Job Opportunities at Plan International February 2026

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.

Job Opportunities at Plan International February 2026

1: Knowledge,Learning & Research Specialist

ROLE PURPOSE

The Knowledge, Learning and Research Specialist plays a critical role in strengthening Plan International Tanzania’s impact, influence, and accountability by ensuring that high-quality evidence, learning and research are systematically generated, used and shared across programmes and with external stakeholders.

The role exists to enhance a strong culture of learning and evidence-based decision making within Plan International Tanzania, supporting adaptive programming and continuous improvement across priority thematic areas including child protection, girl’s rights, youth economics empowerment, gender equality, climate resilience and humanitarian response.

The role will lead systematic generation, documentation, and synthesis and institutionalizing strategic influence by strengthening knowledge sharing and evidence-based decision making, program quality, evidence-based policy advocacy within organization and beyond.

This position will have close collaboration with colleagues from Programme implementation, MERL, Advisors, Policy and Communication, to bolster knowledge management and the utilization of evidence and research to foster innovation.

DIMENSION OF THE ROLE

Ensure evidence from programmes, evaluations, and research is translated into practical learning that improves programme quality and outcomes for children and young people, especially girls.

Lead the knowledge management practices and support PIT and its partners evidence and knowledge generation activities.

Support the culture of knowledge sharing and organizational learning and the uptake of organizational standards for knowledge sharing.

Support the program team and partners to identify, synthesize program data, document and disseminate lessons learned from program implementation.

Identify appropriate “learning agenda” topics and design case studies, rapid assessments and other appropriate methods of study and documentation to articulate ongoing learning.

Build the capacity of project team members, and partners on the documentation of evidence and lessons.

Provide periodic updates on and “snapshots” of implementation learning through development of a series of “rapid-cycle learning briefs,” highlighting what is working.

2: Chief Operating Officer

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) ensures Plan International is resilient, well governed, and future ready. As a strategic enterprise leader, the COO shapes the Leadership Team agenda and sets the organisation’s enterprise approach to how Plan International operates, governs itself, and evolves to deliver impact at scale.

The role fosters inclusive decision making and collective leadership, while ensuring that strategy is translated into delivery through strong systems, accountable leadership, and efficient, risk-aware operations across regions and country programmes.

The COO provides strategic oversight of the organisation’s enterprise enabling environment and global services, ensuring coherence between global standards and country-level realities. Through this enterprise leadership, the role strengthens organisational effectiveness, performance, and accountability, and enables impact and growth in a complex and changing sector.

The COO holds strategic accountability for organisational integrity and performance culture, embedding global values and behaviours and ensuring operational excellence supports Plan International’s mission and strategic priorities. The role brings enterprise foresight and adaptive capacity, enabling the organisation to evolve its operating model over time while remaining robust, compliant, and values led.

As a member of the Leadership Team, the COO actively shapes and champions a culture of collective responsibility for the overall strategic direction of Plan International Inc, consistently modelling Plan International’s values and behaviours, underpinned by feminist leadership principles, as One Plan, shared values.

About You

Successful applicants will bring extensive senior leadership experience in global operations, governance, or enterprise-level service delivery within complex international organisations and the demonstrated ability to lead strategic execution, drive cross-functional coordination, and enable organisational performance across diverse operational domains.

You will bring deep expertise in organisational resilience, safeguarding, and integrated risk management, with a track record of embedding these frameworks into operational practice. Experience navigating federated, networked, or decentralised organisational models is also essential to support both global coherence and local relevance.

This role requires outstanding stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, foster strong cross-functional collaboration, and lead across culturally and geographically diverse contexts.

Closing Date: Friday 20th February

Location: Dar es Salaam