Plan International Deployable People & Culture Manager Job

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.

Disasters and conflicts threaten children’s rights and damage the societies they live in. Last year alone, Plan International responded to 81 disasters globally to champion and uphold the rights of children, particularly girls, before, during and after emergencies.

To sustain its engagement with children affected by crises, our Humanitarian team is currently recruiting committed humanitarian experts to deploy 9 months of the year to various emergency contexts. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth of our Core Surge team and to support children and their communities around the world in building resilience to increasing disaster risks.

The Opportunity

The Deployable People & Culture (P&C) Manager will deploy to Plan International’s humanitarian programmes to manage all aspects of the response concerning people management practices – with a focus on responsive and efficient operations and targeted excellence during the deployment. They will facilitate/contribute to the further enhancement of people management-related practices for emergencies in coordination with the Plan International Inc P&C and Global Humanitarian teams.

You will drive the One P&C approach through consistent execution of the P&C Strategic Framework with appropriate contextualization to the emergency context to enhance response performance through our people and culture.

This includes establishing, setting up and improving systems, processes and guidance and providing people management guidance to response managers and staff on all aspects of the employee lifecycle, from recruitment to onboarding, performance management, development, wellbeing, rewards, retention, equity, diversity and inclusion and talent management.

When not deployed to emergency responses, the role may develop and support global preparedness frameworks and capability-building activities such as developing/ revising policies and tools, training and briefings, self-learning/development and supporting/ advising on the humanitarian aspects of P&C projects and initiatives, etc.

This role will actively promote the invitation/involvement of internal high potentials to the roster, and the communication, induction, and training of staff in the roster.

The Requirements

• Strong generalist and technical expertise in employee relations/ case management, talent acquisition/ management, staff care and wellbeing, and leadership development, performance management, development.


• Significant experience in working on humanitarian crises in a range of different contexts.


• Capability to analyse the local labour law and its practical application in the workplace.


• Demonstrable awareness of the Core Humanitarian Standard and its use in a P&C function.


• Proven experience in field-level representation with key stakeholders and coordination with peer NGOs and UN actors. 


• Committed to actively upholding Plan International’s vision, values and behaviours and policies, including the Say Yes! To Keeping Children Safe Policy.

​​​​​​​Please follow this link for a full role profile; Deployable People & Culture Manager JD (Feb 2023).docx

Location: This role will be deployed 75% of the time to Plan International’s country programmes and home-based when not deployed. This 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 as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions. 

Reports to: Head of Strategic HR Business Partnering and Organisational Development

Closing Date: Sunday 12th March