Volunteer Management Project Lead

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

Plan International Inc (PII) relies upon the contributions of a variety of stakeholders to help achieve its mission, ambition, and strategy. PII’s volunteers play a crucial role in day-to-day operations of PII’s work.

The new strategy of ‘All Girls Standing Strong’ suggests that this will continue to increase in the future with greater requirements for onboarding, management and offboarding of our volunteers providing access to technology and organisational systems, as we strive to become more digitally connected and data-driven, we are seeking a passionate and skilled professional to join us in this key role.

As the Volunteer Management Project Lead, you will be instrumental in shaping and implementing a comprehensive global Non-Employee Management (NEM)/Volunteer framework. This involves the development of policies, procedures, tools, measures, and organizational design to ensure an effective end-to-end non-employment practice and engagement. Partnering with the IT team to implement the system to enable the overall NEM practice.

The framework along with the NEM system will help efficiency of PII’s Sponsorship and Monitoring & Evaluation processes as well as strengthening evidence and accountability of Plan International’s work.

The Person:

With previous experience of establishing large scale people management practices (specifically non-employees and/or volunteer engagement and management), with project management and change management experience in a global organisation.

You will have knowledge of relevant laws and regulations governing non-employee/volunteer management, as well as a fundamental understanding and experience of working in operational aspects of large, geographically dispersed, complex organisation and ability to plan and prioritise work within the context.

Strategy planning and M&E/measurement and reporting skills, in conjunction with experience demonstrating consultative, facilitation, influencing, collaboration and decision-making skills across various stakeholder teams to ensure alignment and drive progress toward a common business objectives.

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Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter.

Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted.  

Location: The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. You may be office, home or hybrid based.

Type of role: 12-month Fixed term contract

Grade: Hay Level 18. You will be paid according to the salary scale where you are currently based 

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.

Closing Date: Sunday 31st December 2023, midnight UK time

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.