Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. Today, Plan International is a global organisation that is active in over 70 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Who We Are We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is a nearly $800 million organization often ranked among the top 10 international development agencies by reputation, size and scope. We work side-by-side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children, developing solutions to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and health care programs, to education projects and child protection initiatives. Community by community, Plan works to promise futures that are worthy of all children’s potential. Our Vision Our vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Our Mission Plan strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of vulnerable children in developing countries by: Enabling children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; Fostering relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and Promoting the rights and interests of the world’s children.
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Location Not specified
- Job Field Project Management
The Opportunity
The Performance & Insights Team (PIT) facilitates and supports PII to implement the Global Strategy by guiding planning and performance processes which enable insight-led decisions and informs management and governance bodies on progress towards implementing the strategy through annual plans and reporting.
The role of the Performance & Insights Analyst includes the following:
- To improve, simplify and implement the annual planning process across Global Hub, Regional Hubs and Country Offices.
- Contribute to monitoring the implementation of the global strategy through appropriate annual performance and reporting mechanisms
- Consolidate and coordinate performance insights which generate actionable outcomes to benefit PII and improve visibility of delivery.
- Support the Executive Director (ED) for Programmes & Operations to deliver on the ED’s mandate, develop ad hoc reports, support with specific project management and help coordinate key initiatives across the department.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES OR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning Framework
- Contribute to the development and delivery of the annual planning approach across Plan International, such as, updates to tools and guidance in alignment with new IT systems, communications and requested support from stakeholders (e.g., planning workshops), to enable quality plans which align with the Global Strategy.
- Drive alignment with GH Finance teams to ensure the planning and budgeting products are consistent, to enable a smooth Annual Planning and Budgeting cycle and link between delivery and budget, for both leadership visibility and Global Hub (GH) departments, Regional Hubs (RH) and Country Offices (COs).
- Analyse GH/RH annual plans and create user-friendly tools and resources to present and enable insights which support decision-making for PII Leadership specifically, as well as improved visibility of delivery for the wider organisation.
- Contribute to assuring implementation of annual plans through supporting relevant governance processes with appropriate analysis, to improve accountability of our Global priorities and GH/RH objectives.
- Coordinate and build on improvements made to the global annual reporting process to ensure collection of key organisational data is streamlined and accessible for reporting and further analysis.
- Coordinate team governance through creation and weekly/bi-weekly facilitated tracking of the implementation plan, to support the team meeting the objectives in the annual plan.
Performance and Insights
- Coordinate collection and consolidation of data for the Global Strategic Dashboard and Results Framework, to enable reporting of the Global Strategy to Leadership, International Board and Members Assembly.
- Contribute to quarterly global analysis of CO, RH and GH performance (e.g. KPIs and other data at request) through innovative tools and artefacts (e.g. PowerBI) for leadership meetings, to improve data driven decision making and visibility of performance.
- Develop and manage oversight mechanisms of workstreams through the operational excellence calendar to promote collaborative and planned workstreams.
- Identify improvements and necessary adaptations to performance and insights analysis and reporting, in alignment with customer need and the introduction of new IT systems.
- Sharing and promoting engagement with artefacts created by the team, which will enable data-driven and insight-led decision making across the organisation e.g., updates to Planet and communications.
- In partnership with the PPI team, build relevant communities of practice in planning and performance.
- Proactive engagement with stakeholders across PII entities to ensure minimization to duplication of work on data gathering.
Management support:
- Support the ED for Programmes & Operations to deliver on the ED’s mandate through developing ad hoc reports, working on specific projects and help coordinate key initiatives across the department.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
- Good knowledge of and previous experience of project management lifecycle, key elements of project planning and governance
- Experience in working with multiple stakeholder groups and at senior managerial levels
- Experience in creating tools and templates to enable effective planning and performance monitoring
- Experience in improving business processes for management outcomes
- Understanding of analytics and data visualisation tools, or with the aptitude to learn
- Excellent writing and presentation skills
- Understanding of change and design methodologies (desirable)
- Good understanding of working in an NGO (desirable)
- Fluency in English
- French, Spanish, Arabic (desirable)
