Plan International : Grants Coordinator – Bangkok
JOB DETAIL
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.
ROLE PURPOSE
Plan International strives for a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We have been building powerful partnerships for children for more than 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries. We are independent of governments and have no political or religious affiliation.
Plan International Thailand (PIT) has been working in Thailand since 1981 and most of its work is now located in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and the greater Bangkok area. Over the years, Plan International Thailand’s work has covered the areas of Child Protection, Early Childhood Care and Development, Disaster Risk Management, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, advancing rights of stateless and migrant children and youth, fair recruitment practices for migrant families, and youth economic empowerment, especially for girls.
Plan International Thailand’s country strategy strive to deepen the organization’s focus on advancing children’s rights and striving for equality of girls and youth in all of their diversity in Thailand. Particular focus will be on gender transformative approaches with Plan International’s Areas of Global Distinctiveness (AOGD) programme areas on youth employment and empowerment, sexual reproductive health and rights, protection, and empowering children and youth to advance their rights and decide on their own life course.
Dimensions of the Role
Grant Coordinator is a key member of the PIT’s programme and resource mobilization team and supports successful grant / proposal development, implementation, monitoring and reporting to be aligned with Plan International and donor policies towards achieving resource mobilization goals for Plan International Thailand’s Country Strategy and fundraising needs. The position holder coordinates across PIT programme and support teams as well as with Plan Global, Regional and National Offices and donors as needed based on specific work requirements.
The Grant Coordinator also supports APAC Hub on grant management and monitoring tasks for Regional Hub grants.
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Plan International’s Values in Practice
We are open and accountable
We create a climate of trust inside and outside the organisation by being open, honest and transparent. We hold ourselves and others to account for the decisions we make and for our impact on others, while doing what we say we will do.
We strive for lasting impact
We strive to achieve significant and lasting impact on the lives of children and young people, and to secure equality for girls. We challenge ourselves to be bold, courageous, responsive, focused and innovative.
We work well together
We succeed by working effectively with others, inside and outside the organisation, including our sponsors and donors. We actively support our colleagues, helping them to achieve their goals. We come together to create and implement solutions in our teams, across Plan International, with children, girls, young people, communities and our partners.
We are inclusive and empowering
We respect all people, appreciate differences and challenge inequality in our programmes and our workplace. We support children, girls and young people to increase their confidence and to change their own lives. We empower our staff to give their best and develop their potential.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Reports to: Senior Business Development Manager
Grade: D1
Closing Date: 1 December 2024
Plan International’s Feminist leadership principles
Self-awareness and courage: Making conscious effort to recognise our vulnerabilities and value our strengths while challenging ourselves and others to improve through self-reflection and empathetic mutual feedback.
Self and collective-care: Taking care of our individual health and work/life balance, and encouraging team members and cooperating partners to prioritise caring for self and each other. This extends also to institutional care i.e. managers balancing the workload of their staff, empowering staff to prioritise self -care and promoting infrastructural improvements to create a harmonious working environment.
Collective accountability: Promote collaborative goal setting and create institutional spaces for team members and young people to participate and lead in decision-making processes on equal terms, both inside and outside the organisation.
Diversity: Recognise, celebrate and promote diversity across the organisation by expanding our worldview beyond binaries and nurturing leadership of younger people, particularly from the global south.
Zero tolerance to discrimination and sexual harassment: Calling out all forms of discrimination, abuse of power and sexual harassment and implementing appropriate disciplinary measures.
Tackling bias: Recognising conscious and unconscious bias and checking our own individual and institutional privilege based on gender, class, race, ability and other factors.
Share power: Using power responsibly to transform systems and provide equal opportunities. Leveraging individual and collective power to create space for young people. Crediting the work of others and engaging in ethical, non-extractive ways with team members and communities.
Purpose-driven: Advancing gender justice and transforming harmful gender-norms. Reflecting this purpose in both our personal and professional lives. Bringing passion and energy to our work.
Joyful in co-creating: Make things fun, the workplace should be a space of collaboration and mutual respect something you enjoy. People want to work for us.
Honouring the movement: recognising, honouring and standing in solidarity with feminist organisations as strong allies who partner in actions crucial to creating lasting, impactful change towards gender justice.
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.
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: No requirements
