Campaign Manager

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International envisages a world in which all children and young people realise their full potential, a vision now shared by the 193 Heads of State and Government who adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015. Our core values bind us together and hold us to high standards for how we expect ourselves and those we work with to behave. They are our guiding principles to the way we work and help us to understand how to put our organisational purpose-Advancing Children’s Rights and Equality for Girls into practice.

Our organisation is transforming itself to meet the enormous challenge everywhere that we work. We need bold, forward-thinking and innovative individuals in our team, driving change and delivering results that will allow us to reach our target of 100 million girls. With this backdrop, Plan International Bangladesh (PIB) has set the vision for 2030 as, ‘We will partner to empower girls and young women, to be heard, to live without fear of violence and to achieve their rights’. This change will enable us to deliver successfully on our global ambitions and significantly impact children’s rights and gender equality in Bangladesh.

The Role:

Manager- Campaign, will work under the supervision of Director- Policy, Advocacy, Influencing and Campaign. This position holder will lead the organization to move a pro-affordable influence and campaign agenda at multiple levels engaging potential rights holders and duty bearers, affiliates, allies, network, coalition and partners and advocates to excel the lives of youth and children in the community. S/he will be responsible for the design, delivery and monitoring of Plan International’s Girls Get Equal and other national campaigns in Bangladesh, in both development and humanitarian contexts. Working closely with Plan International Bangladesh’s Youth Advisory Panel (YAP), youth organizations/networks and programme and influencing team members, s/he will ensure Plan International Bangladesh’s youth champions representation is visible, engaging, respected and active through its campaigns. S/he will identify and integrate campaign issues and contents with programmes and projects and bridge them with national, regional and global campaign priorities. S/he will lead the process of integrating campaign with projects and programme keeping it aligned with country strategy visions and campaign priorities of global as well as Asia Pacific Region. This position will be responsible to contribute in the regional and global campaign strategy, powering the movement, and agency building. She/he will work closely with thematic leads, geographic leads, Country Management Team (CMT), Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (MERL), and most importantly with youth and youth organization for building and strengthening partnership with them

What we’re looking for:

We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated individual with a Master’s degree inJournalism, Mass Communication, from a reputed University. Advanced degree in Law, International Relations, Gender Studies or similar areas will be preferred with minimum five years in the similar job in large organization preferably in reputed NGO/INGO. Along with Significant experience of designing and delivering campaign both at rural and urban, whom would Lead Plan International Bangladesh’s Campaign and influencing portfolio

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Location: Based at Dhaka under Plan International Bangladesh Country Office

Contract Duration: 02 years

Application Closing Date: 9 November 2023

readvertisement Candidates who applied for this position earlier are requested not to re-apply.

Plan International Bangladesh is committed to ending gender inequality, and achieving a gender balanced workforce. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates shall be contacted. References will be taken along with background check and Anti-terrorism screening in conformity with Plans Global Policy on Safeguarding Children and Young People. We offer competitive salary, female friendly workplace, outstanding co-workers (who are respectful, professional, unbiased and easy to work with); equal opportunity that mean equal access to promotion, leadership role or incentive programme.

Plan follows an equal opportunity policy and actively encourages diversity welcoming applications from all especially women and people living with disability

-Caution-

Recently there have been instances of fraudulent job advertisements/offers in favour of Plan International Bangladesh asking for fees through different mobile Banking options which has led to confusion among job seekers. Plan International would like to stipulate that these are fraudulent activities and Plan International does not ask for or ever accept any such fees during the recruitment process. Plan International advises you to be vigilant against such fraudulent activities.