The Opportunity  

Step up into Senior Leadership as our next Senior Data Manager with Plan International Australia!
This is your chance to lead our small but talented Data Team, overseeing strategic fundraising and marketing insights that impact advocacy, campaign success and community outcomes. You will have the opportunity to shape our emerging data warehouse, pipelines, and analytics practices, driving innovation and excellence across our organisation.

As the Senior Data Manager at Plan International Australia, you will spearhead the strategic management of fundraising and marketing data. Your leadership will drive our data warehouse and data pipeline initiatives, ensuring we continuously leverage analytics to propel advocacy, income generation, and campaign impact.

If you're looking for a purposeful career shift, an opportunity to increase your influence and grow your leadership skills—and if you’re driven by impact —this role is for you.

Who are we?

Plan International is a global not-for-profit, working to change the world so that all children can live happy and healthy lives, and so that girls in all their diversities can take their rightful place as equals. 

At Plan International Australia, we celebrate diversity. We deeply believe all different opinions and experiences will enrich our team and represent our beneficiaries and partners across the globe. Our commitment to an inclusive workplace culture means we embrace working with all sectors of the community.  

For 85 years we’ve worked hand-in-hand with local communities, so babies can survive their first 1000 days, so children can learn in safe environments, so girls can strive for work outside the home, so young people can speak up for their rights. We know that girls are the most marginalised by poverty, and for too long have been held back from reaching their full potential. This is why we work with all children to solve poverty but especially girls. We have a long history, but our approach is new. We’re secular, and we view the children, families and local communities we work with as our partners and our equals. 

Possibility. Opportunity. Equality. Partnership. Love. Humanity. This is what we stand for.  

What is it really like? 

Reporting to the Associate Director, Data & Insights, you will lead our Data Team, championing data-driven decision-making within our fundraising, marketing and organisational strategic efforts. Your role will include:

Providing Strategic Leadership

• Shaping fundraising, marketing and organisational strategies using targeted analytics
• Promoting best-practice approaches to data governance, security, pipelines, and analytics initiatives

Managing Data Systems and Analytics

• Driving the implementation and ongoing improvement of a modern data warehouse, analytics architecture, and robust data pipelines
• Ensuring data accuracy, visibility, capture and data integrity for actionable insights

Growing and Inspiring Your Team

• Leading a small team positively, fostering collaboration, coaching for excellence, and encouraging continuous improvement
• Embracing an agile mindset and creating a nurturing growth-oriented environment

Championing Partnerships and Innovation

• Collaborating regularly with fundraising, marketing, digital teams, and external suppliers to deliver cutting-edge data solutions
• Leading exciting initiatives to drive meaningful outcomes and maximise opportunities

WHO ARE YOU?  

You see yourself ready for the next move in your career—a senior-level position with genuine impact. While some direct leadership experience is valued, it is not essential—what matters most is your expertise in data, your ambition to grow your leadership capability, and your authentic dedication to driving social change through data.

You’ll bring with you:

• Strong technical experience in data-related roles, with a keen interest or emerging leadership skills suited towards managing and mentoring team members
• Solid understanding of data pipeline implementation, warehousing, governance, and analytics environments
• Advanced proficiency in data manipulation (Python or R preferred) and creating compelling visualisations (Power BI)
• Experience or familiarity with CRM tools (Salesforce advantageous) and third-party data management platforms
• An enthusiasm to embrace agile methodologies, feminist leadership principles, innovation and continuous learning
• Aligned passion for safeguarding practices, social justice, gender equality and our core organisational values

OUR COMMITMENT

We don’t just hire for your experience—we hire for your potential. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. Your unique background, lived experience, or perspective might be exactly the asset we seek to be successful.

Don't tick every box? Apply anyway – you might be the innovator we're looking for.

We're dedicated to building a team that reflects Australia's diversity. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and individuals from all cultural backgrounds.

Benefits

• We operate in a hybrid model, working from home or the office, and with capability to support remote workers interstate
• An open workplace in a central location in Melbourne CBD
• A culture that genuinely supports work-life integration
• We care about people’s learning and career ambitions and have a learning & development framework to support this
• Regular team connections through events and offsites
• Salary packaging
• Employee Assistance Program and other initiatives to support your mental health and wellbeing
• An inclusive working environment with various groups such as Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group, Reconciliation Action Plan Group (RAP), Pride Network Committee and Social Committee.

HOURS, PAY AND START DATE 

This permanent, full-time role (38 hours per week) comes with an attractive annual salary of $110,000 - $120,000 annually (negotiable based on experience and capabilities), plus salary packaging benefits. You will step into a supportive senior-level position managing two direct team members and potential external suppliers, with flexible start date for the right candidate.

What’s Next? 

Intrigued? Submit your resume and a cover letter that shows us how your skills and vision align with our mission. Stand out by sharing specific examples of how you'll contribute to our work.

Read the full Position Description (PD) and see whether you think the role is right for you (link here https://www.plan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PIA-PD-Senior-Data-Manager-PD-2025.pdf).

If you’re interested, upload your cover letter and resume by clicking Apply Now. Include in your cover letter how your skills align with the criteria as set out in the PD.  

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview either virtually or at our Melbourne office. We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all – just let us know what you need.

Please note: When you apply, and if you are comfortable to do share, please know PIA upholds a safe space to share the pronouns you use, and is also prepared to make any reasonable accommodations or adjustments you may need throughout both the recruitment process as well as the course of your employment.  

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as a child-safe organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. As part of the screening process, candidates will be required to complete a satisfactory National police Check, sign our Safeguarding Children and Young People policy and code of conduct, and where necessary complete a Working with Children Check. 

Join Plan International Australia and help create justice for children and equality for girls.