Working at Plan International
Careers, recruitment routes and current opportunities with Plan International
Explore Plan International careers in children’s rights, humanitarian response and international development, including application guidance and current vacancies.
Overview
Plan International is a children's rights and gender equality organisation working in around 80 countries on education, child protection, sexual and reproductive health and rights, skills and employment for young people, and humanitarian response. Its programming places particular emphasis on girls' rights, and that focus runs through both its advocacy and its field delivery.
The federation structure matters for job seekers. National organisations raise funds and run advocacy in higher income countries, while country offices implement programmes. Vacancies are advertised by both, and the work differs substantially between them. A regional hub layer supports country offices with technical and management oversight.
Most advertised roles sit in programme implementation, child protection and safeguarding, monitoring, evaluation and learning, grant and donor compliance, and the finance, logistics and people functions that keep country offices running. Humanitarian response adds surge and emergency roles at short notice.
Organization profile
Every role carries child protection responsibilities, recruitment includes screening related to child safeguarding and reference checks, and candidates are expected to speak credibly about how they have applied safeguarding policy in practice.
The organisation is donor funded and grant driven, so programme staff work closely with institutional donors and their reporting requirements. Experience managing restricted grants, consortium partners and local implementing organisations is valued across most professional roles.
Recruitment at a glance
108 vacancies advertised in the last 12 months in our database.
Grades and levels
| Level | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Not stated | 56 |
| 3-4 years | 24 |
| 5-9 years | 23 |
| 10+ years | 4 |
| 0-2 years | 1 |
Contract types
| Contract | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Not stated | 56 |
| Job | 43 |
| Consultancy | 9 |
Where the roles are
| Duty station country | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Mexico | 15 |
| Honduras | 9 |
| Guatemala | 8 |
| Jordan | 7 |
| Dominican Republic | 6 |
| Ethiopia | 6 |
| Egypt | 5 |
| Philippines | 5 |
| Haiti | 5 |
| Kenya | 4 |
How to apply
Apply through Plan International's careers site, selecting the correct entity, which can be a country office, a regional hub or a national organisation. Country office roles are frequently national posts open only to nationals or legal residents.
Address safeguarding explicitly in your application. Describe a situation where you applied a child protection or safeguarding policy, what you did and what the outcome was. Applications that treat it as a compliance footnote read weakly against this organisation's criteria.
Then place emphasis on evidence delivery. The projects you managed, the donors and budgets involved, the partners you worked through and the results measured. Interviews are competency-based with a strong values component, and technical roles often include a written task. Offers are conditional on safeguarding and reference checks, which can extend the timeline.
Salary and conditions
UN Global Jobs does not publish salary, allowance, benefits or contract-condition guidance for Plan International. Pay and conditions differ by grade, contract type and duty station, and they change over time. The authoritative statements are the ones in the vacancy notice and in the offer made by the organisation, which is where you should verify them. Where a vacancy notice states pay, we reproduce it on the listing; where it does not, ask the recruiting team before making commitments.
Sources
Vacancy figures on this page are calculated from notices published by Plan International and collected by UN Global Jobs. Organisational facts are taken from Plan International's own published material.