PMERL and Salesforce Functional Admin Specialist

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 75 countries.

The Opportunity

As part of the Monitoring Evaluation Research and Learning (MERL) Department, your primary role as the PMERL and Salesforce Functional Admin Specialist is to understand, maintain, advise on and troubleshoot the Salesforce, Vera, Taroworks and OpenFN, tools which comprise a system known as “PMERL” from an M&E  functional utilisation perspective.  Your role will be pivotal in ensuring utilisation, governance and application aligned to PM and M&E frameworks and operating standards and procedures.  You will work closely with both the Y.O.D.A. Programme and IT operational teams who support PMERL from an IT perspective as well as leading engagement with third-parties working to support the platform.

The following are essential for success in this role;

• Qualification as a Salesforce Certified Administrator
• Proven experience in supporting programme and project delivery (programme effectiveness) and M&E through Salesforce systems in a large and matrix organisation, ideally in an INGO/NGO
• Knowledge of programme and project management (programme effectiveness) and ideally Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) operations, principles, practices and processes.
• Experience in business process design and mapping.
• Ability to understand programme and project management (programme effectiveness) and M&E workflow and lateral processes, understand where to probe for inefficiencies and clarity and to lead these discussions with the organisation.
• Experienced in the use of reporting tools to develop standard and ad hoc reports.
• Excellent understanding and application of MS Excel, Visio
• Experience in setting metrics and analytics and the ability to analyse data for operational and strategic decision-making.

For a full job description, please click here – PMERL System Specialist – M&E Function_June 2022.docx

Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted.  

Location: This role will ideally be based in the UK, employed from the Global Hub for Plan International which is based in Woking, Surrey however other locations with similar time zone 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 may be considered. You may be office and/or home or hybrid based

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed-term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Salary: We 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 was based in the UK the salary would be circa £45,000

Closing Date: 14th July 2022

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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.