high-impact media strategies, shifting narratives and opinions and driving tangible change
• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English, with ability to quickly turn technical information into compelling copy
• Ability to lead and project manage teams across different offices and functions, including coaching colleagues to improve editorial content
• Ability to work quickly under pressure, including in insecure and sometimes distressing contexts, while motivating and supporting colleagues to do the same
• Ability to persuade, lobby and influence peers and colleagues and form productive relationships and contacts
• Demonstrable experience in safeguarding an organisation’s reputation, including crisis communications
• Ability to tailor communications to different audiences and channels, including media, social media and digital
• Strong understanding of humanitarian and development issues and rights-based work
• Experience of working with people at all levels in a multi- cultural / global environment
• Work on own initiative with strong organisational skills, to manage a wide and varied workload
• Work enthusiastically as part of a team and form effective and constructive working relationships across the whole organisation and wider network within sector

Desirable

• Multimedia skills such as photography, filming and video editing
• Languages: French, Spanish

Closing Date: 8th March 2023 

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The Opportunity

As the Global Media Manager (Campaigns and Policy) you will be responsible for co-ordinating global media engagement and positioning Plan International as a leading humanitarian and girls’ rights organisation. In this role you will lead the development and delivery of expert media strategies, providing strategic direction to the organisation’s communications and influencing, including international deployment when required. As well as dealing directly with media, the Global Media Manager creates compelling content and messaging for use by Plan International’s network of communicators, which will require being able to work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple offices, backgrounds and functions.

About you

• Substantial experience working in journalism, media relations or PR at an international level
• Proven experience of managing media for a campaign or advocacy initiative with demonstrable impact
• Track record of developing and delivering high-impact media strategies, shifting narratives and opinions and driving tangible change
• Excellent verbal and writing skills in English, with ability to quickly turn technical information into compelling copy
• Ability to lead and project manage teams across different offices and functions, including coaching colleagues to improve editorial content
• Ability to work quickly under pressure, including in insecure and sometimes distressing contexts, while motivating and supporting colleagues to do the same
• Ability to persuade, lobby and influence peers and colleagues and form productive relationships and contacts
• Demonstrable experience in safeguarding an organisation’s reputation, including crisis communications
• Ability to tailor communications to different audiences and channels, including media, social media and digital
• Strong understanding of humanitarian and development issues and rights-based work
• Experience of working with people at all levels in a multi- cultural / global environment
• Work on own initiative with strong organisational skills, to manage a wide and varied workload
• Work enthusiastically as part of a team and form effective and constructive working relationships across the whole organisation and wider network within sector

Closing Date: 8th March 2023