Global Safeguarding & PSHEA Culture Advisor

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.

The Opportunity  

As the Safeguarding and PSHEA Culture Advisor, you will work closely with the Global Safeguarding/PSHEA Technical Advisors, to support the strengthening of Safeguarding and PSHEA Culture throughout the organisation, ensuring the strengthening of our inclusive safeguarding approaches applied with an intersectional lens. 

Your focus will be on the supporting and/or taking on the delivery of our safeguarding culture workshops, these include Power, Privilege and Bias, Anti Racism, Masculinities for PSHEA, Exploring the Power Within, Honouring the Call of the Self. Your work will also focus on specifically on ensuring the organisation’s PSHEA interventions and measures are in line with sector best practice and robust.  

You will be required to have collaborative linkages with our Gender and Inclusion and People & Culture colleagues. 

The Individual   

• You will need to previous experience of delivering internal workshops/sessions on areas such as power,privilege/bias/anti-Racism or have a background in coaching/counselling, psychotherapy to staff. 

• You will need knowledge of safeguarding, PSHEA, Code of Conduct, gender, and inclusion policies and strategies, including tools, procedures, and guidance in relation to safeguarding and n PSHEA. 

• You will need to have experience in developing tools on safeguarding and specifically PSHEA. 

• Understanding as well as passion for Plan International’s values and commitment to promoting safeguarding, PSHEA and equality, including gender and race equality, inclusion and girls’ empowerment extends to associates and external partners. 

• With good problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to analyse information and develop innovative solutions that will enable changes in organisational culture 

• Ability to distinguish and describe key gender equality and inclusion concepts (including equity, discrimination, inclusion, exclusion, gender, social and gender norms, root causes and transformation). 

• With strong interpersonal and communication skills in English and preferably French and or Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic. You will have the ability to inspire and influence, while taking into account cultural and language differences.  

Please respond to the requirements of the role in your cover letter.

Only CVs and cover letters in English will be accepted.  

Please follow this link for a full role profile 

Location: The location of this role can be flexible 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.  You may be office, 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. 

Closing Date: Sunday 28th January 2024 

*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, 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.