About This Role
This is a strategic HR leadership position at one of the largest international NGOs operating in Ethiopia, where you would shape how the organization attracts and keeps its most valuable asset — its people. Unlike transactional HR roles, this job sits at the intersection of organizational strategy and human capital, meaning you would influence decisions that affect the entire country office. It suits someone who understands that in the NGO sector, talent management is directly tied to how effectively programs reach communities.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The seniority band tells you this is not an entry into people management — it expects someone who has already run recruitment cycles, handled performance conversations, and navigated the messy realities of staffing in Ethiopia's development sector. The breadth of the mandate (recruitment through succession planning) suggests they need a generalist who can move between operational urgency and long-term planning without losing either. Because Plan International operates under strict safeguarding and donor compliance frameworks, the ideal candidate likely has experience in environments where HR decisions carry ethical and reputational weight.
How to Approach This Application
Your application should demonstrate that you think about talent in terms of organizational outcomes, not just filling vacancies — cite specific situations where your hiring or development decisions improved team performance or retention. Plan International Ethiopia works across multiple regions and program areas, so showing you can manage competing priorities from different departments will set you apart. If you have experience with HR information systems or data-driven workforce planning, make that visible, as NGOs are increasingly expected to justify people decisions with evidence.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for an experienced HR professional who has worked in NGOs, donor-funded programs, or large multinational organizations and is ready to own the full talent agenda rather than specialize in one area. Competition will be significant given Plan International's reputation and the limited number of senior HR roles in Addis Ababa's development sector.
The Opportunity
The position holder will be responsible to lead the strategic direction and implementation of end to end recruitment process, onboarding, capacity development, performance management, succession planning, and employee engagement. The role ensures Plan International Ethiopia attracts, retains, develops, and engages high-quality talent while aligning HR practices with organizational goals, values, and safeguarding principles.
Key Responsibilities Include: -
- Support the development and implementation of people, talent, and organizational development strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Lead workforce planning, succession management, talent development, and change management initiatives.
- Manage end-to-end recruitment, onboarding, internal mobility, and employer branding activities.
- Ensure transparent, inclusive, and competency-based hiring practices while enhancing candidate experience.
- Oversee performance management processes, including goal setting, reviews, coaching, and manager capability building.
- Design and deliver learning, capacity-building, and leadership development programs.
- Drive employee engagement, wellbeing, recognition, and organizational culture initiatives.
- Monitor HR metrics, maintain HRIS data integrity, and produce people analytics and management reports.
- Support budget planning and cost-effective management of recruitment, learning, and talent development activities.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies, procedures, data protection standards, and audit requirements.
Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
- Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
- BA Degree level in fields such as Management, Human Resource Management and related feilds
- Minimum 7 years plus relevant experience and of which at least 3 years in managerial position in Talent acquisition and Learning and development areas (not necessarily gained in an NGO or INGO) or demonstrated equivalent combination.
- Ability to communicate effectively and authoritatively on area of expertise.
- Ability to develop effective working relationships across a network.
- Proficient using Microsoft Applications
- Ability to effectively organize and manage multiple training initiatives.
- Experience providing full-scope training materials, from analysing needs to lesson planning, development, and implementation.
- Experience creating yearly training plans and materials for all departments
- Excellent skills in presentation, facilitation, coaching, and creative thinking.
- Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods.
- Tangible experiences in developing guidelines or SOP is a must.
- Event management experience
- Ability to influence without power
How To Apply
The closing date for the application is October 23, 2026. Qualified candidates should submit their application with the links
provided below.
This position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.
Please note that:
Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- We are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated links.
- Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to Apply
More information about Plan International can be found on http://plan-international.org
References will be taken and background and anti-terrorism checks will be carried out in conformity with Plans Child Protection Policy. Plan operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all persons meeting the skills and experience required.
As an international child centered community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realization of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.
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. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
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