Regional People and Culture Business Partner, MEESA job at Plan International

Vacancy title:
Regional People and Culture Business Partner, MEESA

Jobs at:
Plan International

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, September 14 2025

Duty Station:
uganda | Uganda | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 1 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

THE ROLE PURPOSE

Plan International is an independent child rights and humanitarian organisation committed to children living a life free of poverty, violence, and injustice.

We actively unite children, communities and other people who share our mission to make positive lasting changes in children’s and young people’s lives. We support children to gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to claim their rights to a fulfilling life, today and in the future. We place a specific focus on girls and women, who are most often left behind.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 85 years and are now active in over 80 countries.

Plan International embarked on an ambitious and exciting strategic change initiative to make the organization more transparent, legitimate, and agile. Strengthening our People and Culture processes is one of the key enablers in attaining our strategic goals.

The role has a dual mandate creating a valued contribution to the regional P&C team and being a dedicated CO lead in P&C for Somaliland/Somalia.

As the Regional P&C Business Partner 70%:

• acts as a coach and an above country resource to strengthen P&C capacity and capability to deliver their strategic and operational plans; building and strengthening of skills and expertise for assigned countries in the region.

• in collaboration with MEESA P&C Director supports nurturing of an agile organisational culture, sustainability, and effectiveness through our people. They provide specific ER case management support as needed for assigned countries in the region.
• in collaboration with MEESA P&C Director, responds to develop needed P&C solutions as per CO needs to improve the uptake of business systems and processes for improved operational excellence.
• supports OD and change management processes for their assigned countries in MEESA as needed to enable countries have fit for purpose structure and staffing to deliver their strategies
• supports the evolution of a strong talent management culture.

As the Country Office P&C Manager Somaliland/Somalia 30%: 

• Understand and Interpret the Country Office (CO) 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.
• Partner with the Country Management Team (CMT) to nurture an agile organisational culture in the CO, underpinned by our values and feminist principles.
• Lead and manage the P&C function in the Country Office (CO) focusing on responsive and efficient operations and targeted excellence.
• 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.

Dimension of the Role

The role will focus support to Country programmes within the Region including Jordan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Country assignment may change from time to time in line with Regional Hub Management strategies.

The role operates in scope of, and aligned to,

• Regional Hub Value proposition and Accountability Framework
• Regional priorities
• Country Office Strategy
• P&C Strategic Plan and P&C Global Frameworks
• Labour Law, PII policies and procedures and industry best practices
• High CO Complexity related context for Somaliland and other assigned COs.
• Membership in relevant networks in the country with other INGO's and/or private sector
• Working as a member of the regional P&C team and the regional P&C network
• A member of the Country Management Team in Somaliland
• Line management and budget management of the P&C department (Somaliland/Somalia)
• Management of sensitive and confidential information
• Membership in relevant networks: PII Regional and other professional networks

Accountabilities

Regional P&C Business Partner, capacity and capability 

• Be a coach and an above country resource to strengthen P&C capacity and capability to deliver their strategic and operational plans; building and strengthening of skills and expertise for assigned COs

• Work with Global ER resource for MEESA to deliver efficient and effective ER case management capability for the assigned countries in the region. Understand and address harmful behaviours in Country Offices contradicting our Feminist Values, such as discrimination, power abuse, etc.
• Ensure Staff Care and Wellbeing practices are in place for assigned COs, in line with the global framework and country context, Staff Care Framework is adjusted to the local context and applied consistently, Staff Care champions are in place and EAP is relevant and accessible to staff
• Build capacity at CO level for people analytics and data driven decision making by enabling country P&C teams to have the capacity and practice a culture of data integrity on HRIS that enables optimal reporting requirements.
• Support OD and change management processes for the assigned countries in MEESA as needed to enable countries have fit for purpose structure and staffing to deliver their strategies.
• Enable operational excellence through improved culture of performance improvement driven through organizational business processes and best practice in People management in assigned countries in the region.
• Support and provide expertise to the Surge P&C Manager at CO and regional surge team during emergency response in the region, as required.
• Ensure diverse humanitarian succession bench strength across the region utilising the regional talent forum.
• Facilitate talent search for hard to fill critical roles across the region.

• Be an active participant and contributor to the Regional P&C team (i.e., sharing of skills, ideas, and expertise) ​

At CO level Strategic Leadership and Direction

• Understand and Interpret the Somaliland 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 CO’s performance through our people.
• Influences and ensures the development of a Country P&C strategy that is aligned to the PII P&C strategic plan and priorities to enhance the CO’s performance through our people.
• Supports operational implementation within Somaliland CO and the MEESA region.
• 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 for Somaliland

• Partner with the Country Management Team (CMT) 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 Management Team (CMT) – process, policies, and systems, conduct reflections and analysis with CMT of P&C Key Performance Indicators for making strategic decisions and improvements.

Globally integrated, responsive, and efficient P&C function for Somaliland

• Lead and manage the P&C function in Somaliland CO focusing on responsive and efficient operations and targeted excellence.

• Working with Shared Service Center, 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 respective 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 of 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 targeted employee engagement and satisfaction.
• Make decisions, develop solutions to diverse and complex problems and anticipate and resolve challenges within the CO and in line with country, 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 CMT reflections, staff objective setting, mid-year, and annual performance reviews, development plans, regular 121 on deliverables, aligned to values, wellbeing, and development, etc.
• 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 CMT. 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 team 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.

Safeguarding

Ensure that Plan International’s global policy for Safeguarding and PII policy for Preventing Sexual Harassment Exploitation and Abuse; 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.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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