Interim Talent Acquisition Manager

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.

The Opportunity

The Talent Acquisition Manager supports Plan’s talent acquisition objectives, ensuring the robust sourcing and resourcing of talent for key Mission Critical and hard-to-fill positions within the organisation worldwide and within the Global Hub (GH).

This role is responsible for delivering process excellence and facilitating and driving resourcing activities including the active sourcing and pipelining of talent; oversight of selection processes; implementing process improvements and development of tools, templates and training to support improvements, efficiency and upskilling of People and Culture (P&C) staff and managers as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate the end to end recruitment process for key Mission critical, international and GH recruitments.
• To co-ordinate recruitment kick-off briefings with key stakeholders to agree and define the resourcing process and strategy, roles and responsibilities, talent pipelines and context
• To create and maintain robust selection criteria throughout the different stages of the recruitment process in line with any specific requirements scoring criteria
• To work alongside P&C colleagues and leadership in ensuring the succession plan is actively engaged with and utilised, gaining intelligence on internal candidates and ensuring a feedback loop is maintained throughout the year, in particular for Country Director positions.
• To drive momentum throughout the recruitment campaign, liaising with key stakeholders to ensure timelines are adhered to, addressing any road blocks and reducing time to hire in line with KPI’s.
• To compose attractive, engaging adverts and written materials for prospective candidates throughout the process, building brand engagement and maintaining a professional image.
• To ensure a positive end to end service offering is given to all candidate applications as best practice.
• When required, to provide training to Hiring Managers and interview panelists, ensuring they have the skills and competence to screen and select candidates for the roles they are shortlisting.
• To engage with external networks and connections to build the reputation of Plan International and talent pipelines for future roles.
• To build knowledge of Plan’s total reward policy and approach to ensure our packages remain competitive and to negotiate offers with the identified candidate ensuring an attractive offer is made, maintaining overall compliance and parity across the organisation.
• To support the continued improvement of Plan International’s current recruitment system to achieve operational excellence in talent acquisition; working with the recognised TA tool (HRIS/Success Factors) to ensure the organisation has a system which is fit for purpose and can be continually improved in the future.
• General recruitment coordination/administration, inclusive but not limited to: Creating and drafting job descriptions, adverts, interview question templates, scoring matrix, contract offers, updates on HRIS, document retention, new starter information and interview feedback.  

You are a recruitment specialist with extensive end-to-end recruitment experience in an in-house environment. An understanding of how to attract diverse talent and how to ensure inclusion and accessibility throughout the recruitment process is essential and prior experience recruiting in an international environment would be desirable. 

You bring well-developed negotiating and influencing skills developed in a track record of successful hires and the ability to prioritise well and effectively between competing demands and challenging timelines.

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: Family leave cover from end of May 2026 for approximately one year

Reports to: Head of Talent Acquisition

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 £45000 per annum

Closing Date: Friday 10th April

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, 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, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, Ukraine, 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.