Volunteer Management Project Lead at Plan International

The Opportunity

Plan International Inc (PII) relies upon the contributions of a variety of stakeholders to help achieve its mission, ambition, and strategy. PII’s volunteers play a crucial role in day-to-day operations of PII’s work.

The new strategy of ‘All Girls Standing Strong’ suggests that this will continue to increase in the future with greater requirements for onboarding, management and offboarding of our volunteers providing access to technology and organisational systems, as we strive to become more digitally connected and data-driven, we are seeking a passionate and skilled professional to join us in this key role.

As the Volunteer Management Project Lead, you will be instrumental in shaping and implementing a comprehensive global Non-Employee Management (NEM)/Volunteer framework. This involves the development of policies, procedures, tools, measures, and organizational design to ensure an effective end-to-end non-employment practice and engagement. Partnering with the IT team to implement the system to enable the overall NEM practice.

The framework along with the NEM system will help efficiency of PII’s Sponsorship and Monitoring & Evaluation processes as well as strengthening evidence and accountability of Plan International’s work.

The Person:

With previous experience of establishing large scale people management practices (specifically non-employees and/or volunteer engagement and management), with project management and change management experience in a global organisation.

You will have knowledge of relevant laws and regulations governing non-employee/volunteer management, as well as a fundamental understanding and experience of working in operational aspects of large, geographically dispersed, complex organisation and ability to plan and prioritise work within the context.

Strategy planning and M&E/measurement and reporting  skills, in conjunction with experience demonstrating consultative, facilitation, influencing, collaboration and decision-making skills across various stakeholder teams to ensure alignment and drive progress toward a common business objectives.