Director Enterprise Technology and Cybersecurity

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.

Plan International is seeking an exceptional technology leader to provide strategic direction and oversight for enterprise cybersecruity and technology across more than 80 countries. This is a critical leadership role responsible for ensuring our technology platforms, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations remain secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with organisational priorities.

Working within a federated "One Plan" model, you will establish global standards, governance, and architecture while partnering closely with Regional and Country Offices to enable effective local delivery. You will lead enterprise-wide cybersecurity and technology strategy, oversee significant technology investments and vendor partnerships, and act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technology risk, resilience, and innovation.

The Opportunity

As Director of Enterprise Technology & Cybersecurity, you will:

• Lead Plan International's global cybersecurity strategy and enterprise cyber risk management approach.
• Define and govern enterprise architecture, technology standards, and technology roadmaps.
• Set strategic direction for infrastructure, cloud services, networks, enterprise platforms, and IT operations.
• Drive technology investment planning, demand management, and IT financial governance.
• Lead global functional teams and provide matrix leadership to Regional and Country IT leaders.
• Establish effective governance frameworks that balance global consistency with local flexibility.
• Oversee strategic technology partners and outsourced service providers, ensuring strong performance, security, value, and innovation.
• Advise senior leaders on technology strategy, emerging technologies, cybersecurity, organisational resilience, and enterprise risk.

About You

You are a strategic and collaborative leader with a strong track record of delivering enterprise technology and cybersecurity outcomes within complex, distributed organisations.

You will bring:

• Significant senior leadership experience across enterprise technology, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and IT operations.
• Deep expertise in cybersecurity strategy, governance, and enterprise risk management.
• Strong experience in enterprise architecture and technology governance.
• Proven success leading global, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and driving alignment across matrixed or federated environments.
• Strong commercial acumen, including vendor management, outsourcing, contract negotiation, and technology investment oversight.
• The ability to translate organisational goals into technology strategies that deliver measurable business value.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.

Desirable

• Experience within the international development, humanitarian, non-profit, or multilateral sector.
• Experience operating in complex, high-risk, or resource-constrained environments.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, data protection, and ethical approaches to technology governance.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to shape enterprise technology strategy for one of the world's leading organisations advancing children's rights and equality for girls. You will play a pivotal role in strengthening organisational resilience, enabling digital transformation, and ensuring technology continues to support our global impact.

Location: The location of this role can be 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 or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Closing Date: Wednesday 22nd July

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.