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.

What can you bring?
The Talent Acquisition Specialist will primarily focus on managing the recruitment of a variety of roles to support Plan International’s response countries in the Ukraine refugee crisis response.
The person will work closely with the country management teams to understand the workforce needs, the timing of these needs and the duration of roles. The person will support planning for the recruitment process and the best strategies to attract the right people to the various roles, including internal secondments.
The role will be responsible for ensuring that recruitment follows Plan International’s Talent Acquisition policy and procedures.

The position reports to the Head of HR & OD, Ukraine Response Hub and is an integral part of the team responsible for coordinating with the country response HR staff, managing relationships with key service providers and implementing/maintaining processes contributing to the overall delivery of efficient and effective recruitment of the right people in the right place in the right time.

Ensuring that we have the right people available for the organisations current and future needs and to meet our strategic goals is imperative to ensuring that we maximise our positive impact on the lives of children, especially girls, globally. This role will help us to build talent pipelines, forecasting, sourcing, screening, assessing and guiding selection processes in the response countries.

You will:

• Work with Plan International Hiring Managers to agree and define the resourcing strategy, roles and responsibilities, recruitment process and timelines
• Compose attractive, engaging adverts and written materials for prospective candidates throughout the process, building brand engagement and maintaining a professional image.
• Engage with external suppliers as necessary
• Identify any roadblocks which may affect Plan International’s success in achieving its SLAs for talent acquisition.
• Drive momentum of recruitment, following up with key stakeholders in the recruitment process as required.
• Develop, build and maintain a pipeline of talent as part of proactive talent acquisition activities including headhunting to ensure that we are able to respond to organisational requirements in a timely manner and with well qualified, credible, engaged candidates. Actively supporting diversity and inclusion within all recruitment activities.
• Engage with external networks and build networks as required in order to fulfil requirements
• Guide Hiring Managers to ensure that Plan International resourcing practices and processes are fair and equitable
• Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

You will have:

• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment campaigns. Experience within the humanitarian or development sector would be highly advantageous.
• Knowledge of employment law and best practice associated with recruitment activities
• Fluent written and spoken English- Language skills in Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian or Moldovan will be an advantage
• Experience successfully implementing organisational HR policy and practice.
• Excellent IT skills including MS Excel and Word
• Proven ability to communication with clarity to different audiences using a range of media.
• Proactive and innovative
• Good organisational abilities: ability to prioritise tasks and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Strong writing skills – able to write concise but engaging content for cross culture audiences.
• Creative and engaging solutions to organisational challenges.
• To work with a range of stakeholders to understand and resolve their issues and provide support at a distance.

Location: Flexible- Poland, Ukraine, Romania or Moldova

Type of Role: Fixed term; 1 year contract with possibility of extension

Reports to: Head of HR at Ukraine Response Hub

Closing Date: 24th April 2023

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

We’re looking for candidates with the pre-existing right to work in aby of the response countries.