Closing Date: 30 April 2025
Plan International is hiring for a Senior Strategy Manager (Globally Flexible)
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. Plan International believes 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, Plan International strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. Plan International support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. Plan International drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using its reach, experience and knowledge. For over 85 years, Plan International has rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
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 Senior Strategy Manager role
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.
Technical Expertise, Skills and Knowledge
- Good knowledge of and previous experience of developing global strategies andstrategic decision making
- Significant experience in consultancy, the strategy function of a global organisation orexperience across several functions highly desirable
- Good understanding of analytics approaches, capabilities and models• Good understanding of working in an INGO (desirable)
- Good understanding of the unique opportunities and challenges that working in a globalfederated/membership organisation can bring (desirable
- Project planning and management• Portfolio management (e.g. managing programmes, projects or ventures)
- Business design/operating model design experience• Facilitating, influencing and negotiating with senior executives
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.
*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
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