Data Privacy Manager

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.

The Opportunity

You will join our Governance, Legal, Assurance & Risk Group and play a pivotal role in ensuring Plan International meets its data privacy obligations across a complex global operating environment.

Working closely with our other Data Privacy Manager, you will, providing strategic and operational leadership on data privacy compliance, risk management and best practice. Working closely with colleagues across Safeguarding, Risk, Communications, Sponsorship, People & Culture, Information Technology and programme teams globally, you will champion a privacy-by-design culture and ensure data privacy is embedded in everything we do.

What you’ll do

• Lead data privacy risk management across PII.
• Lead and implement Plan International’s global data privacy strategy and framework.
• Advise senior leaders and business units on data privacy risks, legal obligations and emerging requirements.
• Design and deliver engaging global data protection training programmes.
• Maintain and continuously improve privacy policies, procedures and compliance frameworks
• Support the organisation’s response to data incidents and breaches, working within established incident and crisis management processes.
• Lead review of privacy impact assessments and provide practical, risk-based guidance to teams managing personal data.
• Maintain records of processing activities and ensure lawful bases for processing are documented and monitored.
• Draft, review and negotiate data processing and data transfer agreements.
• Engage with data subjects where required and support the management of data rights requests.
• Drive organisational awareness and culture change to ensure privacy compliance becomes business as usual across the Plan International.

About You

You are a highly credible privacy professional with experience working within complex, multinational organisations and advising stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.

You will bring:

• Significant experience in a data privacy or data protection role.
• Strong knowledge of GDPR, or similar regulatory regimes, and broader international data protection requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to advise strategically on data privacy matters.
• Proven experience driving privacy culture change and embedding compliance programmes across large organisations.
• Knowledge of data collection and protection issues relating to children and young people
• Experience managing data incidents, investigations and breach response activities.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Strong analytical, drafting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Full professional proficiency in English and strong communication skills and the ability to provide clear, strategic, pragmatic advice in fast-paced and evolving environments.
• Experience designing and implementing effective compliance systems, policies and processes.
• A recognised privacy qualification such as CIPP, CIPM, BCS or equivalent.

Location: Flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live.

Type of Role: Permanent - Full-time

Reports to: General Counsel

Closing Date: 9th August 2026

*Applicable locations include: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Moldova, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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.