People and Culture Manager

The Organization

Plan International is an independent humanitarian and development organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child, yet we know these are often stifled by poverty, violence, exclusion, social norms, and discrimination—and it is girls who are most affected.

By working alongside children, young people, supporters, and partners, we strive for a fairer, more sustainable world that addresses the root causes of the challenges faced by girls and vulnerable children.

We support girls—and all children—from birth to adulthood, helping them build their autonomy and the ability to make decisions about their own lives, whether in development or emergency contexts. We drive changes in practices and policies at local, national, and global levels, leveraging our reach, experience, and understanding of needs, realities, and inequalities.

For over 85 years, we have mobilized other determined optimists to transform the lives of children in more than 80 countries. Together, we won’t stop.

Until we are all equal!

Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership and Direction

Understand, influence, and Interpret the Country Office strategy and Plan International Inc (PII) P&C’s Strategic Plan and priorities to develop and implement CO P&C strategic and operational plans to enhance the Country Office’s performance through our people.

• Be an active participant and contributor to the Regional and the Global P&C team (i.e., sharing of skills, ideas, and expertise)​
• Influences the development of PII P&C strategy and ensures and supports operational implementation within the country office and the region, to enhance the Country Office’s performance through our people.
• Operate as One Plan across the breadth of P&C specialisations. Integrate P&C work in the CO operations and programme planning (including people aspect of project/grants from proposal development to grants completion) as appropriate. Foster a culture of inclusivity, diversity, and equity in the CO.

Agile Organisational Culture

Partner with the Country Leadership Team (CLT) to nurture an agile organisational culture in the CO, underpinned by our values and feminist principles.

• Partner with management to build a highly engaged and inspired team and achieve targeted excellence through our people.
• As a member of the Country Management Team, support change management and initiatives required for sustainability, accountability, and quality.
• Adopt a culture of continuous improvement as part of the Country Leadership Team (CLT) – process, policies, and systems, conduct reflections and analysis with CLT of P&C Key Performance Indicators for making strategic decisions and improvements.

Globally integrated, responsive, and efficient P&C function

Lead and manage the P&C function in the Country Office focusing on responsive and efficient operations and targeted excellence.

• Ensure high-quality operational service across the full employee lifecycle for staff, including but not limited to contracts of employment, pre-employment checks, onboarding, payroll, probation, sickness absence, parental leaves, job changes and exit. Ensure that the country's P&C function (policies, procedures, systems, and controls) is in place and compliance with PII policies, P&C frameworks local labour laws and requirements.
• Ensure implementation and enriching PII P&C strategic priorities within the CO, specifically around Employee Relations, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Engagement, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management and Succession Planning, Total Rewards, Staff Care and Wellbeing, Data and Analytics, Employee Value proposition etc., to ensure successful implementation.
• Make decisions, develop solutions to diverse and complex problems and anticipate and resolve challenges within the country and in line with regional and P&C policies/ parameters.
• Ensure the Talent Acquisition pipeline is in place and critical positions are filled within expected timelines to enable CO effective operations.
• Facilitate Talent Management and Workforce/ Succession Planning, including short and long-term succession bench strength for leadership and strategically critical roles. Contribute to cross-regional succession planning.
• Ensure High-Performance culture through coaching CO leadership, management, and staff in performance management. Ensure cadence is in place for CLT reflections, staff objective setting, mid-year, and annual performance reviews, development plans, regular 121 on deliverables, aligned to values, wellbeing, and development, etc.
• Ensure Staff Care and Wellbeing practices are in place, in line with the global framework and CO context, Staff Care Framework is adjusted to the local context and applied consistently, Staff Care champions are in place and EAP is used.
• Ensure Employee Relations and Case Management practices are robust and in line with global framework and use of data and trends to address focus areas, update policies, communication and training and leadership decision making.
• Interpret people-related Data and Analytics drive data-driven decision-making by the CLT. Facilitate ongoing data integrity and staff ownership of their data on HRIS. Work to continually improve data and reporting to help COs to enhance their performance.
• Ensure Total Rewards policy and practices is embedded and aligned with the CO context and PII Total Rewards philosophy. 
• Support the humanitarian response plans according to the Emergency Response Manual and CO Disaster Preparedness Plan. Support and provide expertise and advice to the Surge P&C Manager.

P&C capacity and capability

Build CO P&C capacity and capability to deliver CO strategic and operational plans, through competency assessments, learning and development, performance and talent management, workforce planning, etc.

• Coach, monitor and train the P&C team to ensure teams are equipped to deliver on agreed P&C services and priorities, in line with global P&C strategy, plans and frameworks.
• Work with P&C teams to identify:
• capability gaps and training requirements and develop strategies and plans to address needs/gaps.
• talent pools and manage capability and capacity development opportunities. 
• Oversee competency development, talent and performance management, succession planning and workforce planning of staff and roles in the P&C function of the Country Office.
• Support the PII P&C in the design and roll out of capability development initiatives within the country office.
• Ensure the P&C team is equipped to support national, international, and hosted employees in the country.
• Analysis and preparation and presentation of analysis of key areas for Country Management Team; cost-efficiency, staff turnover, in-depth analysis and development of scenarios of possible pathways of mitigation key risks in their area of expertise.

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Some of our employee benefits:

1. AMO (100% coverage)

2. Supplementary private health insurance (90% coverage)

3. Thirteenth-month salary

4. School allowance (100,000 CFA per child, up to 4 children)

5. Life insurance with an additional 3% contribution to the Plan Mali plan for employees (optional)

6. Maternity leave: 6 months

7. Paternity leave: 10 working days

Work location : Bamako with 10% field travel and 10% international.

Role type : National, full-time, fixed-term contract

Reports to : Country Director (CD)

Grade : 17

Annual gross salary (in CFA francs) : between 18,235,919 and 27,353,878

Application deadline : Sunday, October 11, 2026

Early application is encouraged, as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the vacancy before the application deadline.

Please note that only applications and CVs submitted in English will be accepted.

A series of pre-employment checks will be conducted in accordance with Plan International’s policy on the protection of children and young people.

As an international child-centered community development organization, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children's rights, including their right to protection from violence and abuse. This means we have special responsibilities toward the children with whom we come into contact.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organization, do everything in our power to keep children safe. Under no circumstances must we contribute to harming children or putting them at risk.

Plan International is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages diversity by welcoming applications from all sectors of the international community.