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Plan International is recruiting for Senior Adviser – Multilateral Partnerships (Globally Flexible)

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Closing Date: 9 February 2025

Plan International is recruiting for Senior Adviser – Multilateral Partnerships (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 strives 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. Plan International won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

Do you have the skills and capacity to guide Plan’s thinking on how it best develop and scale-up key strategic partnership opportunities with UN agencies, multilateral organisations and development banks, exploring areas of collaboration that will result in the greatest transformative change for children?

This newly created Senior Adviser – Multilateral Partnerships role will perform a central account management function at the global level in leading organisation-wide engagement with select multilateral entities, working with and on behalf of the entire organisation to better position Plan International and deepen engagement with strategic external partners.

In this Senior Adviser – Multilateral Partnerships role you will represent Plan International externally and internally; consult, cooperate and capitalise on existing organisational strengths; and help to steer strategic thinking with organizational leaders. The Multilateral Partnerships Advisor role will work closely with colleagues at the country and regional level, as well as the Policy, Advocacy, Campaigns and Engagement (PACE) and Humanitarian team at the Global Hub.

About You

The Multilateral Partnerships Advisor will have strong knowledge and understanding of the United Nations system, preferably with an understanding of the internal workings of international financial institutions (IFIs) or other multilateral organizations too. You will have expertise in advocacy, policy, and/or fundraising within international development. A significant awareness of global partner engagement strategies, quality assurance guidelines, monitoring and evaluation frameworks for external partnerships, and partnership capacity building is essential. Plan International is looking for someone with a demonstrable track record of success in building global partnerships and alliances. Extensive knowledge of current issues and trends in international development is also required.

Additional Information

Location: The location of this role can be globally 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.

Salary: Plan International 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.
As an indication, if this role were based in the UK the salary would be circa £60,000 per annum
Reports to: Director of Partnerships