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.
The Opportunity
The Talent Acquisition Manager supports Plan’s talent acquisition objectives, ensuring the robust sourcing and resourcing of talent for key Mission Critical and hard-to-fill positions within the organisation worldwide and within the Global Hub (GH).
This role is responsible for delivering process excellence and facilitating and driving resourcing activities including the active sourcing and pipelining of talent; oversight of selection processes; implementing process improvements and development of tools, templates and training to support improvements, efficiency and upskilling of People and Culture (P&C) staff and managers as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate the end to end recruitment process for key Mission critical, international and GH recruitments.
- To co-ordinate recruitment kick-off briefings with key stakeholders to agree and define the resourcing process and strategy, roles and responsibilities, talent pipelines and context
- To create and maintain robust selection criteria throughout the different stages of the recruitment process in line with any specific requirements scoring criteria
- To work alongside P&C colleagues and leadership in ensuring the succession plan is actively engaged with and utilised, gaining intelligence on internal candidates and ensuring a feedback loop is maintained throughout the year, in particular for Country Director positions.
- To drive momentum throughout the recruitment campaign, liaising with key stakeholders to ensure timelines are adhered to, addressing any road blocks and reducing time to hire in line with KPI’s.
- To compose attractive, engaging adverts and written materials for prospective candidates throughout the process, building brand engagement and maintaining a professional image.
- To ensure a positive end to end service offering is given to all candidate applications as best practice.
- When required, to provide training to Hiring Managers and interview panelists, ensuring they have the skills and competence to screen and select candidates for the roles they are shortlisting.
- To engage with external networks and connections to build the reputation of Plan International and talent pipelines for future roles.
- To build knowledge of Plan’s total reward policy and approach to ensure our packages remain competitive and to negotiate offers with the identified candidate ensuring an attractive offer is made, maintaining overall compliance and parity across the organisation.
- To support the continued improvement of Plan International’s current recruitment system to achieve operational excellence in talent acquisition; working with the recognised TA tool (HRIS/Success Factors) to ensure the organisation has a system which is fit for purpose and can be continually improved in the future.
- General recruitment coordination/administration, inclusive but not limited to: Creating and drafting job descriptions, adverts, interview question templates, scoring matrix, contract offers, updates on HRIS, document retention, new starter information and interview feedback.
You are a recruitment specialist with extensive end-to-end recruitment experience in an in-house environment. An understanding of how to attract diverse talent and how to ensure inclusion and accessibility throughout the recruitment process is essential and prior experience recruiting in an international environment would be desirable.
You bring well-developed negotiating and influencing skills developed in a track record of successful hires and the ability to prioritise well and effectively between competing demands and challenging timelines.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Plan International on jobs.plan-international.org to apply
