Project Manager - Change Management at Plan International

The Opportunity

Programme Y.O.D.A is an organisational change programme through which we will change our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, revise our processes and working practices in relation to Finance, Grants, Programmes and Projects and Supply Chain Management, and develop a new Project Management and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (PMERL) solution. 

You will be reporting into the Change Management Lead for Programme Y.O.D.A. working across the programme, providing excellent project management of all aspects of the Change Management pillar to strengthen and complement the overall delivery of the transformation journey. The Change Management pillar requires significant engagement with stakeholders from Country Offices (CO), Regional Hubs (RH), Global Hub (GH) and National Organisations (NO) as part of change readiness, business strengthening, as well as a communication and engagement to reach staff from across Plan International.  

The project manager will work alongside the Build, Readiness, Strengthening, Deployment, Infrastructure, Test and Functional Teams as well as working closely with the PMO. You will therefore work closely with functional and technical specialists and need to engage closely with Project Managers in other pillars to ensure clear articulation and acceptance of dependencies as well as ensuring that you are linked into the key communications, engagement and change management outputs that are required by each of the pillars.  You will also need to ensure the 2-way flow of information from the Programme out into the wider Plan organisation, but also most importantly from the Organisation back into the Programme to help inform stakeholder analysis and readiness concerns.

About You

The successful candidate will be a process oriented, customer focused, multi-tasking individual with a proven track record in delivering effective project management in support of organisational transformation and change.

Additionally, they will also have:

• Proven experience of managing significant, complex, multi-stakeholder projects in a context similar to Plan International
• Project Management skills using a variety of formal methodologies such as Prince2
• Proven experience in the use of computer-based Project Management tools such as MS Project and Visio
• Strong analytical, planning, organisational and problem-solving capability
• Excellent collaboration, influencing and negotiation skills, and be able to build cooperation and negotiate compromises and priorities
• Effective decision-making abilities in relation to systems and/or processes especially within a changing environment