Gender& Education Officer at Plan International

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence and injustice.

We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives.

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We support children to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 75 years, and are now active in more than 70 countries.

Plan International Tanzania is looking for Gender and Education Officer who will lead the PlayMatters education team in Kibondo to integrate gender throughout the planning, implementation and monitoring of project activities. The project aims at promoting the integration of learning through play approaches in teaching and learning practices targeting children aged 3-12+ years in Nduta and Nyarugusu refugee camps and host communities in the Kigoma region. The project will focus on reaching out to nearly 800,000 pre-primary and primary school aged refugee and host community children impacted by the humanitarian crises in East Africa and living in Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. This project aims to build children’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical and creative skills through play in their homes, schools, and communities and will be implemented in partnership with War Child, International Rescue Committee, Behavioural Insights Team and Innovations for Poverty Action.

The Gender and Education Officer will be fully responsible for timely, efficient, and gender-responsive day-to-day implementation of all project interventions in a bid to achieve the project outcomes aimed at ensuring that: 1) Teachers Integrate Learning through Play into Teaching and Learning; 2) Principal caregivers and community leaders Increase community engagement in Learning through Play; 3) Strengthen Learning through Play in policy and systems.

This position reports to EiE Program Coordinator and will coordinate with Plan International’s PlayMatters Regional Gender Advisor for support and smooth implementation of gender activities. The position holder will be responsible and ultimately accountable for day-to-day implementation of project activities, quality delivery of results, coordination and collaboration and relations with project consortium members, teachers, PTAs, caregivers and community and religious leaders, and other stakeholders at field level. The post holder will also be responsible to ensure that project activities are implemented in a timely and quality manner and in compliance with donor requirements. The Gender and Education Officer will ensure timely data collection and analysis is used in periodic reporting and to inform project activities. S/he will also be responsible for representing Plan International in relevant stakeholders’ meetings such as Education Working Group meetings on camp level and camp coordination meetings such as Town Hall meetings, CCCM, etc.

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S/he will demonstrate excellent project management and problem-solving skills, a very high degree of maturity, flexibility, organization and communication skills, and strategic thinking to meet the demands of a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable operating environment while ensuring Plan International’s systems and policies and donor requirements are adhered to, especially gender transformative programming and child and youth safeguarding.

RESPONSIBILITIES/ ACCOUNTABILITIES

Program delivery

Lead and supervise the implementation of all project activities as per the workplan and budget; and programmatic reporting in accordance with donor and Plan International regulations.
In-charge of supervising daily ECCD activities at their respective ECCD centre.
Lead the the design and implementation of gender specific and integrative activities.
Conduct effective Gender and inclusion sessions in relation to LtP approach across all training packages.
Organize and implement community awareness events and campaigns on the importance of play-based learning and ensure new enrolment and retention of girls in schools.
Organize and execute distribution of scholastic materials, MHM and Hygiene kits.
Work closely with operations to ensure timely implementation of planned activities.
Ensure the implementation of project activities adhere to Plan International’s policies, INEE minimum Standards, ECCD Standard guidelines and SOPs; as well as Core Humanitarian Standards.
Assess project progress and identify technical quality issues or other implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications as required.
Supervise schools at ward level and ensure all project activities are implemented based on the Plan International standard and quality.
Provide and coordinate capacity building trainings for incentive workers, staffs and partners on gender integrative approaches and strategies, and inclusion guidelines
Work with MEAL Coordinator and Officers to undertake gender inclusive assessments in coordination with partners.
Integrate with outcome coordinators to regularly support and monitor on continuous teacher professional development.
Support PlayMatters budget development and activity plans for coming years.
Provide technical assistance to the project team on Gender and Inclusive education.

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Communication, Advocacy, Representation and partnerships

Support the EiE team and Gender and inclusion aspect when necessary in representing Plan International in sector coordination meetings and inter-agency activities at field level.
Support the implementation of inter-agency assessments.
Support the documentation of best practices and lesson leant from project implementation to inform the design of future programs.
Develop gender dimension briefs and learning materials as per the guidance and support of Gender advisor
Attend regular virtual meetings with the gender advisor for technical support, learning and progress monitoring
Maintain active and cooperative relationships with all key stakeholders, including government officials, UN agencies, project partners, other implementing agencies, and related institutions. Support advocacy initiatives through developing briefs, documentation of evidence and impact stories.
Promote community understanding on the importance on Learning-through-Play.
Represent Plan International at local and district level meetings and work closely with the advocacy focal point to ensure relevant stakeholders are aware of Plan International EiE Programming.

Staff Management

Directly supervise refugee and other incentive workers at their respective ECCD centres and ensuring they adhere to Plan International’s Policies, Code of Conduct and Procedures.
Report any violations of Plan International’s Code of Conduct and Policies as per Plan International-Tanzania.
Ensure teachers have professional capacity and gendered understanding to deliver their lessons.

Key relationships

External – Close collaboration and strong working relationship with project consortium partners and members of the Education Working Group (IRC, Caritas, Save the Children, UNHCR, UNICEF, MHA, District Education Officers) etc. The Gender & Education Officer will also maintain a relationship with local authorities, relevant Government institutions, and UN agencies to ensure Plan’s work is well linked to other initiatives.

Internally– The Gender & Education Officer will report to the EiE Program Coordinator, and S/he will coordinate with Regional Gender Advisor, EiE Officers, Content and Material Development Officer, EiE MEAL department for the implementation of project activities at camp level. S/he will also work closely with Finance Officer, Procurement team, Communications and advocacy team and Human resources team.

Director of Strategic Finance at Plan

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

In Finance, our vision is ‘to be a globally trusted partner in the organisation’s delivery of life-changing programmes for girls and young women’.

We aim to do this by ‘providing the robust financial systems, reports, tools and data, and the skilled people to enable successful project delivery. We equip our customers with the insights, capabilities, and expert advice that they need to change lives’.

Plan International embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic change initiative to make the organization more transparent, legitimate, and agile.

Our Strategic Finance Directorate will be responsible for leading and delivering the financial strategy to ensure financial sustainability for Plan International Inc. (PII) and lead on critical thinking and insight generation to support decision-making and strategic planning.

As Head of the Directorate, you will be responsible for building the function’s brand as a global partner through the provision of strategic leadership, insight generation, and effective resource allocation in budgeting and reporting processes for the finance function. You will oversee financial planning, financial performance analysis and management, and strategic and global financial modelling. The Directorate will have responsibility for management of the data and information sets and systems to create confidence across the function and wider organisation in what is being provided.

The Director will form part of the Finance Leadership Team and will own the development of the five-year Finance Strategy alongside the CFO. You will also be accountable for providing day-to-day oversight and management of the Directorate, including reporting, people management, and quality assurance responsibilities.

The Requirements

Leadership behaviours:

Provides Strategic Leadership within the function and to the wider organisation, acting as a partner in the delivery of outcomes.
Is customer focussed and embeds those behaviours across the Strategic Finance Directorate.
Develops, motivates, coaches and manages the Strategic Finance Directorate team and broader finance teams at global, regional and country level.
Promotes high performance and continuous improvement by all staff.
Promotes innovation and ongoing learning and development of all teams within the region.
Resilient and outcome focussed, with an ability to build those qualities in the team.
Communicates clearly and effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
Gains, develops and retains credibility about their performance.
Sees the bigger picture and helps teams and leaders to develop this perspective.

Skills specific to the post:

Demonstrable experience of transforming Financial Strategy, Planning and Insight services.
Strong financial analysis and modelling skills, with the ability to provide insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
Knowledge and ability to create a variety of modelling techniques and methods to support planning and analysis.
Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information in a clear and concise manner to non-financial stakeholders.
Managing and mitigating financial and operational risk, working across teams to mitigate and manage response.
Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications (e.g. word processing, spreadsheets, database, internet).
Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
Ability to translate strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture.
Communication skills, tailored to the audiences with whom you will work – including external stakeholders, and global, regional, and local teams.
Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders and bring the best out of teams.
Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
Knowledge and experience of using any/all of the following would be an added value:
- SAP ERP systems
- Power BI
- Dynamics 365

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Director of Strategic Finance_Role Profile_March 2023_FINAL.docx

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.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available via employing entity

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

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: Monday 22nd May

*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, 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, Spain, 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.

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

Director of Finance Transformation at Plan International

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

The Opportunity

In Finance, our vision is ‘to be a globally trusted partner in the organisation’s delivery of life-changing programmes for girls and young women’.

Plan International embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic change initiative to make the organization more transparent, legitimate, and agile. We have identified and are in the process of implementing a series of significant transformation programmes, including a new ERP solution using Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Our Finance Transformation Directorate will be responsible for planning, overseeing, and delivering core improvement initiatives across the Finance function.

As Head of the Directorate, you will be responsible for providing strategic leadership in the improvement of the global finance function at Plan International. This will include, but not be limited to, the development of new strategic initiatives and programmes of work that improve capability, ongoing management of a change plan, acting as a central point for the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 within the finance function, and working with regional teams to create rollout plans. You will also be responsible for horizon scanning and assessment of new initiatives, which may include the introduction of automation and/or a shared services centre to support delivery of core accounting processes.

The Director will form part of the Finance Leadership Team and will support the development of the five-year Finance Strategy. You will also be accountable for providing day-to-day oversight and management of the Directorate, including reporting, people management, and quality assurance responsibilities.

The Requirements

Skills and experience specific to the role;

Large-scale transformation programme delivery, including each stage of the programme management lifecycle.
Strategy design and development, including with the ability to engage stakeholders throughout the process.
Ability to craft and convey a change narrative to support buy-in from stakeholders.
Ability to manage multiple large-scale strategy, transformation and change projects simultaneously.
Ability to translate strategy into delivery through plans, programmes, people and culture.
Third-party supplier management, including procurement, contract management, and performance management.
Communication skills, tailored to the audiences with whom you will work – including external stakeholders, and global, regional, and local teams.
Strong negotiating, facilitating and influencing skills to support delivery of initiatives.
Ability to deliver major and complex change at place, effectively managing risks and dependencies.
Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders and bring the best out of teams.
Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
Ability to deliver a programme using different delivery methods and approaches (including Agile delivery methods).
Business case development, including understanding of cost/benefit analysis.
Strong process design/optimisation skills to support the ongoing improvement of processes across the function.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Director of Finance Transformation_Role Profile_March 2023_FINAL.docx

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.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract available

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Closing Date: Monday 22nd May

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

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

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

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Finance Director, Global Programmes and Operations at Plan International

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

The Opportunity

In Finance, our vision is ‘to be a globally trusted partner in the organisation’s delivery of life-changing programmes for girls and young women’.

Plan International have embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic change initiative to make the organisation more transparent, legitimate and agile. Stregthening our financial planning, processes, decision making and analytics is a key enabler in attaining our strategic goals.

The Global Programmes & Operations Finance Directorate will be responsible for providing critical leadership, guidance, oversight and support to Plan International’s regional and country office finance teams. It will ensure that appropriate internal standards and effective processes and tools are available and consistently adhered to, for Plan International and its partners to meet external financial standards, projects managers needs and donors’ financial regulations. It will also provide financial expertise to the Global Programmes and Operations Directorate.

In collaboration with other Finance Directorates, it will tailor support to Regional Hub’s and Country Office’s:

With the Corporate Finance and Treasury Directorate, it will support compliance with accounting standards, year-end processing and audit deliverable in COs and RHs.
With the Strategic Finance Directorate, it will provide oversight of the global fund’s allocation and COs and Regions Financial performance.
With the Finance Transformation Directorate, it will strengthen capability and improve capacity in teams to deliver core finance activities.

In line with our strategic priority to scale up the humanitarian impact, the Directorate will also lead in shaping and managing effective and clear financial standards and processes for managing our humanitarian responses in collaboration with the Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team.

As head of the Directorate, you will work closely with the Regional Finance Directors for Plan’s four regions (Asia Pacific, Middle Eastern, Eastern, Southern Africa, West and Central Africa, and Region of the Americas) ensuring that your team provides guidance, oversight and quality support to their regional finance teams. You will also lead the financial support to the Global Programme and Operation Leadership team (GPOLT) by being a core member of the team.

The Requirements

A Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW or recognised equivalent) you bring a breadth of financial experience within an INGO (ideally with both humanitarian and development focus) or non-profit sectors and audit practice. Experience of working in countries delivering development programmes would be a significant advantage and an understanding of INGO funding streams and importance of full cost recovery is imperative.

Complex problem solving is a core requirement of this role and you bring strong process design/optimisation skills to support the ongoing improvement of processes across the function.

A skilled leader you bring exemplary negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills. Customer focused, you promote high performance and continuous improvement from your staff. You are resilient and outcome focused with an ability to build those qualities within your team.

Please follow this link for a full role profile; Director of Global Programmes and Operations Finance_Role Profile_March 2023-FINAL.docx

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.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Closing Date: Monday 22nd May

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

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

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

CLICK HERE TO APPLY

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