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 80 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

The Opportunity

As a leader in the global movement for girls’ rights, our ambition is to take collective action so that 100 million girls learn, lead, decide and thrive. These ambitions require that we work in new ways and unleash our full creative potential. It is the role of the Digital & Innovation Team to nurture creativity and support teams to develop new impactful offerings in the areas of programming, influencing, fundraising and operations. The team is deployable to where it is most needed and provides hands-on support from the early stages of identifying a challenge statement through to the realisation of scalable impact for girls. The Innovation Team is also responsible for creating an enabling environment for innovation to flourish, including a network of innovators, skills building in human-centred design methodologies and an ecosystem or relevant partners.

The Digital Programming Lead will support the design and development of global programming models across Plan International’s Area of Global Distinctiveness (AoGDs). The position will ensure that technology is integrated across Plan International’s programming in a way that increases its overall efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring sustainability and delivering deep and lasting impact. The postholder will also ensure that ICT4D is effectively included in business development processes to maximise proposal success. They will champion ICT4D internally through active leadership support to an internal community of practice and will represent Plan International externally at industry conferences, communities of practice, and donor convenings.

About You

You bring demonstrable experience of leading ICT4D strategies or large ICT4D projects with proven success in winning large donor proposals in the role of ICT4D technical lead.

You will have experience of working in at least two or more of Plan International’s programme areas - education, adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights, early childhood development, youth economic empowerment, child protection or other related fields ideally in a multi country, regional or global context.

An understanding of human-centered design and practical experience of utilising the techniques in a business context, preferably for social impact and of training both ICT4D and general program staff on ICT4D concepts and how to analyze and identify development challenges that can be solved by ICT4D solutions is essential

Please follow this link for a full role profile; https://planinternational.sharepoint.com/:f:/s/PeopleandCulture/En_BC9RYBJpFjQ25xiwkbPYBDfZu1NEQCWkffxb95WmXWw?e=Hdqqgw

Location: Flexible where Plan International has a legal entity and the applicant has the pre-existing right to work and live. 

Type of Role: Permanent unless a fixed term contract is dictated by the employing entity terms and conditions

Reports to: Head of Digital and Innovation

Salary:  We will be happy to disclose the salary and applicable benefits to applicants as part of this process, however, please kindly note that this will vary according to the location of the appointed candidate and therefore it is not possible to include full details here. As an indication if this role was based in the Global Hub office in the UK the salary range would be circa £45000 per annum

Closing Date: Friday 3rd December

Applicable locations may 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, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, 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.