[Hiring] Lead - Education Uninterrupted @Plan International

Role Description

As our Lead - Education Uninterrupted, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Plan International's global education agenda, ensuring children and young people, especially girls and those facing the greatest barriers, can access quality, inclusive and uninterrupted learning opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic and influential education leader with deep expertise in Education and Early Childhood Development (ECD). You will lead the vision, strategy and evolution of Plan International's Education Uninterrupted Scalable Programme Model (SPM), ensuring it remains evidence-driven, globally relevant and capable of delivering meaningful impact across diverse development, humanitarian and fragile contexts.

Working across Plan International's global federation, you will bring together evidence, innovation, learning and partnership to strengthen programme quality, shape global positioning and influence investment in education.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of the Education Uninterrupted Scalable Programme Model.
• Translate global education evidence, programme learning and implementation experience into strategic direction, technical standards, guidance and programme approaches.
• Develop and refine theories of change, pathways to impact and evidence-based programme models that address barriers to learning.
• Define and strengthen Plan International's distinctive contribution to education and ECD.
• Drive continuous improvement by ensuring learning, evidence and innovation from country programmes inform strategy, programme design, standards and global positioning.
• Provide global technical leadership on inclusive, quality and uninterrupted education.
• Champion gender-transformative, rights-based, disability-inclusive and youth-led approaches across education programming.
• Promote innovative education approaches, including digital and technology-enabled learning.
• Lead the development of investment cases, resource mobilisation strategies and donor propositions.
• Translate programme results, evidence and learning into compelling narratives for fundraising, advocacy, partnerships and external engagement.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with donors, foundations, multilateral organisations, education networks, academic institutions and civil society partners.
• Represent Plan International in global education and ECD forums, alliances and networks.
• Collaborate with Regional Hubs, Country Offices and National Organisations to support quality implementation.
• Work closely with Global Affairs, Fundraising, MERL and technical networks to ensure coherent positioning.
• Lead the collection, analysis and interpretation of programme performance, outcomes and learning data.
• Ensure strong alignment between Education Uninterrupted and broader organisational priorities.
• Foster collaboration, consensus and shared ownership across a complex federated organisation.
• Develop strategic briefings, thought leadership products, technical guidance and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Champion safeguarding, gender equality, inclusion and ethical conduct.

Qualifications

• Significant strategic and technical experience in Education and Early Childhood Development (ECD) programming.
• Strong expertise in inclusive, quality education and approaches that prevent and address disruptions to learning.
• Demonstrated experience applying gender-transformative, rights-based and inclusive approaches within education programming.
• Experience working across resource-constrained, fragile, conflict-affected and humanitarian settings.
• Strong understanding of the barriers that prevent children and young people from accessing and completing education.
• Experience developing, adapting and scaling programme models using evidence, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Proven ability to translate technical evidence and programme learning into practical guidance.
• Experience shaping strategy and influencing programme direction across multiple countries.
• Strong partnership development experience with various stakeholders.
• Experience contributing to innovative and diversified funding approaches for education programming.
• Excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work through collaboration and influence to achieve results.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience engaging with professional networks and technical communities.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting multi-country education programmes or global portfolios.
• Experience representing organisations or influencing policy within the education sector.
• Knowledge of education in emergencies, humanitarian education and digital learning approaches.
• Experience working across development and humanitarian contexts.

Location

The location of this role can be flexible, preferably closer to the point of impact and where Plan International has an office that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub.

Type of Role

Full-time 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.

Closing Date

12th November. Early application is strongly encouraged.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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.