Senior Strategy Manager

Overview

Lead strategic management and project initiatives to enhance children's and girls' rights.

You have:

• Experience in developing global strategies and supporting strategic decision-making, ideally within consultancy or the strategy function of a global organisation.
• Strong project and portfolio management skills.
• Comfortable engaging and influencing senior leaders, navigating complex structures, and building strong relationships.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience working in dynamic, fast-changing environments.
• Commitment to gender equality and children's rights.

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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

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

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

As the Senior Strategy Manager you will be responsible for providing management and oversight of advancing priorities, staying abreast and ahead of external trends and strategic opportunities so Plan International remains at the forefront of the girls’ and children’s rights agendas. You will be responsible for the long-term vision, standing up and incubating critical projects and initiatives that leverage internal and external opportunities, as well as position the organization for increased impact.

About You

You bring strong experience in developing global strategies and supporting strategic decision-making, ideally within consultancy or the strategy function of a global organisation. You’re confident working with data and analytics, and while experience in an INGO or federated organisation is desirable.

You have solid project and portfolio management skills, and a background in business or operating model design. You're comfortable engaging and influencing senior leaders, navigating complex structures, and building strong relationships across geographies and cultures.

You’re a strategic thinker with excellent analytical skills, a problem-solving mindset, and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly. You stay calm under pressure, manage multiple priorities, and bring a high level of organisation and attention to detail.

Driven by purpose, you’re committed to gender equality and children’s rights, able to manage risk thoughtfully, and confident working in dynamic, fast-changing environments. You bring initiative, adaptability, and a solutions-focused approach to everything you do.

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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.

Type of Role: 12 month fixed term contract

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: 30th April 2025 (UK Midnight)

*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, US, 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.

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