Policy, Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships Officer - Climate and emerging themes

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 know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. 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.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Role Purpose

The Policy, Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships Officer for Climate and Emerging Themes supports the Policy, Advocacy, Strategic Partnerships Lead - Education, Economic Empowerment and Justice in coordinating and advancing Plan International's climate partnership agenda at the global level. This role contributes to Plan International's ambition to become a recognised and influential voice on climate justice and sustainable livelihoods for girls, supporting the development of compelling partnership proposals, evidence-based advocacy materials, and a well-managed partnership pipeline that unlocks investment in girls-centred climate programming. 

Dimensions of the Role 

This role sits within the Global Affairs Policy, Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships team and provides operational, analytical, and coordination support to the Policy, Advocacy, Strategic Partnerships Lead - Education, Economic Empowerment and Justice in advancing Plan International's climate and sustainable livelihoods partnership agenda and provides surge support on key priority areas across GA team as required. The post-holder does not manage any staff but plays an important enabling role across the climate and sustainable livelihoods partnership portfolio, supporting equitable partnership development, inclusive advocacy and shared learning across the organisation. 

The Officer will work at the interface of climate intelligence, advocacy, and partnership coordination, and will collaborate with the Intelligence & Foresight Analyst and Impact, Programme Impact and Innovations Climate Thematic Lead to ensure Plan International's climate advocacy is evidence-based, drawing on diverse knowledge sources, including country level learning evidence and context specific learning, timely, and aligned with the organisation's strategic priorities. 

Accountabilities 

• Support the Policy, Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships Lead with research and outreach to prospective bilateral and multilateral partners, applying a climate and sustainable livelihoods lens to identify funding and advocacy opportunities, working in close coordination with and in support of GAM holders, National Organisations, Country Offices, and Regional Hubs and with attention to equity, power and access in climate finance.
• Contribute to the development of compelling value propositions, partnership proposals, business cases, briefing papers, and talking points that make the evidence-based case for climate-linked investment in girls in Plan International's programmes and reflect girls’ agency, leadership and resilience.
• Consolidate and maintain an up-to-date repository of climate-relevant intelligence, evidence, and foresight inputs, to strengthen advocacy materials and partnership proposals.
• Track, administer, and maintain accurate records of the climate and sustainable livelihoods partnership pipeline including status of partners, next steps, and key timelines.
• Monitor and analyse external trends in climate policy, development finance, and funding landscapes relevant to Plan International's climate agenda, providing timely updates to the Lead. Provide surge support to the Policy & Strategic Partnerships Lead on project based work, cross-thematic collaborations, and high-priority advocacy moments as needed.
• Support the preparation of presentations, talking points, and materials that reflect climate justice principles, gender-transformative approaches and inclusive livelihoods perspectives for external meetings, convenings, and conferences relevant to climate and sustainable livelihoods.
• Provides surge support across Global Affairs priorities/initiatives, thematics, advocacy, strategic partnerships and trends analysis as directed
• Ensures that Plan International's global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in accordance with the principles and requirements of the policy including relevant Implementation Standards and Guidelines as applicable to their area of responsibility. This includes, but is not limited to, ensuring staff and associates are aware of and understand their responsibilities under these policies and Plan International's Code of Conduct (CoC), their relevance to their area of work, and that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.

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. 

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

Reports to: Policy, Advocacy, Strategic Partnerships Lead - Education, Economic Empowerment and Justice 

Closing Date: Friday 28 August 2026 at 23:59 pm UK time

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.

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