Job Opportunities at Plan International

Location: Globally flexible, UK
Type of Role: Fixed Term
Duration: 3 months
Reports to: Ukraine Response Operations Manager

Role Purpose

• The conflict in Ukraine is resulting in a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighboring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine.
• Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organisations in Poland, Romania, and Moldova to meet the key needs of those affected by the crisis as well as host communities.  
• This position will play a key role in the support to country level activities and will provide technical support and guidance to Plan International teams and partners in Poland, Romania, and Moldova.
• The position will initially be remote but may well be based in one of the 3 countries in the future.
• The Ukraine Hub is a service-oriented structure to support initiation of activities, and to help find solutions to problems as and when arise.
• Creative thinking and identifying work arounds to problems faced will be a critical element of the role. 

Dimensions of the Role:

• Maintaining a strong donor portfolio  
• Proactively works with National Organisation (NO) counterparts to identify and win appropriate grant opportunities. 
• Oversees and coordinates the development, writing and packaging of successful grant proposals from concept through to award. 
• Developing and maintaining links with institutional donors, UN agencies ensuring Plan International is recognised as a go to agency for gender equity programming in humanitarian crises.  

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Extensive experience in humanitarian fundraising, quality proposal development and networking. 
• Demonstrated experience in designing and leading strategic planning processes 
• Knowledge of key humanitarian programme areas including, Child protection in emergencies, education in emergencies, cash and voucher assistance, partnerships. 
• Knowledge and Experience in project management cycle. 
• Ability to prioritize work effectively. 
• Ability to work independently without close supervision.  
• Strong planning and organizational skills. 
• Analytical skills. 
• Communication skills. 
• High level advocacy skills. 
• Facilitation and negotiation skills. 
• Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications. 
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills. 
• Advanced negotiating skills. 

Desirable:

• Language skills in Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, or Moldovan are advantageous.

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Location:  Globally flexible, Flexible
Type of Role: Fixed Term
Duration: 3 months
Reports to: Ukraine Response Operations Manager

Dimensions of the Role

• The post holder provides advice and guidance to Plan International on the organisation’s response to the Ukraine Crisis. 
• Manages and conducts specific projects and activities in relation to legal, compliance or regulatory issues, working flexibly within multidisciplinary teams. 
• Supervision/management - instructs and manages external lawyers on specific projects related to establishing a response to the Ukraine crisis and working with partner organisations.

Technical Expertise, Skills And Knowledge
Knowledge:

• Qualified as a lawyer in the UK and/or the US. Specific experience with Poland, Romania and Moldova are advantageous.  
• Experienced at providing legal advice internationally on a diverse range of issues.  
• Significant experience on International Humanitarian Law, Geneva conventions, Convention on the Rights of the Child and other legal frameworks related to refugees, conflicts, and children.  
• Knowledge and understanding of the legal and compliance issues affecting international not for profit organisations.  
• Knowledge and understanding of corporate governance issues, including as they affect international organisations and the not for profit sector. 

Skills:

• Highly effective at using legal skills to solve problems and identify and implement pragmatic solutions in line with the humanitarian principles, and Plan international’s Global Risk Policy.  
• Able to develop efficient, effective legal, compliance or governance systems and processes that are user-friendly and fit for purpose, and to identify ways to streamline systems and processes to minimise effort and maximise value 
• Strong legal drafting skills and powers of analysis with excellent attention to detail including when under pressure.  
• Able to apply legal expertise to develop and implement legal or governance systems, processes and policies. 
• Ability to think and advise strategically.   
• Able to influence and build strong relationships with different types of people at all levels.  
• Self-motivated, efficient and highly organised.  
• Creative problem solver 
• Highly effective prioritisation of competing requests 
• Ability to influence those over whom the post holder has no direct responsibility 
• Strong on delivery and effective completer-finisher  

Behaviours:

• Flexible and proactive, resilient, comfortable with and adapts well to change 
• Team player, highly collaborative, able to work effectively in a matrix management structure 
• Diplomatic, culturally and politically sensitive 
• Committed to the values, aims and objectives of Plan International 

Desirable:

• Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, or Moldovan language skills are an advantage. 

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Location:  Flexible, Flexible
Type of Role: Fixed Term
Duration: 3 months
Reports to: Ukraine Response Operations Manager

The Role

• We are transforming our approach to Finance in Plan International developing its impact, effectiveness and how it enables us to be a financially sustainable, commercially astute INGO, in an increasingly challenging economic and sector landscape.
• This exciting high-profile role is fundamental enabling us to provide effective financial support and maximise our resources in achieving one of our key strategic goals for providing humanitarian assistance in crisis situations.
• As a key member of our finance community this role is also key in building capacity across our Ukraine Response in Poland, Romania, and Moldova. Providing strategic finance and systems support on budgets, data and partnerships.
• The role identifies key blocks to fast implementation and identifies solutions.
• The post is a key link between country level activity and Plan International’s Global Hub. Responsible for ensuring systems work is aligned with humanitarian ways of working and the required speed in humanitarian response activities.  

Dimensions of the Role

• Supports strong financial and grants management across the Ukraine Response.  
• Works with response teams to identify blocks and solutions. 
• Provides strategic advice and support to the Ukraine Response Director 

Technical Expertise, Skills And Knowledge
Essential:

• Qualified accountant or part qualified accountant. 
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including sufficient political credibility to work across all layers in the organisation, including senior leadership 
• Extensive experience of Finance (accounting; reporting; grants finance; financial planning and analysis) in an INGO at Field and Country Office level. 
• Demonstrable understanding of the humanitarian sector and ways of working.  
• Experience in leading financial teams in Emergency Responses. 
• Knowledge of internal controls in financial management. 
• Strong financial systems expertise. Fluency with complex financial systems including multi-currency accounting packages / ERP. 
• Experience of 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 of, and well-developed skills in, staff management, supervision and capacity building. 
• Values working in a team and 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, context and varying levels of finance capability. 
• Strong written and spoken English. 

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the requirements of the major emergency donors and experience in budgeting and reporting to donors. 
• Language skills in one of the following; Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian or Moldovan.  
• Experience of working in insecure environments 
• HEAT training 
• Knowledge and experience in using SAP and Microsoft D365.

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Location: Remotely to start with. May be required to work in one of the response countries at a later stage.
Functional Area: Ukraine Refugee Crisis Hub
Travel required: Up to 60% (often at short notice)
Effective Date: Mar 2022
Grade: TBC

Role Purpose

• The conflict in Ukraine is resulting in a major humanitarian crisis with over 3 million people having fled to neighboring countries, and millions displaced within Ukraine. Plan International is responding to the crisis and working in partnership with civil society organisations in Poland, Romania, and Moldova to meet the key needs of those affected by the crisis as well as host communities.
• This position will play a key role in the support to country level activities and will provide technical support and guidance to Plan International teams and partners in Poland, Romania, and Moldova. The position will initially be remote but may well be based in one of the 3 countries in the future.  
• The Ukraine Hub is a service-oriented structure to support initiation of activities, and to help find solutions to problems as and when arise. Creative thinking and identifying work arounds to problems faced will be a critical element of the role.

Dimensions of the Role

• The position will develop Plan International’s approach to working with partners in response to the Ukraine Refugee Crisis.
• The role is the primary point of contact for partner organisations and will ensure Plan International is following high standards of partnership management, guiding partners through all stages of the partnership process and ensuring partnership needs are adequately incorporated into planning, budgeting and other resourcing.

Accountabilities

• Conduct regular partner mapping exercises, ensuring that Plan International’s portfolio includes a broad range of civil society organisations in Poland, Romania, and Moldova.
• Support potential partner organisations with the development of funding submissions, and if approved reporting in line with donor requirements.
• Lead the partnership appraisal and due diligence process for all partner organisations and identify key areas for support and strengthening.
• In close collaboration with partner organisations develop organisational development plans covering both humanitarian programming and operational support function strengthening.
• Support partner engagement in humanitarian co-ordination
• Oversee the development and use of partnership strengthening tools.
• Ensure each partnership has appropriate oversight and feedback mechanisms in place, including supporting the annual partner survey and review that reflects progress on external organisational engagement.
• Ensure Plan International’s management standards for working in partnership are applied to all partnerships within the Ukraine response
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Child Protection (CPP) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) 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:

• Programme technical leads.
• Ukraine Hub
• National Organisations
• Global Hub departments (including humanitarian, finance, legal, funding)

External:

• Civil Society Organisations
• UN Agencies
• Institutional Donors
• Embassies.

Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
Essential:

• Significant experience of partnership approaches in humanitarian response
• Proven experience of the humanitarian localisation agenda.
• Demonstrable track record of success building partnerships and alliances in humanitarian response.
• Strong strategic skills, including leading development of partnership strategies/frameworks.
• Effective stakeholder and relationship management.
• Solid communications, influencing and persuasion skills.
• Strong research, organisational abilities, and presentation skills.
• Good writing and editing skills, including fluent written and spoken English.
• Ability to prioritise tasks, meet deadlines and work independently.
• Highly positive and proactive with high-level influencing and negotiating skills.
• Capacity to manage demanding workloads, often in complex environments.
• Aptitude to prioritise tasks, work independently and to tight deadlines.
• Close attention to detail.
• Strong team and cross departmental working.

Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable:

• We create a climate of trust inside and outside the organisation by being open, honest and transparent. We hold ourselves and others to account for the decisions we make and for our impact on others, while doing what we say we will do.

We strive for lasting impact:

• We strive to achieve significant and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people, and to secure equality for girls. We challenge ourselves to be bold, courageous, responsive, focused and innovative.

We work well together:

• We succeed by working effectively with others, inside and outside the organisation, including our sponsors and donors. We actively support our colleagues, helping them to achieve their goals.
• We come together to create and implement solutions in our teams, across Plan International, with children, girls, young people, communities and our partners.

We are inclusive and empowering:

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

Physical Environment

• Based remotely, working in a virtual hub. Required to travel to operational locations on a regular basis, sometimes at short notice.
• Level of Contact with Children
• Low contact: No contact or very low frequency of interaction

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Location: Globally flexible, Flexible.
Duration: Initial 12 month’s contract with possibility of extension
Reports to: Urban Hub Manager

The Role
Type of Role:

• The position is a new role within Plan International, with direct line management by the newly established Ukraine Response Hub and with an indirect reporting line to the Urban Hub Manager.
• The role is for an initial 12 month’s contract with possibility of extension.
• The focus of this role is to provide support and guidance to our Ukraine Crisis programming and influencing work, ensuring that we integrate best urban humanitarian practice into our response design and delivery, and documenting key learning for dissemination in the wider humanitarian sector.
• The role will play a pivotal part in providing technical expertise, capacity building and skills sharing for local and national partners and Plan International staff.
• The post holder is responsible for developing and implementing an urban humanitarian programming framework for Plan International’s core technical areas - child protection, education, and cash-voucher assistance.
• The post holder will have a dotted line management to Plan International’s Urban Hub which is a joint global initiative by Plan International Denmark and Australia launched in August 2020.
• The Urban Hub is managed by an Urban Hub Manager based in Denmark, an Urban Hub Coordinator based in Australia, an Urban Research Manager based in United Kingdom, and supported by a global Steering Group.
• The purpose of the Urban Hub is to coordinate the sharing and expansion of knowledge and good practice, across programming, interventions and influencing activities in urban contexts.  As part of its mandate, the Urban Hub is working in close collaboration with Plan International’s Global Hub – Humanitarian Department, where an area of significant concern and interest is developing and scaling up humanitarian expertise from an urban perspective.  Recognising the urban nature of the current crisis in Ukraine and the neighbouring countries, this position will support Plan International and its partners design and implement appropriate urban response programming, building on sectoral best practice.
• The post holder will support the professional development of partner organisations’ humanitarian skills and ways of working.
• The post holder will represent Plan International in national and international humanitarian networks and fora, and will seek to influence current policy and practice, ensuring a strong gender equity lens is brought into all aspects of our work.
• Plan International will be the NGO partner of choice for promoting equality for girls and protecting children’s rights by working across the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus - a holistic blend of development and humanitarian interventions - through principled and locally led humanitarian action.
• The new Global Strategy for Plan International highlights the importance of scaling up our humanitarian work.
• This position will be a key part of ensuring we meet the objectives of the updated strategy. 

The Requirements
Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of urban programme design and implementation in humanitarian contexts 
• Significant experience in working in humanitarian crises, in several different contexts, including complex conflict settings 
• Extensive experience of working on refugee and IDP programming 
• Extensive experience of networking and external representation with UN, Peer Agencies, Institutional Donors, Civil Society Organisations, Government Ministries and Departments 
• Strong experience of gender equity and its inclusion into humanitarian programming.  
• Proven experience of using the Core Humanitarian Standard in programme design, implementation, and M&E. 
• Conversant with the international humanitarian architecture, particularly related to coordination and funding. Demonstrated prior experience of engaging with the humanitarian coordination system at local, regional, and global levels. 
• Experience of designing and delivering training for specialist and non-specialist staff.  
• Able to work calmly under extreme pressure and at unpredictable hours during emergency response. 
• Able to use Microsoft packages. 

Desirable:

• Language skills (ideally Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, or Moldovan) as well as English. 
• Proven experience of youth focussed programme design and implementation. 
• Experience in humanitarian response in Europe, and/or cross-border programming. 
• Experience of working in at least one of Plan Internationals core programme areas in humanitarian response (Child protection in Emergencies, Education in Emergencies, Cash & Voucher Assistance)