PLAN INTERNATIONAL INDONESIA JOB VACANCIES 2025
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. In Indonesia, Plan International has operated since 1969, and in 2017 Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia) was established as a national entity of Plan International in Indonesia. YPII is currently implementing its Country Strategy 5 (CS 5) covering the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 to 2027, where the country’s purpose is in line with the global Plan International’s Purpose “to advance children’s rights and equality for girls”. Our ambition is to enable at least 3 million girls and young women to Learn (gain skills for work), Lead (empower to take action on issues that matter to them), Decide (have control over their own lives and bodies), and Thrive (grow healthy and protected from violence). It means that we will take action to identify and facilitate the removal of obstacles that prevent children, especially girls, and young women from enjoying their rights and participating fully in Indonesian society. This goal will be achieved by implementing quality programmes and projects as well as influencing decision-makers and key stakeholders to make the required changes. Within the context of VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, an NGO like Plan Indonesia has to adapt and innovate to ensure that we stay relevant, impactful, and sustainable.
Currently, we have four pillar programs in health, education, empowerment, and safe & resilient, where each pillar has its own core objectives. Across the thematic programs, Plan Indonesia will use five (5) approaches: Technology and digitalization; Youth agency/Leadership; Resilience/Nexus perspective; Gender, Disability, and Social Inclusion; and Child Protection. Plan Indonesia is also strengthening its resource mobilization and external relations, which support the program and influencing ambitions.
ROLE PURPOSE
The GEDSI Lead will be the substantive expert in charge of transforming Plan Indonesia’s programs, social enterprise, influencing, and operations to be gender transformative and more inclusive to the disability and the social measures. S/he will ensure that Plan Indonesia’s projects are 90% gender transformative and inclusive, and that Plan Indonesia’s policy advocacy efforts are challenging policies and practices that are harmful to particularly women and girls, disability, and socially-marginalised groups, and that our campaigns are aimed at breaking harmful gender and social norms. The Lead will help the organisation (Plan Indonesia) as a whole to be a safe workplace where gender equality and inclusion are upheld and promoted.
DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE
- This position reports to the Executive Director
- Supervise the GESI Specialist
- Strategic engagement with diverse teams across functions and departments toward gender transformative and inclusive programming
- Provides high-quality GEDSI lens on program development and research
- Co-leadership in creating a safe, gender transformative, and disability-socially inclusive workplace
- Leads and strengthens the Gender Network of Plan Indonesia
- Representation and positioning for Plan Indonesia in relevant networks within Plan International or externally to key stakeholders and vis-à-vis the Government, in coordination with CLT and the technical, social enterprise, programme, programme development, and partnership teams
- Membership of the Country Management Team
- Budget management responsibilities
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Bachelor’s Degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: international development, gender, inclusion, human rights, psychology, sociology, international law, or other social science fields
- Minimum of 7 years of work experience working on development programmes
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in English and Bahasa Indonesia
- Knowledge of the links between gender equality, children’s rights, and NGO development programming practice.
- Demonstrated understanding of girls’ rights issues, contextualized to an NGO and the linkages between the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Knowledge of gender analysis programme frameworks and their application to child and youth-rights programming
- Excellent understanding of the practicalities of designing, implementing, and evaluating high-quality programmes that promote gender equality and girls’ empowerment
- Excellent understanding of relevant policy-making processes and institutions on gender equality and inclusion
- Ability to design proposals, guidelines, and standards, monitor and evaluate gender equality and girls’ empowerment programming, based on sound gender analysis
- Strong teamwork
- Ability to build internal and external networks across countries
- Facilitation and training skills for adults
- Dealing with conflict with tact and a collected manner
Desirable
- Advanced university degree
- Knowledge of Theory of Change and socio-ecological framework
- Knowledge of social norms research and other tools to ensure that research is gender sensitive and inclusive
- Knowledge of adolescent sexual reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) and gender based violence (GBV)
- Strong ability to communicate theoretical concepts on gender and inclusion in simple terms and to apply these to practical solutions to promote gender equality and inclusion.
- Ability to inspire others and bring them around a common agenda
- Strong management and public mobilisation skills
- Confident public speaker with media skills
- Facilitation and training skills for children and young people
Please follow the link to the full role profile: JD – GEDSI Lead
Location: Based in Country Office, Jakarta with at least 20% travel to projects areas.
Type of Role: 1-year Fixed-term contract (PKWT)
Reports to: straight line to Executive Director
Competitive salary and package available
Closing Date: August 15th, 2025
HOW TO APPLY:
All information will be treated in the strictest confidence, as we pride ourselves on our professional service. We will contact you as soon as we have reviewed your application.
Only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for interviews. Please submit your letter of application and detailed curriculum vitae in English by applying now not later than August 15th, 2025 to this link CLICK HERE
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Program Participants policy (PSHEA).